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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It already happened. There's no significant "handling" of it now.[/quote]

It's so that they think through things like this going forward.  
Sometimes you can't make things better for yourself but can make them better for those who come up after you.

I'm the poster who was on food stamps for a long time. My DD got really into animals and nature and I found something similar to a 4H club in our city.  It was on the opposite end of the city from where we live, so just to attend the first meeting was two hours roundtrip of commuting.  And then the woman running the meeting talks about driving an hour outside of the city to visit baby goats, and an organic farm, etc.  I asked about transportation to these - are they in walking distance of train lines or will there be a bus for the group, etc.  She said no, all the parents take turns carpooling.  I don't have a car.  She suggested I could get a car for under $10k.  Right. Like I had that kind of money laying around. Like I would spend that kind of money so my daughter could go feed baby goats once a month. DD had to quit. There was just no way to make it work. And I laid out for the leader of the group exactly why she had to quit, just so she'd know.[/quote]

I am sorry that leader was a jerk to you. I remember being in Girl ascouts and driving over to my leader’s house for my mom to tell her something because the leader didn’t have a phone. This was rural Ohio in the 80s before cell phones. My mom never told me they were poor, she acted like it was just a normal choice that some people didn’t have TVs or phones. Then again I grew up in a college town and it was hard to tell who was poor and whose parents were just hippies. [/quote]

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