I'm sick of my family being poor. I'm not to thrilled with the extent of my personal poverty either.
During the Bush/Obama years, I've watched as we--as a family--have sunk deeper into poverty. During the halcyon days of the 90s, we did OK, compared to now.
My daughter was laid off last night, after being hired for a seasonal job at Amazon that she was told would result in about 50% of the temps being hired on permanently. it was actually about 10% It was known it would be about 10% from before the hiring began.
I'd like a real job myself.
It wouldn't be so bad, perhaps, if it weren't for billions being poured into corporate bailouts, un-recoupable loans to the presidents supporters bad business schemes, and pay raises for federal employees and the Vice President.
When things are tight enough that it comes down to needed dental care for grandpa, or a warm coat for the grand kid, with no room to wiggle, it sucks.
And our government, under the last two Administrations, doesn't give a fig. But there's a bill in Congress to give Monsanto and clan special privileges and exemptions. I see why some folks think maybe a redder form of government would be better. Except we don't have a capitalist state, we've got a mercantilist state in which the commercial interests drive our laws.
But I"m sick of being poor. I don't want to be rich, but I'd like to be able to afford all the necessities at once. I'm also sick of datamining by the security apparat of the new police state, the surveilence grid that grows exponentially, the monitoring of cell phone and e-mail communications, TSA searches without warrants, so on and so forth.
I sure wish I still lived in America, instead of whatever replaced it.
During the Bush/Obama years, I've watched as we--as a family--have sunk deeper into poverty. During the halcyon days of the 90s, we did OK, compared to now.
My daughter was laid off last night, after being hired for a seasonal job at Amazon that she was told would result in about 50% of the temps being hired on permanently. it was actually about 10% It was known it would be about 10% from before the hiring began.
I'd like a real job myself.
It wouldn't be so bad, perhaps, if it weren't for billions being poured into corporate bailouts, un-recoupable loans to the presidents supporters bad business schemes, and pay raises for federal employees and the Vice President.
When things are tight enough that it comes down to needed dental care for grandpa, or a warm coat for the grand kid, with no room to wiggle, it sucks.
And our government, under the last two Administrations, doesn't give a fig. But there's a bill in Congress to give Monsanto and clan special privileges and exemptions. I see why some folks think maybe a redder form of government would be better. Except we don't have a capitalist state, we've got a mercantilist state in which the commercial interests drive our laws.
But I"m sick of being poor. I don't want to be rich, but I'd like to be able to afford all the necessities at once. I'm also sick of datamining by the security apparat of the new police state, the surveilence grid that grows exponentially, the monitoring of cell phone and e-mail communications, TSA searches without warrants, so on and so forth.
I sure wish I still lived in America, instead of whatever replaced it.
1 comment:
I'm really sorry for your situation. I certainly understand it. After my father left, we've been struggling ever since--its been about 10 years. And now, I'm torn between helping my mother financially despite the bad decisions she's making and doing for myself as I can finally manage to climb out of the hole. While I see the light at the end of the tunnel, the only way to get to it is to leave what's left of my family behind in the dark. And even then the only reason I don't feel poor at this point is because, by choice, I live off of $15 a week for groceries, rent a room, don't own a car and don't do fun things that people my age do--call it cheap or frugal, I'm living on very little which frees up extra cash for savings and such.
And this is all because my father was repeatedly sent to the middle east (7 or 8 time, very little time in between--and infantryman at that) until he was a hardened shell of his former self and left my family. This is actually very common in military families today, and we all find ourselves dropped for solid middle class to sitting on the poverty line.
I suppose many of us find ourselves poor in various ways with the government operating the way it is, we all wake up one day and realize that things aren't the way they used to of should be. All that we can do is pray, but that doesn't make us feel much better. But we dig in our heels, and grit our teeth and make it through somehow, through prayer and our own true grit. We band together with others in our situation, even if it's via blogs on the internet. After all, this is how America, the land we used to live in was founded; that is what America was all about.
You and yours are in my prayers.
Godspeed,
Princess
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