Two years ago today I had been living under the Beverly Bridge just west of downtown LA for nearly three months. It would be another 11 months before I was able to get off the streets, hopefully for the last time.
Say what you will about homelessness, there are days when you actually have nothing to accomplish and all day long to accomplish it.
I suspect those who have had families and jobs throughout their adult lives will have a difficult time getting their minds around that one.
Certainly things are much better for me today than June 2008. After a lifetime spent working at minimum wage jobs, my current SSA payment and a part-time job at a local Adult Day Health Care center brings in more money every month than I ever earned before.
However, for whatever it's worth, I believe this country is at an economic tipping point. When the Industrial Revolution began it was claimed at some point the machine would free much of humanity from the need for daily toil.
Judging by the US rust belt that day has come and gone. There are currently too few jobs to pay too much debt.
The gulf between the rich and the rest continues to widen in a "republic" with 200 million private guns.
More war and more debt are all Republicans AND Democrats have to offer.
The homeless and the dead will be the lucky ones if we don't all do better in the next two years.
The way you write indicates a decent level of literacy and understanding. How did you make it through life working only Minimum Wage jobs? I've only worked on one my whole life.