Who gives a fuck. About you or your opinion?
You ever go to sleep hungry as a kid? I sure as hell did- for years on end. Did my family or myself contemplate potential political culprits? Are you fucking joking?
Sometimes dues is paid just for the sake of sucking up and taking your turn in life. Scapegoats- politicians or others- are just that. Scapegoats. You rdunce blame problems on someone else because you haven't got the fucking balls so suck it up and take a punch.
Me? I'm better off for it. For the suffering and hunger and hopelessness and mysery. It made me a better person if for no other reason than I never blamed my problems on someone else.
What a fucking cop out you are. You sorry fucking lame tit on a log deadbeat slug.
Somehow, I don't believe your tale of woe....Maybe it's because if you really had spent your childhood going to bed hungry, you'd be short and in bad health.
I have a short temper and bad attitude. Does that count?
No, but at least you have your sense of humor.
I grew up poor. The first time I had a dress that belonged to me before it belonged to anyone else was when I was in 4th grade. My mother got 3 dresses on sale at Sears for $5. One of them was really ugly, but I wore it anyway. I remember my mom yelling at me one day because "Sheila, you wear out clothes faster than any kid I know". I looked down at the hole in my pants that had belonged to my two older sisters before me and had been handed down to me just that day.
We NEVER went hungry. There was always food in our house. My mom knew how to stretch a dollar and we learned from her. Every Friday night we got into the old station wagon and drove to Dairy Queen for our treat of a "milkshake" for each of us kids.
I remember my parents being invited to a formal event at the officer's club. My mom had just bought two bridesmaid dresses at the goodwill for my sisters who had joined Job's daughters. Instead of giving them to the girls she got out her sewing machine and made up a dress for herself, the first time she'd done such a thing in a long time, mom hardly ever bought clothes for herself. She told me later that she overheard the commander's wife saying "That woman spends every dime that captain makes on clothes". Mom was thrilled her sewing skills measured up.
One year, when my sister started school, they didn't have enough money to buy her new shoes. Mom sewed felt flowers over the wholes in my sister's tennis shoes and sent her off to the first day of school. She should have patented the idea because by the end of the school year they were selling flowered tennis shoes.
Christmas one year, my dad got some wood from someone at work that was getting rid of it. I got a homemade toy box. My sister Susan got a little curio cabinet for her tea set that my parents had brought home from Japan, before she was even born. My other sister got a record cabinet with a portable record player built in that a relative had given us and several records that came with it. We each got a button box. It was a great Christmas.
Being poor is not a bad thing. Not be able to feed your kids or put a roof over their heads is a terrible thing and that's what's happening today.
Of course, today we have people on welfare who have a bedroom for each of their kids while working people are having 3 kids or more share a room. I truly think there is a difference between being poor and being on welfare. That's why I'm all for a living wage at the bottom of the scale, so those on welfare have no excuse and we can cut back on those programs. As far as I'm concerned, there should be disability and unemployment but no one should ever be paid for having kids or get another bedroom because they had another get. ( and yes a pregnant woman on welfare told me that was her reason for getting pregnant, so she could get another bedroom)
Unfortunately, people don't realize that when you don't pay a living wage at the bottom of the scale, it makes it much easier for people to decide to go the welfare route. And when people who are working are getting subsidized by the taxpayer, that amounts to us subsidizing their employers.
If you can't afford to pay your employees a living wage, maybe you shouldn't be in business. I think our economy was just fine with a lot fewer fast food restaurants and a lot more mom and pop restaurants, and mw paid more than 1/3 more than it does today.