Working Poor

silverweb

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14. What a f'd up system we have!

Thu Oct 8, 2015, 09:27 PM

Oct 2015

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]It's good that you were able to help your friend - even better that you did. I'm so very sorry for the terrible hardship you went through personally, as well.

You're absolutely right that someone who hasn't experienced anything like real poverty just can't relate. Such is the great division between the moderately comfortable and the poor, encouraged and egged on by the very wealthy, who seem to love watching us fight over their scraps.

It's unfathomable that in the richest, most powerful nation in human history, such a divide is allowed to exist and that there's so little understanding across that divide. It has to change!

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Coping with Helping [View all] madamesilverspurs Oct 2015 OP

K&R! marym625 Oct 2015 #1

I have always wondered how much of the budgets of the safety net programs Half-Century Man Oct 2015 #2

+10000 marym625 Oct 2015 #3

Agreed. silverweb Oct 2015 #4

if you were not there she would not have a job. Downwinder Oct 2015 #6

Burnout's definitely a possibility. silverweb Oct 2015 #7

It probably wouldn't have helped. Downwinder Oct 2015 #9

Anger can be a gift, as the saying goes. silverweb Oct 2015 #10

it could be burn out w0nderer Oct 2015 #12

I have a cousin Worried senior Oct 2015 #16

Lack of empathy is endemic, it seems. silverweb Oct 2015 #17

Even more is eaten up by the privatization that now have the contracts to run the programs. Live and Learn Oct 2015 #5

Yes. silverweb Oct 2015 #8

well it adds w0nderer Oct 2015 #13

Cake! silverweb Oct 2015 #18

Fantastic post w0nderer Oct 2015 #11

What a f'd up system we have! silverweb Oct 2015 #14

This is why i asked for the group w0nderer Oct 2015 #15