you don’t really need to call supermarkets bread lines when you have actual bread lines. i’ve stood in them. they stretched for blocks and it took over an hour to go through it. the food was day old bread and other goods nearing or past their sell-by date
so many people think of “poor” as just “unable to afford luxuries” when it’s more like “I have a job but dont have the ability to pay bills and eat regularly this month, and this isnt unusual or likely to change”
slowly getting more and more behind on your mortgage payments of your tiny 2 bedroom house in a rural area until you are forced to sell because rates were hiked and wages stagnated
That’s the thing with liberals, they pride themselves of how they want to help the poor but somehow you always have to be poorer than the concrete people you’re talking about in order for it to be real poverty.
for me it’s having a job that used to be considered “middle class” that I work full time and net like -$100 every month even after strict budgeting. Living perpetually on the edge of homelessness despite doing everything I was told to do growing up.
Imagine living in a place where you could stand in a bread line. My food bank requires ID, you need a car to get there, and it’s strictly means tested.
That’s so fucked up. We lived in walking distance but still had to carry it all with us if we couldn’t manage a car trip. They didn’t ID or means test though, which I didn’t even know was a possibility. Do they think rich people are gonna show up and take all the stale bread?
you don’t really need to call supermarkets bread lines when you have actual bread lines. i’ve stood in them. they stretched for blocks and it took over an hour to go through it. the food was day old bread and other goods nearing or past their sell-by date
The most radicalizing thing you could do to someone would be to force them to live like they’re poor in the US for a few months
If they don’t come out a frothing leftist, they’re hopeless
so many people think of “poor” as just “unable to afford luxuries” when it’s more like “I have a job but dont have the ability to pay bills and eat regularly this month, and this isnt unusual or likely to change”
Sounds nice.
Also “I can’t afford to fix or replace anything and if my car breaks down I’m fucked”
slowly getting more and more behind on your mortgage payments of your tiny 2 bedroom house in a rural area until you are forced to sell because rates were hiked and wages stagnated
I talked to a guy who was really desperate to define poverty as literally dying of starvation in the street.
That’s the thing with liberals, they pride themselves of how they want to help the poor but somehow you always have to be poorer than the concrete people you’re talking about in order for it to be real poverty.
for me it’s having a job that used to be considered “middle class” that I work full time and net like -$100 every month even after strict budgeting. Living perpetually on the edge of homelessness despite doing everything I was told to do growing up.
What do you do?
oh noes! free food!
nooo food banks don’t count because it’s “charity” not “government mandated” which means it’s good not evil!
The government is forcing me to eat food! How dare!
Imagine living in a place where you could stand in a bread line. My food bank requires ID, you need a car to get there, and it’s strictly means tested.
That’s so fucked up. We lived in walking distance but still had to carry it all with us if we couldn’t manage a car trip. They didn’t ID or means test though, which I didn’t even know was a possibility. Do they think rich people are gonna show up and take all the stale bread?