John Scalzi: On Being Poor
I posted this in GD a couple of years ago, now that we have more poor people than then I thought it appropriate to post again.
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/
Being poor is a $200 paycheck advance from a company that takes $250 when the paycheck comes in.
Being poor is having to live with choices you didn’t know you made when you were 14 years old.
Being poor is people who have never been poor wondering why you choose to be so.
DUer OneGrassRoot created this graphic and posted on my previous thread, thank you OGR..
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This is wonderful! Thank you. 
In 1979 my ex and I spent eight months living in a by-the-week motel until we could get enough money together to fix our van and get the hell out of the little town we were stuck in when the motor blew up.
Things were easier then than they are now, there was more opportunity in many ways and I shudder to think how bad it must be out there. I spent thirty years living a lower middle class existence and then my life exploded again in 2003 and now I'm now old enough that Social Security has come to my rescue or else I'd be in dire straits again.
