Not bad. $6.00 a day on your job that pays minimum wage and more than likely has no benefits. Or sick time. Hopefully your children's school schedule fits in with that so you can bring them somehow to a suitable daycare and pick them up. Of course, poor people should not have children. What am I saying. Eugenics and all.
The easiest thing in the world is to be poor.
If people love the benefits the poor get, then the best thing to do is give everything away, get a job at a convenience store and then maybe at the Mall because it seems like those minimum wage jobs do not go full time.
Then apply for the benefits you can get such as food stamps and section 8 housing.
Easy. Anyone can do it!
human,
I so admire your choice of careers and wish my personal past were so admirable. I think we must be much alike ~ supporters of the disadvantaged.
I come by it through history.
My mother and siblings, living on a farm, suffered through child labor issues. I can remember Mom talking about the rag on her head when she and her sister cleaned the hen house so they wouldn't get "bugs." Making their own "kotex" out of hand-sewn rags, making their soap in the large pot over the outside fire, taking turns staying up all night to stoke the one pot bellied stove going, sneakily eating their headcheese sandwiches while still covered by the bag at school because they were so embarrassed they only had home-made bread, honestly not knowing you were supposed to brush your teeth every day, and bathing only once a week. The children were punished by having to kneel on their knees for hours, meals withheld and they had to pick their own branches for switches.
No one in my dear grandparents' family (to include all descendants to this day) has ever applied for any government assistance. They were poor, they were uneducated but they were proud and not lazy.
If these average people, who came here and couldn't even speak the English language at first landing, could assimilate and thrive, I don't understand the taunting in your post.
They didn't like being poor, I wouldn't. I know you were being sarcastic ~ but anyone who"s family has worked to lift their descendants out of that category (and have even become contributing citizens) would probably be as troubled as I am.
True, hopeless situations are only a small percentage of human life. If my disadvantaged family was able to contribute to the American way I expect that most that still sincerely want to ~ can.
