Sep. 28th, 2005
Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs.
Being poor is getting angry at your kids for asking for all the crap they see on TV.
Being poor is having to keep buying $800 cars because they're what you can afford, and then having the cars break down on you, because there's not an $800 car in America that's worth a damn.
Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away.
Being poor is knowing your kid goes to friends' houses but never has friends over to yours.
Being poor is going to the restroom before you get in the school lunch line so your friends will be ahead of you and won't hear you say "I get free lunch" when you get to the cashier.
Being poor is living next to the freeway.
And here's a second blog entry about why there were people left. It's not so much prose as an actual article with a few links of its own about where all the money is that should have been poured in.
They stayed because they could not run, and now they might die because they cannot swim.
Oh, and not quite fitting in with theme but I still had to post it anyway:
Turkey accused of torturing mentally disabled people.
Lovely, right?
Being poor is getting angry at your kids for asking for all the crap they see on TV.
Being poor is having to keep buying $800 cars because they're what you can afford, and then having the cars break down on you, because there's not an $800 car in America that's worth a damn.
Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away.
Being poor is knowing your kid goes to friends' houses but never has friends over to yours.
Being poor is going to the restroom before you get in the school lunch line so your friends will be ahead of you and won't hear you say "I get free lunch" when you get to the cashier.
Being poor is living next to the freeway.
And here's a second blog entry about why there were people left. It's not so much prose as an actual article with a few links of its own about where all the money is that should have been poured in.
They stayed because they could not run, and now they might die because they cannot swim.
Oh, and not quite fitting in with theme but I still had to post it anyway:
Turkey accused of torturing mentally disabled people.
Lovely, right?