I've been dirt poor before. My '56 ford up on blocks, huntin' squirrel to have somethin' to eat besides pancakes, eggs, and potatoes, no TV, hell, no electricity, wood heat that I had to go out every day and cut limbs in order to feed the POS, a propane cookstove, usually out of propane, having to rely on others so me an "Toots" could get to town to apply for Food Stamps, roll yer own cigarettes, not a job in site as it was the ****in' middle of winter, I could go on.
This lasted all of 3 months. Finally hooked up with a friend who lived in town so I could get up every morning at 4AM and head down to the local freezers a mile away in the rail yard to hand load box cars in 20 below warehouses. It was so cold in those freezers your nose would bleed! Some of the crates weigh in excess of 50 lbs, and ya had to throw 'em 4 hrs straight, then get a 20 minute lunch consisting of a cheap peanut butter and some off the wall generic grape jam, sandwich, and a bag of chips, of which you could eat the entire thing in one mouthful! Then head back and toss crates another 4 hours, all the time makin' a whopping $4/hr!
Got the truck fixed. Rented me and "Toots" a studio apartment in run down 19th century hotel, and hit the pavement lookin' for a better job!
The following month, I even had a telephone!
Suck it DUmbasses! You have no idea what poor is! You lay around post on some bull shit forum about how the man is keepin' ya down, and live a life of luxury compared to how me and "Toots" started out!