http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=230x1806Oh my.
The angry carpenter primitive, not the itching carpenter primitive; it's difficult to keep them apart in the mind. This bonfire was lit more than a year ago, but for some reason it's flared up again this week.
angrycarpenter (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-15-07 07:21 PM
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what would you do if you woke up poor tomorrow?
For many people who are on the bottom of Americas' economic ladder poverty was inherited from their parents. Terrible as that is they learned ways of surviving with little or no money. With the economic future looking bleak, millions may find themselves facing poverty without the survival skills needed to live on less.
If you lost everything tomorrow and had no one to turn to, would you be able to survive with progressive ideals intact? If you had to work two physically demanding,low paying jobs to keep food on the table would you care as much about politics? For those of you already there you know what I mean. Most nights righteous outrage takes A backseat to an aching back.
no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-15-07 07:23 PM
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2. Would be just another working day for me . . .
Bluzmann57 (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-15-07 07:30 PM
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7. Exactaly what I did before
I would get a job. I have been jobless and flat broke before and survived. I'd prefer not to do it again, but I know damn well I could. I would even take one of those jobs "Americans won't do" if I had to. And I had to in the past.
Guess who shows up.
bobbolink (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-24-07 07:19 PM
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15. How...... progressive...
So, you're 85, health problems that make it impossible to function all day...
Where is this magic job????
Can you tell me how you sound different from a fundie???
For the record, the bobbling primitive is self-admittedly 62 years old; I dunno where this "85" stuff comes from, but she's used it before, always "85." Maybe the bobbling primitive's thinking of her mother.
pecwae (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-21-08 08:15 AM
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28. Here as well.
I've stripped tobacco in years past, cleaned toilets, cut grass, cared for invalids. I'm now limited due to health and age, but there are still things I could and would have to do if it came down to survival.
TomInTib (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-15-07 07:58 PM
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9. I would find a woman with money.
Not being flippant, but it's worked before.
I still have my looks and sense of humor.
I dunno. The lying titty primitive's got that really buggy eye.
And here we get the typical primitive solution:
Naturyl (1000+ posts) Sun Nov-11-07 04:46 AM
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26. Same thing I did when I woke up poor today.
Get on the internet and advocate for progress. It ain't much, but it's something. And when you're poor, there isn't much else to do anyway.
Kare (201 posts) Fri Nov-21-08 12:21 PM
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29. Can't even afford bankruptcy
We looked into it. Too much money that we don't have. And it is damn near impossible to save even a few cents. I am looking forward to the time of year (I think it is nearly here) when the electric company can't turn our power off so that we will have a few extra dollars.
The only 'good' thing that has happened lately is when we had to make an agreement with our mortgage company to help us out. We got two months off our mortgage by signing a new 40 yr mortgage that took us right back to where we were as if the last year of payments hadn't happened and only lowered our payment by not quite $100 a month.
Not having to pay the mortgage last month I was able to pay off last years last delivery of propane. Since we don't have to pay in December either it looks like my kids will have some kind of Christmas and we might even be warm since I can hopefully con the propane company into bringing more if I promise to make payments. Since soon we won't have to pay the electric bill at least not in full then I think I can manage to pay for the propane so that we don't run out.
When we bought our house my husband was making 100K a year. Most we had ever made. We didn't get outlandish our house cost 200k. Perfectly reasonable when one working adult makes 100k a year. Now he makes 48k, I beg for hours and can't get them and barely make 6k a year. To say that we are struggling is an understatement.
I understand that there are people who are much worse off and have even worse decisions to make. Like where to live if the house is foreclosed. Or how to find the money for the next meal. My only contingency plan is to beg shelter from one of our parents. At least then we would be back in the city and able to both work two jobs and have a babysitter nearby and be able to save some money and get our own place again. Not many jobs out where we live (damn us for trying to fulfill some silly dream of mine to have a house in the country).
It's wonderful times that we live in that find a lot of us making less than we did a few years ago and paying more for less at the store. There might be a silver lining coming in the clouds but it is too dark to tell right now. I hope for all of our sakes that things get better soon instead of getting any worse. I don't know how it could get much worse and be able to survive things.
There will come a day again sometime when I am not afraid to answer my phone for fear of creditors asking for money that I don't have.
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