Reply #25: A good friend of mine is already living the Great Depression.

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She is inches from being thrown in the street (don't worry she can come here if that happens but I don't know how much longer we are going to be able to hold out either) Her electricity has been shut off twice while waiting for heating assistance to come through. She lost her $12 dollar an hour job w/o benes. two days before Christmas and has not found another yet. Needless to say with two teenage girls she has ALREADY been living in poverty for several years because her scumbag ex-husband wasn't paying her any child support until this month. She is driving around in a 20 year old car on bald tires and having to beg for gas money from friends and neighbors. She has spent the last two months going from food bank to food bank and trying to squeeze in job interviews in between. She looks so thin I'm surprised the wind doesn't blow her away!

I am very worried about her but she is still plugging away. With all this going on SHE STILL REFUSES TO TAKE MOST OF THE HELP SHE IS OFFERED. She just wants a damn job and enough food in her kids belly to survive.

I call that a great depression and the reality is I don't feel too far behind her.