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hollysmom

(5,946 posts)
3. I believe you don't need everything perfect and can survive on a little, but that little get pretty
Sat Jan 24, 2015, 06:20 PM
Jan 2015

big when you add a kid. Yes, we had a roach infested apartment and learned how to not attract them, but kids can develop asthma from roaches and need more medical care. We ate a lot of liver to save money, I became a liver expert, but organ meats eaten for a long time can kill you with cholesterol. We did not have a phone (phone companies demanded more than I earned in a week for a deposit for women, they asked no deposit from men., It was hard to get a job without a phone, I actually got one through a telegram. When I ran into money problems, I borrowed it from my parents - not every can do that, then end up with interest payments. When I needed expensive dental work my father cosigned, other wise I would have had to live with painful TMJ.

There is a pattern here, I could get out of poverty after one year because I had education, friends with money and parents to back me. Also the market for women improved, I would hate to see it go backwards.

Being poor is like being in a big trap, So yes you can live frugally, but when there is an emergency, you can't.

Trouble is, you can't eat freedom. alarimer Jan 2015 #1
they mean they shouldn't be impeded from doing anything they want, but others should. ND-Dem Jan 2015 #19
The John Birch Society: WinkyDink Jan 2015 #2
I believe you don't need everything perfect and can survive on a little, but that little get pretty hollysmom Jan 2015 #3
One thing I don't believe is.... madfloridian Jan 2015 #5
That "enormous blessing of freedom" doesn't fill an empty stomach. Vinca Jan 2015 #4
Koch is all you need, Agony Jan 2015 #6
Daddy Fred Koch was a founder. In the current GOP crop I see John Birch Jr. is here. appalachiablue Jan 2015 #7
Ayn Randian philosophy...I got mine, don't care about you. madfloridian Jan 2015 #8
Yep, totally selfish & ruthless which the Dems. & we know well by now. Stop at nothing esp. after appalachiablue Jan 2015 #9
And being self-reliant means relying on jobs where a month's wages Tsiyu Jan 2015 #10
For years there's been no one loudly calling them out on it. madfloridian Jan 2015 #11
Newtie and Rush and then Rove and now FOX played a shame game Tsiyu Jan 2015 #15
+10. They don't really care if we have to work 24/7, we don't exist to them. Our entire appalachiablue Jan 2015 #13
Je Suis Debbie Downer! Tsiyu Jan 2015 #16
Back in the day, a man could shoot a buffalo and feed his tribe. Octafish Jan 2015 #12
What a disgusting picture. madfloridian Jan 2015 #14
Some people measure success Tsiyu Jan 2015 #17
It is interesting that this John Bircher is equating poverty today with poverty in the first decade jwirr Jan 2015 #18
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