I have been broke before. I couldn’t pay my water bill. I couldn’t pay my electric. I had not two pennies to rub together. And there were a couple times the city shut me down. I didn’t cry scream or complain. I even went so far as to collect bottles and cans and turn them in for the deposit. Then went to the city building and explain that I just need some time to catch up on my bill. They would turn the water back on and I’d make payments until I caught up.
Heck. You can give the city $20 a month and they’ll keep your utilities on as long as you explain your situation and make a tiny payment.
Entitlement mentality says you don’t even have to make an effort and someone else should always pay your bills regardless.
When it was really bad I even went so far as to do yard work for the guy that owned my mortgage to pay a month or two when things were bad. I’ve negotiated with doctors and dentists. I’ve traded labor for a cheap old car when my old one died and I had no transportation.
WTF is wrong with the country when people can’t even take some responsibility for themselves? YES. I understand and know how powerless it feels to be completely broke. BUT it never held me back. A little hustle, hard work, and creativity let me keep my house. I have traded yard work to have teeth fixed from local dentists. I did some machine work for a doctor who gave me a checkup and refilled a prescription for me when I couldn’t even scrape together $100 for an appointment.
Sad to see so many lazy people democrats have created.
I remember reading about the days when local villagers would give teachers chickens and vegetables to pay for their services of education for their children.
When I worked at the unemployment office I worked with both veterans and welfare recipients at different times in my 15 years there. Do you know how many free or very low cost education, training, apprenticeship and vocational programs there are in this country for low income individuals?
Sad to see so many lazy people democrats have created.
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Great Post...telling it like it is.
I never quite reached that end, but have gotten close.
I had vowed that I would ‘Pick $hiite with the Chickens before.....’
There are still some of us that truly believe:
“IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A HELPING HAND, TRY THE END OF YOUR ARM”.
You are a FAR BETTER man then I’ve ever been or will ever be.