Good to see the junior high school brigade has shown up. No, I've been poor, FRiend, really poor, and I've also had to choose between some pretty basic items to try to get by to a paycheck that wasn't even on the horizon. Maybe in your comfortable little world that sort of thing only happens to bad people. In the real one it happens to a lot of us.
Now go smirk at somebody else. The adults are going to have to try to solve this thing and we'll let you know when it's safe to play outside.
Your assumptions are amusing. For most of my childhood, my family had no electricity or running water and used a kerosene cook stove, but we worked our butts off and grew most of our own food and raised chickens to eat. Our “car” was a wornout ‘37 Ford pickup. I started working at age 10 fot $1/hr just like the adult field hands and kept up my schooling too, no welfare, no handouts (other than hand-me-down clothes). So I’ve experienced both sides of the so-called poverty spectrum, and there is no excuse that hard work and planning for the future won’t fix in this country!
JC