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
Really? Well, then it strikes me that you're easily amused. Frankly I don't believe a single word of the aching bathos you just posted, and for exactly the same reasons you don't believe the lady in the article. Have a good evening.