[JRandomFreeper]

I am poor. Working poor. Business has gone to crap for me in the last 2 years. The reason I have computers is that I took some in lieu of pay, rather than not get anything for the work I had done. I do have internet, no cable, no tv, no DVD player. Old, paid for truck. When things are leanest, I eat beans and rice, or sometimes, rice and beans. I eat squirrel. I get by without public assistance. I do that by taking whatever I can get for work.

Try not to sneer to much at the poor.

/johnny

[Thermalseeker]

I eat squirrel.

There's nothing wrong with eating squirrels. I was just telling my wife last night that it was about time to thin out the squirrel population around our house. She asked me what I was going to do with them. I replied "Squirrel dumplings". Delicious when properly prepared.

[SkyPilot]

May God bless you, and I am sorry about your present circumstances. There is little doubt we are living on the cusp of economic collapse, much more severe than what we are in now. You are like many who have suffered due to the decline that started 2 years ago, and has gotten worse since The Community Organizer took over.

Hang in there. I grew up poor, and we were really poor.

I was poor all my young adult life. Air popped popcorn was a staple, as was mac and cheese made with water.

I know what this is like.

My comments, and I believe most other comments here, directed at the term 'poor' are directed at our permanent underclass of "recipients," and not on those who are down because of the economy. Moreover, the classification of these people as "poor" when compared to other nations still stands. Our poor are rich in comparison, no matter who it is.

We are the first generation, in the history of all of mankind, to have fat poor people.

Fat poor people are a distinct out-product of twentieth century liberalism. Forty percent of all people who are classified as "poor" are morbidly obese.

If you told the ancient Roman, medieval European, or 18th Century European that a fat person was "poor", they would have laughed in your face.

The poor "advocates" always argue that this is so not because these people are overfed, but because of 'ignorance' about 'nutrition.'

This is mostly bogus.

They eat what they want, and mostly, that is a lot of whatever they are eating. Period.

And, 4,763 government programs that try and teach the poor to eat apples and carrots won't do a damn thing about that either.

Let's Move!