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.
