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I don’t look at Reddit but am happy to know what you report. The kids need to be told how hrc will further destroy their future.

Here is the future they face. A young man we know sent this to me. He is a good young man and he is all but hopeless. I’ve scrubbed it down to protect him:

[Looking for work to feed my family.] I try my best to do it on a regular basis. I’m seeking every avenue I can find right now for a relocation [and suitable work].

I’m dreading the future of the country as well, but it’s not ALL bad news here. [Making industrial art furniture for craft sales and last show] yielded 9 sales, though it was deemed the worst show in anyone’s memory according to every vendor I spoke to. Looks like trickle down poverty is taking its toll on people’s disposable income.

I’ve got a customer from xxx who is supposed to come purchase a couple more of the tables, and I’ve got a few more shows coming up to try to finish liquidating the inventory. Been working on some rustic wall-mounted coat/hat/whatever peg hangers and other than that, trying to figure out what my next move is. I got a rejection letter from company Y [bad part of city and a very long drive], which is probably for the best. Still doing my best to drum up more job prospects that pay more than $12 an hour. E.g: I found an ad on Craigslist for company X over there in [nearby town] for a position humping chemicals around and filling plastics moulds for 10 to 12 dollars an hour, 40 hours a week, but other than the idea that some money is better than no money, I can’t seem to convince myself to work for that. It serves no purpose other than making my kids ineligible for Medicaid and then costing me half of my salary in health insurance. As it is, I dumped my Obamacare for the rest of the year and decided to pay the 3 months of fines instead of 400 per month for wife and myself with a $6,700 per person deductible with $13,000 out of pocket. When that is the situation I’m faced with, how does it make any sense to work for $12 an hour? I’m not sure how much longer the natives will remain calm. Even the lady running the [State] Workforce office who was laid off from [Computer Company] three years ago as an international account manager told me she has drilling consultants and engineers with PHDs coming in and having to take minimum wage jobs. This truly IS Obama’s 2016.

Not expecting you to provide any answers, just venting. I’m trying my best to keep my head up and retain a positive attitude. It’s just getting hard to look at myself in the mirror anymore without a purpose in society.

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Yesterday, I saw a healthy young man pulling a beat up duffel bad down the sidewalk. Sure he was tattoed and sure he had an ear ring neither of which I understand but I’ve met many good young men with both. You could tell he once had a job but was now just wandering. He was tired, hot and defeated. He got to the end of the block, stopped and fell more than sat on the curb. As he did I heard him let out a little cry and went back to ask if I could help him. He said no, I’ll be OK and I went to my car. I looked back across the street to see him bent over and head down sitting on the curb in front of the now abandoned Exxon building. I’m sick, disgusted and embarrassed for this version of America. It has become all too common. I hope our children are terrified of it.

I drove home and cried for all the good it does. I can’t get the image of that man out of my mind. I hate myself for not being able to do anything and I hate the politicians for not wanting to do anything. In fact, most of them want to make it worse.

Death to all tyrants.