I have some right-wing friends which is fine, but sometimes they start slagging off the working poor and people on welfare and enforcing the war on the poor. I think sometimes they forget I am part of the working poor. I have never earnt over 16 thousand a year in my life (often less than this). I have an overdraft I cant pay off and I have a student debt I can barely make min payments to. I am 28, I hold two under grads and two post grads. Like so many people I worked so hard to find work but could only ever find underpaid, unfilling jobs that barely covered rent and food. It was so depressing. I got to a point where I did not even want to get out of bed in the morning; Id drink half a bottle of wine and take a sedative because I felt like such a miserable failure. Begging for money at the winz office is a horrible experience. I wish my right-wing friends who slag people like me off (without realizing it because they do not associate me with those people) would realize their words and ignorance cut really deep. It makes me feel so bad about myself. We are real people. We tried our hardest but sometimes your hardest is not good enough. Beneficiaries and the working poor are not what is wrong with this world. What is wrong with our world is the callous and ignorant mentalities held by my right-wings friends and so many like them. Remember your humanity.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 04:34:06 +0000
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