Thank you Jill. While we have many of the same viewers, for anyone that has not checked out Jill’s website I really recommend you check her postings out.
The stories of how the people of lower incomes struggle to survive should be presented more to the public, so people can understand just how drastic the movement of money to the upper levels of wealth has become. It is a drastic robbing of the poor to give even more excess to the wealthy. It is the true obscenity of the US financial system and unrestrained capitalism. The salt in the wound is that it doesn’t have to be this way, all we have to do is look what other countries manage to provide for their public with less GDP than the US. That is why the republican politicians insist on touting US exceptionalism, the constant cheering that the US is #1, and the non-stop forever trying to make anything slightly helpful the government could do for the people derided as socialism. It is all designed to keep the public, the people of the country looking inward with pride and looking outward with scorn, even as we wither and die under robber barons who cherish the gilded age of history. Hugs
Gilded Age, period of gross materialism and blatant political corruption in U.S. history during the 1870s
Mary is a single mother of three young children ranging in age from 6 to 14. She works a full-time, minimum wage job, they live in a tiny two-bedroom apartment, and barely make ends meet. Mary does not own a car but takes the bus to and from work. If one of the children is sick and needs to go to the doctor, she relies on neighbors to help her out. When Mary shops for groceries, she buys only generic brands or things that are on sale – they eat a lot of beans and rice. Mary does receive some food stamp and rental assistance, but even that combined with her paycheck which amounts to just under $1,000 per month, Mary struggles to put food on the table, pay the rent and utility bills on time, and buy the essentials like medicine (one of Mary’s children is asthmatic, and Mary…
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Thank you so much for reblogging this, Scottie! Hugs
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You do amazing work getting important stories in the view of people and highlighting things that need to be pointed out. Not many post the many wonderful helping people that you do, the uplifting stories of humanity. Glad I could add a little to the sharing. Hugs
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Thank you so much for your kind and inspiring words, Scottie! Sometimes we get so caught up in the news cycle and political gamesmanship that we forget what’s really important — people. Again, thank you for the reblog, my friend! Hugs
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