Reply #9: I wish it were that simple. I really do. [View All]

[RandomKoolzip]

Unfortunately, not everyone was created with the ability to make shitloads of money, and furthermore, there is a finite amount of wealth in this world anyway, with those who hoard at the top (about 1% of the population) kicking the bottom 99% off the ladder of success every chance they get; the prohibitive costs of daily needs, the prohibitive costs of education, the primitively greedy healthcare industry, the poor state of public schooling, high and unnecessary taxation (the profits of which fall into the coffers of "civic planners" and assmunchers bent on building football stadiums instead of good public schools), the prohibitive cost of housing, the seemingly unmoveable cap on wages which prevents people to save money, ineffective public assistance programs, lack of jobs, racism, classism, the lack of anything resembling a "future" in most working class people's lives, the repeal of the earned income tax credit (now itself repealed - whoopty shit!), the easy appeal of drugs as an escape from a life of pain, squalor and drudgery, mental problems caused by poor diet and toxic air....."work hard, study hard, get a job..." whatever. It's a fuckin scary-ass world, lisa. The fact is, I'm not "blaming America" (hmmm... sounds like freeper terminology to me, admins) for the fact that I'm not rich, but it's certainly not like I have an advantage just because I'm able to read and write and operate a computer. There is simply a shrinking job market out there for the disadvantaged, and with Bush at the wheel it's getting a lot worse by the day. Saying that you can get by just by working hard (I work pretty fuckin hard everyday, two full time jobs for the last six years!!! Where's my pot of gold?) is a generalization and indicative of a person who sees only one side of the story.