When I was 13 my dad left my mom and took most of the money with him. My family went from middle class living to living off the kindness and others and off the state within a matter of weeks.
Food Stamps? Yeah, I had to deal with those.
Free Health Care would have been nice. Instead, we only went to the doctor if it was something live threatening. Luckily (and it *WAS* luck) nothing like the Gall Bladder attack I suffered earlier this year happened. We were all relatively healthy kids.
The point is.. I believe these things because I was there and because I HAD the opportunity to dig out of the hole I was in to where I am right now. But it wasn't easy, still isn't easy, honestly, since my wife's credit history is significantly better than mine.
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Date: 2009-04-16 05:13 pm (UTC)When I was 13 my dad left my mom and took most of the money with him. My family went from middle class living to living off the kindness and others and off the state within a matter of weeks.
Food Stamps? Yeah, I had to deal with those.
Free Health Care would have been nice. Instead, we only went to the doctor if it was something live threatening. Luckily (and it *WAS* luck) nothing like the Gall Bladder attack I suffered earlier this year happened. We were all relatively healthy kids.
The point is.. I believe these things because I was there and because I HAD the opportunity to dig out of the hole I was in to where I am right now. But it wasn't easy, still isn't easy, honestly, since my wife's credit history is significantly better than mine.
Just... to explain slightly further.