HEN IT HAPPENS TO YOU...
Today Im thinking of so many Americans who have no home. They live in poverty....Not just drug addicts, and alcoholics, mental cases...but families who work.
37.2 Million people in the USA live in Poverty. I am below the line for poverty. And it increased by 3.3 million more in 2019.
37.2 Million people in the USA live in Poverty. I am below the line for poverty. And it increased by 3.3 million more in 2019.
I just watched a YouTube about the fall out of the Middle Class. Poverty is becoming the norm in this country. It actually has gotten much worse with Bush's recession, then Obama did not do as promised and get rid of the Bush Tax cuts, then the Trump Tax cuts, then the Covid...People lost jobs, they lost homes, they lost their way of life. AND now with all those cuts from missing tax revenue that came from Social Programs, there is NO safety net.
I was reading what some Germans wrote in comments, they said in Germany they are given day care by their employers, and if they lose their job due to some calamity...they are automatically given Unemployment compensation...they have free health care, they get taken care of till they are back on their feet...
NOT IN AMERICA. You lose your job they(the state govt) do everything in their power to keep you FROM getting compensation. I know, I've been on unemployment twice in my lifetime. It only lasts initially for16 weeks. You will be paid a slither of what you earned. Def won't be able to pay rent on it and its TAXED....lucky for me both times I was on it I had help....first time I was married...and I used that time of being jobless to start my own business and that business paid my bills and kept me up for 30 yrs! Then I was unemployed for a few years when I lost my job at the hospital in 2007 right on the cusp of the 2008 recession. I lived with my Mom and we paid no rent cause she owned her home. I was able at that time to start another self employed job designing fabrics. Lucky me my sis was in that business and she helped get me in the door, I worked from home and helped mom too. Win Win for the family and me but that didn't last and I had to go back to work in 2011.
NOT IN AMERICA. You lose your job they(the state govt) do everything in their power to keep you FROM getting compensation. I know, I've been on unemployment twice in my lifetime. It only lasts initially for16 weeks. You will be paid a slither of what you earned. Def won't be able to pay rent on it and its TAXED....lucky for me both times I was on it I had help....first time I was married...and I used that time of being jobless to start my own business and that business paid my bills and kept me up for 30 yrs! Then I was unemployed for a few years when I lost my job at the hospital in 2007 right on the cusp of the 2008 recession. I lived with my Mom and we paid no rent cause she owned her home. I was able at that time to start another self employed job designing fabrics. Lucky me my sis was in that business and she helped get me in the door, I worked from home and helped mom too. Win Win for the family and me but that didn't last and I had to go back to work in 2011.
BUT when the Republicans got in they finished off the middle class...they see any help as a hand out. So they try very hard to stop people from having basic needs...they don't want to pay for child care...or make laws to control rent, or health care...they want the people in poverty to just disappear. How can you pay $2000 a month rent In California, when you are only making $15 an hr. Do the math. We are required to have car insurance, it's Expensive, and if you have a less than steller driving record they make you suffer. How is that helping? SO any unfair practices, like charging more per Kwh for electricity in Winter...than they do in Summer...That to me is Price gouging...but the companies explain it away this keeps people from "wasting" energy. Why are auto insurers allowed to punish a sector of the population...we should have NO FAULT insurance....IF these companies were properly regulated, this could never happen. A Utility company who raised rates to pay for building a new nuclear plant, mis-managed the money and the whole project failed...and yet it took several years and court actions to get some of the money back to consumers...and that was only a drop in the bucket.
As a child my family was homeless on 2 occasions my dad, my mom, me and my 2 sisters. Once we lived with a relative...and the second time, we moved into or squatted in a building that was basically abandoned. My dad worked but lost his job...finally my Mom got a job in a dress shop she could at least buy food for us, and not until my dad got working again did we move back into a duplex apartment we rented...
They built a house but then lost it when he died and my mom didn't earn enough to keep the house...long story.
As a child my family was homeless on 2 occasions my dad, my mom, me and my 2 sisters. Once we lived with a relative...and the second time, we moved into or squatted in a building that was basically abandoned. My dad worked but lost his job...finally my Mom got a job in a dress shop she could at least buy food for us, and not until my dad got working again did we move back into a duplex apartment we rented...
They built a house but then lost it when he died and my mom didn't earn enough to keep the house...long story.
several years later, in 1969 my mom got a job at B F Goodrich...and she worked HARD making v-belts out of rubber! She finished raising us and my husband and I helped her get a home loan, in 1977...She stuck with that job for 16 yrs and she was one of the lucky ones who got in when companies still stood by their employees. She got a retirement package, that SHE did not pay into, the company did it for her. And she got retirement insurance also...She def made the right choice.
We were lucky...we survived because my Mom gave all she had to the job to put food on the table and a roof over our heads...My mom retired from BF Goodrich in 1986..her house was paid for, and she lived comfortable till the day she passed. When she retired in 1986 she was earning $18 an hr...a woman who did not finish school, who had no special training, but who showed up every day to do her shift...took pride in her work, and trusted the company she worked for to treat her fairly....that is how American companies used to treat their employees...then they sent all those jobs to other countries so the greedy board of directors could buy yet another yacht...
No comments:
Post a Comment
I no longer accept comments on this blog
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.