re: #129 calochortus

Something a lot of people seem to miss is that being poor is actually pretty time consuming. Getting anywhere without a car means using public transit, which in most places means it takes 3 times as long to get anywhere, and you can’t carry a lot of stuff with you. If you have kids, you need to get them where they need to be on that same inefficient bus system. Any time you deal with a government agency you need to go there and sit and wait. You can’t do other stuff while you do the laundry because you have to go to the laundromat to do that laundry. Etc., etc., etc.

Then we move on to the question of how to have both parents working when there are kids at home and, oh yeah, no birth control to prevent another pregnancy.

Where are these folks going to get the time to become BFFs with rich people?

Not to mention: many poor people don’t have checking accounts so they have to rely on check-cashing services, payday advance loans, or get paid with debit cards where every transaction carries a fee.

It is expensive to be poor!