re: #278 Killgore Trout

People with iphones, laptops and enough free time to live in a park for three weeks? People occupying wall street are not poor. I can guarantee you I make less money than almost all of them. Once again, don;t tell me what I know or how much I’m hurting. I won;t respond to anymore strawmen.

Ah. They have refrigerators and indoor plumbing, they’re rich enough?

It’s your strawman, actually. Some have laptops and iphones, some (perhaps many) don’t. You literally have no idea what any of the incomes are, but you’re poorer than them all without needing to check.

Let’s bring it down to a simpler case. I’m supporting a family of three on my savings, which are almost gone. This year so far I’ve earned $4,500 and been given another $2000 from friends and family. I don’t have a job because they cut the jobs at the library when they reduced taxes - and since everyone is cutting taxes and libraries are taking the biggest hits I’m one of a growing number of unemployed skilled librarians. At 50 and with a master’s degree I’m too old and too educated for most positions.

For three. F’ing. Years.

I have a daughter with a major medical issue and a wife with a cancerous lesion and neither of them have seen a doctor in two years because (ready for this) I earned too much money to get medicaid in this state. The cap is $400 a month.

So there you go, Killgore Trout. Tell me how you’re worse.

Better yet, tell me why I’m not supposed to be angry at the people who stood up and told me it was too bad and I should have taken another profession.