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Moongoddess256 said:
I live off of $150 - $190 a week. I can't afford to see a doctor. I can't afford to maintain my car which I need to get to work. I only have internet because I use my landlords wireless. My laptop is leftover from when I actually had a decent paying job. I buy my video games with money I make from bringing change to coinstar and returning bottles and cans. My 360 was paid for by change I saved.

Don't get me started. Many of those "jobs" are those minimum wage or close to it bullshit jobs like what I work. Its really irritates me that those who are well off are so above the poor that they don't even notice they exist.

My parents are upper middle class and they say similar clueless things.

I feel for you too. My parents are upper middle class too, but they are very socially consience(?), so they are very empathic with the poor. I can only imagine how frustrating it must be to be living on the edge of poverty, in a society that boasts itself of being the best in the world. It's so disconnected with reality.