It was an interesting read and enlightening to hear of the struggles with poverty. Some of the exercise was not completely time-lined, and I understand it was for the sake of the experiment to prove a point.
Here is an exercise I do weekly: I go to bed at 9 p.m. in order to be ready for my next day at work. I hope I can fall asleep before my neighbors feel it is time to entertain a three-block area with their music, drinking and carrying on until wee hours of the morning. I can’t call the police in fear of retaliation, so I get as much sleep as possible.
Bell rings, I get up start my day. As I leave my house, I see the fast-food debris and broken bottles and empty beer cans I will have to clean up when I get home. My partying neighbors sleep the day away, as they are not gainfully employed, and get all the sleep they need for the next night’s activities.
My place of employment has downsized due to budget cuts. I am grateful for my day job and give the job my full attention. The bell rings, I then go to my part-time job or business to earn extra money so I can keep up with the tax burden my city has put on me.
As I travel through the city doing my second job, I swerve around disruptive teenagers blocking the street. Good thing they raised my school taxes. Maybe they can teach these children to respect the laws of the road. The bell rings, I head home to have dinner with my wife. After dinner, I cut my lawn and clean up the mess from the neighbors, as they slept all day. I am out working on my yard. I see my neighbors hanging out drinking and getting ready for another night of hard work.
The bell rings, I have to complete my work for my part-time job. Just another two hours and I get to relax for a while. Work is complete, finally, after a long day. I have a few peaceful, well-earned minutes to exhale. The bell rings, the neighbors decided to start the party early, music thumping, shaking the house. So much for relaxing.
This is a common story among many of the blue-collar workers who pay their taxes and try and hold onto the house they call home. I feel as though I am a prisoner in my home. I would be lucky to break even if I sold it. The good thing is I still contribute my tax dollars to make sure we have programs to assist folks in poverty. Where is the assistance for the average worker? Where is the help to live in a quiet and peaceful neighborhood? What about the folks that have to work two to four jobs to make ends meet and keep their homes?
I am not saying all people in poverty act like this, but it would seem that a workfare program would be more helpful than just giving assistance for housing, food, HEAP and all of the other government-subsidized programs. Then maybe, they would have to go to sleep at a decent hour to be ready for work.
A day in the life of a working class person in Schenectady that lives in Schenectady.
"Approval ratings go up and down for various reasons... An example is the high post 911 support for GWB even though he could be said to be responsible for the event." --- Box A Rox '9/11 Truther'
Melania is a bimbo... she is there to look at, not to listen to. --- Box A Rox and his 'War on Women'
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
DV certainly cannot relate to this because he is not supporting himself.
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
It was an interesting read and enlightening to hear of the struggles with poverty. Some of the exercise was not completely time-lined, and I understand it was for the sake of the experiment to prove a point.
Here is an exercise I do weekly: I go to bed at 9 p.m. in order to be ready for my next day at work. I hope I can fall asleep before my neighbors feel it is time to entertain a three-block area with their music, drinking and carrying on until wee hours of the morning. I can’t call the police in fear of retaliation, so I get as much sleep as possible.
Bell rings, I get up start my day. As I leave my house, I see the fast-food debris and broken bottles and empty beer cans I will have to clean up when I get home. My partying neighbors sleep the day away, as they are not gainfully employed, and get all the sleep they need for the next night’s activities.
My place of employment has downsized due to budget cuts. I am grateful for my day job and give the job my full attention. The bell rings, I then go to my part-time job or business to earn extra money so I can keep up with the tax burden my city has put on me.
As I travel through the city doing my second job, I swerve around disruptive teenagers blocking the street. Good thing they raised my school taxes. Maybe they can teach these children to respect the laws of the road. The bell rings, I head home to have dinner with my wife. After dinner, I cut my lawn and clean up the mess from the neighbors, as they slept all day. I am out working on my yard. I see my neighbors hanging out drinking and getting ready for another night of hard work.
The bell rings, I have to complete my work for my part-time job. Just another two hours and I get to relax for a while. Work is complete, finally, after a long day. I have a few peaceful, well-earned minutes to exhale. The bell rings, the neighbors decided to start the party early, music thumping, shaking the house. So much for relaxing.
This is a common story among many of the blue-collar workers who pay their taxes and try and hold onto the house they call home. I feel as though I am a prisoner in my home. I would be lucky to break even if I sold it. The good thing is I still contribute my tax dollars to make sure we have programs to assist folks in poverty. Where is the assistance for the average worker? Where is the help to live in a quiet and peaceful neighborhood? What about the folks that have to work two to four jobs to make ends meet and keep their homes?
I am not saying all people in poverty act like this, but it would seem that a workfare program would be more helpful than just giving assistance for housing, food, HEAP and all of the other government-subsidized programs. Then maybe, they would have to go to sleep at a decent hour to be ready for work.
A day in the life of a working class person in Schenectady that lives in Schenectady.
This is the return on the "investment" that people in the city get. This is how they have to live in exchange for paying the taxes for the millionaires. DV, would you be an adult and address what this man is saying?
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
He also forgot being harassed by panhandlers when trying to get a cup of coffee before work and not only swerving around idiots walking in the middle of the road but swerving around 1 foot deep potholes in the roads. I could add much to his letter to the editor.
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
cities ARE NOT the urbane metropolises they are touted to be....a lot of humans who have forgotten or never learned how to feed themselves hang out in such urbane places hoping for crumbs from the 'kings table'......
you don't see panhandlers hanging out at rural farm homesteads you don't see people exchanging HEAP credits when they have wood stoves and land to use you don't see people exchanging food stamps for eggs when they have chickens and land to use you don't see people exchanging bus tokens to get from their home to the market when they have land to use to feed themselves
etc etc
remove the human from the land and he becomes a feudal slave to another human, hence the civilized paychecks of the current cast system
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
cities ARE NOT the urbane metropolises they are touted to be....a lot of humans who have forgotten or never learned how to feed themselves hang out in such urbane places hoping for crumbs from the 'kings table'......
you don't see panhandlers hanging out at rural farm homesteads you don't see people exchanging HEAP credits when they have wood stoves and land to use you don't see people exchanging food stamps for eggs when they have chickens and land to use you don't see people exchanging bus tokens to get from their home to the market when they have land to use to feed themselves
etc etc
remove the human from the land and he becomes a feudal slave to another human, hence the civilized paychecks of the current cast system
Somewhat tortuous argument concerning the relationship between the desacrilization of the anesthesia of forgetting and the authentication of the hidden reformulates the underlying problems to which my own work points, thus raising other, more important issues.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Box what's with the new "vocabulary" I don't understand anything you've written today
My posts to Senders are from a "random sentence generator". I wanted my posts to make as much sense as Senders posts. Since Senders only posts 'disjointed gibberish', my reply is in a similar language.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Thanks for explaining, thought maybe I got too much whiffs of weed from outside.
BTW anyone know what type of "drug" is smoked that smells like skunk? Just curious.
Nevermind just googled it
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•'Skunk' is a term often used interchangeably with cannabis, but skunk cannabis is a much more potent form of the drug. It has around two to three more times of the main active ingredient - tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC.
•The powerful strains, which were originally created by crossing two cannabis plants, are believed to have originated in the US before being taken up by European growers in hothouses.
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