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Originally Posted by tucson
Barefoot, I did not say anything about being lazy.... "going to school", there are classes at Extension schools for trades, I went once for very little money (approx.$300.) and my husband did when we needed extra $$ and another profession after we lost our jobs. There are schools (not colleges) that offer trades for people. We were in our mid forties when we did it. Also, you can start a business right out of your home with hardly any cash. I've done that also. How about cleaning house, mowing lawns, running errands, etc,etc., for the seniors in The Villages and surrounding areas?? I was NOT born gifted or rich or smart, I just use the creative ideas that God gives me, just like He does for everyone that asks. And, fyi; I DO have compassion on the needy who have fallen on hard times, I was brought up in a household with 12 children who had to eat hardly anything for breakfast, lunch and dinner b/c my father was disabled due to a traumatic event in his middle age life and was out of work (factory worker) more than he was able to work. Me and my brothers and sisters use to pick blueberries, babysit,mow neighbors lawns,shovel snow for people during the winter & summer for $ and after all day would give our $ to my mother for groceries and other expenses. So, I know about it ALL from personal experience. I opened my 1st business at age 19,took out a 2,000 loan from a credit union and went for it. It CAN be done, I KNOW. Being honest.
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This is what I mean about using today's circumstances and not those of the past. It is very admirable what you and your siblings did to help your family. But... in today's world, people don't have twelve children to help out... anyone who can afford it has a yard service and a snow removal service, and a car to run their own errands. Others who can't afford that do it themselves, or have adult children who do it for them.
Learning another trade is not so easy today as it was back then, and it costs a lot more $ unless you accept government assistance, which you and others claim is wrong.
So I see all this as putting the poor in a double bind, and then calling them all lazy. And that's what I object to.
There are already people working three jobs to make ends meet--and they have college degrees. Today's job circumstances are totally different than they were 30 years ago.
I wish those posters living in the past would do some research on today's circumstances, plus the situation of generational poverty.