[lbo-talk] (no subject)

[Scissors MacGillicutty]

On 8/31/05, snitsnat <snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> last year, as storms approached, people weren't given time off, let alone
> get their paycheck early in order to buy stuff to help them survive. The
> storm came and they didn't have food in the fridge.
> If they did find time to get to a grocery store, the stores were wiped
> clean of supplies -- least the first time 'round, with Charley. These are
> people who live paycheck to paycheck, something a lot of people don't quite
> grasp. Oh, they _say_ they live paycheck to paycheck, but they really have
> no clue what it means to really do that and to have utterly no resources to
> which to turn: no family, no credit cards, no property, no nothing.

These are points that can't be made forcefully enough—it seems people
actually have to endure immiseration like this before they understand
that when some people say they have *nothing* to fall back on they
mean *NOTHING*.

Thank you!

smg