today is our double birthday day...my daughter's share a birthday. we've been celebrating a little. it never seems like i do enough, though. i never seem to have extra money for fun things.
i was awake in the middle of the night, running numbers, balancing and rebalancing my budget. i began to wonder if i should get food stamps...i would probably qualify. but i have never taken anything from the government, and i really don't want to start now. having to turn in all of our private financial and personal information in exchange for food is not fair. it makes me angry. there are certain basic necessities which are human rights. being denied is another form of violence.
i started wondering how we are supposed to be making it and getting angry when i realized something. we have the right to work, and equally importantly, we have the right to earn a living wage. if our public representatives remembered that they are truly public servants, that they are serving the people, we would earn enough money to live comfortably. no one who works would need food stamps.
we each have the right to clean water, food, clothes, shelter - simply because we are here.
i have often thought that we live in the most violent society imaginable here. it always astounds me when i uncover another layer of violence.
hope all is well with you and yours,
clare
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