I see a lot of people stating how "poor" they are but i don't think they really know what "poor" is. Poor is not owning a flat screen or a labtop or an xbox 36o or having a car on the road. Poor is having to go to a food bank every few months or having to get food stamps, poor is not buying music, games or ring tones. It is living paycheck to paycheck, not buying gifts for your spouse on holidays, not going on vacations and not going to bars and clubs. It is not having a wedding ring because you had to pawn it for milk. Poor is not having any credit and not being able to get a loan, not having good insurance or any at all (which we didn't have til obamacare kicked in. poor is not having family to ask for help.
i'm so sick and tired of people around me saying how bad they have it when they have half the things I just mentioned and more. I know we are not the poorest people around (far from it) and i am not writing this to gain pity or handouts. I am only writing this to make a point... most of the ones i see bitching don't really have much to be bitching about. Shit many of them own their home or even rent to others. What the fuck is that shit?
I'm also tired of seeing these fucked up charts showing what the "average poor" person owns. In our case it is not at all true. I've seen them and can honestly say we do not have most of the "luxuries" that these "poor" people have....and you know what, that is perfectly ok. my family is just as happy as the family that does have all these things. And as much as it might get my wife and i down, it really does not scathe us. we do just fine. as a matter of fact, if we were not poor we still wouldn't have half that shit. we don't need it. problem with the economy is that most think they "have" to have all this shit and the fact is - you don't. society has you duped.
let me add.... my "studio" is my lap as I sit indian style on my bed. and i still manage to make some pretty cool art if i do say so myself.