People of WalMart

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Originally Posted by 3894

Most poor people keep themselves neat and clean. The people in those photos look like they've just given up.

I'm trying not to bring my personal background into the discussion, but I'm not succeeding.

Several of my relatives on my mother's side of the family are in extreme poverty. One of my uncles wore sweat pants to my wedding. Sweat pants that we had bought for him. I'm sure people could take pictures of him if he could afford Wal-Mart. But me, all I can see is a sixty-five-year struggle, an abusive father, a school system that didn't understand dyslexia, years and years in fields and factories, digging ditches. Thank god for Medicare, which replaced his two knees which were destroyed by all of that physical labor, so that he can go back to more physical labor so they can eat. There aren't any shelters in rural Michigan. There isn't enough charity when everyone in a city needs charity.