poor and despised
no one said it was easy

and i'll say





fuck the minimum wage. a paper bag could not support itself on $7.75 per hour. what is a family supposed to do with that? even ten dollars would be a tough go.





yeah i'm really frustrated about it. i always will be. even when i get a job making way more than what i am now (ie. every other job i've ever had), i will still feel for my fellow ontarians. check this -- most of my twenty-something co-workers live at home, with their parents. that's fucked up. coincedence, you think?





i know what yer sayin' now -- cut that shit out of your life and find another job. yes i could do that, and eventually i will. but it's bigger than me. it's a situation where an uncaring government is legislating all over lives it knows nothing about. and i'm not talking about me, i'm talking about people who really are poor and despised.

i whine about being poor, but i have options if i really hit rock bottom. i can get help. many people don't have that option. what do they do?