I Don't Have Faith and I Don"t Need Your Levi's

I just want a little more than survived.

The government cheese came and the canned peanut butter, the consistency of the inside of a peanut butter cup, tasted really good. I even enjoyed the canned pork stuff with the awesome graphic of a pig on the can.  The donuts from St. Vincent De Paul's food pantry were stale and occasionally we would get an entire stale sheet cake, so good. We never had snacks. We were not the poor family with Tommy Hilfiger polo tops and red tag Levi jeans. We were for real. There was not a loss of priorities it was just basic desperation . There was actual pride in the words when my lovely mother said we had survived and a sense of thankfulness that could only be possible through faith.

I don't have faith and I don't need your Levi's.
 I never have considered god to be compassionate and I have a great sense of style that never needed societies markings of a name brand.  I little ego and a lacking in faith goes a long way I guess after all I survived.


There were barrels of broken toys for Christmas...don"t give broken trash to the poor they don't want it and do not have the means to get rid of it once they have it and which leads to the stereotype of poor folks being lazy slobs surrounded by trash. Just guess where all that garbage came from and guess who's car is broken and who doesn't know how to recycle or trash said broken objects. If something no longer has value then it no longer has value and is not magically useful by someone that has less money. If anything it is harder to maintain an object and more expensive it is made poorly or already broken. rehabbing and refurbishing are for the rich really poor folks should only have the best as they do not have the money to maintain crappy goods. Unfortunately, quality is hard to find and impossible to afford.

$15 is better than $12

Starting a new job is hard and the facts are simple $15 per hour is better than $12. Actually "better" is the wrong word. Humane is the correct word. Unfortunately and, much to my dismay and hope for humanity, the amount of money a person makes directly effects how people are valued. Life and living is not a simple protected beauty pageant. People's wealth is worn on their external and internal selves in a way of capital decay.

Missing teeth: I am positive that no one wants to have oral pain or teeth pulled due to not being able to afford a filling. Money is the reason people are missing teeth. It is not cool or fun to be disfigured. People are judged by their smiles.
Disease, cancer, death occurs too soon for impoverished and marginalized folks. Poor people have death marketed to them. Cigarettes and Cheetos

I have been trying to stay at the $15 or better wage for quite a while now and it is next to impossible.  The minimum wage is a joke in this country and the amount of money you want to pay people is a great descriptor of how you view humanity and human worth on a whole. So next time you are in a job interview, just know that the company may or may not be viable but they should not be able to take you through the dirt with them.