They tell us work and play by the rules and you'll be rewarded

The lady in this article works full time, makes $9 an hour, has no health insurance and a daughter she is responsible for. Sure sounds like she's rewarded to me, NOT!

From the article...Operators of free food banks say they are seeing more working people needing assistance. The increased demand is outstripping supplies and forcing many pantries and food banks to cut portions.

Diana Blasingame has lately found herself having to go to a free food pantry once a month to feed herself and her teenage daughter.

"I'm pretty good at making things stretch as far as I can, but food is so high now and I have to have gas in my car to do my job," said Blasingame, 46, who earns $9 an hour as a home health aide. "I work full time, but I don't have health insurance and sometimes there just isn't enough to pay bills and buy food."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071119/ap_on_re_us/food_pantries_shortage

you have to be asleep to believe it.

The "work hard and you'll be rewarded" claim has always been mostly a crock, at least where low-paying jobs are concerned. A significant chunk of the jobs held by the lower-middle class go absolutely nowhere.

skill. There will be difficulties to over come but do it anyway. Do not expect the world to greet a unskilled worker with affection.

And to you guys who have spawned a child and do not support the mother and the child or children, ROT IN HELL!

wanting people with at least an associates degree in whatever but they still only pay $9 an hour.

bookkeeper. You needed a degree to be a manager. You needed a degree and experience and past a test to be a CPA.

Now I see ads for bookkeepers who must be CPA's !

As the years go by they require more and more hurtles to be jumped. But as I said there are obstacles and the world will not care how tough it is. You will be competing for jobs no matter what. If you want to compete for the better paying ones you had better get the required badges.

If you don't the number of people who you compete against will grow and grow and the pay will be less and less.

And no one cares if you starve or not.

Myself, I had it easier than kids do today but I did not have it made. I worked full time when I went to school. I was married and was 30 when I graduated. I have lots of experience and get paid far more than those around me. Had I not gone to school and got my skill and experience I would be competing for the $9 dollar per hr jobs.

So don't complain that the world doesn't make it easy for you to survive. Don't wait for things to get better, they won't.

One very important thing I learned back when I was doing a nasty $8/ hr job looking for unexploded ordinance.

When you are in a shitty position and want something better, get off your ass and do something about it. There is no guarantee that what you do will make things better, but there is a guarantee that things will not get better if you don't do something about it.

America! What a country!

They tell us work and play by theIR rules and you'll be rewarded