Noted........but welfare is not LOWER than low class. Do we tell a mother who was abused by her husband, and her only recourse is to take her children and leave, go on welfare until she can get a job, lower than low class?
I agree with your example above, BUT you can hardly compare marieelissa with someone in that situation.
Nor would I......as everybody's situation is unique. Marieelissa made the statement she's was on SSI/Disability, which has now been changed to just SSI (which happens after Approx. 10 years, after SSI/Disability's first diagnosis). During those 10 years, she is re-evaluated every 3 years (intensively, I might add), to see if she's still "Disabled". Then, and only then, it becomes permanent. The Government decides this. It's a long, difficult process to obtain SSI under the "Disability" heading, as it has so many variables. I'm speaking from a Specialists point of view as having worked in the industry as a Claims Adjuster for Psyc.
Since nobody actually "knows" anybody on this forum (are you really a cat? lol), how can we make disparaging remarks about their standard of living, no matter what they portray on a forum. Even the alcoholic in the alley that we avert our eyes from (because he's soiled himself) is not low class. What's his story, how did he get there?
There are people on this forum that are so angry.....and hateful in their postings. However, why are they like this? They all have a story to tell. We all have a tendency to judge from what we read, when actually they may not be like that at all.....in real life. Some people are so lonely, that this is the only attention they get. Others have real problems, and nobody will listen to them, so this is their only outlet. Some have dropped through the cracks, and society could care less. Do we reject them because they don't fit into our cookie cutter way we see how life should be? There are many on here that don't agree with me, or I with them......so what? None of them in my book are low class.........No one is!!!
Jordandog, I'm not coming down on you. I just happened to pick your post to say this. I happen to find your inquiries interesting, and they make me dig out answers.