Tammy's Story

[Big Smoothy]

A poor family in Ohio.

What should Tammy do? Perhaps, she is content. Comment? Opinions?

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[Arnold]

I respect the fact that she no longer collects welfare and works, and walks over 10 miles to get to her job.

The one kid seems to have a future, he tries to dress nice and he was talking about college, etc. so maybe he will be the success of the family and get them out of that shit hole later in life.

 

[maniclion]

Oh puhhh-lease, when I was five and my parents had divorced we lived with our mother in the attic crawlspace of some drunk from the bar she tended, I remember eating boiled hotdogs cut in half on half a bun, almost everyday... It was winter, St. Louis area, and when you walked downstairs to the kitchen you could see your breath, the man was so cheap he barely ran the heater. After almost a year of living like this my Father and Grandpa came like Black Ops in the night while my Mom was at work and rescued us to Texas....where my dad had gotten a job for the city doing maintenance at some Project Apartments and they let us live there rent free. Not only was I poor I was the only white kid in a Black and Hispanic complex.....

 

[Little Wing]

Growin' up rusty shack,
all I had was hangin' on my back.
Only you know how I loathe
this place called Tobacco Road.

 

[KelJu]

I don't know what it is like to grow up poor. My dad and mom worked their asses off. I didn't know what it was like to be poor until I moved at at 17, and I fucking hate it, lol.

I guess that is why I work so much. Monkey see, monkey do. I guess the hardest part of raising a family from poverty is someone has to break the cycle.