Entries from May 2008 ↓

This is it.  I think I am gonna  just give up and quit tryin.  I’m barely makin it as it is and now today gas is $3.95 a gallon. I had my electric shut off because I cain’t afford to pay it and everything else and feed the kids and put gas in the car to get to and from work.  There’s no bus here so if I don’t have no gas I don’t have no job.  It seems like everything is costin more and more.  What’s a workin family to do? If the prices keep risin soon we’re gonna be livin in a cave up on the ridge. I done maxed out my credit cards just tryin to keep gas in the car and groceries in the house. I cain’t even make the bills and they keep callin me all the time wantin their money. I ain’t got it and they just don’t want to listen to that. 

I seen where the food pantries is runnin out of food because so many more families are needin their help. I saw in the paper that more people are havin to get on welfare because times are so bad.  I just don’t know what those of us who done used up our welfare are gonna do if we cain’t make it. We’re working hard but we ain’t getting no where just farther and farther behind. 

Sometimes I just sit and cry cause I don’t know what else to do.  The groceries and the gas just keep going up.  I seen where Iraq has something like a $70 billion suprlus from oil or somethin. If they got all that money over there then why we need to keep givin em our money.  The President or whoever, needs to keep our money right here to help us that need help. 

Don’t get me started on that President of ours, he ain’t never done nothing for me or anybody I know.  He send out that little bit of money called stimulus and wants us to spend it on shoppin.  CAIN’T NOBODY AFFORD NO SHOPPING!!!  When I get mine I’m gettin my lights back on and putting some gas in the car so I can work. 

The Teen Track went great this year. The teens are becoming more responsible and aware of their actions and how they impact everyone. We did however have some name calling and rumors (It was not just by the teens) but that cant always be avoided when you have that many people together those that were the target of these name calling and rumors handled things very well. There was no physical violence things were talked out with the person or the person saying these things was ignored when starting rumors or name calling. You all handled yourself very well. Everyone pretty much followed the rules. I want to thank you all for showing respect to the Teen Track staff even if you were older then or the same age as them. We had some unexpected guests that we were glad to see this year Tanner (TJ) Parsons and Sam Roseberry we are glad you both could come this year!! It wouldn’t have been the same without you.

I aged out of the system and no longer can get health-care…So I can’t afford to go to the eye doctor which is a really big problem because I have a really bad astigmatism, which basically means I am going blind, and I can’t see 6inches in-front of me without glasses or contacts. Well the dog got a hold of my glasses two days after my CHIPs ran out in January 2007. Luckily I had my contacts and then I ran out of contacts so I wore the same pair for 3months, you are only suppose to wear them for 1month but when you have no money and no health-care you gotta do what you gotta do sometimes. Eventually my eyes started to really hurt bad from wearing the same contact lenses. So I searched for some old glasses hoping to find some that would work the only ones I could find were 3years old bent up and held together with a bread tie its all I had so I had to wear them I couldn’t see good at all with them and they looked crazy but it was better then none after I filed my income taxes I called the eye doctor and got an appointment I have glasses and contacts now with the help of my mom who paid for my appointment and I paid for the glasses and contacts but the glasses and contacts alone are $200 which is cheap compaired to what it could be but it is only a six month supply of contacts. I do need the contacts I can see better with them, the glasses are just a back up but because I had to buy glasses and contacts I had to make a choice weather I needed to see or go to the doctor to see about a pain I have been having wear my gallbladder is and I chose sight because I can always go to the ER if it gets really bad and pay it off slowly over next 20 years but if I can’t see then well I wouldn’t be very much help to anyone and it would also be dangerous for me I would be falling downstairs I didn’t see and such. I shouldn’t have had to make that choice no-one should have to make that choice.  We need free universal health-care!!

Poor People have to make choices like this everyday…for example A lot of parents have to go without medical care because they simply cant afford it. I know a single mother that only has been to the doctor when she breaks something or she is really sick and isnt getting better. And when she goes to the doctor she has to make a choice what not to pay if she needs medication.

This is why I fight to end poverty no-one should have to make choices like these and I don’t want my little niece or nephew (that will be here this summer) to have to make these choices when they grow up. This is why I fight to end poverty it is for the future I don’t want them to have to make the same hard choices as so many people before them have had to make.