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• Wednesday, April 2, 2008 11:36 AM

  Yes we are in huge trouble

  I'm a disabled mom of a four year old son, and also an orphan I know all to well that what the government can give in times of crisis is limited. I now live with my fiance whom has a job but do to not being able to get a car I stay home and care for my son. My fiances mom lets us live for free in the other side of the duplex she owns.We pay our share of the bills and that takes up all the money we have.This is our income $600 work money and $190 government aid $280 Food stamps for 3 people. I wash clothes by hand, and since I can't work I choose to go hungery when the food runs low. No cable, no fancy T.V., a bed like steel to sleep on and no new clothes. SSI takes years to get I'm still waiting. My fiances mom is elderly and still works and can handle little stress so a yelling kid in the car everyday would push her over the edge. If per say I do work the cost of child care would take all the money. A near by food bank would be nice but we do not have one hear so Our food is verry low. I already live in the depreshion. It's only a matter of time before the government aid gets cut with so many unemployed. Before comeing here my son and I where liveing homeless and from shelter to shelter on houseing lists for over a year.We don't even have medical help the state of Alabama is in dire need.I have PTSD, bipoler, boarderline personalitys and crohns disease and high blood presure with no medical help I have to live in Alabama for a year to get help. While your eating fat and enjoying your nice T.V. and cable others right here in America are starving and sick. I have gone everywhere for help and you might be next. Most of the U.S. is a pay check away from being homeless. I mean crap my kid runs around in high waters. He's a blessing but his biological father bailed on me and plays job ping pong so child support can't be collected and when it is the government takes it to pay back what they are giveing me already. I count my blessing everyday, with out the kindness of my fiances mom we would not even be able to get an apartment.Please do not ignore the huge possability of our economy crashing realy hard most people could not survive and just because we are poor does not mean we are worthless, the poorest of this world are gonna be your survival teachers, and your mental support when you are where we are. I have been blessed with great strength but I have been threw your worst nightmares. Do not under estimate the facts that this article speaks about prepare, and pray.

  —poor family Read poor family's other letters
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