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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 603133" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>I learned to love to help others as a small child. My kids were taught by example as small children.........and it continues with the grands. </p><p></p><p>TM you hit it on the head. Our society has been well off for too long........which is how they became spoiled. </p><p></p><p>Here things just keep going from bad to worse. I seriously do not know where the news comes up with the crud it's getting better........because now I'm exposed and talk to folks over an even wider area and I'm certainly not seeing it. People are learning lessons the hard way. People are having their attitudes changed about the working poor and the welfare poor........which is changing their attitudes about other things as well. We have many once influential upper middle class families that have become the working poor.....many who can't feed their kids, who fall just in between the cracks for food stamps ect. We have many more of the upper and middle class that have gone further down and lost literally everything. </p><p></p><p>What I see everyday IS the Great Depression, only worse because no one admits it. (not everyone was so horribly affected last time either, people don't realize that) So those who are still doing well just really have no idea of what is really going on......until it starts coming up close and personal. When 1/3 of the kids your child is in class with doesn't have school supplies, shoes or a winter coat.....you notice. When that same 1/3 is not expecting xmas or holiday meals or is going hungry on weekends.........you start to notice. Thankfully, most people can't sit by and watch that day in and day out and just sit on their hands and do nothing. </p><p></p><p>When folks started realizing that they were in it for the long haul is when I started seeing things change.......and more "good people" begin to emerge. I wasn't surprised to see it was more often the poor folks first who reached out to help in anyway they could, thus triggering others to join in and then find their own ways to help.</p><p></p><p>All the children affected by these current tough times (here it has been going on since 2008 or before) are learning the same valuable lessons our grandparents learned. I think we will be seeing a new generation of "good guys" out of it. Or at least a generation with more of them making up the populace than we've seen in a long time.</p><p></p><p>I give a co worker a ride to work 3 days a week not because it makes me look like a great person but because it's no skin off my nose to do so. I pick her up like 4 blocks from my house, we're going to the same place. This lady is one of the middle class who suddenly found their family poor one day.......lost everything and is struggling to survive. She lost her license because her car insurance lapsed one day and she happened to fall asleep on the way home not a few hours later and have an accident. She is busting her rear to fix it........and trying to keep enough to live on as well. Her husband travels away from the area to work, stays away all week to keep cost down of commuting (stays with family) and a guy who used to make 20 some bucks an hour is making min wage. I work with a vast amount of these people, believe it or not. Now why would I not give her a ride? It doesn't even cost me extra gas. She offered to help with gas, but I told her no she has that 5k fine to pay back so she can get her license back.....she is really struggling with not being able to drive in all other areas of her life. </p><p></p><p>You should see the ride schedules at work.........as usually people needing transportation wind up using more than one person for various reasons (some having 2nd jobs ect). I don't know how they keep track of who they are riding with on what particular day to or from work. lol omg You should see the lunches shared at work. People hand co workers money for a cold soda or whatever and do not expect paid back so someone can have something to eat or drink. (I've done this a few times too.....I take what I need and buy it really cheap) Information is shared too on where to get help for this or that because just about everyone there is hurting and in the same boat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 603133, member: 84"] I learned to love to help others as a small child. My kids were taught by example as small children.........and it continues with the grands. TM you hit it on the head. Our society has been well off for too long........which is how they became spoiled. Here things just keep going from bad to worse. I seriously do not know where the news comes up with the crud it's getting better........because now I'm exposed and talk to folks over an even wider area and I'm certainly not seeing it. People are learning lessons the hard way. People are having their attitudes changed about the working poor and the welfare poor........which is changing their attitudes about other things as well. We have many once influential upper middle class families that have become the working poor.....many who can't feed their kids, who fall just in between the cracks for food stamps ect. We have many more of the upper and middle class that have gone further down and lost literally everything. What I see everyday IS the Great Depression, only worse because no one admits it. (not everyone was so horribly affected last time either, people don't realize that) So those who are still doing well just really have no idea of what is really going on......until it starts coming up close and personal. When 1/3 of the kids your child is in class with doesn't have school supplies, shoes or a winter coat.....you notice. When that same 1/3 is not expecting xmas or holiday meals or is going hungry on weekends.........you start to notice. Thankfully, most people can't sit by and watch that day in and day out and just sit on their hands and do nothing. When folks started realizing that they were in it for the long haul is when I started seeing things change.......and more "good people" begin to emerge. I wasn't surprised to see it was more often the poor folks first who reached out to help in anyway they could, thus triggering others to join in and then find their own ways to help. All the children affected by these current tough times (here it has been going on since 2008 or before) are learning the same valuable lessons our grandparents learned. I think we will be seeing a new generation of "good guys" out of it. Or at least a generation with more of them making up the populace than we've seen in a long time. I give a co worker a ride to work 3 days a week not because it makes me look like a great person but because it's no skin off my nose to do so. I pick her up like 4 blocks from my house, we're going to the same place. This lady is one of the middle class who suddenly found their family poor one day.......lost everything and is struggling to survive. She lost her license because her car insurance lapsed one day and she happened to fall asleep on the way home not a few hours later and have an accident. She is busting her rear to fix it........and trying to keep enough to live on as well. Her husband travels away from the area to work, stays away all week to keep cost down of commuting (stays with family) and a guy who used to make 20 some bucks an hour is making min wage. I work with a vast amount of these people, believe it or not. Now why would I not give her a ride? It doesn't even cost me extra gas. She offered to help with gas, but I told her no she has that 5k fine to pay back so she can get her license back.....she is really struggling with not being able to drive in all other areas of her life. You should see the ride schedules at work.........as usually people needing transportation wind up using more than one person for various reasons (some having 2nd jobs ect). I don't know how they keep track of who they are riding with on what particular day to or from work. lol omg You should see the lunches shared at work. People hand co workers money for a cold soda or whatever and do not expect paid back so someone can have something to eat or drink. (I've done this a few times too.....I take what I need and buy it really cheap) Information is shared too on where to get help for this or that because just about everyone there is hurting and in the same boat. [/QUOTE]
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