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Lie down with his beloved
Recently, at the hippodrome in the city of Saratoga-Springs, I talked with the groom Marco. A native of Colombia, he receives $ 300 a week. According to American concepts - pennies. Marco is busy not all year round, his wife is not listed anywhere at work, and according to statistics they are behind the very poverty line. For a family of two people, it begins if the couple earn less than 14 thousand 570 dollars a year. But the wife of Marco does not sit at home. She washes the floors in people. They also pay a little, but the family is not one of the poor in real earnings.
Double bookkeeping is obtained in a different sense, in psychological. Those Americans who write in newspapers about poverty, and those that read these articles earn much more Marco. They often shy of their well -being and attribute my Colombian to the poor, although he does not consider himself such. “You know,” he boasted to me, “in our Colombia, a policeman receives as much as I am here in a week.”
Recently, I help one poor family. This time - pure Americans. They do not have cars, and I take them on my free distribution of products. No one asks for documents there, so I myself could have come to the distribution. How did the family become poor? Both were laboratory assistants in the hospital, a child was born. And then the husband had an accident and injured his back. Since then, 8 years have not been working. The wife, too, because during this time they gave birth to four more. How do they make ends meet? 700 he is paid as a disabled person. 900 - per house they rent. Give coupons for food - a thousand dollars. He is paid for a taxi travel to doctors, and this is 25 kilometers in one direction. There are other subsidies. He occasionally a little kalym, who is going to find a permanent job for a year, but is in no hurry, because the experience has shown that the family can live so. The couple has beautiful affectionate children. What kind of families they will grow up in this and other people, if they have not seen a dead thing, so that the father or mother worked somewhere! Will they, so to speak, become professional poor who live on the alms of the government and neighbors? And sometimes relatives ...
My hairdresser is far over 60, she began to take her legs, but she plows in two jobs, because it is necessary to help the family of her son. There is a bunch of children. Their father is in the jail. He robbed the bank. It is in the movie that robbers take millions, and it is only one and a half thousand. It was worth the garden to fence! Half went to pay debts for electricity, they have already been disconnected. I drank half. Soon they found him. Cathed the pictures taken by a hidden camera. And he left fingerprints on a coffee glass. It was not enough for him to reiterate a quiet village bank, he was still on a freebie and drank coffee. The greed of the fraer ruined! He poorly prepared a raid, like everything else in his life. Sin, of course, laugh at misfortune. Yes, I don't laugh. I feel sorry for his wife and children. But he is not a pity. He himself is a blacksmith of his misfortune. Yes, the family is vegetating. Who is to blame? George Bush? Barack Obama? Capitalism? Recession? So the man sat down before the recession. And drank before the recession.
Now judge what it is - poverty. Is it a social problem, or psychological?
Let the worker work
Or not worker if he wants
Let it work who wants
I don't want to work
I want to lie with my beloved nearby
I don't want to part
Eastern man! Everyone wants to lie with your beloved! But we have to get up, go to work. Is it a dream? Drink coffee. Just not the enthusiasm at the local bank ...