Rust Belt radical

them-and-us:

thanksicouldhelpbro:

Dear 13 year old girl.
I left home at age 18, to live with a girl I had been with for 4 years. I was in college, I got a job, I was doing just fine. Then she decided to cheat on me, sell the $2000 engagement ring I gave her for a $150 dress to go to a college formal with her new boyfriend, and kick me out of the house because I had moved in with her, and we had not yet resigned the lease. I lost 80% of what I had, and spent the next two years traveling and staying with friends because I had nowhere to live. The additional stress on my vehicle caused it to be beyond repair, as I didn’t have money to pay for repairs owing to the fact that its hard to keep a job with nowhere to sleep but your car in december, no ability to take showers, and certainly no energy with no food. Since I had recently spent most of my savings furnishing the house we then had together, I had little to nothing in my savings. I ended up down town in an area where you didn’t make eye contact with anyone on the porch down the street because they were all crack addicts and had snapped and tried to fight people for no reason just for staring, living with someone I had just met because it was the only place I could find that could take me in. About 5 months after I moved in, the house mom kicked us all out on a week’s notice to move her Mexcian illegal immigrant boyfriend and his whole family. I slept in an abandoned factory and ate out of a soup kitchen for the next three months. The story after that is no better, seeing me move from place to place never being able to pay my way with any job I worked, including ones with double digit by the hour wages, and I’m now back home after putting in 142 applications and receiving 2 callbacks from all that effort, unable to pay rent after loans from school were not enough to pay for school and a place. My father sold his business to GE for double digit millions, has climbed the second tallest mountain in the world and now teaches just because he’s bored, and my mother has been a homemaker since I, the oldest of four, was born. I’m 24, 25 next month, and I’m from one of the richest counties in the nation. You have no guarantee of success, and in the last twenty years, the way the economy has collapsed means it no longer guarantees you that you can live in your own home, even with a degree. Respectfully, you have no idea what you’re talking about, and until you’re on your own, you never will. I pray your eyes can open before then, but to be honest, none of us expected it either, and most of us were prepared.
Sincerely,The 99%

^This man is one of the wisest and most quality people I know of, and puts things into words that no one else can.

Manny and Ali Yori, why would you reblog this? Watch this.
http://youtu.be/8eNPAH46oI8
This girl did not work for what she has. Her mother alone has a salary between sixty thousand and one hundred thousand, so she obviously has received privileges that many kids do not have. The man in the video, Maurice Johnson, has a masters in Plasma Physics from Dartmouth College, and a masters in Electrical Engineering and acoustics from Purdue University. He worked for Lockheed Martin for ten years.
Unfortunately, he came from a poor family, and when his father died, he had to foreclose his house so that his mother with Alzheimers could have somewhere to stay. Notice: he doesn’t have a degree in Women’s Studies, he doesn’t have a mom who can help him get him through college financially or even offer him advice because she never went through that process herself, and so on.
My dad is on disability and my mom has to work three jobs to pay our home equity loan (and now) my education loan. If she were to die, like Maurice’s father died, I don’t know what would happen to us.

them-and-us:

thanksicouldhelpbro:

Dear 13 year old girl.

I left home at age 18, to live with a girl I had been with for 4 years. I was in college, I got a job, I was doing just fine. Then she decided to cheat on me, sell the $2000 engagement ring I gave her for a $150 dress to go to a college formal with her new boyfriend, and kick me out of the house because I had moved in with her, and we had not yet resigned the lease. I lost 80% of what I had, and spent the next two years traveling and staying with friends because I had nowhere to live. The additional stress on my vehicle caused it to be beyond repair, as I didn’t have money to pay for repairs owing to the fact that its hard to keep a job with nowhere to sleep but your car in december, no ability to take showers, and certainly no energy with no food. Since I had recently spent most of my savings furnishing the house we then had together, I had little to nothing in my savings. I ended up down town in an area where you didn’t make eye contact with anyone on the porch down the street because they were all crack addicts and had snapped and tried to fight people for no reason just for staring, living with someone I had just met because it was the only place I could find that could take me in. About 5 months after I moved in, the house mom kicked us all out on a week’s notice to move her Mexcian illegal immigrant boyfriend and his whole family. I slept in an abandoned factory and ate out of a soup kitchen for the next three months. The story after that is no better, seeing me move from place to place never being able to pay my way with any job I worked, including ones with double digit by the hour wages, and I’m now back home after putting in 142 applications and receiving 2 callbacks from all that effort, unable to pay rent after loans from school were not enough to pay for school and a place. My father sold his business to GE for double digit millions, has climbed the second tallest mountain in the world and now teaches just because he’s bored, and my mother has been a homemaker since I, the oldest of four, was born. I’m 24, 25 next month, and I’m from one of the richest counties in the nation. You have no guarantee of success, and in the last twenty years, the way the economy has collapsed means it no longer guarantees you that you can live in your own home, even with a degree. Respectfully, you have no idea what you’re talking about, and until you’re on your own, you never will. I pray your eyes can open before then, but to be honest, none of us expected it either, and most of us were prepared.

Sincerely,
The 99%

^This man is one of the wisest and most quality people I know of, and puts things into words that no one else can.

Manny and Ali Yori, why would you reblog this? Watch this.

http://youtu.be/8eNPAH46oI8

This girl did not work for what she has. Her mother alone has a salary between sixty thousand and one hundred thousand, so she obviously has received privileges that many kids do not have. The man in the video, Maurice Johnson, has a masters in Plasma Physics from Dartmouth College, and a masters in Electrical Engineering and acoustics from Purdue University. He worked for Lockheed Martin for ten years.

Unfortunately, he came from a poor family, and when his father died, he had to foreclose his house so that his mother with Alzheimers could have somewhere to stay. Notice: he doesn’t have a degree in Women’s Studies, he doesn’t have a mom who can help him get him through college financially or even offer him advice because she never went through that process herself, and so on.

My dad is on disability and my mom has to work three jobs to pay our home equity loan (and now) my education loan. If she were to die, like Maurice’s father died, I don’t know what would happen to us.