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By the way, guys -- this is what poverty in America looks like. Arbitrary, bureaucratic decisions, made in reaches distant from the people who depend on the social safety net for survival, decide that, suddenly, people who were deemed eligible for $250/mo for food, are suddenly only eligible for $50/mo for food, even though their circumstances haven't changed.
Because you can totally fucking live on $50/month for food, for two people. The benefits they receive are less than the cost of their mortgage, so this is a particularly cruel cut.
If you can help, or signal-boost, I would be eternally grateful. These are *my friends* getting fucked, and I am not even REMOTELY okay with it.
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naamah_darling at We could really use y'all's help.
Because you can totally fucking live on $50/month for food, for two people. The benefits they receive are less than the cost of their mortgage, so this is a particularly cruel cut.
If you can help, or signal-boost, I would be eternally grateful. These are *my friends* getting fucked, and I am not even REMOTELY okay with it.
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naamah_darling at We could really use y'all's help.We took a big financial hit last week. We had our food card benefits cut by $200 a month.
Not down to $200, but down by $200 to $50.
That's $50 a month for food for two people.
That's $200 a month that we were getting just gone. And when you're already this close to the edge, that's a lot of money.
We need help, and we will continue to need help pretty damn desperately.
So I'm asking for help, because I don't know what else to do. I don't have anything to offer. I'm exhausted and at the end of my fucking rope, and run ragged keeping up with the campaign stuff as it is. All I can do is just . . . hope that y'all will help me out.
If you send money to sargon999@hotmail.com via paypal, it will go to Sargon for bills and food and the mortgage and such. The things we HAVE to pay for to survive.
If you send it to me at naamah@gmail.com, it will go to my medical care and to other incidentals -- the little shit you have to buy that sucks up all your fucking cash. It will also go for vet bills. (Smooch needs to see the vet, and I can't afford the prescription he's going to get, which might be upwards of $100.) Fair disclosure: some of it will also get saved for fun money, because I can't fucking do this without being able to do things for myself sometimes. I'm not irresponsible, but I am human.
Gift cards for Amazon, Whole Foods*, Wal-Mart*, Target, Michaels, etc. are appreciated.
I'm working on putting together a wishlist of stuff it would be helpful not to have to pay for. More on that in the next couple of days.
Please don't ask me to explain why they are cutting our benefits. That just rubs salt in the wounds. There isn't a reason, and there isn't anything we can really do about it. We've asked.
* I fucking hate them both, but they are in easily-accessible locations. Wal-Mart's prices are low, and Whole Foods is bullshit but they carry the nutritional stuff I need.
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Not down to $200, but down by $200 to $50.
That's $50 a month for food for two people.
That's $200 a month that we were getting just gone. And when you're already this close to the edge, that's a lot of money.
We need help, and we will continue to need help pretty damn desperately.
So I'm asking for help, because I don't know what else to do. I don't have anything to offer. I'm exhausted and at the end of my fucking rope, and run ragged keeping up with the campaign stuff as it is. All I can do is just . . . hope that y'all will help me out.
If you send money to sargon999@hotmail.com via paypal, it will go to Sargon for bills and food and the mortgage and such. The things we HAVE to pay for to survive.
If you send it to me at naamah@gmail.com, it will go to my medical care and to other incidentals -- the little shit you have to buy that sucks up all your fucking cash. It will also go for vet bills. (Smooch needs to see the vet, and I can't afford the prescription he's going to get, which might be upwards of $100.) Fair disclosure: some of it will also get saved for fun money, because I can't fucking do this without being able to do things for myself sometimes. I'm not irresponsible, but I am human.
Gift cards for Amazon, Whole Foods*, Wal-Mart*, Target, Michaels, etc. are appreciated.
I'm working on putting together a wishlist of stuff it would be helpful not to have to pay for. More on that in the next couple of days.
Please don't ask me to explain why they are cutting our benefits. That just rubs salt in the wounds. There isn't a reason, and there isn't anything we can really do about it. We've asked.
* I fucking hate them both, but they are in easily-accessible locations. Wal-Mart's prices are low, and Whole Foods is bullshit but they carry the nutritional stuff I need.
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