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In reply to the discussion: Why Poor People Stay Poor [View all]humbled_opinion
(4,423 posts)what it means is that when you are poor, you will wind up paying the most, or doing without. It is not the poor persons fault it is the predatory practices that those with means use to take advantage of the poorest people. Did you ever Rent to Own from Rent-A-Center? Do you really understand the interest rate? Did you ever have to take a payday loan at more than 70 percent interest rate? Did you ever actually borrow money from a loan shark because you got so far behind on the light bill that they were going to cut your apartment off in mid winter leaving you and your kids freezing to death with the only other alternative dragging everyone down to public shelter at the EFSP which would mean you missing work, kids missing school and other traumatic events, so your poor and you have poor ways, but you get by and you struggle and in the end you pray it is all worth it.