The sight was staggering in Prince George’s County, Md., home to more than 60,000 federal workers: middle-class professionals lined up for boxes of pasta, protein and produce to feed their families.
After a two-hour wait, Wanda Bright had finally reached the front of the line — just as the first batch of supplies ran out.
The Capital Area Food Bank had started the day with 300 boxes, enough for 150 government employees to receive two boxes each. It turned out that the need was even greater.
Thank you for proving my point
Do you have a bunch of debt, or are you seriously spending over $16k (pretax) per month?
I don’t take 16k home a month.
I have a family.
I live in a high cost of living area.
I live below the median income for my area.
You’re just out of touch with my circumstances in the same way I’m out of touch with the circumstances of workers who make minimum wage and similarly struggle.
The point is that I’m made to be the enemy of middle America workers because of this notion that my larger salary makes me a cry baby bitch when in reality it’s the folks who are taking all the money from us who are the cry baby bitches.
It is admittedly difficult for the average wage earner in most of the country to understand how $200k/yr isn’t the lap of luxury, because I live in a “high cost of living” area relative to most of Maine, and I’m pretty comfortable with my $45k and my wife’s 35. We just bought a house. We drive cars we own, we don’t use credit cards. We’re both college drop outs with no loans left, so I’m sure that’s part of it. But yea, not trying to bash, just more politely explain than “cry baby bitch”, because that gets us nowhere.
My salary is below the median where I live.
Could your salaries work in New York City or San Francisco?
I work for my money and use most all of it for the survival of my family. I’m not saving vast quantities and I’m not the problem.
My 5x the USA median salary isn’t the problem. The fact that the median salary is 5x less than mine IS the problem.
Median salary for san francisco is about 105k, median salary for new york is about 80k.
Youre budgeting terribly if you are having issues.
Right now it looks like you are lying.
You’re missing the point of what I said and what I posited to the person who responded to me.
I don’t live in either of those areas.
The fact that I’m being picked apart because I’m trying to give some insight as to how “people who make more than you do could be in trouble” because of the government shutdown.
I guess fuck all of those people that I’m advocating for?
The house down the street from me just sold for $1.4m. It was a single story, 3 bed, 1 bath. Tiny yard with no privacy. Oh did I mention that it literally didn’t have a roof? And I live in the poor part of my high cost of living area.
Why do you live in such an expensive area?
Hey my dude I’m not going to answer your trove of questions trying to poke holes in my reality.
Take care of yourself.
If I was making minimum wage and tried to live in Manhattan, I’d also have problems – but those problems would be because I’m an idiot.
I don’t need to poke holes in your reality, you are already saying there are holes in your reality.
Take care of yourself too, make sure everyone in your family gets a new iPhone.