The comments online about this bill.
This is supposed to be the great Awakening – which includes not only seeing what’s “out there” but what’s inside our own hearts.
It’s toxic and unhelpful to see others attacking the poor and the gross assumptions they make about people they don’t know who happen to have a different financial picture than they do.
And this is what I see – far too often – especially from the far right.
A return to center is needed.
Which allows us to get into our hearts, expanded vision.
UNITED.
Seeing all sides.
Elon is right about this bill – it’s toxic. We need something that represent the PEOPLE. This bill is the same ‘ole story with some slight twists.
For those who think there is a lot of help for those in need: rethink that position. Often people end up in the streets these days because of a gross lack of real support – the kind that changes lives instead of dishes out just another band-aid.
Well unless you’re here illegally. Or have one of the system many “approved for help NOW” labels. Fuch……I’m about ready to put on a spanish accent and say I’m a transgender latino and I believe I’m also a dog.
Yeah………
I have been calling and leaving messages and being told “I will call you back on this day” and don’t. hear. back. I call again. Get the same experience.
I am in need of $$ for furthering my education as this is the only option I see. I remember reaching out a few years ago asking if I could receive some help marketing and promoting the work I do already. Nope. N A D A. Not even the local biz development center or woman’s organization could help. I asked why. I demanded to know why. Want me off this program? Then HELP ME GET OFF in a way that will work for me. And when I say “work for me” it means work with where I am now. I have been trying relentlessly over the years to heal from the challenge of ptsd/agoraphobia. I know what I need – in person exposure. I’ve spoken of it here. And today I am being loud about it. There are clinics in big cities but as I said – I need someone coming TO ME. Here. In town – but in a place in which I AM OK going to. Someone who “gets it” about the body and trauma for my approach in the past included me totally flooding my body which didn’t do a THING to shift it away. Just put it in the back corner until stress entered my life then BAM – back to where I was. Heck, I heard today that federal law requires these professionals to make reasonable accommodations. I have yet to experience that.
This month I am in need of funding help for my daughter. To be precise, I need to spend about $250 on school curriculum. I will be cutting her hair and I believe there is a clothing giveaway later this summer. I am not paying certain debt expenses – blocking numbers – ripping up letters in the mail. I won’t let them get to me.
I am willing to make more money and earn my keep. VERY willing. In the ways I can do. If I were unable to walk, no one would expect me to mow lawns. But if your challenge is mental/emotional – you’re expected to be able-bodied and able to do anything that a “normal” otherwise healthy person can do.
NONSENSE.
I feel this anger and frustration – especially when I am faced with closed doors or being told “no” when I ask for what I need.
Do any of these people know how long it took me to get to the place of being able to ask for this kind of assistance? The layers of fear I pushed through – the fear of being judged, the self-doubt and lack of worth I once carried quietly?
I own my behavior. I own that it was and is up to me to change my life.
But no one does this alone.
And I’m tired.
I’m tired boss of fighting for my right to survive – no my right to THRIVE – alone. Surrounded by systems that don’t work for me.
Emotionally supported by wonderful people who are in similar situation.
Enough is enough.
For now I speak up and out loudly.
Self advocating.
And receiving the love that does come my way.
💖
Victoria
