My recently laid-off best friend call me this evening

[southernyankeebelle]

15. My son is working and we have to help him and his family. I feel bad for him but it is a strain on

my husband and I. His wife wants to go back to school. He is a cook but they treat him like a manager. He is paid as high as they can pay him but won't give him any more raises. I feel bad for him. He has graduated high school. He lives next door. He doesn't have to pay rent. Right now they don't have any heat in the house because the system needs to be fixed. They are waiting to get their income taxes and all the money they will get from that will go to fix it $3,000 aprox.. His wife said she was going to go for food stamps. He is to embrassed. I told him not to be there are tons of people who never were on it before that are forced to go on it. There is no shame. In fact I think now people in the middle class realize what the work class people were struggling with all this time. There is no shame I told him. You have to do what you have to do for your family.