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In reply to the discussion: Why is DU's popularity waning? (Title edited, explanation within.) [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)that they are a grown adult living on their own, making less than 17K a year, and another DU'er chides them for complaining about not being able to afford the $ 53 a month that they need for the ACA. Why it is easy as pie to come up with tha small amount of money, is the attitude.
Anyone here who doesn't understand if you are a grown adult living on your own - less than 17K a year means you are living at a minus $ 200 a month situation. So someone else saying how easy it is for them to afford the $ 600 plus they would need annually to get insured under the ACA is either so well off they can't comprehend true poverty, or else so arrogant they can't comprehend it.
When my situation bottomed out, in 2006 and 2007, I had two friends who loaned me $ 15 a piece. Both the friendships ended because I didn't pay them back a month later. They didn't get it - if you are already not eating, where do you get that $ 15? It doesn't exist. It might as well be fifty dollars or five hundred dollars or a million dollars. When you are only eating every other day, the money just isn't there. (Couldn't immediately get food stamps, as retirement monies had been
at the $ 10,000 mark just a few short months before.).