I have been going through some things lately, things that really should not happen to anyone. Things that alter people in ways that can never be undone. I refer to being the Invisible American.

Invisible Americans are real, they exist in each and every city and town in this country. They always have, but now whether due to heavenly design or government corruption or just plain evolution there are far more of these Americans.

 

They used to live next door to you, played with your children and attended school with you. They even went to college, they had hopes and dreams and due to one or more bad choices they slowly became invisible. They exist only in their own worlds for the most part, and not in your world anymore.

It is almost like being dead, except they still feel pain, they still suffer from the mental anguish of badly formed choices. They are drug addicts, alcoholics, mothers and fathers. One choice made led them to the most unbearable of lives. But they are not all drug addicts or alcoholics, some were in love ( so they thought) with the wrong person, so naive so ignorant. Some listened to the wrong person and did things that they had no idea was wrong or was hurtful to others. Some are a combination of all these life experiences. Some have mental issues not of their own making, and some are just the culmination of bad luck . ( oh yes… trust me, luck does exist in both it’s  good and bad forms believe me, and so does Karma)

They all have many things in common, a slow progression of badly formed choices that over the months and years led to even worse decisions. See the pattern here? Bad goes upon bad, and when it ends the whole life of the person is in shambles.

There are some who sense a person who is going through this and they take advantage of this person. Some times this is aided by the person themselves, those of us who are so needy, so devoid of any sense of esteem. Yes, we do aid the destructive in our own lives. It is never apparent while we are doing it though, and I think life should give us a do over, it is not fair to be unable to conceive of possible future issues and prepare for them all. But life as some whit said once, is not fair.

 

What ever the reason the Invisible American exists, unless we all take some time to think about them, we ourselves will end up as one. As lifestyles go, its not a great life trust me,

If you have stepped into the realm of the truly poor, where you can not afford a car ( for how can one pay insurance, gas on minimum wage along with your other bills)  you feel so alone. The very last thing I feel a person loses in this life is hope. Hope and a dream of a future. Do you know what it is like to not be able to dream of a better life? To know that no one and nothing can be done to change your life, ever?

You can give a poor person a job, but it would not be enough to pay their bills and one missed month and poof your back to square one.

 

Take this example:

A person who is a parent who lives in an economically depressed region of the country where there is no bus routes, where car insurance based upon your credit rating means a big monthly bill  not to mention the down payment. The following is how they must earn in order to live:

 

rent on a 3 bedroom apartment – 550.00 and up ( not talking about the ritz either , roachs are a perk )

water bill – 100.00 per month

electric – 250.00 a month ( this is a real bill for a 3 bedroom trailer, billed by Jackson Energy Coop in SE KY)

car /gas – 200.00 per month ( at 2.55 per gallon and driving 60+ miles each day to a job)

car / insurance – 90.00 per month

food for family – 800.00 a month

total – 1990.00 monthly total

 

now, job income from say the local Wal-Mart ( because they are pretty much the only people who are hiring right now )

30 hours a week at 7.25 an hour 217.00 a week before taxes 189.00 after taxes ( of a standard 13 % )

Take that 189 x 4 weeks and your grand total is 756.00. Does not match up does it? And just what do you cut from that total of expenses? Do you see where I am going?

I will be writing more on this tomorrow, I get so worked up about this that I start to not make sense, even to myself.

 

God willing you will be back to read more.