I actually do think she wrote this herself. I know a lot of people who hover at the poverty level, and many are very articulate and quite passionate. They are bad at math for the most part, but this sounds like a very smart person who just hasn’t gotten her crap together.
And I’m going to go out on a limb and describe some other things that is going on in her life:
Smoking
Drinking
Tattoos
Marijuana
Now I know people will say “Hey, there is nothing wrong with X! I have/do X and I’m not on foodstamps!”
Fair enough. But of the scores of people I have met who would be in a similar situation to hers, 75%+ are smokers, 90%+ are drinkers (not alcoholics, they just like their beer/wine/tequila), 95%+ sport tattoos, and well over 50% smoke a little weed now and again.
Those habits are part of a culture, the culture of the working poor. When I pointed that out to some people who were in it, their response was “everybody smokes, drinks, has ink, and smokes a little every once in a while.”
Percentage of adult smokers in America: 17.8%
Percentage of adult drinkers in America: 67%
Percentage of adults with tattoos in America: 14%
(Ages 18 - 25: 36%, Ages 26 - 40: 40%)
Percentage of adults who smoke marijuana in the last month in America: 5.2%
The culture that says that these things as a group are “normal” is the same culture that sees it as “normal” to go through two to three jobs a year. This is a cultural problem.
That sounds like the safest limb on earth to go out on.
We have always had folks that bare scrape by, who waste both their money and their future. Difference now is we enable them to do so with gusto and obviously too many empty calories from seeing all the toady looking tated up lard-assed young women.