On street parking problems Portland

pianotuna wrote:
bgum,

Have you lived on that slim amount of money for a couple?

I knew someone who had a trustee managing their (slim) funds. He could get shoes every 2 years. The trustee was paid out of those slim funds, too.

Not much fat.

Duhh, well, no, we don’t, or we wouldn’t be here talking about our cool RVs and trips we take around the country. But guessing most if not almost all of us have made , generally, good choices and work or worked hard for what we have.

It’s not our responsibility nor the gubmints, even in Canadia, to pick up the tab for deadbeats. Although they both do, and quite handily at that.
I’ve been part of one of these situations too long to blindly have sympathy for every person on “hard times.” Human nature and genetics just leaves some people lazy, dishonest or dumb (figuratively in this case).
To put it in perspective, if a person is destined to be a min wage earner or similar, there is a lot of “fat.”