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i'm watching the view.
there are two dog owners on who spend upwards of $30,000 a year on their dogs.
their dogs get their teeth whitened, own their own pianos, and are dripping with diamonds.
two years ago my next door neighbors spent about $36,000 redoing their lawn. This involved cutting down a lot of trees (so as not to have to rake anymore) and as far as I can see, not much else.
I work next to a tanning salon, a place where people will spend hundreds of dollars a year to maintain their ability to blend in with the rest of our paperdoll society.
I live on a street on which everyone pays to have their lawn cut by professional landscapers.
Cut to my life, where no one in my house has health insurance, my mom can't afford to go to the doctor to have something about her knees that cause her tremendous pain in every step she takes. she has an 18 year old car that is too unpredicatable to get her to her new job (for which she really needs a car) and has to rely on public transportation that will only take her so far- for the rest she'll have to walk it.
i'm in no way implying that there aren't others in this country and in this world who are in far more dire straits. i'm saying what i know. and what i know is that i'm surrounded by people who are so disgustingly excessive that i wouldn't shed a tear if they were stripped of everything they own.
there are two dog owners on who spend upwards of $30,000 a year on their dogs.
their dogs get their teeth whitened, own their own pianos, and are dripping with diamonds.
two years ago my next door neighbors spent about $36,000 redoing their lawn. This involved cutting down a lot of trees (so as not to have to rake anymore) and as far as I can see, not much else.
I work next to a tanning salon, a place where people will spend hundreds of dollars a year to maintain their ability to blend in with the rest of our paperdoll society.
I live on a street on which everyone pays to have their lawn cut by professional landscapers.
Cut to my life, where no one in my house has health insurance, my mom can't afford to go to the doctor to have something about her knees that cause her tremendous pain in every step she takes. she has an 18 year old car that is too unpredicatable to get her to her new job (for which she really needs a car) and has to rely on public transportation that will only take her so far- for the rest she'll have to walk it.
i'm in no way implying that there aren't others in this country and in this world who are in far more dire straits. i'm saying what i know. and what i know is that i'm surrounded by people who are so disgustingly excessive that i wouldn't shed a tear if they were stripped of everything they own.