Why?

Why is it that people in their lives work so hard, and get so little in return? They just raised the debt ceiling as well so prices will be getting jacked up even further while minimum wages will stay the same. Here in B.C the minimum wage is still $8 I believe. That is crazy…nobody could live off of that. As it is, my family and myself are living off of $900 a month right now..That’s $900 a month for rent, groceries, bills and whatever emergencies pop up in between. My husband is going to school right now to become an HCA, but he only got $2500 3 months ago, which went for rent and bills for 2 months, and now he will be getting $3000 this month near the end which will pay for rent until November and bills leaving my cheques of $300 every two weeks up for just groceries for the first time in forever! 🙂 It is greatly needed as my husband and myself are really living off of nothing right now, any food we have we save and give to our daughter so we are pretty hungry. Luckily my daughter will be going to daycare at the end of the month and I can pick up a few more hours as well ( of course, have to wait for subsidy to be approved and come through because we REALLY couldn’t afford daycare otherwise) and then I can maybe even get a better job, though I doubt it. What I don’t understand is why the government keeps jacking up prices on us when every day there are so many more people going in to poverty, starving, losing homes…what are they going to do when everyone is homeless and can’t even hold a job anymore? Nobody will be able to pay any taxes, buy any homes, buy anything at all really…then they won’t make any money at all. If they lowered prices, paid people even just 50 cents more any hour and took out taxes or lowered them as well, people would be buying TONS of stuff. They would make SO much more money than they do now. The big guys need to start thinking about the little guys because we are all being screwed and we are all losing everything. At the moment, we are having to sell one of the couches to our set and our tv..we are even going so far as to try to sell our air mattress and anything else we can find. That is all stuff that we worked very hard for and were very proud of, and now we are hoping to get rid of it and excited when someone contacts us about it because we need the money THAT bad. I know after we get money and have the things we NEED, we will be very upset about everything we worked years for being gone but that’s just how it goes I guess. Even now I am constantly checking my emails about every 5 minutes hoping to see something to get some kind of hope that maybe we can have dinner tonight. I just don’t understand why the governments gotta do it…