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Dec. 9th, 2017 07:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
8hyenasI wake up, read the news, and cry. Every single morning. And all I can say to the other unfortunate and angry souls that share this country with me is... welcome to Oklahoma.
What happens when you have to do a bake sale for your child's kidney transplant? Or when you give your kids to the state because you can neither work nor qualify for aid? You miss court dates because you don't have a car to get the 70 miles to the court house. And then you're fined more than you make in a month, and then ticketed for not paying that fine, then picked up on a warrant, lose your job, and charged for every day you spend in jail. You watch your neighbors starve. You watch a friend slowly bleed to death month after month until she dies. You call 911 for help, and no one comes. You're injured at work, but they pay you cash. You're be told it's not a permanent injury, and there's a corrective surgery. But you don't have the money to pay for it, and don't qualify for disability or the insurance necessary to have the surgery. You have a stroke then go home to a trailer without running water or electricity. Your kids have intestinal parasites from the tap water. You get the same yearly letter for a decade telling you not to drink your water.
Yeah, you. You're not special, you're not better than these people, you've just been lucky. There's no special decision making process you can use to avoid these consequences. Welcome to fucking Oklahoma.
What happens when you have to do a bake sale for your child's kidney transplant? Or when you give your kids to the state because you can neither work nor qualify for aid? You miss court dates because you don't have a car to get the 70 miles to the court house. And then you're fined more than you make in a month, and then ticketed for not paying that fine, then picked up on a warrant, lose your job, and charged for every day you spend in jail. You watch your neighbors starve. You watch a friend slowly bleed to death month after month until she dies. You call 911 for help, and no one comes. You're injured at work, but they pay you cash. You're be told it's not a permanent injury, and there's a corrective surgery. But you don't have the money to pay for it, and don't qualify for disability or the insurance necessary to have the surgery. You have a stroke then go home to a trailer without running water or electricity. Your kids have intestinal parasites from the tap water. You get the same yearly letter for a decade telling you not to drink your water.
Yeah, you. You're not special, you're not better than these people, you've just been lucky. There's no special decision making process you can use to avoid these consequences. Welcome to fucking Oklahoma.
