BMI59 Third World Poverty and Myself

You know I listen to the radio sometimes.  I also do a fair amount of reading.  And for time there are articles about extreme poverty in third world countries.  Like Columbia or Iran or Viet Nam. I read about the poverty there.  It is always about the poverty there.

I read that people have to exist on five dollars a day.  They don't have proper medical care.  They don't have fruit.  In my mind it has been there and them.  Never me.

So now, after finally facing the fact that I am so poor I have been trying to find out what to do.  I have been surfing the internet looking for articles on Money Management. And budgeting. Lots of things are available about credit card debt.  And fighting debt.  It took along time to figure out what to do. Finally I hit the word Poverty.  And now It is time to fight it for me.  The ball is in my court. At fifty six years old It is a bitter pill to swallow.  But they say things will be much worse when I retire at sixty.

I figured it out a little bit to myself.  If you have to save money by depriving yourself of enough food, you are really poor.  And I am really poor.

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