Finance and Faith

I’m writing this in response to a specific conversation on Twitter, but I think it’s worth sharing.

When you are poor, your life revolves around money. Even if you’re a hardened leftist it is impossible to escape the reality of having to eat and keep a roof over your head. You can’t escape that, if you need or want something even slightly expensive, you will have to endure hardship to make it happen.

Intentionally Selfish

Today, and not for the first time, we have found somebody else’s waste outside our front door. We have a driveway. We have a front garden. This is not a case of somebody slinging things over our fence as they run past. They have made a deliberate effort to carry it up our drive and put it by our door. They can see our bins are full to overflowing already, as like so many others we didn’t have a refuse collection last week. They’ve made a decision that they are going to choose to exacerbate our problem rather than deal with their own.