in response to Kat-Ryn... I feel your pain. I am very poor, and not from my own making. I started having problems set off by one or two cavities at a time but I had no money or insurance to afford dental care until the teeth began to abscess and then I had to have them pulled one at a time. Because of being jobless and poor while my teeth were going to hell, and coming from generational poverty with no economic resources built into my life or middle class family to help me out, I found myself in a catch-22 after graduating from college as a non-traditional aged student at age 34 with a marketable degree, but having to face everybody with missing/visibly decayed teeth, I never could get a job. Not even a minimum wage job as a supermarket cashier where you have to face the public. People who have not come from deep poverty and had everything humanly possible that was bad happen to them before getting lucky and getting a good job have no clue. Getting put down for being poor, being a "loser" and accused of not trying hard enough when nobody's willing to hire you when you're a female with dental problems that no dentist is willing to treat for free so you CAN get a chance for a job and get out of poverty, while the capitalized interest on your deferred student loans piles up and being over 40, everything is just hopeless...and this is called "freedom?" Freedom from what and freedom for whom? Nobody cares about the poor in this country. Instead all we get is to suffer and do without and then get told how it's all our own fault.
