You know what, there is no perfect sob story, not in the way you frame it at least. That’s the key problem with your response. You basically say “well actually” throughout your piece to show, what exactly, her life isn’t hell? That she could be even more broke if her company wasn’t so “awesome”? That she isn’t the right kind of broke?

Why Now Is Not the Time to Try the Fair Tax

First of all, the Fair Tax does not “give each individual the tools to realize the American Dream.” As I mentioned earlier, the Fair Tax is…

“How can you teach or learn in conditions like these?”

As some commenters have noted, you can, and in developing countries, conditions are often far worse (and I have seen plenty of that).

But as commenter Tony Casson noted, you shouldn’t have to in a major city in one of the richest countries on…