Just when you start to think things are getting better...

I want to blame California, capitalism, and corporate greed. I want to blame poverty and the way Americans believe it's shameful to be poor. I want to believe this isn't a personal attack, but it feels like it.

Every time we start to feel like life is looking up and things are getting better (despite the parking tickets and the lack of car insurance and the bills bills bills that pile up because we're poor) something happens.

Like, for instance, Chase bank charging Will's debit card rather than credit card for god knows how many transactions, and subsequently overdrawing his account AND THEN piling on over $170 in fines for overdrawing his account.

It gets better.

We try to call Chase to sort out THEIR mistake and the motherfucking assholes have set up a web of twisted pathways you have to follow (press 1 for checking... enter your account number... press 4, 5, 6, or any number you want, we'll just direct you back to where you began) and finally you reach the end of the line and it doesn't work anyway.

Fuck you, Chase. Fuck you for fucking with our livelihood, for charging arbitrary fines with no clear reason why one is $70 and one is more than $100. Fuck you for taking away our fantasies of security. Fuck you for preying on the most vulnerable in society.