Hard TimesOne worth keeping
“You can drive the herd off one pasture, but the ground's still just as bare on the other side.”
Moving migrants off the beach don't solve the hardship that drove them there in the first place.
In the same vein
All Hard Times →A tough job that only gets done one painful foot at a time.
Fend for yourself, because nobody's coming to feed you.
Can't take from someone what they simply don't have.
Life alternates between hitting and being hit.
Everything's going wrong in both directions at once.
Fix it, stretch it, or learn to live with the hole.