DUmmy TwixVoy, the fired ex-clerk at Target, spins a bouncy about a wino, and casts doubt on his previously claimed status as a trainee cable guy.
TwixVoy (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-11-09 10:01 PM
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I just met a homeless person and his 6 year old tonight
I went out really quickly to get a sandwhich at Subway. The Subway is in one of those long strip centers. A year ago there were several businesses in the strip center. The only one left still in business is the Subway.
Anyway a homeless person and his 6 year old were outside asking if anyone could get them a sandwhich. I got them both a meal.
I went to get gas afterwards at the end of the block near where a major freeway intersects the road. (it is about 9PM at night right now) On the way out of the gas station I saw them walking to the overpass where several homeless people had set up camp. I wished there was something more I could do for them.
But it makes me think... We are supposedly in this "recovery", yet I have lived in this part of town for over 20 years.... NEVER have I seen so many businesses gone and never have I seen so many homeless here. And we are supposedly in one of the states that got hit the least. It makes me wonder where we will be at this time next year.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6280706I love "sandwhiches", but that was a bouncy.
Not to be oudone on the poverty front, DUmmy deaniacnumbers chimes in:
deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-11-09 10:04 PM
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1. WE have mile long soup kitchen lines in Little Rock.
Now that is just another validation of a maxim I've stated before: No matter how much
free food you have, there will always be people standing in line to take it. People love free stuff.
If you park a freight train, with a sign on it that says "Free Food", the food will all be
gone by tomorrow morning. Guaranteed. People love free stuff.
DUmmy ithinkmyliverhurts makes a funny:
ithinkmyliverhurts (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-11-09 10:05 PM
2. So you really couldn't spare $500?
That could set them up in a cheap motel for 2-3 weeks. You could put it on your credit
card and pay it off slowly. A 6-year-old kid is serious business.
TwixVoy (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-11-09 10:06 PM
3. No, I could not
I have been unemployed for the past several months and just now was lucky enough to find a job paying about $10/hour that won't even let me start working until next month. I had about $30 and some change. I am not a high roller that walks around with several hundred dollars on me or has credit cards with tons of credit available.
Now wait a minute! DUmmy TwixVoy creates a couple of serious inconsistencies here.
First, after being fired by Target for insubordination, in the depths of a recession, he
claimed to have voluntarily quit, and to have a huge amount of savings to live on
almost indefinitely. Now he pleads poverty.
Second, he claimed to have been hired as a trainee cable guy by AT&T, and I had
already credited him with a week's seniority. Now he says he cannot work until
September. I'm beginning to smell a rat. Or, more likely, it's the aroma of a
failed drug test.
democrank (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-11-09 10:07 PM
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4. Bless you, Twix.
I`ve been homeless twice in my life so I know what you did tonight meant a lot.
Bless you for that simple kindness. I wish I could hug that little child.
Don't worry about the kid, DUmmy democrank. He doesn't exist.
Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-11-09 10:10 PM
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7. A six year old child, on a summer night,
with no place to go. Nothing to eat.
He should survive nicely on pony meat until the 2012 election.
Have you seen the tent cities that are now accepted parts of our landscape?
To honor the president, we call them "Little Nairobi".
But our little town is a rare place, I know. Just across the river, in the nation's capitol, they have opened "Cooling Areas" for the homeless who are at risk in this beastly heat wave. They try in DC, they really do, but there's never enough money, and now, more than ever, the homeless are in greater numbers.
Yes, D.C. has always had lots of winos.
I am old, and have lived here long enough to remember exactly when it all changed, when Reagan threw the mentally ill out of their safe hospitals and sent them tumbling, helpless, into the streets. He didn't care - none of them cared, and then, suddenly, all around the White House, there were these lost souls, wandering, mumbling, sitting and staring, sometimes screaming. All because of what the Reagan administration did.
Liberals demanded that all the nuts be turned out of the asylums. They called them
inhumane "warehouses". DUmmies always want to "mainstream" the mentally ill.
Now they are the backbone of the democrat party. Reagan had nothing to do with it.
We never used to see children. Now, it's considered normal. A friend of mine, a teacher in a middle school, told me that probably one-third of her students are homeless, living in shelters or in cars. When they're asked to fill out forms with addresses, they don't know what to do.
DUmmy Tangerine LaBamba is so moved she gives birth to a secondary bouncy. Not uncommon in such emotional bouncies.
Our America. What is happening here? Who is doing anything to help these people? You bought two people some food, and I bless you for that, Twix Voy, but who will feed them tomorrow? What will they do?
Once again, I have to remind you of the abundance of pony meat.
