MenloParque (175 posts)
18. I fly the Mexican Flag at my house in California
... I love the authentic gratitude the locals in my town in Sonora, Mex show when I take part in monthly home building. I dislike the entitlement and whatever attitude when I partake in home remodeling for those in need in California. Hell, even the NARCOS get their hands dirty and build parks, playgrounds, and houses in poverty stricken areas of my town…more helpful than my corrupt local government in California. I like the can do attitude of our local Mexican government, not the empty promises of my local California politicians. I can only speak of Sonora, Mexico, other parts south have more unique problems. If I had to choose it would be Mexico in a heartbeat 🇲🇽.
If ignorance were bliss ......
Evidently
MenloParque has never heard of Habitat for Humanity. They have offices in SF and Oakland, and obviously do projects in the Bay Area. They might even have a project in Menlo Park.
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MenloParque has never heard of Beautiful Day, which does a wide variety of projects every year in Silicon Valley, projects ranging from dinners/dances for people with disabilities to park and trail clean-up to substantial house repair to school campus landscaping and spruce-up to ... . I know they've done projects as far north on the peninsula as Palo Alto. They also receive help on some projects from local government (and school districts, of course).
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MenloParque has never heard of orgs such as City Team, whose ministries range from operating a homeless shelter to operating a shelter for battered women to education and clothing for recoverees looking to enter the job market to operating a home for pregnant women who have no place to go. City Team has facilities in San Jose, SF, and Oakland. There are many such organizations in the SF Bay Area, religious and non-religious, as large as the Salvation Army or City Team and as small as a local church with a food pantry or clothing closet.
There is no lack of humanitarian service orgs in the SF Bay Area.
MenloParque lacks the
give-a-shit to learn about the orgs and projects/services in his neighborhood, city, and county.
MenloParque also does not see the contradiction between his willingness to help with a volunteer org's efforts in Sonora and his expectation that government should do that same kind of work in Menlo Park and San Mateo County.