I am homeless. A bouncy

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ghostsinthemachine (789 posts)

I am homeless


I am homeless
Been living in my car for over a year now. Thankfully I knew it was coming so I bought a van which hides out pretty nicely. I belong to a gym and shower and workout there. Got a Computer and download movies etc and have a few bars and coffee shops I have been hannging out in forever so I don't spend much money. I also win trivia almost every week and that is good for a couple of burgers a week. With the food stamps and cash I do okay. I never sell my food stamps (Some do however and that pisses me off) and am going to lose my cash aid next month. My carpal Tunnel is still not fixed but it is better now thanks to painkillers. Now Ic an funtion anyways, but still cannot possibly do any type of job right now till I get the operation.I cannot get SSD because of the time I took care of my parents via IHSS meant that I have a ten year lapse in employment (When working for a parent via IHHS they do not take out social security) so no SS Disability for me.. 2 years till full on SS (62).....

BUT< there are about 30 people who call this library home. They all have a story and a different situation. Some are flat out drunks. Others are tweekers, others don't do drugs at all but have anxiety so bad they cannot even approach a cash register. One guy has a PHD in Russian (Soviet) studies but his weight and overall look, along with his outdated study, mean he cannot get work. He is new around here and living in his car.

Some of the ones who are pretty much unable to function at all I have taken to get them into programs and see that they get food stamps and aid and take them to the free meals, which are a ways away..

I am lucky, I have 2 two cars, great friends around and things to keep me occupied and into a good groove. Many don't. And the help they get is nothing. $175 dollars a month cash for 3 months (which you have to pay back) and 190 in food stamps and a bus pass. but nobody can take their stuff on the bus they seldom use it, because their possessions are everything to them..

If you don't have a car then that means you eat at the liquor store.

A few churches (and they are the only ones that do) help out, but the GIANT church next to the park has never given anyone so much as a sandwich. Nor has the one across the street from that one. A couple free meals, miles away,and the food lockers, but if you are carless, you are screwed. Even then if you don't have a home the food they do give you is worthless. Rice, noodles? soups, all stuff you need to heat? They try hard but it is tough. Some of it is okay but the food lockers are required to give everyone a bag of rice and some noodles and cereal. If you don't have a car, then you aren't getting there. The bus don't come within a mile of there.

For a lot of these people, I tried, via the various agencies around here, to get some info on shelters, becasue I saw the news trucks etc..... and I got NO REPLY. for two weeks, no return on phone calls no return on emails, NOT CRAP (the head of the biggest non profit did offer some info but those contacts never contacted me). One of the orgs just got 10 MILLION Dollars in grants too. Perhaps they should get someone to answer the ****ing phone and emails......

They had a shelter here, right down the street, last week for a week. All the news people were there touting this crapola. NOT ONE PERSON (I didn't even go there) from around here spent more than one night there. And we saw freezing temps for a couple of days. They had meals, food and haircuts and clothing, but nobody took advantage for that from around here.

For one thing, but you had to leave here, go to downtown to get on a bus,(only 100 too) then to light rail to wait on a bus (at 5 oclock) then be transported to an church location and get lucky to get that church. Again, possessions play a role into this. That means bus and light rail and walking a distance but having to leave all your possessions behind.

Another is the once you are in, you are in policy. So smokers aren't gonna buy that. I wouldn't. No dogs, no drunks etc policy as well. I know that you have to have those policies due to insurance and liability issues, but it is restrictive.

So I don't know, everyone has a different thing going on. Mine is pain. And being a white male 60 years old with outdated job skills and lots of health issues. One couple is a black man, white woman couple. He is a Muslim, a Sunni,and she is a Presbyterian (Which the GIANT church next door is). They sleep on the ground. Came here from Seattle for a job and that fell apart. Here they are, not shit. One is from this very neighborhood who got screwed out of the family biz when he dad died and has been here for years. He does the can thing. Couple of total drunks who fly signs.
Someone the other day asked me, besides giving cash, what can I do? I didn't have an answer. I told her that all of us would be grateful for dinner come Christmas. Past that< I am not sure. I think money is wasted with homeless organizations and all that bullshit. do the math, 10 million dollars for ONE org this year? Lets suppose there are 5K homeless people in the region. That's 2k per. I think that money would be better off spent directly to people, so they can pay off the crap that is keeping them homeless. Probation, Driver's licenses, Car registration (one of mine is due next month and I have no idea what to do about that) or buy a car etc. But no, it will go to pay salaries of a homeless org that will dance in the moonlight of the TV cameras but only marginally effect actually helping people.

I think someone, someone with money to experiment, should try to give 10K to every homeless person (A test group of course) along with a advocate to see that the money is spent wisely and solves the issues like traffic fines, child support, drivers license. buy decent cars, clothes, teeth, all the things keeping them from seeing their way out of homelessness. Sure some would squander it, but I think most would sue ti wisely. I would start another non profit myself. my back stuff is all taken care of so I would do what I love with it..

Gofundme part 45 coming up.
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[Skul]

[Mi]The Return of Bobo[/i]
Coming to librarys near you.

[thundley4]

I am lucky, I have 2 two cars,

WTF?  A homeless person that owns two cars?

[Ptarmigan]

This whole thing is one giant lame bouncy.

[Patriot Guard Rider]

WTF?  A homeless person that owns two cars?

I saw that too. Made me scratch my head.

[SVPete]

WTF?  A homeless person that owns two cars?

And a computer? And downloads movies from Netflix (i.e. pays for movies and has decent broadband Internet access)?

And speaking of computers - his/her own and the library's what in Hades is a person with carpal tunnel syndrome doing aggravating it by using a mouse and keyboard?!

Pretty much, gitm's situation is the result of gitm's choices, and gitm's chosen lifestyle pretty much works to perpetuate gitm's situation (e.g. gitm isn't likely to get any kind of on-the-books job without a mailing address).

[SVPete]

This whole thing is one giant lame bouncy.

A of surrender to dependency.

[franksolich]

Whoa whoa whoa.

I just checked something; I suppose it's safe to reveal because she didn't make the top ten DUmmies.

How come so few people voted for TorchtheBitch for top DUmmie?

[franksolich]

Hot damn.

Even I missed the torched bitch.

Talk about suffering a total loss of judgement.

These are my actual choices:

01-MrScorpio, 5 votes
02-PeaceNikki, 4 votes
03-malaise, 3 votes
04-fizzgig, thunderthighs, 2 votes
05-mopinko, 2 votes

grasswire
TheMastersNemesis
nadinbrezinski
trumad
Omaha Steve

for the "Willie" = Redstone, Chief S itting Bull, the bird-smacking stoned red-faced primitive

[Carl]

Whoa whoa whoa.

I just checked something; I suppose it's safe to reveal because she didn't make the top ten DUmmies.

How come so few people voted for TorchtheBitch for top DUmmie?

The flame out was too fast and long ago I think.

[Ptarmigan]

Whoa whoa whoa.

I just checked something; I suppose it's safe to reveal because she didn't make the top ten DUmmies.

How come so few people voted for TorchtheBitch for top DUmmie?

So many DUmmies for one. She was not something on my radar.

[Big Dog]

WTF?  A homeless person that owns two cars?

He could live in one, and raise chickens in the other. Hell, he could rent out the chicken coupe to another noble urban nomad, as a heated apartment.

[franksolich]

So many DUmmies for one. She was not something on my radar.

Well, you know that's the purpose of the much-coveted franksolich; to mention a primitive who was eminently worthy of top DUmmiehood, but missed out in the voting.

Previous winners of the franksolich were Atman and Ms. Vanderbilt-Astor, the NJCher primitive.  Atman should've been in the top ten in 2013 and Mrs. Vanderbilt-Astor in 2014, but for whatever reasons, the voters overlooked them.

<<<not sure when the franksolich for 2015 will be released; sometime within the next seven days.

[BannedFromDU]

ghostsinthemachine (789 posts)

I am homeless

Been living in my car for over a year now. (By choice.)


 Thankfully I knew it was coming so I bought a van which hides out pretty nicely. (As I said, by choice)


I belong to a gym and shower and workout there. (You don't work out, and I'm sure you barely shower.)


 Got a Computer and download movies etc  (So you have money for a gym and wireless?)


and have a few bars and coffee shops I have been hannging out in forever so I don't spend much money.  (I'm sure they just LOVE having you around)


I also win trivia almost every week and that is good for a couple of burgers a week. (Translation: you're a barfly. What a pathetic existence, you worthless piece of shit.)


 With the food stamps and cash I do okay.  (See that? We give food stamps to a worthless piece of shit who hangs out at bars all day, begging for hamburgers. At least Wimpy planned to pay it back in a few days)


I never sell my food stamps (Some do however and that pisses me off)  (Selling blow jobs is probably more lucrative for you)


and am going to lose my cash aid next month. (GOOD. **** YOU.)



 My carpal Tunnel is still not fixed but it is better now thanks to painkillers.  (wifi, gym membership, and painkillers. It's adding up.)


Now Ic an funtion anyways, but still cannot possibly do any type of job right now till I get the operation. (you can work, you unreconstructed faggot. You just don't want to.)



I cannot get SSD because of the time I took care of my parents via IHSS meant that I have a ten year lapse in employment (When working for a parent via IHHS they do not take out social security) so no SS Disability for me.. 2 years till full on SS (62).....   (you sure know all the grifter rules and regs, don't you?)

BUT< there are about 30 people who call this library home. (It's not a "home," you stupid ****)


 They all have a story and a different situation. Some are flat out drunks. (like yourself)


Others are tweekers, others don't do drugs at all but have anxiety so bad they cannot even approach a cash register. One guy has a PHD in Russian (Soviet) studies but his weight and overall look, along with his outdated study, mean he cannot get work. He is new around here and living in his car. (what are their DU names?)

Some of the ones who are pretty much unable to function at all I have taken to get them into programs and see that they get food stamps and aid and take them to the free meals, which are a ways away.. (Just what we taxpayers need...a Johnny DUmmyseed)

I am lucky, I have 2 two cars, great friends around and things to keep me occupied and into a good groove. Many don't. And the help they get is nothing. $175 dollars a month cash for 3 months (which you have to pay back) and 190 in food stamps and a bus pass. but nobody can take their stuff on the bus they seldom use it, because their possessions are everything to them..

If you don't have a car then that means you eat at the liquor store. (I have a feeling you eat at the liquor store, too. First you "eat" behind it, then in front of it once you've earned a few bucks)

A few churches (and they are the only ones that do) help out, but the GIANT church next to the park has never given anyone so much as a sandwich. (Churches don't generlly want to help assholes like you. Did you know that?)


 Nor has the one across the street from that one. A couple free meals, miles away,and the food lockers, but if you are carless, you are screwed. Even then if you don't have a home the food they do give you is worthless. Rice, noodles? soups, all stuff you need to heat? They try hard but it is tough. Some of it is okay but the food lockers are required to give everyone a bag of rice and some noodles and cereal. If you don't have a car, then you aren't getting there. The bus don't come within a mile of there.

For a lot of these people, I tried, via the various agencies around here, to get some info on shelters, becasue I saw the news trucks etc..... and I got NO REPLY. for two weeks, no return on phone calls no return on emails, NOT CRAP (the head of the biggest non profit did offer some info but those contacts never contacted me). One of the orgs just got 10 MILLION Dollars in grants too. Perhaps they should get someone to answer the ****ing phone and emails...... (Maybe you should blow your brains out. That might help.)

They had a shelter here, right down the street, last week for a week. All the news people were there touting this crapola. NOT ONE PERSON (I didn't even go there) from around here spent more than one night there. And we saw freezing temps for a couple of days. They had meals, food and haircuts and clothing, but nobody took advantage for that from around here.

For one thing, but you had to leave here, go to downtown to get on a bus,(only 100 too) then to light rail to wait on a bus (at 5 oclock) then be transported to an church location and get lucky to get that church. Again, possessions play a role into this. That means bus and light rail and walking a distance but having to leave all your possessions behind.

Another is the once you are in, you are in policy. So smokers aren't gonna buy that. I wouldn't. No dogs, no drunks etc policy as well. I know that you have to have those policies due to insurance and liability issues, but it is restrictive.

So I don't know, everyone has a different thing going on. Mine is pain. And being a white male 60 years old with outdated job skills and lots of health issues. One couple is a black man, white woman couple. He is a Muslim, a Sunni,and she is a Presbyterian (Which the GIANT church next door is). They sleep on the ground. Came here from Seattle for a job and that fell apart. Here they are, not shit. One is from this very neighborhood who got screwed out of the family biz when he dad died and has been here for years. He does the can thing. Couple of total drunks who fly signs.
Someone the other day asked me, besides giving cash, what can I do? I didn't have an answer. I told her that all of us would be grateful for dinner come Christmas. Past that< I am not sure. I think money is wasted with homeless organizations and all that bullshit. do the math, 10 million dollars for ONE org this year? Lets suppose there are 5K homeless people in the region. That's 2k per. I think that money would be better off spent directly to people, so they can pay off the crap that is keeping them homeless. Probation, Driver's licenses, Car registration (one of mine is due next month and I have no idea what to do about that) or buy a car etc. But no, it will go to pay salaries of a homeless org that will dance in the moonlight of the TV cameras but only marginally effect actually helping people.

I think someone, someone with money to experiment, should try to give 10K to every homeless person (A test group of course) along with a advocate to see that the money is spent wisely and solves the issues like traffic fines, child support, drivers license. buy decent cars, clothes, teeth, all the things keeping them from seeing their way out of homelessness. Sure some would squander it, but I think most would sue ti wisely. I would start another non profit myself. my back stuff is all taken care of so I would do what I love with it..

TL, DR.

    Eat shit and die, asshole.

[Ptarmigan]

Well, you know that's the purpose of the much-coveted franksolich; to mention a primitive who was eminently worthy of top DUmmiehood, but missed out in the voting.

Previous winners of the franksolich were Atman and Ms. Vanderbilt-Astor, the NJCher primitive.  Atman should've been in the top ten in 2013 and Mrs. Vanderbilt-Astor in 2014, but for whatever reasons, the voters overlooked them.

<<<not sure when the franksolich for 2015 will be released; sometime within the next seven days.

There are lot of DUmmies I think that should be on top. Atman does not leave much of an impression on me like Bainsbane, Hepburn Trumad, or Cali. Hepburn has never been nominated. Cali has never been DOTY. Let's not forget TomInTib. He got DOTY back to back, which almost happened with Nadin.

[BattleHymn]

Whoa whoa whoa.

I just checked something; I suppose it's safe to reveal because she didn't make the top ten DUmmies.

How come so few people voted for TorchtheBitch for top DUmmie?

I've got TTW as one of my weighted votes.  Damn.  I was hoping s/he/it would go higher.  It was a great debacle. 

[BattleHymn]

Well, you know that's the purpose of the much-coveted franksolich; to mention a primitive who was eminently worthy of top DUmmiehood, but missed out in the voting.

Would Moosepoop get it the same time as TTW?  After all, weren't they the same person?   

[shadeaux]

Merry Christmas

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[BattleHymn]

Merry Christmas

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1018&pid=68825

https://www.gofundme.com/t7g8e648

Nice!  Also, long time, no see, shadeaux.

Coming out of the woodwork, aren't they?

[FlaGator]

WTF?  A homeless person that owns two cars?

One is obviously their summer home in the mountains.

[franksolich]

Merry Christmas

Oh my.

One of GOBUCKS' favorites.

The BennyBoy primitive.

[franksolich]

No point in hiding him.

[BattleHymn]

The number of homeless, or those that claim to be homeless, sure does seem to be great at the DUmp.

You'd think they might take stock in why that is. 

[SVPete]

No point in hiding him.

That was very kind of you, frank. Now he has a picture he can use in his Christmas greetings email!

[franksolich]

Omaha Steve (59,044 posts)    Thu Dec 24, 2015, 01:04 PM

44. I had no idea what to say
 
I gave this an R earlier. 

Oh whoop-whoop-de-do.

The guy needs cash, not recommendations, and one doesn't see the big guy's name listed as one of $$$$ donors on the gofundme page.

Talk's cheap; that's why primitives do it so much.