subway cat and food lines

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

This is actually pretty funny.

undergroundpanther (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-28-08 03:14 AM
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Food Lines 

My new roommate,she is going through some tough times.She was homeless and told no one. A week or so ago she fessed up.She's staying here for two weeks until her boyfriend(he has a place to stay but she cannot stay there with him) and her have an apartment lined up together.She has been exhausted. And just tonight she said she finally felt warm.She has pressure bruises on her hips and arms from sleeping on sidewalk.She has Crohn’s disease.

Well she told me a scary thing today.

She and a few other people went to a food giveaway today ,and she came back with nothing. I asked her why.. She said..

The lines of people to get food snaked out of the building through the parking lot,out into the street.She waited for hours in the cold rain in the line . They closed up,out of food,and tons of people were turned away.

This happened in a town, a "nice" suburban town,one that some in the city think is "upscale".

Out here the income inequality is STARK.If you bother to LOOK.

The Homeless and poor here are scuttled AWAY from the nice homes and town areas of manicured flowerbeds and clean sidewalks of,Aberdeen.

In Aberdeen There is a big tent city..There is a smaller tent city in Bel Air.All the help these folks can get from our greedy ass oblivious idiots in power here is a big fat nothing. It's like the state and county WANT all these people to DIE off!

In Harford County there is one place hands out pop up tents,another hands out blankets one for each person..That is IT. Republican policies to the poor are in action here. It is sickening the way things are here.

The housing previously that existed for the poor are gone now.The state piggies cut the social safety net to please the rich and corporate assholes. The homeless will DIE before any 'precious' ****ing millionaire pays ANY ****ing taxes,to keep someone else alive.

These resentful wannabe millionaires the middle class bigots out here writing hateful tripe in the local papers(the republican tainted paper actually thinks this shit is FIT to print!!)

The local bigots do not stop and THINK before they shoot off their bigoted mouths in public. ALWAYS I hear the assumption,the resentment,the pretense that a poor person MUST be dreadfully irresponsible,a pervert,malingerer or thief. Always these "letters" boil down to how morally inferior poor people or homeless people are compared to the self righteous ,comfortable,resentful middle class bigots.

It's ****ing nauseating all the poor bashing here.It's really vile how bigots get their poverty bashing crap printed in the local papers.

The bigots line the street to protest a homeless shelter NIMBY rears it's festering rotting empty head and it's black heart bleats of the MONEY,"property values" and the"children"!!

Poor people suffer and the smug don't care and they fancy themselves so ****ing wonderful.They say shit like poor people are all hoodlums and perverts they claim shit like that ..Over and over and I do not hear many voices COUNTERING the bigots..This town is infested with that republican toxic "I got mine so **** everyone else" mentality.

I wish these assholes would THINK before they wrote,maybe they'd consider maybe that scary homeless family living in that SUV ,got the SUV when the parents HAD jobs.

Maybe that homeless bum wearing some "designer"clothes,had them given to them or maybe the clothes were hand-me-downs from more well off family members?

No, the bigots they'd rather scapegoat,just go on assuming and scapegoat the poor for existing.**** the busybody poor bashing bigots, **** them ALL.

And I am sick of their shit..I am sick of hearing the HATE directed at the poor and homeless.

I DO blame the well off people for their own narcissistic,ass-holiness and stunning ignorance,their INHUMANITY, and their failure to step out of their closed little 'privileged' world to offer compassion,and * gasp* pay some MONEY to help the suffering.The suffering here is carefully hidden from the places the well off go, between the back lots,in the library and the laundry mat on bitter cold nights,and managed by cops that make sure no one exhausted clutters the empty sidewalks at 4 am in Aberdeen. The cops are there to keep the homeless out of sight,of the well off not to help them.Always in this town property and profits are put over people.

I hope the well off will lose a job,become homeless, maybe because of a medical debt or a foreclosure.They need to taste the bitter rejection ,resentment and hate they dumped upon others.

Suburban inhumanity,indifference and callous cruelty,thy name is NIMBY, Contempt,

More likely, hate.

The Anger I feel about all this shit,makes me want to go to Annapolis into the state house and scream at these oblivious pampered ass politicians. I want to DARE them to live in the tent city for a month.Dare them to TRY it,see if they can hack it,call them COWARDS and losers if they do not take up the challenge.

Sadly I know the only way a rich pig out here is EVER going to have a farts chance in a whirlwind to develop any empathy for anyone outside their own richie rich clique is to be FORCED by circumstances or an angry mob to move to the ******* tent city and ****ing LUMP IT with everyone else.

I wish there was a way to FORCE political and business assholes who think nothing of slashing social services and such,to make more profits to be homeless. I wish there was a way to force them to have to sleep in a ****ing tent with a blanket in the middle of February.

I hate ****ing rich people who sit there in Annapolis in the luxury afforded the privileged who do not think of the poor at all as they draft grandiose plans of yet more Mini-malls,Mc Mansions and monuments.

They do not bother themselves with doing anything USEFUL like improving public transport,or even putting sidewalks down so people without cars can walk somewhere without risking life and limb.

The pieces of shit in Harford County government and Annapolis are such stupid ,petty, oblivious,greedy,decadent,narcissistic, criminal,corporate ass kisser parasites. They all make me sick.

Why do I hate the rich? I hate the rich because, the rich hated the poor first.The rich hate the poor because poverty is the result of the rich people's unending immoral greed.Poor people remind the rich of the consequences of their own unbridled greed,the fruits the rich so enjoy taking more of than everyone else.

So the rich hated the poor first.For if they really didn't hate the poor first,the priorities would be drastically different than they are. Who would be condemned to sleeping in a tent in this town freezing to death if the rich actually cared about others less fortunate? No one.

Despite my anger..

I fear for all those people I saw out there when I helped my new roomie get her shit together,when winter hits. A pop up tent and blanket will not do much when the bitter cold of Maryland winters.

I am so ******* infuriated at the obvious class war going on right here it makes me seethe. I am tired of the poor having no voice politically.It's always middle class this or that.I hate being INVISIBLE!!!If you are not well off the class war issue is obvious, but if you are comfortable in this ****ing town,it's easy to slip into denial,and pretend that there is a social safety net for everyone in Harford County.Because the homeless are hidden.

From what I seen There is NOTHING here as in services or help for people in need here.And it is tragic how fast the numbers of homeless have shot up in this area,and everyday there are more and more foreclosure signs.Jobs are scarce out here.

The Brac seems to not affect the lives of the people that find themselves living in tents yet.The homeless they get up at 4 am to go to a place that hires them day by day for laborers. If you get there too late there might not be any work and you'll be SOL..

Also with all the fear and bullshit pandered around concerning illegal immigrants how long will places that hire on a day to day basis for laborers exist?

It's insulting to see the ****ed up priorities politicians have in this town..

I wonder how long until the food riots start?

When will it be a crime to not have a home,a ****ing car or money?

How long until the asshole politicians feel uneasy in their chairs enough to cough up the funds for the social safety net?

When will the well off be FORCED to PAY their fair share in taxes so that services to help people might be able to actually HELP them?

What will it take to make the comfortable UNCOMFORTABLE enough to change their selfish priorities?

When is enough enough?

What will it take to get the biggest pigs and their sociopath hog jowls and the smarmy developer parasites out of the state and county funds trough?

Will it take alot of pissed off hurting people with nothing to lose getting together and finally taking these parasites down to Earth, humiliating the living shit out of them,and maybe making them feel the soul grinding experience of being poor for once?

When the next food giveaway happens I am going to go there ,not for food (unless I really need it) .I am going to take pictures of this mess ,and the tent city and do a video an eloquent yet scathing indictment of Harford county's ass backward policies the comfortable ones in this ****ed up town NEEDS to SEE..

I dunno; I read the whole thing, and I don't see where the subway cat confesses up to something she's personally done to alleviate the woes of the hungry and the homeless.

And the usual question: when's the subway cat going to do HER part, her fair share, in contributing to the governmental treasury, rather than taking from it?

undergroundpanther (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-28-08 04:09 AM
Response to Reply #2

8. I am gonna have to get my paws on a video camera first.Maybe my sisters hubby will let me borrow it?

I'll call him in a few days'cause I gotta arrange transport,that will be difficult.

Anyway I was thinking of doing a few interviews,showing all the tent cities,the food lines/giveaway lines,get up to go the day labor places and interview some folks there too.One night sorta perch out of view and wait until a cop shoos an exhausted homeless person and video the hassling,than after wards record how tired and frustrated the person was..Interveiw the owner of the 24 hour Laundromat who lets homeless people in to warm up..Juxtaposing the poverty alongside the well off and the attitudes .Show the comfortable houses and cars,have them start the republican poor bashing,and than show foreclosure signs and boarded up shops.Than ask the viewers the how long until the riots start?

Show pictures of the Bastille and an aristocrat getting his head chopped,than go back to the bill of rights,make this issue of human rights go full circle and stop cold at the greedy feet of the rich,and remind people it is the greedy who create the needy.So people cannot help but conclude the ideology of 'conservatives' and excessive greed for wealth at the expense of the many even in a small town is flawed and in fact it is evil.

Oh my.

undergroundpanther (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-28-08 04:29 AM
Response to Reply #4
 
10. Yeah 

BTW I like your name..KILL Capitalism. I'll go further,we need to kill the concept of PROFIT(profit is after all is,getting something for nothing.).And we gotta do away with the MONEY system.

We have to re-learn to rely on each other and share with each other instead of corporate systems.We have to learn to recognize toxic personalities and sick ideologies and make sure the toxic people remain away from power and unable to abuse or manipulate people.

We will all have to make due with less, but that means all can have SOME.For everyone to have some, no one can be permitted to hoard most of it to themselves.
This is what every rich selfish corporate pig fears the most,sharing.

Not just himself sharing with others ,but also OTHER PEOPLE sharing with each other.

The usual question: when's the subway cat going to share?

undergroundpanther (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-28-08 04:21 AM
Response to Reply #6
 
9. Umm.. 

I am a good interviewer I can get people to loosen up easily..No I don't have anything to get the video made,in my possession.I will try get my brother in law to loan me his video camera.And since I have no car,transportation would be hard to arrange. Transport is the main problem.I would have to ask my friends for help with rides.I wish there was somewhere I could go that I don't need a car to get to to get help with this idea.

I am really hostile and wary of "rice christians".I don't want the churches exploiting this video as a way to get donations just to force hungry and desperate people to sit through sermons and pray with them or pressure to convert in exchange for for food or help.That shit just disgusts me it turns giving into another damn "economic exchange". I want to avoid making help mixed with sermons or lectures to the poor.I think they hear enough bullshit and preaching..

UU church,I'm ok with them using it,atheists,and pagans the non preachy types who can just help out and shut up about their jesus..That is what I'd prefer. I want it to be about helping,not religion.If a group wants to help great but do not expect any sorts of returns on the part of the poor for the investment/giving.

Do ya get what I mean here?

I get it that the subway cat is hoping the other primitives on Skins's island will pay for her "project."

[Toastedturningtidelegs]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4322881

Oh my.

This is actually pretty funny.

I dunno; I read the whole thing, and I don't see where the subway cat confesses up to something she's personally done to alleviate the woes of the hungry and the homeless.

And the usual question: when's the subway cat going to do HER part, her fair share, in contributing to the governmental treasury, rather than taking from it?

Oh my.

The usual question: when's the subway cat going to share?

I get it that the subway cat is hoping the other primitives on Skins's island will pay for her "project."

Leave it to UGP to post the most verbose bouncy tale I've seen as of late! As far as doing her part? She's far too intelligent and good to do something beneath her like ........work...

[Carl]

Gee you think she is kind of upset that a sane and civilised society really has no place in it for a freak like her to be in any position of relevance.

Selfish,greedy bastard that can starve for all I care as she will never do a thing to help her own cause,only whine that no one will do it for her.

[jtyangel]

the cold, greedy feet of the rich? 

This from someone who lives off of her mother who can afford to put her up in a home of her own? 

I don't know catwoman, but I don't know a lot of adult children who can do that unless they are trust fund kids...you know, RICH!

What a spoiled, crazy, pos she is. I mean really. Why don't you open up your 'free' home catwoman and take in all your homeless and 'starving'(I've seen pictures of her friends and that's why that word is in quotes) friends and take damn care of them yourself? Put your own money and situation where you big, fat mouth is. I have taken friends and relatives in over the years and I actually have to PAY for my living arrangement. Yet another reason I really loathe DU liberals. The sit on their ample behinds bitching about how the downtrodden are neglected by the uncaring rich, while they do nothing that would bring them discomfort to improve those individuals situations themselves.

[whiffleball]

the cold, greedy feet of the rich? 

This from someone who lives off of her mother who can afford to put her up in a home of her own? 

I don't know catwoman, but I don't know a lot of adult children who can do that unless they are trust fund kids...you know, RICH!

What a spoiled, crazy, pos she is. I mean really. Why don't you open up your 'free' home catwoman and take in all your homeless and 'starving'(I've seen pictures of her friends and that's why that word is in quotes) friends and take damn care of them yourself? Put your own money and situation where you big, fat mouth is. I have taken friends and relatives in over the years and I actually have to PAY for my living arrangement. Yet another reason I really loathe DU liberals. The sit on their ample behinds bitching about how the downtrodden are neglected by the uncaring rich, while they do nothing that would bring them discomfort to improve those individuals situations themselves.

My question is why doesn't the better off DU "community" members take in their downtrodden 'masses'?  Why doesn't Skinner give up that $125,000 to the needy on his own site?  Obama doesn't need the cash; he's in the solid.  I mean, they're all about helping one another, right?  Yet, sooo many poor liberals are on that site who receive no assistance from their brethren.  Such a shame!

[jtyangel]

My question is why doesn't the better off DU "community" members take in their downtrodden 'masses'?  Why doesn't Skinner give up that $125,000 to the needy on his own site?  Obama doesn't need the cash; he's in the solid.  I mean, they're all about helping one another, right?  Yet, sooo many poor liberals are on that site who receive no assistance from their brethren.  Such a shame!

Yep, exactly my point. They'd rather bitch and moan and take money from someone who probably is already helping someone out instead of extending their own bloated hand to help another person out. An awful lot of misplaced rage going on there.

[Toastedturningtidelegs]

Yep, exactly my point. They'd rather bitch and moan and take money from someone who probably is already helping someone out instead of extending their own bloated hand to help another person out. An awful lot of misplaced rage going on there.

Don't worry Jty...Obama will make it all better.... When he wins in a landslide and takes office the choirs of angels will sing and throw money and health care down to the DU downtrodden,he will punish all you rich repukes and force you to help people like UGP who are far too disabled and intelligent to work at menial tasks like the rest of you repug slobs. And you will know that Obama is the Lord when he lays his redistributing hand upon thee!

[jtyangel]

Don't worry Jty...Obama will make it all better.... When he wins in a landslide and takes office the choirs of angels will sing and throw money and health care down to the DU downtrodden,he will punish all you rich repukes and force you to help people like UGP who are far too disabled and intelligent to work at menial tasks like the rest of you repug slobs. And you will know that Obama is the Lord when he lays his redistributing hand upon thee!

Yeah, well UGP better watch her step. Sounds like the parent that supports her is 'rich' and if she gets taxed too much, UGP will either find herself living with mama again or out on the street mumbling something about wanting to live at the zoo as strangers steer a wide berth around her.

[Vagabond]

Aberdeen and Bel-Air, huh?  Food lines huh?

In August I spent a week in Aberdeen.  I drove all over the town which largely supports the US Army Aberdeen Proving Grounds.  There are quite a few apartment complexes and the local housing stock looked to be in the thirty to forty year old range, but mostly well-kept.  I would say largely it seemed to be a lower middle class community, common around military bases.  I did not notice much of a homeless population.  Bel-air seemed to be a little newer and had more chain restauraunts and generally more prosperous, solidly middle class.  Again, not a noticeable homeless problem.

I'm gonna throw the BS flag on this one.  UP should just stick to the crazy made up stories and disconnected rants.

[franksolich]

Aberdeen and Bel-Air, huh?  Food lines huh?

In August I spent a week in Aberdeen.  I drove all over the town which largely supports the US Army Aberdeen Proving Grounds.  There are quite a few apartment complexes and the local housing stock looked to be in the thirty to forty year old range, but mostly well-kept.  I would say largely it seemed to be a lower middle class community, common around military bases.  I did not notice much of a homeless population.  Bel-air seemed to be a little newer and had more chain restauraunts and generally more prosperous, solidly middle class.  Again, not a noticeable homeless problem.

I'm gonna throw the BS flag on this one.  UP should just stick to the crazy made up stories and disconnected rants.

I have to be careful here, because this is based upon memory, and memory isn't infallible.

"Bel-Air," it seems to me, has been mentioned by the subway cat as where she lives.....in a gated community within walking distance of some big shopping center.

The subway cat also showed us photographs of her community (but not her specific home), and it looks reasonably affluent to me.

The property appears to be owned by the subway cat's ancient mother, who lives in another house in Baltimore, but far away.  If I recall correctly, the subway cat one time expressed disappointment or confusion or anger that her mother wouldn't let the subway cat live with her.

This all, as usual, is information divulged, wittingly or unwittingly, by the subway cat herself.

[MrsSmith]

I have to be careful here, because this is based upon memory, and memory isn't infallible.

"Bel-Air," it seems to me, has been mentioned by the subway cat as where she lives.....in a gated community within walking distance of some big shopping center.

The subway cat also showed us photographs of her community (but not her specific home), and it looks reasonably affluent to me.

The property appears to be owned by the subway cat's ancient mother, who lives in another house in Baltimore, but far away.  If I recall correctly, the subway cat one time expressed disappointment or confusion or anger that her mother wouldn't let the subway cat live with her.

This all, as usual, is information divulged, wittingly or unwittingly, by the subway cat herself.

I think "Mom" moved out, gave her house to UP, and went elsewhere...but I may be thinking of a different DU whiner. 

BTW, there are 16 Emergency Food Providers in Harford County.  Anyone who goes hungry simply isn't asking...

[Chris_]

These people are so freaking verbose!  Are they paid by the word or something?

So many bits with so little meaning!!

[Vagabond]

I have to be careful here, because this is based upon memory, and memory isn't infallible.

"Bel-Air," it seems to me, has been mentioned by the subway cat as where she lives.....in a gated community within walking distance of some big shopping center.

The subway cat also showed us photographs of her community (but not her specific home), and it looks reasonably affluent to me.

The property appears to be owned by the subway cat's ancient mother, who lives in another house in Baltimore, but far away.  If I recall correctly, the subway cat one time expressed disappointment or confusion or anger that her mother wouldn't let the subway cat live with her.

This all, as usual, is information divulged, wittingly or unwittingly, by the subway cat herself.

Further, at least two of the local restaurants had brought in waitress help from Moldova.  Not exactly the sign of a struggling local economy.

[franksolich]

Further, at least two of the local restaurants had brought in waitress help from Moldova.  Not exactly the sign of a struggling local economy.

When you were around there, did you notice perhaps that the streets and sidewalks needed some litter clearance?

And public trash bins on the sidewalks needed emptying?

[Vagabond]

When you were around there, did you notice perhaps that the streets and sidewalks needed some litter clearance?

And public trash bins on the sidewalks needed emptying?

The local government keeps the approaches to the army post from the interstate clean.  The towns had what you would expect, but the areas between towns needed some work.

I noticed a number of the local business establishments were looking for help.  UP is unemployable by her own choice.

[Chris]

I noticed a number of the local business establishments were looking for help.  UP is unemployable by her own choice.

Where does that thing live again?  I bet TomInTib could stash her in a corner of the trinket hut (as long as he installed a litter box).

They'd make a lovely couple.

[franksolich]

I noticed a number of the local business establishments were looking for help.  UP is unemployable by her own choice.

That'll never work for the subway cat, though.

One needs to use the Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist approach with the subway cat.

That is, a guy with a gun is going to have to show up at her place every morning at 7:45 to drag her to some sort of work.

I don't think private establishments can do that.

However, out here in Nebraska, we use people wearing orange vests, sitting in the back of pick-up trucks until they get somewhere that needs cleaning, after which they hop out, and pick up the litter from the sidewalks and streets.

They get paid well for it, too; government jobs.  Sort of.

I'm trying to get the subway cat off the public dole; by my most minimal calculations, the subway cat has contributed at least--at least--$700,000 to the national deficit and national debt (and possibly even more than twice that, given that psychiatric care isn't cheap), and she needs to start paying some of it back.

As you perhaps never got three-quarters of a million bucks free from the government, I'm sure you would agree.

The subway cat lives in an affluent gated community near Baltimore.

[Vagabond]

That'll never work for the subway cat, though.

One needs to use the Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist approach with the subway cat.

That is, a guy with a gun is going to have to show up at her place every morning at 7:45 to drag her to some sort of work.

I don't think private establishments can do that.

However, out here in Nebraska, we use people wearing orange vests, sitting in the back of pick-up trucks until they get somewhere that needs cleaning, after which they hop out, and pick up the litter from the sidewalks and streets.

They get paid well for it, too; government jobs.  Sort of.

I'm trying to get the subway cat off the public dole; by my most minimal calculations, the subway cat has contributed at least--at least--$700,000 to the national deficit and national debt (and possibly even more than twice that, given that psychiatric care isn't cheap), and she needs to start paying some of it back.

As you perhaps never got three-quarters of a million bucks free from the government, I'm sure you would agree.

The subway cat lives in an affluent gated community near Baltimore.

My dad just retired as such a person from such an establishment.  Unfortunately, unless UP is willing to go to Escambia County, FL and do something stupid, she will not be able to receive that treatment.  Escambia County, FL is one of the few counties in the nation that use prisoner details that used to be called chain gangs.

My dad is spoken of as a legend down in the 'hood.

[franksolich]

My dad just retired as such a person from such an establishment.  Unfortunately, unless UP is willing to go to Escambia County, FL and do something stupid, she will not be able to receive that treatment.  Escambia County, FL is one of the few counties in the nation that use prisoner details that used to be called chain gangs.

My dad is spoken of as a legend down in the 'hood.

These aren't anything like chain-gangs, these workers in Omaha and Lincoln.

They're from halfway houses, rehabilitation centers, missions, or in jail for minor crimes.

[Vagabond]

These aren't anything like chain-gangs, these workers in Omaha and Lincoln.

They're from halfway houses, rehabilitation centers, missions, or in jail for minor crimes.

The average prisoner on my dad's work crews fell into the category of minor drug conviction, but may fall into the category of pled aggravated battery on an attempted murder.  I am told they got dumber and more wimpy as time went on.  He said that for the last few years, they amounted to nothing more than a bunch of punks.

[Bondai]

Hey UP...I have seen photos of your big fat sloppy ass....give some your food to a friend you fat slut.

[Chris_]

We have to learn to recognize toxic personalities and sick ideologies

Agreed, then no more DU.

[tanstaafl]

Gee, the government already lays claim to 28% of everything I earn. The state takes 3% this year, goes up to 5% next year. I pay 8% sales tax on everything I buy.

I get no subsidies, no food stamps, no tax credits and am expected to provide my own retirement nest egg.

What more does the ghey-transgendered-cat trapped in a female body idiot want?

Why doesn't the s-hee-it head get he-er-it's own job instead of coasting through life like a tapeworm?

[franksolich]

Holy maloley, sir, how'd you find this?

This goes w-a-a-a-y back to the first months of the DUmpster.

[GOBUCKS]

She has been exhausted. And just tonight she said she finally felt warm.She has pressure bruises on her hips and arms from sleeping on sidewalk.She has Crohn’s disease.

I wonder if this is where Pam got the idea for Crohn's disease.