You have to see this

These are the people that will come back to this country and become our policeman/woman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwwMF6biCJU

The Holidays

Two days after Christmas, and the homeless get ready for their next bout of mistreatment.  Thank you all for the extra food, and the socks and toothpaste.  But we still have to stay outside because nothing is open.  Even the places that we use for refuge during the week are closed for the holiday.  Yes, even the shelters.  Even the ones that normally have coffee money, have no where to go.

The shelter I stayed in two days ago, gave the order to allow 40 people in and then shut the door.  The logic behind this was the fire code limit.  This was the last resort shelter, so comming here pretty much meant that they have no where else to go.  After some protest, the shelter scratched that rule.  I remember Ann Arbor, Michigan, where a man had been turned away from the emergency shelter.  I found him myself the next morning laying on the sidewalk, covered almost completely by snow.  The ambulance carried him away with a heartbeat.

Mental Health Workers

Subject: Please help us identify this man
 
To Whom it May Concern,
My name is Angela Hagberg. I work at Patches Place, a nonprofit mental health recovery center in New Castle, Pa.  The pictures below are of a, man who came into our Center in February 2009 and is currently still located here.  He has been homeless and on the street for that long.  He is delusional and is often suicidal and homicidal.  He has been in the psychiatric inpatient setting several times but due to the lack of information on him, he is unable to receive any type of welfare or medical assistance so he has been unable to receive medication and treatment on a regular basis.  He says he has no memory of a social security number, he has no birth certificate, no drivers license and does not remember any address or specific places he has lived other than he knows he lived in the Baltimore and other areas of the Maryland area for some period of time.
He was fingerprinted at our State Police barracks and nothing came back on him.  
 Before coming to New Castle he was in Youngstown ,Ohio for about a year living on the streets and in the Rescue Mission.  That mission brought him to our local Rescue Mission in February 2009.  We would like to see him get the help he needs but we need to find out who he is.  We hope that you could help us with this.
He says his name is Vlad Tepes Dracula Hatijoke Angelic Diego Gove Diablo Zieline Inuyasha Zeus Pheonix Medusa Blood Lucifer Lozes Campell Forbes
He is 5’9 weights an average 145 lbs,
We believe his age to be between 25-32,
Eye color – brown.
Hair color light brown,
Facial hair, he cannot grow a full bearded.
He picks at his face regularly.
 His spelling and writing skills are below average.
 
If you have any suggestions on how we can find out who he is we would welcome the input.   I can be reached at my office at 724-657-0226 ext 401 and my cell phone number is 724-498-6840.
 Please read the comment for update.

What are we supposed to be doing?

While my concerns have primarily been with the homeless population, there seems to have been a very substantial increase in poor people. I notice little old lady”s going into pawn shops, and not being able to sell their heirlooms. People with jobs having to have their lunch at free meal sites. Veterans having to sell their medications to make ends meet.

I had been used to the working homeless, (working for agencies that took half the money). Those people seem to no longer exist. For the last several years, the shelter’s have been operating on money from the American Mental Health Groups. When people applied for space at these shelters, the key questions asked was,”Are you depressed”. Of course the answer should be yes. Then you are told that they have just the medication for you.

The most obvious place to witness this would be at the “Casa Esperanza Homeless Shelter” in Santa Barbara, California. They have a courtyard outside where you can witness their medication at work. After starting this medication, the people just want to sleep for about three weeks. After they finally wake up, they have no ambition whatsoever.

This is probably the reason that there is no protesting of the economy going on. People have been effectively chemically lobotomized. Their jobs had been taken over by foreign labor, which now seems to have no end.

As for the rest of the year, I have no idea what I am doing. Creating and joining groups just seems to create more division. For every homeless person that dies, a gay person needs to get married. For every elderly person that loses their property to forclosure, a dancer needs tax free recognition.

Homeless meeting gets rowdy

http://www.macombdaily.com/articles/2008/10/23/news/srv0000003870294.txt

What happened to your money?

During the Reagan dynasty, Republicans were looking for ways to get people to vote for them.  The sure way to do this was money.  They could not directly buy your vote, so they done it by reducing taxes.  The way they reduced taxes, was to do away with services. 

The one thing that everyone is forgetting, Reagan reduced Federal government, and also made it the responsibility of state and local government to pick up on those services.  Well, local politician’s aren’t really great thinkers either, so they had to latch on to the “reduce taxes for vote theory”.    (If  you ever get to talk to one up close, they really are in another world).  Now you have a void in services.

Now that the country is in a crisis mode, everybody wants to know where the money went.  The hurricane Katrina aftermath is also a good example.  The government did a great job of moving the debris off the roads, then the money went to the downtown businesses that really only suffered minimal damage.  They even done things like asbestos removal, which had nothing to do with the flood. 

In Columbus, Ohio, they are doing great things still for the American business people.  Though you would think private business stood on it’s own, Columbus gives them tax paid skywalks.  (A homeless person trying to stay out of frigid cold would be immediately evicted from that skywalk, if not put in jail).

Corporate welfare was another sure way to get votes.  People were encouraged to invest in certain things and money was almost a guarantee.  Major league team owner’s made millions over millions, while the taxpayer took on the expense of maintaining their place of business. 

Everything here is explained in one word:  Diverted.

Like all the cigarette tax that was suppose to fix healthcare, diverted.   Like the lottery money meant to fix education, diverted.  Social Security money, diverted.  All to make a few people richer. 

Now who cleans up the mess?  No diversion there.  You do.  Have a nice day.

36 People Died

Thirty six people died while living on the streets of Columbus, Ohio in 2008.  The Shelter Board hoarded $20,000,000, claiming it was unnecessary.  Some how it would have made sense to use the unused property belonging to the Faith Mission to house some more people.  At least then, some of those people that died, may not have.

The Columbus Shelter Board has yet to mention what their plans are for that money, other than to insure a good retirement for themselves.

SolutionIII

Now that you have all your SSI recipients housed, and built other accomodations to rent to the hard to house.  Other accomodations?  You know, the apartment complexes with two, three, and four bedrooms, each with their own showers, common tv area, and common kitchen.  Just like the universities all over the country are building for their students.  They are charging each student $600 per month for the bedroom.  Since the SSI recipients can’t pay that much, I quess you could leave out the marble tile and etched glass shower doors.  Either way, a property owner will make much more off their property this way.

Now you are prepared to deal with the homeless.  You will find that a lot of them are just young men comming out into the world looking for thier place in life.  They used to have places for them to go, young men’s homes, YMCA’s, etc.  These places got rediculously expensive since the 70’s & 80’s.  In Columbus, Ohio, the YMCA became the main shuffler for the homeless.  The homeless person goes through the homeless system, and then gets housing at the Y.  After three months they are evicted for failure to pay rent.  Well sorry, can’t come back here for one year. 

Well, now the shelter system can boast to housing all these people.  Imagine that.  And not just housing these people, but housing them multiple times.  This is the system now endorsed by our President Obama.  After all, it helped build the homeless industry.

Getting back to the young homeless, they could build the same type apartments that they had built for the college student’s and SSI recipient.  maybe by then some jobs would have opened up, and they could actually pay rent.  Or God forbid, give them welfare.  It would take away from the big bussiness, but what are you going to do.  Now all that is left are the older homeless.

Work Safety

Just before our jobs were taken over by foreign guest workers, the big demand was worker safety and livable wage.  Now it is just a pot luck for safety, and the livable wage has multiplied by five for the foreign workers.  They send their money back to their country, which of course is not spent here in this country, leaving the small business people searching for grants.

     

It was an old picture taken in New York City, when the Empire State Building was being built.  At that time, there was no such thing as OSHA or fall protection.  If one of them fell down, someone in the unemployment line would be happy to take over his job. 

A major work injury now just means you go back to Mexico, that’s the pot luck.

SSI and Employment

The SSI recipient that stays at a shelter knows what the game is.  He can only work so many hours without losing his check.  The homeless shelter requires him to go out and look for full time work. 

In the nineteen 80’s, the employers were sympathetic to the people that weren’t able to jump right into jobs and the presidential endorsement of temporary agencies that took more than half the money they worked for.  One reason the companies were all for that, was because of racial quota’s.  While the employer could pick and choose who he wanted to work, he wasn’t worried about the quota’s, because they were not his employee’s.

The shelter’s started sending all their people to get these jobs.  Of course the employer’s thought they were hiring full time employee’s.  After two weeks the SSI recipient would tell them they could not work the rest of the month or he would lose his check.  They would not tell them up front that they could only work a certain number of hours.  Training expense down the drain.  Then it would happen over and over again.

Now you have the reasoning behind “the employer does not want to hire shelter people”.   And of course this is still the norm in shelter’s across this country.  They still want everyone to look for work.  What is it about “they signed a piece of paper that says they cannot work”.  What about the fact that the government gives them a check to handle their expenses.

If we only had common sense thinking.