The Homeless are not all drunks,druggies, or mental cases.

hi lori thanks so many of us are all in the same boat,
were it not for my social security and ss i checks'
that pay my board and rent here, I would be up the
creek without a paddle. so now I am very fortunate'now if
only my son could get a good job things would be perfect.
sorry about your youngest sister. they do count all the
pennies. when I worked parttime every time I got a raise
they wou ld take that much out of my disabled hubby's sse check so you just cannot win. love hugs hatley.

hi thea it is indeed a sad indictment of our country that
homeless people fall through the cracks. we have the where
withal but not the wishes of all the people but as you said
a lot of people are just one paycheck away from being
homeless and they do not realize it. we should have been more'
careful too but in our case it was his pay never rose as fast
'as our rent did and rents here in Ca are just too high it is'ridiculous.

Here in the Philippines many now are homeless because of the last typhoon that hits us recently. Their situation are so pathetic they are no houses to turn to because flood wiped it out. Now that we are still in crisis I think they can't move on easily. All of their properties washed out by the flood and they are depending on relief and shelter in evacuation sites.

hi friend so many of my friends on my mylot list are filipinos
and my heart goes out to you all, I just wish I had money to'send for help or food or other needs but alas I do not so all I
'can do is send my prayers that you will get help and in time may'be able to rebuilt. I realize it was an awful disaster and has left people in terrible straits. hope my country is sending you aid as the US usually does, and you all really need this now. good luck and God bless.

Hi kitty
How are you doing girl? I saw you here and thought I would stop in and give a quick hello. I have been working around the camper a little trying to make it look more like a home. .LOL..You take care of yourself and keep smiling...

hi to both kitty and rose yes a lot of people do not even
realize how close to being homeless they are,just a paycheck
away and boom if you have no people to help you,we did have
friends who tried to help but they were renting too and the
landlord was breathing down their neck for putting us up as long as they did. when disaster strikes we sure find out who our
real friends are in a hurry and I just want to say bless them.

Hello my friend

Sme here my friend, god bless them, we were helped more from strangers than anyone else, your right you sure know who your friends are when you are down I learned alot through this and I see things so much clearer than before, some people love to see others down, I will never be so far down that I can't get up thats for sure.

Again great discussion, thanks for sharing this.

hi kitty always love to hear from you,and
know you have been there too. I am so
hoping my son finds work but am not holding
nmy breath.things will change.

Hello my friend

He will find work, don't lose faith, its sad things are hard all over, hope when I am ready it wont be hard for me to actually get back.

Thanks my friend.

hi kitty just thinking it will be hard for him at first'
after having been jobless so long but I bet he will
'also be very happy too.

Hello my friend

Its been a while for me as well, but I know it will take no time to get back into the swing of things

No worries my friend, smoochessss

hi kitty 42 I sure did stir up a hornet nest with one responder'but I just wanted to let people know that'
a lot of people who are homeless are just there
because they lost their jobs and ran out of money.
so now we need to make enough jobs so people can
once more work and live in an apartment and get on
with their lives.

Hello my friend

You are so sweet, thats right my friend make your camper look like home, if I ever have the money I will buy one and keep it in my yard I love them so much, someone told me you can't have then in the city this was a while ago, I never see any drive by, I think it has to do with the height or something I forgot why this is, we have trucks passing by all the time, I will look into because they are really good to have, it will be like a home away from home.

Smoochesss, I am smiling lol

hi rosepedal and kitty thanks I remember wishing that we had had a camper.but now its not too bad here in Gold Crest better than staying in a homeless shelter and I have made some friends here, and some day hopefully my son and all the others out of work will get jobs again then he can move me back into an apartment with him. meantime I will enjoy the friends I have made here and on mylot too.

Thats right Hatley..Just keep your spirits up and the head held high. I believe in you, so you need to believe in you too..Keep smiling and have a great day....

hi rosepedal yes be happy today as yesterday is gone
tomorrow is not yet here.

Well thank you..That was very thoughtful. I like that saying. Keep smiling my friend..

oh yes smile through this mylot glitch as you cannot get
'in to any of the discussions. wow what a mess suppose'
they will not work tomorrow?

I know what you mean about this problem here on mylot. I hope that they too get it fixed real soon. I miss it something terrible. Oh well lets just keep smiling and maybe we will be okay...

hi rosepedal hope they get it fixed Monday sure not doing it
'yet cannot respond to any discussions.

I know...I don't what is taking it so long. Surely they know that we cannot post to discussion. Now I wonder if they will make it up to us some how or another..

hi sure glad we are now back in business.hurray

hi grandpa bob good for your wife.one baptist church put us
'up for one night, and I saw so many people just like myself,
and it just made me want to cry, I dont have much sympathy for'those who insist on living like that, wow it is just so
demeaning and its so hard for me to even talk about it to
most of the people here, just to my close friend. I will never
forget the young woman with a four month old baby, she looked'so scared but at least she did have a car. a lot of them did not
have that. well I am safe here and one day things will be better.

hi meapas thanks for what you have said. you see'
very clearly. this is not our permanent home
'so we should not judge.

hi ambiepam yes I imagine that one could learn a lot
'in a homeless shelter. I saw a young mom whose hubby
had walked out on her and her three month old baby
and a lady who had lost her job and had her home foreclosed'
and she had been working, she looked as lost as I felt'
and in the Salvation army hospitality house the guys'out
numbered the women and none of them were drunks or on'drugs, as the Salvation Army does not take in drunks or people on drugs, all the men that c ame in new were actually checked for drugs.
Anyway I am grateful to be in these surroundings now until we can afford to be in an apartment again.

You're in an assisted living center right? And your son is homeless but looking for a job? The Salvation Army is pretty strict. I heard them saying how they don't take donations from people who won the lottery, because a lot of people they see in their homeless shelters are there because of addictions to things like gambling. They work really hard to help people who can't help themselves.

I think they would still take the donation, just not give the tax credit receipt? I can't imagine any organization which is run on donations and grants turn away the bread and butter.

I know. I'm not sure if it is a regional decision or if it goes for the whole Salvation Army organization. But I was along for the ride with a professor of mine at the time several years ago, and one of the people we met up with worked inside the Salvation Army organization. The lottery was mentioned, and that is when I was told that.

we were treated very well by the Salvation army p eople
and this one negro man seemed bent on helping me,they'really were very kind but strict nobody on drugs is allowed in and they
do periodic drug tests, I was grateful for that,who wants to
'be around addicts.

hi dragon54u thanks I did think someone should speak for
those who were caught in this bad economy like me and
my son. a lot of people I met were well educated, and
could have worked most anywhere had someone offered
them a job. the stigma sure does need to be removed
so these people can be given jobs.People who think this
economy is not as bad as the last depression need to
open their eyes and look around.

Many economists are saying we are in a depression but the media ignores them. I truly believe we are in a depression and it will only get worse with the looters we have in DC. I can't buy gold or anything but I'm stocking up on food.

hi dragon yes it is a depression no matter what they 'say
let us see people getting jobs then I will believe
that things are getting better until then no.

hipuddytatt you sure do know what I was talking about
and instead of looking down and just shrugging people
off as mentally ill or drunk or drugged they should
ask and then help them out if they can. the US could
do a lot more if they just would. I love our country
but it lets down people who don't deserve to be put
down like that.

hatley it still happens here, i see homeless people all the time, and if i can i will give them something to help them along, it may not be much but i try to help, and i still see people pass them in the street with disgust all over their faces who just walk past and look at them as though a dog has just dropped something unpleasant on the floor, i call them social snobs, they do not know what's happened to the homeless person, but they still judge, these "tofs" need to open their eyes because one day they may end up in that situation one day, you just never know, i know of a guy who had a family, a great job, big house, money, success and now he lives behind a billboard with nothing and no one, i do not know what happened, but even though he's on the streets, he's still a decent person....i hate snobs and i hate the people who look down their noses at the less fortunate, because like i said, it could happen to them one day, things can change a persons life in a heartbeat, just like that guy i know....

hi again the economists say a lot of people inour country
'are just one paycheck away from being homeless so they
should realize this could happen to them too.

hi catdla1 yes cold weather is coming on and while they
open the armories here against that, all that they do
is give them a thin mat on the concrete floor and
an army blanket, and that did it for my son.,he told
me he was going to the social worker for displaced
seniors here and find a place for me to stay where I
would have a bed,a r oom of my own and be fed every'day. I
am retired and have a bad leg so the homeless experience
was really hard for me. we had a weeks stay at Salvation
Army's hospitality house but every day you had to leave at
seven and not come back til four in the afternoon. so that
meant a lot of walking for me and it became almost impossible
I had a sore on top of one foot, and I am a diabetic. so needed'
medical care.so I finally agreed to be parted from my son and he got gov.paid help to live in an apartment with three other men who were also looking for wo rk. well we will make it now.

Most the homeless don't drink or do drugs because they have no money.... so I doubt it and I agree that some of them arn't into that, lol

hi catdla1 yes we do need to do more,and that young mom'with the little baby I worried so for her, why was she in the Salvation h=army hospitality house, where was the father, and her parents,so sad. I still wonder about her.