What's wrong with the world today?

Tweet

I got a call the other day from a friend of mine. He was distraught, and getting depressed. His wife is disabled and can't work, and gets a meager monthly income to help pay the bills and provide basics for the family. He has 3 kids, 3, 5 and 8. He has a great career, they rent a beautiful home in the country, they're doing a rent to own program. So on to the phone call I got from my friend. He calls me the other day and tells me that his car died. Since he lives in the country, he needs it to get to work in the city, but he can't now. Since his wife is disabled, she never had a car and never learned to drive. Children are clearly too young to learn to drive. Now the big issue for him is that he can't afford to buy a car and pay the rent and bills as he can't go to work. He doesn't have good enough credit to lease a car either without a substantial down payment. I can't help him as I've already got my own lease. It saddens me that he can't get something simple as a loan either because of his credit score. He's sad now. If he can't get another car, he'll lose his job, then he'll lose his home. His wife could die if she doesn't have a roof over her head, but if they lose their home, what do you think would happen? I'm trying to help him the best I can, which is trying to help him raise the down payment needed to get a car. In these hard times, I wonder if there are others out there who care about the wellbeing of their fellow man enough to help out. I have a fund raising campaign going on right now, and will post it if there's interest. I've already offered him what I can afford, which isn't much. I thought I'd post this to see how people would react to the fact that there are people out there who need help, and to show how the economic crisis has affected people.