Comments by "Grandmaĺovesmebest" (@sunshineandwarmth) on "ABC News"
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@elreytriton many get disability. Homelessness usually causes major depression. You are a normal worthwhile person living your life, you have professional degrees, then you lose your job, can't find another, go through your savings, move around to other states, apply for services, find out you have to have a minor child to qualify, move into your car, get threatened by police, ripped off, scammed, injured by various street ppl, you get sick and can't lie down anywhere . . .
It goes on. Depression sets in when it hits you that you were a good person who followed the rules and did no wrong, you realize you are not worth saving and can no longer fool yourself that anyone in all the world cares if you die or worse, live.
Homelessness is not just a "problem" that needs to be solved. It is both a cause of and symptom of living nightmares. Having worked in a mission I've seen this scenario for years, it's not what you've been told or probably what you think.
God protect you on your life's journey.
Have a good day.
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@nicholasdelaat2459 "should" counts for nothing. You are añgry and feel cheated, but you know, in reality, that you only get what you can afford. Nobody is obligated to give you anything.
Ppl in America have been homeless for decades. In spite of the many experts and professionals doing research that showed homeless ppl were no more addicts, mentally ill, lazy, made poor choices , or chose to be living that lifestyle, than was representative of the general population. Yet, for decades, nobody has helped much or defended them, or even deigned to tell the truth about them. And these are American citizens carrying bloodlines from across the world. Are they not just as unique and worthwhile as any other group of ppl?
They are not asking for paraduse, an ocean front condo, or a free plot of land to build themselves a home. They would be grateful for a roof over their heads, enough food so as not to be hungry, and productive work to pay for it all.
You see how that is working?
You can yell, scream, cry, belly ache and moan all you want but in the final analysis, you are an American, no matter whose ancestral bloodlines are running through your veins, and as an American, you are subject to the same conditions as all other Americans, wh are, in a nutshell,
"If you don't have,
You don't get."
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Honey, millions of homeless ppl are walking around everywhere, like characters from the "Night of the Living Dead" which, in a way, they are, and they don't even have a shelter around them, or a blanket, or food and they are at risk, women and men and kids of being kidnapped, abused, and raped 24/7 and you do nothing to help them.
How much easier would it be to ignore women and a child being held in a house down the street while you go about your life every day?
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❤️ God Bless. Life goes like that. I lived in many fabulous places but eventually they became crowded w all the probs of growing cities and ppl competing fiercely for jobs and rents/taxes/properties costing too much to afford. Then moving. And it starts all over again. Sooner or later you get sick or injured, need some help wh isn't available and you start moving down.
While you are struggling to get your life back you find one day you are old and you are in a place you would never have imagined w ppl you never would have chosen.
Difference today is this is happening to ppl who never ĥad to move anywhere for years, wanted stability instead of adventure, and are ending up w neìther. Instead of finding a place, good or bad, they are burdened w families, maybe a handicapped child and they have to find a place for all of them, whether it be dangerous public housing or a tent on the street, or luck out w temporary, short term survival situations.
It's life. You think you are in control, but that is only partly true. So, do your best, live the life you want to live as long as you can. Enjoy everything.
In the end you will smile and have no regrets.
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@Mark-pz3lq that may all be true, but it isn't that cut and dry. Hopefully, you will do well whatever you choose, and you will always have a safety net somewhere. I had built up many skills and friends living around the country and in other countries to keep myself going. I put myself through college through a PhD. in both science and medicine, but no careers were born out of the Dean's lists. I went on my own and had the best and most interesting life, including formal education wh never buttered my bread. What I learned on my own and what I learned in life and using all the knowledge of whatever I learned or was able to do kept me living an amazing life. I know most ppl can't do that. My experience was unique. But it's true all the same that you might find yourself moving through college programs or trades that will rapidly change, especially these days as ppl are replaced by AI.
I lived in TX during the oil boom. So did most of the country. The unemployment office opened for about an hour on Monday bc there was no way you wouldn't find a job whether you were a petroleum engineer or a bar man. One day Texas Instruments began laying off ppl. By the end of the week they had laid off thousands. Everyone was in shock. It began a domino effect and in a very short time there were unemployment offices set up as counters inside the doors of bldgs that had been built but never inhabited. And lines of unemployed worker stretching for blocks all over the city. Not only did the big companies fail, but all the support companies as well. Soon there were uhauls leaving the county and uhaul paying ppl in other places to bring them back bc they kept running out in Texas.
One of the geologists I worked w said even during the great depression, Houston was not affected. It was inconceivable to native Texans that such a disaster could happen to them. It took them some years to recover and then only bc they figured out how to do it, meanwhile there were a lot of depressed ppl there.
Not wanting to be reduced to fast food workers, many young men took their families and moved to Russia wh, at the time, needed to modernize their oil fields and needed the geologists and petroleum engineers to upgrade their sources and teach at their universities to train their ppl in the new tech and equipment. In Houston, their houses and condos were abandoned, sold for way less than ppl paid for them, and bought by workers from the Middle East.
When the work was done and everything was caught up and the Russian scientists and engineers trained and proficient, Russia thanked the immigrant professionals and sent them back to America and Canada.
Some things happen fast. When you have your life planned perfectly, some unknown disaster occurs. You can't beat yourself up over a loss as you can't break your arm, patting yourself on the back when things go swimmingly. And you certainly can't fault ppl for everything that goes wrong in their lives bc ppl can't know what is going to happen or how soon it may occur.
Good luck in your endeavors. Hope you have a splendid life.❤️
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Wait staff doesn't perform better w tips, they foul food and block free wifi service or use scanners to erase data on your phone if you dont provide what they think they should get. All over my small city, wh serves ppl to whom a morning cup of plain coffee is a special treat, wait staff of a donut shop in Walmart, who only have to stick a donut in a bag or turn around at the counter and dispense coffee from an urn, will cause harm to customers for not tipping enough. Change from a dollar isn't good enough any more. It's ridiculous. Moreover, customers are beginning to cease being intimidated by Nazi tactics to force customers to add tips to charged payments. And, they are being encouraged to send fouled or suspicious servings to local labs and to film and document ppl handling and serving their food.
Although this has been a joke in many instances, in light of the seriousness of illnesses and the ignorance of servers who may not know the consequences of the damage they may be causing, holding workers liable for harming or attempting to harm a customer, must now be prosecuted.
Conspiracy to harm by encouraging and engaging others is a Federal crime and can no longer be excused.
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It's not that they may have never been seen, it's far more likely that nobody helped them when they knew about it.
Ask or read up on Targeted Individuals who are victims of organised stalking and terrorizing and covert torture in every country, innocent ppl mostly, never committing a crime, chosen at random as making good targets, being left to creating online help bc family, friends, authorities claim to disbelieve them or think they are mentally ill bc these organized criminals start vicious rumors about their victims that cause this situation.
That situation never ends and these ppl are walking around being tortured, COVERTYLY, until they commit suicide or otherwise die.
You can find many books on the subject at Amazon but it is unlikely you will bc these criminals (a group of wh some believe are part of the old MKULTRA or CoIntelPro of years ago) excel at what they do.
AND, WHAT THEY DO IS ALSO A FEDERAL CRIME.
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