Just_A_Guy_With_A_Point
11-19-2003, 02:29 PM
This isn't a Bad Attitude - This Is REAL Life!
Let me tell you a story about being HOMELESS.
I left home at 15 years old (April 1973)
I have been homeless most of that time until May 1996.
Homeless people are there by choice.
Sure - there are the sick ones (who get a Federal disability check)
I have met people who were literally doctors of medicine, lawyers, aerospace engineers, and many other (so called) upper walks of life as well as the real and true poor.
The one thing in common with everyone was that their own PERSONAL choices put them there!
They were NOT (in most cases) a victim of society.
They chose the addictive freedom of minimal social barriers.
If you ask a panhandler "Why don't you get a job" - many of them will tell you point blank that panhandling IS their job!
. . . and thanks to liberals - it can be comfortable if you can stand yourself for doing it.
I used to sell pens - I hated to beg for things!
Over the many years that I was homeless - MANY people tried to help me get up on my feet. To the point that at one time (in less than 2-years) I had 3 different people let me buy houses from them (owner financed) where I had 2 rentals and a house to live in (in North Central Oklahoma) with NO money out of pocket!
Dumb me - I walked away from that! Just took off with no warning - went hitch hiking again! *
I finally settled down in May of 1996 (after friends and I were victims of a road rage shooting which one of our group was killed in).
I am, currently co-owner (49%) of a building maintenance business company (an S Corp). I don't make a lot but between my wife and I - liberals claim were are on the low end of RICH! http://www.gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif *(just under 100 grand in the past 12 months).
Now - some of you may wonder *"WHY IS HE TELLING US THIS?"
Because I am sick and tired of hearing how we need to SPEND MORE MONEY ON THE POOR HOMELESS PEOPLE!
We are paying OVER $200.00 a week in income tax and I can NOT afford to keep busting butt to make social leeches comfortable for another day!
Unlike many of them - I used to try to work and at least minimally earn what I got!
I know about all of the games and strategies they implement to make you suckers feel sorry for them!
EVERY major city has a place to shower up and get clean clothes - when you see one of them that are filthy - they are doing that to themselves because IF they were clean - you WON'T feel sorry for them and give them money!
Many of them think they are doing you a favor letting you relieve some of your guilt through generosity - aren't they so considerate? *http://www.gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
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IF there are any conservative writers out here who would like to put a book in print about how it REALLY is for the homeless - let me know!
My Story Is For Sale!
* http://www.gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/flag19.gif
Let me tell you a story about being HOMELESS.
I left home at 15 years old (April 1973)
I have been homeless most of that time until May 1996.
Homeless people are there by choice.
Sure - there are the sick ones (who get a Federal disability check)
I have met people who were literally doctors of medicine, lawyers, aerospace engineers, and many other (so called) upper walks of life as well as the real and true poor.
The one thing in common with everyone was that their own PERSONAL choices put them there!
They were NOT (in most cases) a victim of society.
They chose the addictive freedom of minimal social barriers.
If you ask a panhandler "Why don't you get a job" - many of them will tell you point blank that panhandling IS their job!
. . . and thanks to liberals - it can be comfortable if you can stand yourself for doing it.
I used to sell pens - I hated to beg for things!
Over the many years that I was homeless - MANY people tried to help me get up on my feet. To the point that at one time (in less than 2-years) I had 3 different people let me buy houses from them (owner financed) where I had 2 rentals and a house to live in (in North Central Oklahoma) with NO money out of pocket!
Dumb me - I walked away from that! Just took off with no warning - went hitch hiking again! *
I finally settled down in May of 1996 (after friends and I were victims of a road rage shooting which one of our group was killed in).
I am, currently co-owner (49%) of a building maintenance business company (an S Corp). I don't make a lot but between my wife and I - liberals claim were are on the low end of RICH! http://www.gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif *(just under 100 grand in the past 12 months).
Now - some of you may wonder *"WHY IS HE TELLING US THIS?"
Because I am sick and tired of hearing how we need to SPEND MORE MONEY ON THE POOR HOMELESS PEOPLE!
We are paying OVER $200.00 a week in income tax and I can NOT afford to keep busting butt to make social leeches comfortable for another day!
Unlike many of them - I used to try to work and at least minimally earn what I got!
I know about all of the games and strategies they implement to make you suckers feel sorry for them!
EVERY major city has a place to shower up and get clean clothes - when you see one of them that are filthy - they are doing that to themselves because IF they were clean - you WON'T feel sorry for them and give them money!
Many of them think they are doing you a favor letting you relieve some of your guilt through generosity - aren't they so considerate? *http://www.gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* *$$$$$$$$$$ ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
IF there are any conservative writers out here who would like to put a book in print about how it REALLY is for the homeless - let me know!
My Story Is For Sale!
* http://www.gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/flag19.gif