Posted on 02/23/2017 10:09:59 AM PST by kathsua
Most cities have grants available to help folks like this. Why aren’t they trying to help?? They just love that power.
But if he were an illegal he could probably get free or subsidized housing.
Said the local gov't fascist.
Why have no local churches stepped in to help with needed repairs?
James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
While they these folks are neither widows nor orphans I believe this extends to the infirm and destitute as well.
“I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”.....................
I wonder why nobody helps this guy.
If he was my neighbor I would offer to help him.
He’s probably not very neighborly.
He cleans up at a church. I wonder if they have offered help.
“If you own your own home, how can they come in and tell you what you have to do or how you can live?” she asked.
“On a rental house, I could see that, but on your own house?” she added. “The thing that’s wrong is putting someone out of their house.”
The City cannot control them is the problem.
I understand the water maybe, but why would they require permanent heating? I know the answer, but these local and state authorities need to be watched for overreaching just as much as the federal government.
1. Just because you turn the water on at the street doesn't mean it is used. You just turn off the main shut off in your house and/or never turn on a faucet and never use a drop. What good did saying you have water to the house do?
2. Just because you have electric to the house does not mean you have to use it. You can just shut off all the circuit breakers in your house and not use an electron of electricity. What good did saying your house has electricity do?
3. Repeat for gas, furnace, hot water heater, etc.
So stupid...
Churches should care for their own destitute first, then if funds are available and/or if God allows, to help in the community as God leads...a church could go out of business or crazy trying to decide which of a community’s destitute they should help first....maybe another family is more needful than this guy...how is a church to decide on any case outside of it’s own membership?
I suspect its more that communities want the houses they may have to seize to be in sellable order!
So he buys water in bulk.
But is that enough water to flush his toilets?
As a small boy, I remember living with my grandpa, aunt, mom and sister in a very small house with board floors that had spaces between the boards where you could sweep the dust through them to the dirt below. We had no running water, and we had a pot belly stove my granpa burned anthracite coal in. We did get REA electricity so we had a light bulb in every room and a radio. Outhouse out back and a well about 20 ft. outside off the kitchen, and I got my baths every few days in a galvanized tub on the floor by the stove.
When/If the EMPs come, Zombies or whatever, I wonder how all them bureaucrats and their codes gonna fare?
Not that difficult, review requests for assistance and available funds, pray about the needs and act accordingly.
Wouldn’t helping those outside their own congregation be extending the love of God and be outreach?
Did Jesus only reach out to his own?
Habitat for Humanity could step in.
It’s better that he should be homeless or living in a tent down by the train tracks than to live in his own house if he doesn’t live up to the dictates of the bureaucracy.
Perhaps a coalition of churches? Being Catholic, we help a lot of non-parishoners and non-Catholics all the time. We also have the groups larger than the parish that help even more. (Diocesan, state, regional, national, international...) I would hope a Catholic parish would be around to pitch in with another group to help get things done.
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