Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 02/02/2015 2:39:47 PM PST by Kartographer
The story of a Detroit man who has been walking 21 miles a day to get to and from work for over a decade inspired a Michigan college student to launch an online campaign to buy him a car. Thanks to the generosity of strangers, the campaign has raised more than $60,000 in a day.
Since buses don't cover the entire 23-mile route, 56-year-old James Robertson spends nearly all of his free time during the week commuting to his $10.55 an hour factory job in Rochester Hills. According to the Detroit Free Press, which published a front-page story about him Sunday, Robertson begins his trek at 8 a.m. to catch buses that take him to a Troy, Mich., mall before he walks the remaining 7 miles to Schain Mold & Engineering, where he begins his 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. shift. And according to his boss, Robertson has a perfect attendance record.
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$10.55 an hour after 10 years? I gotta wonder, even though he is more dedicated than I ever would be!
Compare him to the ungreatful scumbags demanding $15 per hour to work part time at McDonald’s. Most of them wouldn’t walk a mile and he’s been doing more than 20 for $10.55 an hour.
Check out the fund page:
tinyurl.com/n2uka9o
The Detroit Free Press story is pretty good.
God bless everyone involved in this matter. It is a Dickens world out there and as such we are as a people carved from.
Thanks. He may want to walk during his off hours....when he gets that car,..just to stay in the same shape thats allowed him to do that trek for these last few years.
I salute his resoluteness!
Great story. Good on you, James, and good on you, Evan.
I bet that after a week he parks the car and goes back to walking. Or maybe parks the car halfway and walks the rest.
Long daily walks like that are habit forming, good for the soul, the heart, and the body.
A person has a time to take his soul out, give it a good look-see, talk to God, contemplate the whichness of what. All sorts of good stuff.
My dad made fifty cents A DAY during the Depression when a day’s work started before sunrise and ended after sunset. He hired out as a “hired man” at 13 to support his family.
One and a half hours every night rain, shine, heat cold just me and my dog Hope. Me asking and looking for the answers and her sniffing and looking for answers.
Something doesn’t sound right about this story.
I wonder whether we are getting all of the details or if the reporter is filtering the information to create a heart-tug story.
Heck, a bicycle would only cost a couple $hundred bucks.
Maybe they could help him find an affordable place to live closer to his job too.
They bought a Detroit man?
perhaps for a guy like that, an easy $60,000 would make for a nice nest egg.....maybe he would appreciate that more....then when he retires at age 62, he’ll have a little something in the bank.
Unfortunately, he doesn’t now how to drive.
If I had an employee that was that dedicated to get to work each day, I'd have figured out a way to make his commute easier. Car pool maybe?
The story says he gets home at 4 am and then gets up at 6 am - and his shop manager is okay with him operating equipment on less than 2 hours of sleep a day?
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