Posted on 10/14/2021 4:10:07 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Foreign homeless people have additional issues besides mental illness and substance abuse. It's never discussed, but it will become known.
I stopped to help Katay because I saw a Rocklin, CA police officer telling her to move on, which I thought was illegal. But I was to regret getting involved with her. I immediately gave her nearly $500 in groceries for herself and her kids, 4 gallons of milk, many packages of steaks, but she wouldn't let me see where she was staying. The most I ever got was her phone and her husband Mario's phone. (She was Venezuelan, he was Italian, the patois they would have spoken is informally titled Italogno.) She would pester me for more and more money. I tried to pose my involvement with her in terms of a small, private, non-501C3 family charity, Showers on Wheels, it gave baby showers to Moms who chose life. According to our rules, Katay had to provide an address. Despite the money I gave her, she never trusted me. "¿Cuál es su dirección postal?", what is your mailing address?, I repeatedly queried her. It was a requirement of our charity for giving out assets. She would never respond, so I "ghosted " her.
So it was no surprise to me when I recently stopped to give $40 to some migrant women of no fixed abode, that they would barely look at me, except to smirk. When you give to a homeless person, you don't just brush them off as undesireables, you ask them their names, you look in their eyes, you shake their hands, when they say "bless you" you say "thank you for the blessing", when they thank you, you thank them back. What I saw from these women was that in their own country, they were homeless people there; their coming here wasn't any urgent thing, anymore than anything is urgent for a homeless person, it was merely a better dodge or scam, they could get more, better and easier here. So their smirk at me was completely appropriate. I asked their names, they replied perfunctorily but without looking at me in the eyes, and barely exchanged the minimal social amenities of thanking me. They then went back to their conversation, pointedly ignoring me. I have never deprecated a homeless person, but I was deprecated by them
I hope I am not displeasing God when I say, that the only way I could imagine taking an unaccompanied minor, would be if I had a shed out back where they could come and go, but with an aggressive dog that would stop them from establishing a messy encampment on my land. (An article I wrote here was deleted, advocating that the chief consideration about dealing with homeless people, is elementary civic sanitation, the kinds of issues involved in the transmission of cholera and typhoid.)
This is under "conspiracy" and "politics", because, ever since during the Reagan administration it was decided by "the responsible players" that American jobs would be shipped offshore, it has been done against the laws and the interests and the customs of this country. (Victor Davis Hanson's latest speech, September 8 at Hillsdale College, highlights how in the Ancient Greek world, effective borders and ethnic homogeneity would have been the baseline merely for having a country.)
I think our local Walmart grifters just store their shared wheelchair in the hedges at the entry way to the store. I believe they take turns doing about 4 hour shifts each. In July and August they may have shortened it to 2 hours (in the southern humid heat).
You are probably right.
Wow!
Do not do this.
I help the homeless for a living. If you really want to help find a group that helps. Mine is Christian and after 30 years in the corporate world I finally feel I am doing good.
God bless you for your charity. Many people I have tried to help don’t recieve it well. But I keep trying.
With so many businesses begging for help, there’s no excuse for homelessness.
a scene from Dr. Zhivago
So it was no surprise to me when I recently stopped to give $40 to some migrant women of no fixed abode, that they would barely look at me, except to smirk.
THis is true of many of the ‘new’ generation of illegals. They believe they have won the lottery by getting here. They are provided health care, clothing, plenty of food banks and free clinics, and a monthly stipend, more than they ever got back home. Nobody bothers them about their Dad or brother’s or wife’s off-books business or their own shoplifting and theft that draws cash because they are all doing black market business. Handing them money or groceries, or considering them as indigent, is taken as an insult that they are poor or are here to make friends. They are richer here than they ever were ‘back home’ where they lived in hovels, and because of the sheer numbers, have no inclination or motivation to emulsify with American nationals - who themselves are seen as the invaders. Walk on by and save your efforts for those truely in need, understanding that Calif has become occupied territory and is viewed as such.
Yes, indeed. I remember that scene. How communist of them. 👎
You sir are a good hearted SMUCK.
You are being taken for a rid and a fool because you have earned it.
My BIL helped out one of his associates to get his children’s teeth fixed. The guy has six kids and only the two youngest remain at home. The others are 2 doctors, a dentist and a lawyer. The guy makes $175K a year as well.
The world is full of grifters and you have played into their hands.
Aiding illegals is also unAmerican. Don’t do it. You are not only cutting your own throat but that of your children, grandchildren and most importantly of all, ME and I don’t ike it.
I’ll pray you won’t be a SMUCK anymore.
(In the late 1950s, the poverty rate was approximately 22%, it reached an all-time low of 10.5% in 2019, despite the rate being inflated by being based only on measures only monetary income such as reported earnings, Social Security income, veterans payments, workers’ compensation, pensions, while not including other sources of in-kind or non-cash gifts from public or private sources, including: Benefits from anti-poverty programs such as food stamps, federal housing subsidies, school lunches and Medicaid, and tax advantages such as the Earned Income and Child Tax Credits.[1]
Total welfare costs have risen from $803 per person in poverty in 1965 to $22,735 per person in 2020. That totals $90,939 for a family of four even though the Poverty Threshold for such a family is $26,496. Total federal welfare costs include the expenditures of 13 large government programs …plus the Medicaid Program which supplies health care to low-income Americans. The figures have been adjusted for the costs of inflation and stated in 2020 dollars.[2] In 2020, a total of $9.88 trillion was spent on welfare programs in America[3] with state and local governments spending $2,198 per capita nationally on public welfare in 2018,[4]
85 percent of adults owned a smartphone, as of February 2021,[5] 82 percent of U.S. households have at least one “Internet-connected TV device” which either smart TVs, connected video game systems and Blu-ray players, as well as Internet streaming boxes and sticks.[6]
For sources see here.
Well now, today’s unaccompanied minor is tomorrows houseful of parents, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts cousins, etc. Have fun!!!
I live in the Sacramento area and travel around northern CA. I see homeless storing signs and taking turns at on ramps, corners etc. I do not engage and if they ask for assistance,I point out the nearby businesses with help wanted signs. Can often get a few swear words from them.
They hate it when you won't give them money, which is what most of them are looking for. I worked in uniform in NY State's prison system for 25 years. I became an expert at saying "NO!" and ignoring assholes. Been retired for almost 20 years, and still ignore assholes.
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