Three of my low-end renters received Covid rent support. The Department of Children and Families, DCF, paid their entire rent and power bill for anywhere from eight to eleven months. The black, middle-aged woman changed nothing, and it didn’t seem to affect her or her lifestyle. The two white women, a single mother around 38 and a 74-year-old living alone both apparently got into drugs. I had to evict the younger one as she stopped paying when the DCF payments stopped. The other woman simply disappeared one night and returned to the Tennessee mountains. She texted me that she was now gone.
I’ve been land lording long enough to recognize drug issues. (Cronic lying, bizarre behavior, changed appearance, etc.) As I’ve seen before, the sudden appearance of helicopter cash can be devastating. Money, in general, in contrast to the government’s belief, is almost never the answer. But real answers are personal and beyond the ability of any government to deliver.
So, government, want to help people? Then stop demonizing the one thing that has proven to help people get ahold of their lives and prosper...religion. And, by religion, I mean Christianity...not Islam, or Hindu, or devil worship. (Incidentally, I’m agnostic. But I clearly see the positive influence Christianity has on people and their lives.)
You’ve seen up close exactly what was happening out there.
If I had been where you were it would have been heartbreaking for sure.
As it was I had some heartbreaks along the way they had me masked up and gowned up at my mother’s deathbed and I made changes to work less I wasn’t going to mask for 60 plus hours a week as it is there’s a polyp in my nose.
I’m taking my taxpayer supported pension as a government employee and working part-time for a non-governmental employer.
Religion wow I used to be the “Religious Right” I haven’t given up the Faith nothing wrong with it.
Unfortunately “the Lord” has some “poor in Spirit” representatives out there.
They’ll talk His Name in vain isn’t that against the rules?
The only way I seem to end up living the right way is to take the right actions in the moment I am living.
No lying, no staring at women like they are something to eat, trying to help someone in a positive way.
That Golden Rule of do unto others goes both ways. The wrong actions and attitudes of both the anti-religious people and the religious hypocrites out there both gum up the works out there.
Both sides have experienced hurts real or imagined leading to their hostility to other people.
Time to turn the hurting into healing take right actions no other option.