Students from Callisburg High School in Texas are raising money to help an 80 year old custodian make ends meet.
Posted on 02/26/2023 5:19:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
He is known to the students of Callisburg High School as Mr. James.
Callisburg is a rural town in Texas, near the Oklahoma border, and has a population of roughly 300 people.
Mr. James is an octogenarian retiree who recently fell on hard times. His rent was raised by $400 which would make survival simply impossible on his existing savings.
But he didn’t complain or look for handouts.
Instead, he abandoned retirement, put on his work shoes, and joined Callisburg High School as a janitor. He had a career in a different field previously.
Mr. James quickly developed a reputation for being a dedicated and hard worker.
His plight was noticed by a group of students who took it upon themselves to take concrete measures to help Mr. James.
Senior students Greyson Thurman, Marti Yousko, and Banner Tidwell started a GoFundMe campaign to help Mr. James.
Greyson Thurman, who has a decent following of 2,000 on TikTok, uploaded a video on that platform that depicted Mr. James's day at work.
Senior students Greyson Thurman, Marti Yousko, and Banner Tidwell started a GoFundMe campaign to help Mr. James.
Greyson Thurman, who has a decent following of 2,000 on TikTok, uploaded a video on that platform that d'epicted Mr. James's day at work.
Accompanying the video was a text stating Mr. James's circumstances and a link to the GoFundMe campaign entitled, ‘Getting Mr. James out of this school.’
In a matter of hours, the campaign became a sensation on social media.
The initial target of $10,000 was achieved in just 12 hours in just two days -- $30,000 was raised. Currently, the amount is an amazing $270,905 from 8,600 donors.
The students closed the GoFundMe campaign last Friday.
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It is also great that this act of compassion is being celebrated by the national media.
The students deserved to be honored, awarded, and rewarded.
But while kindness is celebrated, we must not forget that Mr. James isn’t the only one who was forced to return to work at a ripe old age.
An estimated 1.5 million retirees have had to rejoin the workforce, according to an analysis of U.S. Department of Labor data. About 1 in 6 retirees is considering returning to work in search of greater financial security, according to a survey published this month.
Joe Biden's catastrophic misgovernance which has caused record-breaking inflation is responsible for this heartbreaking situation.
When Biden was inaugurated in January 2021, President Trump handed him an inflation rate of merely 1.6%. In just over two years, Biden has ruined the fruits of President Trump's sterling work.
Inflation currently stands at 6.5%, on the year, and 13.7% since Biden took office.
It has reached a point where a respectable news outlet is urging people to skip breakfast, which health experts say is the most important meal of the day, to combat inflation.
While people are struggling to survive, the government is showing very little concern for the abject hardships they have caused. In fact, the government is apathetically looking the other way and supporting everyone but those whose lives they have ruined.
Really sweet story, thanks.
“While people are struggling to survive, the government is showing very little concern for the abject hardships they have caused.”
This is the direct result of allowing wealth sovereigns to be involved in government and politics.
Thing is, it’s better for most folks to keep working to 72 (I suppose it’s 73 now) than it is to run out of money in their 80s and try to work then. Unless, of course, one has a government job in something like law enforcement or the military where retirement is enabled at a much earlier age.
RE: Thing is, it’s better for most folks to keep working to 72 (I suppose it’s 73 now) than it is to run out of money in their 80s
That is of course, if there are businesses that still want to hire you at that age.
“Greyson, Marti, and Banner”
I guess Jane, Mary and Robert just don’t cut it anymore?
Kind of Whitey McWhite.
Now, LaKeisha, Sha’kwonda and B’riandre would make for a different story
This is exactly how people were helping take care of each other before ‘social security ‘
When SS was first created, the payments started at age 65 but the average life expectancy wad 59 for men and 64 for women. It was a 15% across the board money grab
Would this be taxable, and if so at what rate?
The government obliterated much of peoples' savings in 2008 and again in 2020 by their lack of regulation of the financial sector in 2008, and by playing with bioweapons and China, causing an epidemic and then mismanaging the fallout.
You would have to be a hell of an investor to make money for retirement if, every 10 years or so, the government obliterated 20-30 percent of your savings by malfeasance.
Add in the pernicious effects of inflation and crazy-high taxes on everything we earn, use, and buy, and the government essentially forces poverty on you from cradle to grave.
That's if you work and pay taxes.
If, on the other hand, you are a member of the crybaby minority/illegal alien/parasite class, you can be lazy and live just about as well as someone who works like a dog.
It's called 'equity'.
Wonder which megacorp purchased the trailer that Mr James lives in, and raised the rent $100 per week?
Thank you for sharing this story. I sure hope that isn’t me in the years to come after I retire in April.
Or, that will keep you that long.
Wonderful, heartwarming story.
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