[Vision2020] Fw: A $50 Lesson

[Tom Hansen]

Thank you, Saundra.

Sidebar to Roger:  Not many employers (make that "none that I know of")
like to hire homeless for one simple reason.  They have NO address.  As
such, just how do you recommend they (homeless) fill out a job
application; especially that part of the application where it asks for the
applicant's address, Roger?

There are very VERY few (maybe one or two) national charities to which I
contribute.

I live by one simple adage . . .

If you want to help out locally, contribute locally.

For instance:  How much of a 100-dollar donation to the Humane Society of
the United States reaches the animal shelters here in Moscow . . . versus
a 100-dollar donation to the Humane Society of the Palouse?  It doesn't
cost you a cent more to contribute locally and (believe me) it is
appreciated.

Thanks again, Saundra.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho



On Thu, February 10, 2011 11:23 am, Saundra Lund wrote:
> And, of course, attitudes like that are precisely why the intelligent
> among us refuse to "trust" that local charity, as advocated by the
> Unthinking Right, tea baggers, and some so-called Christians is
> sufficient, and we demand instead a safety net not dependent on the
> generosity of people like you for the least amongst us.
>
> Because more likely than not, that "homeless" guy is a war veteran with
> invisible injuries.  Or has a heart or other physical condition that makes
> it impossible for him to do physical labor without the medical care he
> needs but doesn't have access to  because he manages to make $3000 a year
> in Idaho, which makes him ineligible for Medicaid.  Or he suffers from
> clinical depression or some other mental illness worsened by morons who
> refuse to hire him for jobs he can do because he's "mental" and who think
> that he should pull himself up by his bootstraps which is impossible to do
> when barefoot.  Or he's 75 years old & homeless because his pension plan
> was raided by greedy people -- like those on the Unthinking Right -- who
> care only about feathering their own nests rather than having character,
> which is epidemic in this country now.  Or a thousand other scenarios
> which the Unthinking Right never thinks about yet finds appropriate to
> make the butts of moronic jokes like this.
>
> Funny, huh, how what you thought was a joke speaks a lot more about those
> who relish retelling it -- that would be you, Roger -- than it does about
> political parties or disadvantaged individuals because fortunately for
> this nation, not ALL Republicans belong to the Unthinking Right.
>
> Thanks, though, for yet another example I can use when presented with
> "Trust us . . . we'll take care of the needy in our community, so it's
> safe to gut government social services to get rid of all that waste."