• diabolicdame said on Jan 22, 2009....

  yea.. it is sad.. and wasterful.. I always find irony in such things.. like when theres a drought in one state and floods in the other.. like when surplus food is rotting in one state and people going hungry in the other.. politics and money stand between demand and supply.. such is life!! *sigh*

• Fallyn said on Jan 22, 2009....

  exactly :(

• D6fer said on Jan 22, 2009....

  Having been in the situation myself I must say it sucks! I lost my 1st home to foreclosure, but it was a situation that my wife and I brought on ourselves.....I would wager that is the case in most instances of foreclosure and bankruptcy and even homelessness for that matter.

  Not to sound unsympathetic, but there have to be consequences to poor decisions....I know that there are some that end up in these situations through no fault of their own, and they truly have my pity.

  We can't save the whole world....it just is not possible.....and in this case the cure would feed the disease : give the homeless a free place to live = more people becoming homeless.

  There will always be victims....villans....cracks in society .......and man eating lions.

  I think the best we can do is positively affect as many people as we can in life, and try to inspire those less fortunate than us to achieve more....and give from the heart.

• Fallyn said on Jan 23, 2009....

  i think so too D6.
  just the irony of it hits me pretty hard.
  
  empty houses.......people that need a house.........
  
  kicking people out of their houses.......and some of these forclosed houses ...especially in the hardest hit areas....stay empty for years.
  
  it just seems pointless to me.
  it begs the question WHY? ....what's the point.?
  

• Twylarants said on Jan 23, 2009....

  There's an organization which places families in abandoned foreclosed homes, but I can't remember where it is.  It's a community organization, possibly run by a church, I don't know.  I saw it on a news show.
  Anyway, they place women with children in these homes and pay for the utilities and whatnot.  These people are squatting, essentially, but the police don't do anything unless they receive a complaint, which hasn't happened so far.
  They placed this one young woman who has lived with her 4 children in a shelter for 4 years.  What bothered me about the piece was the fact that 2 of her children were older than 4, possibly 7 or 8, but the other 2 were babies, a toddler and an infant. She became pregnant twice while living in a shelter.  Why in the world would this young woman continue to have children she obviously cannot afford to have?
  

• Hegemone said on Jan 23, 2009....

  It's sad but it's all about the moolah.
  
  • If you don't have it, you can't have many material things.
  • They can't just give it to those who don't have it because then there's the possibility that they'd think they don't have to work for it at all even though it would be a great opportunity to really fix their lives up and earn their own money and possessions.
  • They, the government or banks, can't trust people who haven't got much money because they're afraid it will cost THEM more money.
  • It's too far in the future for the gov't and banks to think about the finances it will take to repair, tear down and/or rebuild dilapidated buildings that were too expensive and now are too messed up to live in.
  Those are just a few points I could make.  Bottom line ... it's all about the money and there is no generosity with such a low level of trust in this country.  The three musketeers would be looked at like aliens with their "All for one and one for all!" motto today.  Instead it's more fitting to say "Me for me and all for me!"  Not everybody is 100% this way, but I bet you could agree that everybody has their own variations of it with some people being diehard on it and others just relegating that "me, me, me, MINE!" attitude to a simple bath at the end of the day or something. 
  

• uniquely-ironic said on Jan 23, 2009....

  It does seem simple from where we stand, doesn't it?  Too bad there isn't an agency that could buy the foreclosed homes at a discounted price and then put the homeless in them in exchange for either radically reduced rent or community service.

• Fallyn said on Jan 23, 2009....

  twy......when you are in a shelter you often aren't in the best of situations. and just because you are in a shelter doesn't mean you are safe.
  and it doesn't mean you are intelligent either.
  i'm in recovery groups with women like this every week......they simply lack the intelligence let alone the knowledge to get their lives together.
  they have so many problems it's very sad. .....there are some that don't and just need a boost up...and then they do fine....
  but others just cannot take care of themselves........
  it brings up the issue of forced infertility. .......which brings up it's own huge issues to argue for or against.
  
  Hege.....i know there are reasons.....it's still very sad though.
  
  Uni....well, ther eis habitat for humanity....which is kinda similar......the whole thing is just sad.
  
  

• janickee2000 said on Feb 20, 2009....

  Yes I heard of the same thing happening during the great depression. People were dumping good eatible food out, while other people were starving. Come on, can't someone use the internet or something to get the food out for good use? Let's get together and figure something out! The people who have food like Senior Gleaners in Sacramento, California gives to the people who do not have food like Loaves and Fishes, a Catholic based orginization for the homeless. We can all do something. If you have money to donate, donate to one of these types of organizations, or United Way, or Unicef. My Dad use to serve for Meals on Wheels for the elderly. My husband and I like to give canned foods to the United Postal Service when they collect from our front door. lf everyone does something, it should make a great difference and stop so much of the wastefulness and suffering.

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