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brax peace
St. Joseph, MO
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brax commented on the article |Scott, In countries like Costa Rica and Cuba and some european countries one can attend university for free. Amazing that a wealthy country like the US doesn't offer this to it's citizens.
Mike, I'm fortunate, I have a support system in my family. I would have already been on the streets if not for them. I know many people don't have this resourse. Besides disabled people on the streets there are also many families with children on the streets or living in cars.
I know that for less money than have been spent on these wars the U S is in, the U S, could insure a basic level of housing be available to all homeless.
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I know how your friend feels, I get 385.00 SSDI and a 15.00 SSI check. I had to sell my car while waiting on the SSA to approve my social security. I don't walk well enough to use public transportation, can't afford taxi service or even to pay for gas to ask friends and family to haul me around. Initially they said i was approved for more, but they cut my SSI check several times. When i would call to ask questions as to why they were cutting it, every time i got a letter cutting it more. I finally learnt to stop calling.
I get someone from my family to take me to the store, or go for me, about twice a month. Other than that I don't leave. I could still drive if I could afford it. The poverty has forced me into becoming a recluse.
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brax commented on the article |In a country that spends trillions on weapons and defense, if we would take a portion of the wasted money and spend it on insuring that every person has a standard basic living standard that included housing and food we would not need to have debates over issues like this. I think that ones free will and self determination needs to be respected to the utmost. I'm all for offering help to those stranded in unbearable situations, as long as their wishes are respected.
I believe a fraction of the bureaucratic waste in most developed countries would pay for private housing costs of most of the homeless.
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brax commented on the article |
"I'm not a fan of the eroision of a persons rights, beliefs, and practice of freedom. However, it should be understood that if you really are a person in need of help/assistance then you would place yourself in a position to receive that help/assistance." Aaron Shaw
So let me understand clearly, although you value freedom, and personal rights, you believe one should be willing to give them up for assistance?
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
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brax commented on the article |
I couldn't agree more with the poster's opposition to forcing homeless into shelters. When did it become OK to consider kidnapping individuals "for their own good"? Offering assistance and mandating it are two different animals. I shake my head at the audacity of some of our "public servants".
In my youth I have slept outside in sub zero weather for most of a winter, granted it was out of choice, not out of necessity. My high school friend and I fancied ourselves mountain men after watching Jeremiah Johnson. We spent most of a year living in a lean-to next to a small lake in preparation for our next step which was to live off the land in Alaska.
This would simply be another step toward criminalization of the homeless and further eroision of their rights.
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brax commented on the article |It would be more productive to look at these differences as economic divides. I would agree that racism has placed many people into the situations they currently find themselves, through many years of repression. I also believe that the ugly spectre of racism is a long way from being rooted out. I belive that the prime rate mortgage crises, which has such economic woes for the country yet been a boon for the very people who caused it, was somewhat colorblind looking more at someones economic situation. Let's give all the poor people loans they can't afford and when it hits the fan the tax payers will have our backs and take the loss because we own their representatives through lobbying money.
eden ahbez on racism
"Some white people Hate black people,
and some white people Love black people,
Some black people Hate white people,
and some black people Love white people.
So you see it's not an issue of black and white,
it's an issue of Lovers and Haters."`
http://braxpeace.blogspot.com/2009/09/nature-boy-eden-ahbez.html
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brax commented on the article |
With the history of the common man battling against the corporate elites that this country has, one would think that the ordinary citizen would see through the haze of corporate propaganda and give every person in this country the right to free health care, a basic level of economic subsistence, and free education through university level.
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brax commented on the article |
Hi, I'm disabled, I have FSH dystrophy. A muscle wasting gentic disorder. My hands are still good and my mind is sharp. The type of muscular dystropy I have doesn't get bad, usually until one gets older. In my youth up untill i was in my thirties, I poured concrete, and roofed, cleaned up train wrecks. I always chose hard physical labor type jobs. For enterainment I back packed, rock climbed, canoed, camped, and hiked.
My last job i worked on a computer. I could still walk, slowly and with a cane on fairly level ground. I couldn't walk on ice or snow. During the winter here in the midwest I have things arranged so that i could get to and into my car at home. Many days once i got to work there was no way i could get from the parking lot into the building. It was a small private company with less than 20 employees, there were one or two optimum parking spots that would have made it easier for me to get into work. The owner and his brother always took them. We had a lot of snow and ice that winter and i had to miss too many days of work.
It took nearly a year to get on SSI. I had to sell my car to get through that year, my son helped when they would get ready to turn my utilities off. My sister would buy me a bag of potatoes and butter once a week, and take me to doctors and buy me fast food once in a while. I would have to ask my sister to drive me 50 miles to see the closest doctor that knew anything about my disorder. The Muscular dystropy Association would pay for that visit, but i had no money to offer my sister for gas. Both of them were living pay check to pay check with no money to spare. I felt disgusted and ashamed to impose on them.
I now get almost 400 a month form the Social Security Administration and have an ebt card that allows me to buy groceries. I'm getting by ok, a lot better than i did for the year after i lost my job.
I've started spending some time blogging trying to help spread the word about the plight of those that have it worse off than I. There are people who are as physically disabled as me trying to live on the streets. I can't imagine how they deal with that situation.
Thank you for listening.
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brax commented on the article |The major oversight of municipalities when dealing with tent cities is not to respect the independent nature of these people. If they were comfortable living with others or in shelters they would not be in the tent city to begin with.
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