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RE: homeless man

Posted by JURB (A) on August 18, 2016 at 17:34:15

In Reply to: RE: homeless man posted by grantv on August 18, 2016 at 12:34:25:

"I've heard a few times of ex-convicts committing crimes to get back in jail."

I met one guy threw a brick through a window just to get into jail because it was winter and he was homeless. I was told by a roomie that her Mother did something wrong every once in a while when she needed medical care. Her olman was something else. He had done 20 years for maiming a guy he was robbing with a knife. The judge told him he would have been better off if he had killed the guy because the guy was really suffering. I've known people who did as little as 11 years for murder. Some probably do less.

People call this the richest country in the world, that is far from the truth. They say because the GDP per capita is like $56,000 we are rich, not realizing that only 10 % of the people are collecting that money. Plus the fact that all the fake money the banks "create" with their "swaps" and shit is included, that is not real product.

There are going to be alot more homeless. It is inevitable so get used to the idea. There was a time when you could say people were mainly homeless due to their own fault, but not no more. Minimum wage will not pay the rent. Skilled jobs are largely gone and not coming back anytime soon because of the education system. Even if that got fixed totally today it would take 20 years to see the results.

The only real choice is to default on the debt. Or start a big war, which Clinton intends to do and Trump might do inadvertently. Problem is this time, we cannot afford it.

Bread, ten bucks a loaf. If you are under 50, you might see it. And then they will pass the $15/hour minimum wage but nobody will get more than 29 hours a week. Rent starts at $600 a month for anything livable.

What's more, these background check almost guarantee every convict will be homeless. There are so many jobs they cannot get. you sell a pound of weed and you can't have a job, let alone a gun, let alone move into certain apartments ? What the hell do you expect these people to do ? No wonder they don't mind going back, there is nothing out here for them.

I have known alot of people, I mean alot of people, so of course some of them were convicts. They used to say "When you get out, you don't recognize the cars" but they got jobs and turned into normal members of society. Some had their record expunged and never got into trouble again. But now there is a gap time. to have your record expunged takes money, for that you need a job. so now you get out of the joint, get a job at minimum wage for 29 hours a week and at the end of the year you have been able to save about $12. That simply does not work.

Another thing I saw in the past is ex-convicts working for ex-convicts. Even back then convicts had some trouble getting a job so many of them started their own business. They would hire other convicts but instead of checking their background said "You ever rip me off I will kill you, got that ?". I have worked for a couple of people like that, and actually it wasn't so bad.

But that was electronics. Construction is where it's at if you are in good physical shape. The local 310 here is known as the prison union, construction laborers. These are not the guys on the roadside, these are the guys mixing mortar and delivering bricks to the local 5 bricklayers. It is hard work. I have done it but not in the union. I was much younger then and could not even think of doing it today, but it was one way they can get a decent job after getting out and not have to turn to stealing or dealing or whatever got them into the shit last time.

Another thing that might interest y''all is the drug testing thing. Pot is about to become legal, but it stays in your system for a month. so many companies now, due to insurance, are drug testing even for minimum wage jobs flipping burgers n shit. They do it to see who will obey, because weed never made anyone violent, but you could have been on PCP the other day, coke is out of your system in a couple days, heroin is out soon enough and LSD is out of your system in fifteen minutes so you could conceivably be tripping your ass off during the drug test.

I have talked to cops who said they would love to smoke a joint, but are subject to random drug testing. It's hard to leave a job that good. You make better money than almost anyone, got a terrific benefit package and insurance, and a license to kill. Is it worth all that to smoke a joint ?

Drug testing is about obedience.

We need drastic changes in this society for it to work right and I will not live long enough for them to be implemented, if they ever are.

And I am betting against it. the whole thing will fall down first. Supposedly the richest country has how many homeless ? And among them veterans who thought they were serving their country when they actually served the oil companies, but that is not their fault. they were misled, and they were misled that Uncle Samuel was going to take care of them. They got the shaft for thinking they were fighting for freedom and democracy ad are on skid row committing suicide, addicted to drugs and/or got PTSD, which was actually shell shock in the old days. But PTSD is something a little bit different. they watch little kids walk int a building and then get the order to fire and destroy that building.

I will admit that I have very little humanity in me anymore. But shit like that would be on me bigtime. There are just certain things you do not do, but in the military you are forced to do them or else. This is where PTSD differs from shell shock. Soldiers in Afghanistan have said that our "allies" there are raping little boys and they cannot stand hearing the screams, and the US government tell them to STFU because that is their culture. Bullshit, the US is supporting a bunch of thugs to get the poppies for making opiates, which the Taliban outlaws. The crowd of thugs they got in there are not Muslim, homosexuality is against Muslim law and they are raping little BOYS.

No wonder these vets have problems. And they do make up a sizable contingent of the homeless population. And that is a fucking shame, especially for a country that claims the high moral ground. The US does not have the high moral ground, they are somewhat under the water table.

And I am sick of the lies. I get my news from international sources and other countries are getting sick of the US meddling. And this is not the first time. In the early 1900s, look up Smedley Butler - War Is A Racket. That is the reason we have that poisonous HFCS in our food instead of real sugar, which is alot less poisonous.

This is long enough. If you read all the way down here, kudos.

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