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ejpoeta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-22-10 11:22 AM
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I see that there are other posts about this invisiblepeople site at youtube, but i would like to
highlight again and invite people to spread the word about helping to fight homelessness. I just watched a video that made me cry... well, a lot of the ones i watched did, but this family had jobs, a house and two cars and they are living in a weekly rate motel room. i think about when bob and i were living in a weekly rate hotel room and have often wondered how we even survived it. we did it by choice.... waiting for bob to finish the house remodel. these folks have no other place to go and no hope of getting anywhere else.

i often think the reason that people like my own family members protest helping the poor as if they did it to themselves was to make themselves feel better about the fact that many of us could easily be where this family is. and once you are in that position, without help it's almost impossible to get out of it.

Here is the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm_YS_ZIY3s">link... i don't know how to embed video.
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Fire1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-22-10 12:10 PM
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1. If anything good has come out of this mess, I think it's
Edited on Sun Aug-22-10 12:11 PM by Fire1
that once well off people who were oblivious to the plight of others are now realizing what millions have been going through and many have been going through their entire lives. Now that the crown of privilege has been ripped from their pretty little heads they can't cope and don't know how to survive without a line of credit.

With any luck, this rude awakening will perpetuate a more compassionate society.
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