The new homeless- It could be YOU. this is sad and scary....

[thechickenchick]

Well I feel like a heel.

I got on BYC to procrastinate paying bills. It is supposed to be my first chore this morning. Some of you know how frustrating it is to decide who gets how much $ this month and who has to wait until next payday. We are lucky that my DH has his job and it is pretty secure. However like a lot of people we have many medical bills looming over our heads.

Now after watching that, I am grateful that I even have the ability to sit at my kitchen table (with the beautiful morning sun coming in) and decide who to pay. It is very scary to see the faces of these people and see ourselves isn't it?

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

Thankfully we own our home, land, and both vehicles. My DH said "live like no other so one day you can live like no other" - and he was serious. We got our land and built a 10x12 room and moved in it. It was basically like camping out for a while until we slowly got everything we needed. Thankfully that began in the summer and by winter we had running water inside the house. Slowly over 5 years as we had the money we built onto our little room-house. Now, we have a nice little house that we don't owe a penny for. It was tough in the beginning (we had one daughter at the time) but we made it and now we don't have to worry about not having a home to come to. I pray everynight for the homeless people in this world. I wish I could take every one of them in. .

 

[hearthnsoul]

I think that for every item a country exports to us they should have to take one from us. Wouldnt that make things equal or am I not understanding how that works?

Wouldn't you think that's how it works? I still wonder, what do we export? if everyone is getting layed off,.. our companies going under and outsourced, what in the end can we export? I think we have to pull back and rebuild our own nation of industry.​

 

[maf2008]

My husband is out on a job interview. Lost his job too. We should all be afraid.... Very afraid. Families need to all stick together and put differenced aside. Lets be thankful for what we have. I will be dinating eggs and meat chickens (processed) to food pantries in my area

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[maf2008]

I am planning on trading eggs/hens and goats for anything I need. It may come to this....

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You know, I was just talking about this the other day, not only have we outsourced our jobs, but what the heck do we export anymore? These very issues believe it or not have alot to do with my gotta have chicks, garden, and now looking to goats or a cow and then maybe a greenhouse then solar panels. I frankly dont see much good happening until we rebuild our country, because with outsourced jobs and dwindling exports how can we sustain ourselves? And just wait until it finally occurs to the world that the american dollar has no value? Not attached to silver anymore, not soley used to trade oil, and being printed like it's monopoly money. We sure are in trouble, in really need someone like,..geesh maybe ross perot. I remember him and his if it's broken we gotta look under the hood and see what's wrong and fix it ( did you just hear that voice in your head all these years later I can think ross perot without that voice following my thoughts) Anyhow I think we need a real person/person up there at the helm to fix this, not a politician, that's how we got here to begin with.

I think that for every item a country exports to us they should have to take one from us. Wouldnt that make things equal or am I not understanding how that works?

 

[Sillystunt]

my parents are tree huggin hippies and always told us to be self substainable. it is hard though since we have become used to certain ways of living. It's totally sad to see jobs outsourced and Americans out of work. Hopefully things will get better. They say most americans are a paycheck away from being homeless. SO SCARY!!!

I am very thankfull for what we have but realize that family is whats most important. Material things come and go, even houses. When my husband lost his job we faced several things. What do we pay, what don't we pay. we paid the motagage, utilities and food! Thank god we didn't loose our home. He took a huge pay cut and we still can't pay for the CC. Oh well~

Good thing is that 2 of our VW's are campers and if worse came to worse we'd be living in them at a campground.
My heart really goes out to those struggling on the streets~~

 

[b.hromada]

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We really do have a lot to be thankful for. My husband's job is secure, and am I ever thankful for that. Look at the one man, he has a degree??!!! I mean, what a blow that is. But anyone of us could be in that same place at any time. What have I heard before, like you are one paycheck away from being homeless? How true a statement. And for those people who don't like the "tent cities", if it is possible for them, help out in some way, whatever it may be. I have always said, that if everyone just gave a little bit, there would be no one needing anything in this world. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way.

 

[maf2008]

I wish I had done things different... we have a mortgage and can make it but wish my home and land were paid off. This economic fall will effect everyone. What if "they" are not telling us the truth?

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[Camelot Farms]

Many of us in America are one paycheck from homeless at any given time. I know that losing even one check would send us down a slippery slope....

 

[Whispering Winds]

My husband is on disability, and I am a realtor that works part time, and I live in fear that Social Sec. will falter for sure and we would be out on the street. We have worked all our lives to get where we are, took a hit on our investments, although we did invest a chunk of it in Alpacas and glad we did, as people on Wall street did the same in Oct. of 08, believe it or not!! Anyway, its a proven fact that most of us are one check away from homeless and its a terrifying thought. I feel so sorry for the children of the homeless, not knowing is bad enough for the adults, but for kids its just heart wrenching. Bring back our jobs that were sent overseas and that would help get us back on our feet for most of the unemployed!! What also amazes me is how some areas seem to be booming and others are hanging on by their fingernails.