🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 05:15:57 +0000 (UTC), Ayn_R_Keey <IAM@freedumb.gov> wrote:
>On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 02:47:44 GMT, Jim Bianchi, 
> AKA <jimbo@sonic.net> wrote
> in<news:slrnbh1i2g.k9t.jimbo@bolt.sonic.net)>
>> On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 21:30:12 -0500, Julian Macassey
>> <julian@tele.com> wrote: 
>>>On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 01:04:12 GMT, Jim Bianchi <jimbo@sonic.net>
>>>wrote: 
>>>> 
>>>>      I take exception to your closing comments, sir. I am on Section 8
>>>> housing relief, as are 43 others in the apt complex in which I live. I
>>>> am disabled and elderly both,
>>>
>>>     What do you mean by disabled? You are obviously capable
>>> of sitting at a terminal and posting to usenet. 
>> 
>>      Disabled -- I cannot talk or handwrite. I type fairly slowly using
>> only one hand. I've tried to work in my previous job as a computer repair
>> tech. But the talking required when training and in the workplace itself
>> was something of which I was incapable. I thought I could get by by
>> typing my questions, but for a variety of reasons, that was impossible
>> too. I also cannot walk. I am 100% wheelchair bound. I use a motorised
>> 'chair since it is impossible to manuver a manual chair with only one
>> hand/arm. I am also 59 years old. I have the absolute minimum net
>> connection (dial up, 56kbps) using a system that was given me by a
>> friend. I'll admit the essential justice of your statement that I am
>> living on (some of) your tax money.
>> 
>
>luckily,
>our society has not degenerated
>to the level of these other posters, sir.
>
>most of us do care.
>most of us are not filled with greed and hate.
>
>it is sad to know that the republican party
>is being held for ransom by such a hatemongering minority.
>
>godspeed sir.

	Thank you and everyone else who posted messages of support. They
help. One thing, most of those receiving HUD housing assistance do pay taxes
(sales tax, use tax, and if they work, state and federal income tax). The
problem many see and complain about (a legitimate one) is that people (drug
addicts, alcoholics, and such) abuse the system to the point others can
complain. I submit these abusers are in a relative minority to those who
really need and can use this help. Walk down the street in S.F. Who stands
out? Of course it's the bag person pushing their shopping cart, or the
drunken bum peeing in a doorway, or panhandling in front of Walgreens. If
you are a doctor or work in a hospital, you'll prob see and note the welfare
mother, who has kids only so she can get a check fm the state before you'll
note the tens of thousands of 'regular' births. Do you see or make note of
the thousands who, like I, simply are not capable of providing decent
housing for themselves without this HUD rent subsidy? No. For the most part,
we just stay quiet and keep on keepin' on. "The squeaky wheel gets the
grease." Only in this case, 'the grease' is to remove the grease from ALL
the wheels.

	Again, thank you all.

-- 
jimbo@sonic.net 
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"My parents just came back from a planet where the dominant lifeform 
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