I hope it’s the emergence of a new way of thinking when someone who doesn’t even know someone would step up and offer their "extra" home to someone who is homeless or struggling. Regardless of party affiliation, anyone who has an EXTRA HOME should compelled by this story to do something similar. Waaaayyy too many people have more than they need or could ever use, regardless of how they got it - they’re SUCCESSFUL - because of this great country’s opportunities for success. For those of us who have been successful in the past, and given whatever they could to help those less fortunate, only to find ourselves on the verge of poverty, (yes I’m homeless now) we don’t understand why those with much don’t help those with little, more often. What if we ALL acted that way? Then the homeless could have a home (it might not be their’s) and a place to go to sleep and get up in the morning, take a shower, keep their clothes and their possessions, house their children, get up and go look for a job… If there were jobs to find… How do we help the homeless if not one at a time? Who would you help if you could? How would it change the world if EVERYONE had a place to live, a job, transportation, education, (basics: food, shelter, clothing) would your community, your city, your state, your country, the world - be a better place to live? What if those who had much, gave something to those who had little, would the balance it would create make the world a better place to live?

Sure, some people are lazy, some rich people are lazy, some poor people are lazy - rich people can afford to be lazy, poor people cannot. What if all the working class, homeless, uneducated, poor, indigents, what if they used to be the producers, the creators, the makers of products that supply our homes, our cars, our boats our airplanes, what if they couldn’t work anymore because they have no place to sleep, to bathe, to get dressed, to house their children? Who would make your fancy cars, build your mansions, work on your private jet to make sure it could fly - who would do that? Everything will fall into disrepair and the entire social structure WILL fall apart - because that’s where we are headed. 

 After 8 years of greed - money going to kill people overseas to take oil from the sands instead of being used in the homeland to build infrastructure, jobs, educate, keep healthy our working class people - those who PRODUCE all the things that those with money can afford to buy…now what? YOU have the answers. Those of you who have money and stuff to spare, who sit in your big fancy chairs in your corporate offices and worry about the bottom line - WE are your bottom line, and you are letting us go hungry and homeless after we’ve worked in your factories, your stores, your warehouses and your yards - you’re hoarding your money and your stuff for "better times." Times when the economy is thriving again, times when you can travel and there are people to serve you and provide services for you - those people CANNOT go back to work if you hoard your money. Businesses can’t stay in business, there will be no jobs, there will be no transportation or distribution system, there will be no recreation or entertainment industry - because the people who keep this great country running have no money to buy gas to go to work, clothes to put on their children, washers and dryers to do their laundry - they have no resources to keep going. All the banks have our money, they own our property, they run our lives with credit scores that we can no longer maintain - the entire country suffers because I am homeless… WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT?

Thanks for the opportunity to express my thoughts. This is my last weekend in this house where this elderly gentleman was letting me stay to babysit my granddaughter - his sister who has cancer and his granddaughter who wants to go to school in her old neighborhood are moving back in with him, and I have to find another place to go… WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT?