In Florida, Despair and Foreclosures

[Crewleader]

Gloria Chilson in the yard of the house where she lived for 18 years. She and her husband recently lost the home to foreclosure. More Photos

By DAMIEN CAVE
February 7, 2009

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. — Desperation has moved into this once-middle-class exurb of Fort Myers, where hammers used to pound.


Its straight-ahead stare was hidden amid the chatter of 221 families waiting for free bread at Faith Lutheran Church on a recent Friday morning; and it appeared a block away a few days earlier, as laid-off construction workers in flannel shirts scavenged through trash bags at a home foreclosure, grabbing wires, CDs, anything that could be sold.

“I knew it was coming,” said Gloria Chilson, 56, the former owner of the house, as she watched strangers pick through her belongings. “You take what you can; you try not to care.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/us/08lehigh.html?_r=1&

[opihimoimoi]

1. Its so sad to see poverty hit middle America....the Pubs are heartless as well as Mindless

[notesdev]

2. We're quite lucky it's the pubs who get tagged with this

Because to be quite frank about the matter, Democrats are just as guilty of the Greenspan-worship and associated activities that led to the current state of affairs. The only people who rose their voices in protest of the bubble-blowing were largely independent and apolitical out-of-the-mainstream economist types. Once the bubble was blown, it was inevitable that we'd end up seeing story after story like the one above. We will continue to see more stories like the above for the next 2-3 years at least, regardless of what anyone does.

[opihimoimoi]

3. Sitrep dire ....folks out there tire....all because the Nation went for a LIAR

[HillbillyBob]

4. My partner and I lost our share of the 'American Dream' years ago.

My story goes all the way back to Ronny fuckin Raygun.
While I have stated before in these blogs all of that.
I will reiterate 2001. 911. Me becoming disabled and fired for being sick.
He being outsourced 2x in 2002, losing our home, landing in a house with no heat, broken windows, with little help.
It was better than under a bridge.
Bitterness and anguish and me and our dogs sick from the cold and the mold.
One, Ashley the Elder, died almost immediately from the mold or the treatments we had to use to try to keep down the fleas, she had a stroke and then seizures, few cared we had little help. I got so sick from the mold that I was taken to the ER and was escorted out because the local hospital said they did not treat HIV patients,I might be dangerous.,. My partner crying himself to sleep because he could not do anything more.

I did eventually get medical assistance and my partner a new job.
We now live in a little place in the woods and are starting an ecofarm.
While many said I was all doom and gloom, we are starting over and while we don't have a lot of possessions bought with credit, we do have a home and are warm for the most part and are learning how to farm again.
He has done well by the us.
I suggest that any who can read this start finding out learning how to grow food.
We are not angry at our situation, we are grateful we have come this far with what is left of our health perhaps even sanity.
25 years with HIV/Aids is no small feat, not with all else that has been handed to us.
We are now warm and dry, at least for now in our once abandoned and re-inhabited if not rehabilitated farm house. Our little bit of the American Dream is what we have here, a bit of farm, some freedom, a warm dry home, and enough to eat.
We feel and fear for others that are just now starting on this very scary journey.
We hope that we can help.
When I started bringing The soon to come American economic collapse up I was told that I was all about DOOM and GLOOM, I was simply stating what we are now seeing was coming.
I was hoping that others would pay heed before things got this far.
I toned down what I had to say. I was hoping that someone would listen and not have to go through what we did.
We have reached the other side, I hope for I cannot take it all over again.

Go look for Heirloom seeds, use your yard for gardens, learn about permaculture, feed your neighbors, trade or sell your extra food. It is important.
Our government does not serve us, the money party thinks to make us serve them.
We should prove them wrong, why should Management get all the spoils when We the People are the actual producers?