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Edited on Tue Oct-28-08 02:20 AM by undergroundpanther
My new roommate,she is going through some tough times.She was homeless and told no one. A week or so ago she fessed up.She's staying here for two weeks until her boyfriend(he has a place to stay but she cannot stay there with him) and her have an apartment lined up together.She has been exhausted. And just tonight she said she finally felt warm.She has pressure bruises on her hips and arms from sleeping on sidewalk.She has Crohn’s disease.
Well she told me a scary thing today.
She and a few other people went to a food giveaway today ,and she came back with nothing. I asked her why.. She said..
The lines of people to get food snaked out of the building through the parking lot,out into the street.She waited for hours in the cold rain in the line . They closed up,out of food,and tons of people were turned away.
This happened in a town, a "nice" suburban town,one that some in the city think is "upscale". Out here the income inequality is STARK.If you bother to LOOK. The Homeless and poor here are scuttled AWAY from the nice homes and town areas of manicured flowerbeds and clean sidewalks of,Aberdeen. In Aberdeen There is a big tent city..There is a smaller tent city in Bel Air.All the help these folks can get from our greedy ass oblivious idiots in power here is a big fat nothing. It's like the state and county WANT all these people to DIE off! In Harford County there is one place hands out pop up tents,another hands out blankets one for each person..That is IT. Republican policies to the poor are in action here. It is sickening the way things are here.
The housing previously that existed for the poor are gone now.The state piggies cut the social safety net to please the rich and corporate assholes. The homeless will DIE before any 'precious' fucking millionaire pays ANY fucking taxes,to keep someone else alive.
These resentful wannabe millionaires the middle class bigots out here writing hateful tripe in the local papers(the republican tainted paper actually thinks this shit is FIT to print!!)
The local bigots do not stop and THINK before they shoot off their bigoted mouths in public. ALWAYS I hear the assumption,the resentment,the pretense that a poor person MUST be dreadfully irresponsible,a pervert,malingerer or thief. Always these "letters" boil down to how morally inferior poor people or homeless people are compared to the self righteous ,comfortable,resentful middle class bigots.
It's fucking nauseating all the poor bashing here.It's really vile how bigots get their poverty bashing crap printed in the local papers.
The bigots line the street to protest a homeless shelter NIMBY rears it's festering rotting empty head and it's black heart bleats of the MONEY,"property values" and the"children"!!
Poor people suffer and the smug don't care and they fancy themselves so fucking wonderful.They say shit like poor people are all hoodlums and perverts they claim shit like that ..Over and over and I do not hear many voices COUNTERING the bigots..This town is infested with that republican toxic "I got mine so fuck everyone else" mentality.
I wish these assholes would THINK before they wrote,maybe they'd consider maybe that scary homeless family living in that SUV ,got the SUV when the parents HAD jobs.
Maybe that homeless bum wearing some "designer"clothes,had them given to them or maybe the clothes were hand-me-downs from more well off family members?
No, the bigots they'd rather scapegoat,just go on assuming and scapegoat the poor for existing.Fuck the busybody poor bashing bigots, fuck them ALL.
And I am sick of their shit..I am sick of hearing the HATE directed at the poor and homeless.
I DO blame the well off people for their own narcissistic,ass-holiness and stunning ignorance,their INHUMANITY, and their failure to step out of their closed little 'privileged' world to offer compassion,and * gasp* pay some MONEY to help the suffering.The suffering here is carefully hidden from the places the well off go, between the back lots,in the library and the laundry mat on bitter cold nights,and managed by cops that make sure no one exhausted clutters the empty sidewalks at 4 am in Aberdeen. The cops are there to keep the homeless out of sight,of the well off not to help them.Always in this town property and profits are put over people.
I hope the well off will lose a job,become homeless, maybe because of a medical debt or a foreclosure.They need to taste the bitter rejection ,resentment and hate they dumped upon others.
Suburban inhumanity,indifference and callous cruelty,thy name is NIMBY, Contempt, More likely, hate. The Anger I feel about all this shit,makes me want to go to Annapolis into the state house and scream at these oblivious pampered ass politicians. I want to DARE them to live in the tent city for a month.Dare them to TRY it,see if they can hack it,call them COWARDS and losers if they do not take up the challenge.
Sadly I know the only way a rich pig out here is EVER going to have a farts chance in a whirlwind to develop any empathy for anyone outside their own richie rich clique is to be FORCED by circumstances or an angry mob to move to the goddamn tent city and fucking LUMP IT with everyone else.
I wish there was a way to FORCE political and business assholes who think nothing of slashing social services and such,to make more profits to be homeless. I wish there was a way to force them to have to sleep in a fucking tent with a blanket in the middle of February.
I hate fucking rich people who sit there in Annapolis in the luxury afforded the privileged who do not think of the poor at all as they draft grandiose plans of yet more Mini-malls,Mc Mansions and monuments.
They do not bother themselves with doing anything USEFUL like improving public transport,or even putting sidewalks down so people without cars can walk somewhere without risking life and limb.
The pieces of shit in Harford County government and Annapolis are such stupid ,petty, oblivious,greedy,decadent,narcissistic, criminal,corporate ass kisser parasites. They all make me sick.
Why do I hate the rich? I hate the rich because, the rich hated the poor first.The rich hate the poor because poverty is the result of the rich people's unending immoral greed.Poor people remind the rich of the consequences of their own unbridled greed,the fruits the rich so enjoy taking more of than everyone else.
So the rich hated the poor first.For if they really didn't hate the poor first,the priorities would be drastically different than they are. Who would be condemned to sleeping in a tent in this town freezing to death if the rich actually cared about others less fortunate? No one.
Despite my anger.. I fear for all those people I saw out there when I helped my new roomie get her shit together,when winter hits. A pop up tent and blanket will not do much when the bitter cold of Maryland winters.
I am so goddamn infuriated at the obvious class war going on right here it makes me seethe. I am tired of the poor having no voice politically.It's always middle class this or that.I hate being INVISIBLE!!!If you are not well off the class war issue is obvious, but if you are comfortable in this fucking town,it's easy to slip into denial,and pretend that there is a social safety net for everyone in Harford County.Because the homeless are hidden.
From what I seen There is NOTHING here as in services or help for people in need here.And it is tragic how fast the numbers of homeless have shot up in this area,and everyday there are more and more foreclosure signs.Jobs are scarce out here.
The Brac seems to not affect the lives of the people that find themselves living in tents yet.The homeless they get up at 4 am to go to a place that hires them day by day for laborers. If you get there too late there might not be any work and you'll be SOL.. Also with all the fear and bullshit pandered around concerning illegal immigrants how long will places that hire on a day to day basis for laborers exist?
It's insulting to see the fucked up priorities politicians have in this town..
I wonder how long until the food riots start? When will it be a crime to not have a home,a fucking car or money? How long until the asshole politicians feel uneasy in their chairs enough to cough up the funds for the social safety net? When will the well off be FORCED to PAY their fair share in taxes so that services to help people might be able to actually HELP them?
What will it take to make the comfortable UNCOMFORTABLE enough to change their selfish priorities?
When is enough enough?
What will it take to get the biggest pigs and their sociopath hog jowls and the smarmy developer parasites out of the state and county funds trough?
Will it take alot of pissed off hurting people with nothing to lose getting together and finally taking these parasites down to Earth, humiliating the living shit out of them,and maybe making them feel the soul grinding experience of being poor for once?
When the next food giveaway happens I am going to go there ,not for food (unless I really need it) .I am going to take pictures of this mess ,and the tent city and do a video an eloquent yet scathing indictment of Harford county's ass backward policies the comfortable ones in this fucked up town NEEDS to SEE..
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