In Search of a Place to Park Himself (homeless with a disability)

[diamond14]

In Search of a Place to Park Himself
Pr. George's Man Has Scores of Model Cars but Nowhere to Call Home

By Mary Otto
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 3, 2003; Page B01

James Mode woke up in his snug apartment in Hyattsville yesterday morning, surrounded by his beloved model cars. Stacked in their clear plastic boxes, they lined every available shelf and wall, scores of Fords and Chevrolets, wagons and sedans, trucks and race cars.

Then the sheriff's deputies arrived with their eviction notice, and the movers arrived and began loading Mode's life into black plastic garbage bags. Yvette Lewis, the building manager, stood in the hall with her arms crossed over her chest, looking stern and worried at the same time.

Since he was laid off from his job as a helper at D.C. General Hospital two years ago, Mode, who is learning-disabled, has survived on landscaping jobs and help from his church. But he fell seriously behind on his rent.

"I'm doing the best I can. I'm sorry," he said to Lewis.

Last year, 52,973 homeless people were provided with shelter in Maryland, up almost 17 percent from 2001, according to the state Department of Human Resources....There are more than 3.5 million homeless people in the country, according to the Urban Institute.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29731-2003Dec2.html

[mmm]

1. 3.5 million homeless!

that is OUTRAGEOUS!

[Muddleoftheroad]

2. I am going to send the church a check for this guy

So sad.

[undergroundpanther]

5. When will people

Stop believing in myth of money,private property?,the petty landlords are put in thier position by the super rich,because we let the rich set the terms for who lives where, who gets what...

http://www.conceptualguerilla.com/mythologyofwealth.htm

It has always been,a battle between
"corporate feudalism" versus "social democracy" You either are for cheap labor conservatives and support thier rich little lords. Or you worry about the disabled guy who loves his model cars.

This car-guy was forced out to sleep on a sidewalk because his landlord had to be a "lord" over him because she is believing in a hierarchical system of competetion between many opressed lords trying to be big lords.It's a lie that goes back to the dawn of civilization.
When will people see through this GAME, that the rich dupe us with, how more people have to die before the petty lords stop playing with other people's lives and turn on thier'masters'??

[Muddleoftheroad]

6. Huh?

He lived on the other person's property as part of an arrangement. He agreed to pay rent in return for receiving a roof, etc. He stopped paying rent. That's why he was evicted. And, since eviction takes a long time, he was probably back several months that the landlord will never see.

Look, my heart goes out to the guy, as does my checkbook. But your comment is out of leftfield.

[bpilgrim]

10. why don't you send the landlord a check?

i'd rather have the gov subsidize the guy till they found him a job again.

but i'm sure that is 'out of leftfield' also

peace

[Muddleoftheroad]

14. He's already been evicted

He's staying at the church now. So that wouldn't help. Yes, it would help the landlord make up the difference, but the loss is a tax break and I only have so much money.

[diamond14]

9. great web site, the BIG picture of bush* Amerikkka....some will

never understand the BIG picture (or they will feign 'huh' ignorance. because they love bush* and bush* policies)....
but many true Americans understand exactly what you are saying...

it takes only 1 % to change this mess...only 1 % can make all the difference in the the bush* nightmare....economics, the war machine, social policies, politics, world banks, oil...it's all interrelated and we can change this and have a new world....

'cheap-labor-conservative' BRAGGARTS will throw a few coins at this man, while stifling any dissent to change this horror...you'll know these 'cheap-labor-conservatives', because if they actually cough up a few coins, they WILL brag to the world about their glorious generosity (cheers, cheers, clap, clap, toast)...

others will rise up to take meaningful action...STAND UP to change this shrub shit and shut it down forever....'all it takes is one percent of the people' (Ramsey Clark)....


-snips- from the Neighborhood Bully (bush*)

Jensen: So what do we do?

Clark: I think the solution relies on the power of the idea, and the power of the word, and on a belief that, in the end, the ultimate power resides in the people.

In discussing the effects of U.S. foreign policy, we've been talking about only one part of the story. Another part is resistance - the power of the people. We saw that in the Philippines, when Marcos was deposed in a nonviolent revolution, and we saw that in Iran, when the Shah's staggering power was overcome, as well, by a nonviolent revolution.

Of course, just getting rid of Marcos or the Shah is not the end of the story. People sometimes think that, after the glorious revolution, everybody is going to live happily ever after. But it doesn't work that way. What they've gone through in the struggle has divided them, confused them, driven them to extremes of desperation.

I think what all of this means is that we each have to do our own part, and become responsible, civic-minded citizens: we have to realize that we won't be happy unless we try to do our part. And if a small portion of us simply do our part, that will be enough. If even 1 percent of the people of this country could break out of the invisible chains, they could bring down this military-industrial complex - this tyranny of corporations, this plutocracy - overnight. That's all it would take: 1 percent of the people.


http://www.thesunmagazine.org/bully.html

[CheshireCat]

15. Conceptual Guerilla is a GREAT site!

Thanks, underground panther, for the link.

Is this your site?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. Good for you!

:toast:

[Muddleoftheroad]

8. For people with a similar wish

Send the checks to:

University Park Church of Christ
6420 Adelphi Road
Hyattsville, MD
20782

Put a notation on the check that it's for Jim Mode. (I added a note just to be certain.)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

12. Thanks for the legwork.

[Muddleoftheroad]

21. One more time

Please send checks to the above.

[UpInArms]

3. last night I had an epiphany

about the meaning of "compassionate conservative"

The "compassion" is very misleading, as it applies to only to an otherwise empty resevoir of emotions

the "conservative" refers not to monetary policy, but to social policies - thus, any policies that might be "liberal" (which Jesus was) and regarding the caring for others, must be discarded -

what this leaves us with is a person (term used loosely for lack of another) that has usurped the highest office and hands this country a basket of policies that are designed to have negative emotional and monetary effects.

It is therefore quite easy for the chimp-in-chief to have his crocodile tears stream down his face as he destroys the lives and livelihoods of the entire country.

[diamond14]

4. 'DC General Hospital is now closed down...the biggest hospital

complex in OUR Nation's Capital...the only hospital that served poor people.....shut down completely....that is where this man worked......

and as if it couldn't get much worse under king george bush* Amerikkka....

there are now thousands of people in DC who desparately needing medical care....with DC General Hospital closed, there is little hope that those people will survive the winter....also, Columbia Women's Hospital in DC closed....so women are now expected to bear children somewhere else, besides a hospital....

[bpilgrim]

11. so that explains the record profits this quater...

US economy surged in third quarter, profits up
Forbes - Nov 25, 2003
... the US economy ahead at an even brisker clip in the third quarter than first thought, the government said on Tuesday in a report that showed corporate profits ...

more...
http://www.forbes.com/home_europe/newswire/2003/11/25/rtr1159790.html

the market loooves downsizing $$$

aint the good'ole hoover days grand...

:crazy:

peace

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

13. There's a BIG building in DC which houses a LOT of poor folks..

It's called the DC Jail.

Can't you just hear Dick Cheney saying, "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?"

[donsu]

17. good grief! didn't know DC had got that bad

are you saying that there are parts of DC that have no medical care for pregnant/delivering women?

And nobody is angry over this?

everybody says 'oh, well' and goes on?

[MountainLaurel]

19. You're kidding, right?

DC has had an infant mortality rate for years that compares to some third-world nations. It's not that there's no one angry, it's that people are so tired of wondering what the fuck is going to happen next that they have given up on trying to make a difference.

After all, no matter what the District tries for, it's those 535 people in Congress who control the reins.

[diamond14]

20. that man was evicted in Maryland, the kindest of the three governments

in the Metro-DC area....Virginia being the absolute worst place to be homeless because Virginia doesn't care, provides little funding, and even goes to the extreme of CLOSING homeless shelters because the wealthy are 'offended' (my Church's homeless shelter was forced to close by the government this year for a plethora of petty reTHUG reasons, but mostly because the rich don't want the poor near them....that threw another 260 people out on the streets just like in that story)....DC has some compassion, but little money to do anything with the massive bush* cuts in social programs....Maryland has much more money to deal with this issue, but this article proves that bush* has pushed it over the top, even in wealthy communities...


there should be an outrage (DC has much WORSE circumstances than Maryland)....60% of the DC homeless are VETERANS ....where is the outrage???? call Congress...over 50 % of the DC homeless are from other States, come to OUR Nations Capital to get badly needed help sometimes for WAR WOUNDS that are still not healed...and bush* doesn't care...closing Veterans hospitals as fast as he can....

bush* could actually see the HUGE problems in our society by just walking outside the White House...bush* would not need to walk far to see the effects of his policies...there are LOTS of people living on heating grates, bundled in old blankets with their plastic-bagged belongings.....

the bush* policies are also reflected in a number of children's deaths here in Virginia....just last month, there was woman gave birth into a toilet IN A HOSPITAL in Virginia... when she tried to get in, was deterred, she went into the bathroom, and the baby drowned in the toilet (private hospitals, no pay, no entry, bush stopped the Clinton requirement that emergencies wards TREAT patients...and hospitals don't view births as a life-threatening emergency anymore....)....

where's the outrage?

call your Congress reps...speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves...

[maxanne]

16. don't forget

that of those 3,5 million homeless people, at least a million are children.

That there is so much outrage about hypothetical fetuses, and none for this makes me want to weep.

[Muddleoftheroad]

18. Blatant kick

To see if others wish to help this poor soul. Not the address please.

[Gemini Cat]

22. Another Kick!

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