Oh, goodness, where do I begin....
Chances are this person isn't even going to check for replies, and he's
posted to a large number of newsgroups, so I'm going to replay anyway and CC
the author's email addy.
First of all, there are too many families living on far less than $1400 per
month and surviving. Yes, it's just surviving, but I can tell you that if
they can get by, this woman can get by too! What makes THIS family so
special that they deserve consideration where millions of others don't?
Additionally, that $1400 per month she's earning is FAR MORE than they'd get
if they qualified for welfare benefits, so don't believe for a moment that
those benefits you seem to believe they are qualified for are generous
enough to help anymore than the woman's salary! Even if she qualified for
the benefits, they'd be in the same situation, or worse! At least Canadians
have access to SOME kind of healthcare without many here in the US!
I also have a big question: How in the hell would people sending money in
blindly help "restore your faith" in anything? It would only serve to
restore my belief that there are a lot of gullible people out there! Not
only that, but your POBox "donation account" is suspicious on its face since
it's listed as giving it directly to the woman in need, not some church or
organization that would make sure the money was spent ONLY for basic
necessities! What's to stop this woman from buying drugs or even a new
dress for herself? Not a damned thing! Should we just blindly trust that
she'd do the right thing? Not on your life! True assistance pleas for
desperate families NEED to be set up through a church pastor or something
like that where the way the money is handed out ONLY for specific things and
this type of accounting for of the money would be ASSURED to be used on what
it was sent for. The way you propose, the money could go anywhere--and
probably will, and anyone foolish enough to send in a thin dime for this
cause is simply being ripped off.
If this family's situation were unique, I'd be less bothered by this post
(but I STILL wouldn't send a dime), but in all honesty, there are so many
people in a similar situation that it's depressing, and if I can't help
them, I'm not going to help this woman either! I think that panhandling by
computer, no matter WHAT the reason, is an offensive thing to do! There is
virtually no way to determine the validity of this post, and even a scam
artist is going to include some kind of statement claiming it's not a scam!
They certainly aren't going to post something like "I'm just lying, folks,
but send me the money anyway!" I can pull up copies of angiograms, broken
bones, cancer-ridden lungs or any number of ailments and post a really
heart-tugging sob story without there being a grain of truth to any of it,
and produce all kinds of evidence too!
Right now I have two friends, husband and wife, who are both seriously ill
and unable to EVER return to work and they've recently learned that in order
to get Medicaid assistance for both of them, they either have to pay a $430
deductible each month (from their $1300 per month Social Security disability
benefits) or get a divorce! They desperately need that Medicaid card too,
as the cost of their combined meds runs over $8000 per month! Jack had
worked hard all his life and he's getting a kick in the teeth after
suffering a serious stroke 2 years ago! After all the money he's put into
the system, he's being left to live in abject poverty and is being given a
grand total of $20 per month in food stamps for the two of them! They
aren't going to divorce, so they are left to eke out a living on $900/month,
$20 in food stamps, and all the food they can get from local food banks.
It's a sad situation. Yet they don't go begging for help online! They
don't even ask their friends! They've sold things to get by, and so can
your friends. They haven't even turned to their own adult children! These
are decent people too....but what makes them so special compared to my
friends, or any number of other people who are ill and broke?
Why can't your friends sell their furniture, computers, stereo equipment,
collectibles, and anything else of value that isn't an absolute
necessity....it appears they don't want to do it that way, they just want
someone to help them through their tough times by sending in the dough, and
for some strange reason they should get money to tide them over where
millions of others, many in far worse situations than them, continue to get
nothing, they should be ashamed of themselves.
I once saw a woman with two small children in front of a grocery store
begging for money to feed her children. I went in and purchased a full bag
of mac & cheese, spaghetti O's, tuna, bread, milk and a bunch of other
basics. The woman got MAD! Then she wanted the receipt. WTF for? Unless
she wanted to return items! Instead of being grateful, she showed her true
colors, and that was simply that she was USING her children to hustle money
out of people. Never again will I be that gullible. And even on the off
chance your people are real and so is the situation, they'll get by. They
may even end up homeless, but they'll survive. It won't kill them!
How we behave on a daily basis does not define our character. It's how we
behave when experiencing the hardest of times that defines our behavior.
Your friends can bite the bullet and sell anything that they don't
absolutely need, because material posessions can be replaced, and stop
expecting the rest of the world to support them when there are just too many
others just like them whose pride and dignity won't allow them to come
online and play such games. Theirs appears to be a temporary situation, if
it's got any truth whatsoever to the story.
Ultimately, I don't really even believe this situation you describe exists,
and don't want to hear all about how you can prove it to be true either.
Just pack up your shit and stop panhandling off Usenet.
"Andy Peters" <savethesheffs@otwebdesign.com> wrote in message
news:jngOa.13493$Ab1.34108@newscontent-01.sprint.ca...
absolutely no income.
exclude them from any agency help.
