homeless day 7

day7
after i left the motel the hospital paid for, i scored 2 nights at motel 6. my arm was way too sore and swollen to deal with climbing from the front seat to the back to go to sleep, plus vicodin wipes me out to the point of it being dangerous to drive, and i very much needed the pain pills.

i think before i go on, i should explain something. people on another site have criticized me for "claiming to be homeless" yet i have a car, cell phone and computer. i have a cell phone that has no carrier. i use it strictly as a camera. i owned my home and all the furnishings one would expect in home ownership till i was cast out by the courts for not being able to pay my lot rent. it was a double wide mobile home in a park. i got behind on he lot rent because i was laid off at coca cola along with 16 other workers. i own my car, no payments. not having the money to move, and no one showing an interest in buying my home is what caused the court to go ahead and take my home and order me out. i lived in a small town of about 4000 people where jobs are virtually non-existant. the same applies for the next towns north and south of me.east and west of me are just mountains. the whole county of about 44,000 are in the same boat, all hurting for jobs. when i was working, there was not enough pay to cover bills AND put some into savings too. my medical insurance is called CMSP. it is the county's version of medicaid as it is known in most states. it's for low income or no income folks. it's tied to the welfare system. i get food stamps and medical, that's it. no cash aid. it covers my blood pressure meds, pain meds, and doc visits.

i love to work, i love making my own money, and love not having to accept any help, but there are times in everyone's life that they DO need help, and this is one of those times. had i not broken my arm, things would be a lot easier. i had planned to "earn" my way to NC, doing odd jobs for gas money. but now....i don't know what will happen. i know something good will though. it always does.

what i feel someone should do is to establish a national hotline for those who are homeless through mortgage evictions and other economic caused evictions like mine. the hotline would be to bring those people together to organize help from corporations and churches to help provide a place to stay, almost like setting up a kind of "tent city" kind of situation. with an estimated 9 million people forced from their homes due to foreclosure, this is a powerful base (assuming we can organize) that business should not ignore. we will rise again as a spending group, and it would do big business well to help us have spending money again. pipe dream? perhaps, but without those dreams, no one would ever get anywhere in life. granted, many would not be able to give up their jobs to go to this "centralized place" to get help and live, but the ones who do would know better than anyone else what kind of help to deliver to those who can't leave their specific areas.

if any readers of this know of any business execs who would be willing to organize help for those forced from their homes, be sure to have them contact me.