I had a LifeWorth Living - Homelessness

It’s 7:00am in a busy large metropolis or a small rural town. The "bald headed" boss enters your tiny office and asks you to be in his office in a half hour for a meeting. Had you known the outcome of that meeting, you would have taken your personal pictures off the wall and piled your expensive, personal textbooks and references on the desk, ready to be packed. You would have possibly changed into your personal hiking boots that were under your desk!

Punctual, as usual, at 7:30am sharp you are at the door of the boss’s office. There are two men sitting there, the boss and a man you have never met before in the chair next to where you will sit. You are ushered in and the door is closed. You are introduced, for the first time, to the new personnel manager. Immediately, you are told that the company and you no longer see “eye to eye”. There is no reason for this given. There is no discussion. You are told that you must be out of the building in one half hour. You are given a 12x18X12 box and told to pack your things; you will be escorted to the door. You cannot think. You forget the pictures, the books and the boots. You do not even fill the box or take your lunch!

This is just one scenario of the way loyal, productive and dependable professional people are being treated in these United States, not only today, but for over 10 years, now. The more productive you are, the more loyal and trusting you are, the more likely it is that you are or will experience a scenario such as this. The scenario won’t occur just once; it will be a roller coaster ride for you once this “production” starts.

 

From the doorway of the company, the position you held or the level in the organization is irrelevant, you venture back into the world.  The world, however, no longer sees you as a viable asset.  Other employers now hire you for the day, the week or a few months, just to get work they have neglected to do, complete.  Then, you are “let go” again… and again… and again…  Your credibility, as well as your credit, now in ruins.  The roller coaster ride continues for the length of time that society allows it to; sometimes for many years.

Many people suffering from the neglect and abandonment of not only their families, but also communities and states, have been forced into homelessness during this roller coaster ride.  These once productive and reliable people are now forced to live in homeless shelters or on the streets.  The person living on the streets or in a homeless shelter has been abandoned, neglected and forced there by others.   This person has now become justification for another person’s job. 

There are articles such as those above, which tell of corporate strategies to broaden homelessness and increase dependency of Americans on the social system. In a city in Washington, a presentation was given by a social service organizatin there. One woman presenting the program stated, “Business is good!” Their call volume and dependency by community members was overwhelming for them. People were forced to live and participate in social programs to survive. These social strategies begin lowering our standard of living and blocking our ability to live independently. Our ability to get appropriate employment is dying as we become more and more dependent on government subsidy.

The people who succumb to surviving using social services are now chained to that way of life. It may appear that they overcome and move on into productive lives, but the opposite is actually true. They are now indoctrinated to the system and begin promoting it. The dependency, on government assistance in this country, escalating as more innocent victims are indoctrinated. The social services becoming an overwhelming burden for our culture. A burden that will not shortly be controlled or changed. However, Change is what is needed. We need the Strength to stand up to employers who do not value our lives. We need the Strength to stand up to social services and decline their assistance. We need the Strength to Live regardless of the way we are treated. We need the Strength to support one another and help each other to come back from this type of death. This death for the person who will not succumb and become a burden to this country. This person forced to attempt survival with no outside help as communities shun this type of person and families reject this type of person. The person is left to struggle. The struggle blamed on that individual anrather than the society that initiated and allowed the abandonment.

It is only when we stand together and deny government assistance, that this country will overcome its debts, its unemployment and its neglect levied on its Gifted. This does not mean to overcome the Government. The Government is not at fault. The Government is what we have allowed it to be. We, the people, are at fault. Government cannot Save us or this country without our help or our fortitude.  We must learn to care about one another and give qualified, dependable, loyal people stable jobs and residences. 

Money comes when you are good at what you do.  Pray that what you do is not contributing to the decline of this country.

And I will Look to You, My Lord, My God, for You are my Strength and my Refuge from the Storm!

Pray for the welfare of the government, for were it not for the fear of it, people would swallow each other alive. - Ethics of the Fathers 3:2