and that is fine.............there is always another side to every discussion...no matter what stand you take on anything you are setting yourself up to tick off at least 50% of those who are exposed to it........most of the folks who will disagree with me walk past the guy on the boardwalk with his hat on the ground upside down while playing his guitar (badly) just as fast as i do.
in 1984 i found myself in a situation where i was working one minute and was not the next. i was self employed so i did not qualify for unemployment. hero to zero just like that. wife, two small children, rent and everything that goes with life and no way to pay. a foundation called the Plankenhorn Foundation actually found out about our plight a knocked on our door with a small check for food. within ten days i was getting up at dawn, driving to sears at the mall as a part time service writer in the auto garage, going home at 2 or 3, cleaning up and going back to the mall to work 4 more hours calling bad accounts for Kay Jewelers. then when i was not doing those two things i was selling Fuller Brush door to door. i continued these three jobs for about a year untill it got better. i kept us off the street. i kept us fed. i kept us together. everyone responds to adversity in their own way, i understand that, but giving up should never be an option.
that is a very good point that i did not consider when i took my stand on the topic.........i have a customer that is a director at Danville State Hospitol, a well known mental hospitol in PA and he says that if you walk down a crowded street and knew the mental health of many of the people around you, you would go home and lock your door and not come back out. they are put back out because of space issues inside. so let me amend my stand slightly, in cases where people because of their state of mind are incapable of taking care of themselves, we as a people have an obligation to them.
