When I was homeless for a while in the '80s

[guitar man]

Due to the Reaganomics disaster, why didn't anyone come bail me out? I desperately needed help and no one came to help. No one. :(

[Crazy Dave]

1. Cars were bigger back then

I know, I lived in my Plymouth Valiant for almost three weeks.

[guitar man]

3. at least I had a van

I lived in it for 6 months :hi:

[Crazy Dave]

5. I remember you "elitists" living your "mcvansions" while people like me...

...had to roll towels up in the windows for curtains :P :hi:

[guitar man]

8. LOL

I remember, some of us found a refuge in the back section of a public park where we were pretty much left alone.The local cops knew we were just some hard struck folks and looked the other way.

Anyway, one of the few posessions I still had was a pump up pellet rifle and some pellets. There were fat squirrels running through the trees and I was starving to death. So I pulled out the pellet rifle and dropped a couple of them. The guy camped next to me said "what are you going to do with those squirrels?". I pulled out my knife and started gutting and skinning one and told him "get a fire started, we're gonna eat."

The look on his face was a Kodak moment for sure. :rofl:

[Crazy Dave]

13. As silly as it sounds I had a lot less worries back then

I was telling somebody yesterday about how much shit I have now compared to back then. Not only could I move myself and all my possessions in one carload, there was room to spare if I had to sleep in it too. My wife and I now have a house that's too big, the insurance and taxes are too high and we just have way too much shit that we don't need.

[guitar man]

14. you know

I understand what you're saying. I was single and just had myself to take care of, now I have a wife and a 2 year old daughter, and a house, that fortunately I managed to pay off back in '02 and refuse to borrow against. I guess the experience of being homeless is what makes me want the housing security. I would not want my family to ever have to live like that.

[Nay]

17. I've eaten a squirrel! U know what's funny, gtrman? The people today

would starve to death on the street before they could even think about eating a pigeon, a squirrel, etc. They can't even boil the water to cook the damn thing, much less kill it, skin it, and cut it up for the pot. There are lots of ppl out there who don't eat vegetables. At all. Tons of ppl wouldn't eat fresh groceries even if they knew how to cook them up -- if it isn't pizza, boxed mac n cheese, or Hot Pockets, they are stumped.

As mean as it is of me, I'd love to see this part of the disaster scenario happen. I would just laugh and laugh.

[Crazy Dave]

18. When I started reading your post...

Immediately I thought of the people who don't even know you can catch your own fish with a worm, a hook and some fishing line. Seriously, I know someone who didn't know that.

Then I imagined what they would do with a pack of tomato seeds, "these little micro-tomatoes taste terrible"

[Nay]

19. So, do you think we're mean if we secretly wish we could see this come

to pass, just a little?

HAHAHAHAHAHA! "These little micro-tomatoes taste terrible." That's hysterical. I can see it happening, too.

[Karenina]

10. I lived in my Datsun 280-Z for as long.

Even got interviewed by 60 minutes. Took their producer around Santa Monica and pointed out the "stealth homeless," Refused to sign the release. They DESTROYED a woman who did. A Z-mechanic taught me the Zen of keeping things running. "Look, listen and SMELL." I did EVERYTHING on Z-BUGR that didn"t require a lift (except brakes and fuel injection)!

[lib2DaBone]

15. Less worries.. I lived in my van in 1982...

I lived for a whole winter in my van in Orlando, Fla. Had the Ford Econoline.. shag carpet on the walls and quad speakers. (far out man..) The guy who parked next to me in the campground was a golf pro (or trying to be) He was trying to get his PGA card. Every morning he would leave at 7 am to go hit balls at the driving range. (8 hrs a day) At night everyone would drink beer and practice putting at the camp site. I think Ronnie Ray-Gun was the Pres? How come every time a Repuke gets in I end up living in my van?

[guitar man]

16. ouch, that's small

Luckily, I had traded a Datsun pickup for the van a few months before I hit the bricks.

I remember one week, I filled out over 100 job applications in 5 days. Didn't care what it was, dishwasher, busboy, anything. Not one single bite in all that time, I was parked near a pay phone and guarded it with my life trying to get a call for a job. Nothing. A whole lot of people have no idea how bad it got for a lot of us for a while back then.

[readmoreoften]

2. That's impossible, when the rich people get richer, a rising tide lifts all boats...

:sarcasm:

Because they hate us.

[guitar man]

4. shit, I guess they threw me the anchor

at least that's how it seemed at the time...

[readmoreoften]

11. That would be an accurate assessment of what they did.

[guitar man]

12. I think there was a bowling ball tied to it also

:D

[ShortnFiery]

6. I'm growing so tired of that lie - yeah, I get the sarcasm but some brainwashed working poor truly

believe that. Perhaps, sometime right after WWII, employers CARED about THE WELFARE of their employees almost as much as their profits.

But since Saint Ronnie came on the scene, it's all GREED and it's all for "The Rich to to get richer." And no, you are not part of the investor class unless you earn over $250,000 per year or have close to $500,000 in your stock portfolio.

95% of Americans are being stolen from ... NOW more asinine Corporate Welfare.

When will we (the 95% of Taxpaying Americans) say to our status-quo loving politicians (both parties) "ENOUGH?!?"

[Crazy Dave]

7. Never

It's easier just to keep voting and electing someone who promises they'll say it for them

[readmoreoften]

9. No. They never cared. They HAD to care. After WWII we were fighting communism.

The rich could not prove the communists right by decimating the working class. They needed to show that workers were taken care of under the capitalist system. They tolerated unions because they had to. I'm sure that to a certain degree, a portion of them liked the good-guy hat more than violent greed. After Russia fell, the response was:

AHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
U? U-n-i-o-n? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!
Bene? Bene-what? Benefits? Don't know what your talking about. Can you leave now serf, my mouth is full of caviar and I hate to talk with my mouth full.