….one paycheck away from endless fines, tickets, penalties, fees, add-ons, processing costs, interest rates, etc. ….
Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Another translation: Authority gone to one’s head is the greatest enemy of truth. (Collected Papers, Volume 1, 1987 — Einstein
I’d rather drink muddy water
Sleep out in a hollow log
Than be in California
Treated like a dirty dog.
This is what the migrants sang in the 1930s, when the Golden State was anything but welcoming to the “tired and poor” masses heading this way from Dust Bowl-ravaged states.
For a few months in 1936, the Los Angeles Police Department launched a foreign excursion of sorts — a “Bum Blockade” on the state’s borders. The LAPD deployed 136 officers to 16 major points of entry on the Arizona, Nevada and Oregon lines, with orders to turn back migrants with “no visible means of support.”
The man responsible, Police Chief James Edgar “Two-Gun” Davis, was a former cotton-picker from Texas who came to California in 1911, dirt poor and uneducated. Davis, whose moniker referred to his extraordinary marksmanship with a pistol, liked to say that constitutional rights were of “no benefit to anybody but crooks and criminals.” (source)
Job OFFERINGS coming through my email and feeds! What JOY. At home in the underwear, or . . . Wyoming, man, Matthew Shepard land.
Benefits
- Paid Bi-weekly through direct deposit
- Competitive pay. $26.00 per hour with OT after 40
- $2.00 Night shift differential pay
- Orientation and training pay $24.00 an hour.
- Housing and meals provided in our Wright Wyoming man-camp, or hotels + $25.00 daily Per diem when working away from Wright WY. Each room has shower, toilet, sink, and TV
- 6 weeks on / 2 week off schedule offered for rotators, 5/2 during your 6 weeks on.
- Benefits- Medical/Dental/Vision/AD&D/ Short Term Disability / Long Term Disability
- 401k with employer match
Coastal Plains Trucking is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
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Stride, Inc. is seeking a Virtual School Placement Coordinator to join its team. The Placement Coordinator (PC) is responsible for contacting K – 12th students and their families to initiate and complete course placement for the school year. The PC will be required to request any documents needed to complete this process and follow up as needed. You will work an average of 20-30 hours per week. Stride, Inc. is a for-profit education company that provides online and blended education programs.
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It’s the Economy, Stupid! Imagine that, work from home, or leave your state for Wyoming and drive sand, man, the Sand Man, and get a bed and TV and food. Talking about see the world, join the navy!
Shantytowns filled with Dust Bowl refugees sprouted in such areas as the Arroyo Seco, San Gabriel Canyon and Terminal Island — many of them dubbed Hooverville because residents blamed then-President Herbert Hoover for their plight.
Versus:
Ellen Osterbauer of Downey was only 3 in 1931 when her family lived for five months in a Hooverville near Firestone Boulevard and Alameda Street. The five-acre site had neither toilets nor electricity, but was one of Los Angeles’ largest homeless camps, with 700 residents.
“We were the only ones who lived in a wooden house that my father built out of used doors,” she said. “Everyone else lived in cardboard and tar-paper houses, old trucks, buses and tents.”
Their dwelling was called “the hospital,” not because they treated the ill but because one of the doors bore that word.
“For years we were so embarrassed [about living in the camp that] we never talked about it outside the family,” Osterbauer recalled in a recent interview.
They Called It: The Bum Blockade.
And the billionaires and their militarized pigs and the bankers and the Eichmann Species, they want blood from an onion:
As Einstein wrote in a condolence letter toward the end of his life,
“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.”
This economy, man, it is on a quick sucking sound down the drain. HOUSING. And the cost of living, from gasoline to milk, eggs to cabbage, electric bills to cell phone costs, and on and on, go ahead, do it yourself, the price check at Home Depot or Shermin Williams or Safeway or Big Five, go ahead, order a transformer for a city block, go ahead, hire on a plumber or roofer.
Prices have DOUBLED, man, TRIPLED, and as more people are forced out of work, since they can’t be living in the towns and cities where the work’s hard to find, then, we are here where towns and cities are offering $15,000 relocation checks for simple mid-level city jobs, or nursing jobs, or MD jobs.
The migration is one that starts in the wormy head, the brain drained of so much since the world is so battered by the mean as cuss wimpy, suited, silly-hair-do neo-liberals, and neo-cons and the others on those two margins, which is the middle ground of established usury capitalism.
PayDay Capitalism:
Payday loan companies market themselves to the working poor as a quick source of money in desperate situations. They then trap people in a cycle of indebtedness that compounds at breakneck speed. This kind of parasitic, predatory pursuit of profit is something out of a Charles Dickens novel. Payday loans are a multi-billion dollar industry in the west. They are immoral and completely unnecessary. There are far better ways to provide banking services to the low income community.
Charles Dickens’s Mr. Micawber popularised two ideas. The first is sound: “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness.” The other, ever the enemy of the first, is: “Something will turn up”.
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It’s an echo chamber — one paycheck missed away from homelessness,
A financial survey encouraging Americans to save more money was released in 2019 and exposed that 59% of Americans are currently at risk of homelessness. In fact, they are all just one paycheck away from experiencing homelessness firsthand. The COVID-19 pandemic did a great deal to expose poverty in the United States and create it. In 2020, national poverty climbed at never-before-seen rates, thrusting nearly 8 million new Americans into impoverished despair throughout one solitary summer.
Fucking pallet shacks?
PRISON:
“Every time I see “cage-free eggs” or free-range chickens,” I’m reminded of my homeless friend who said society cares more about how chickens raised for food are treated than they care how homeless people are treated.”
~Commentary from Invisible People’s Facebook page regarding a “housing solution” where two people share a tiny box
This is not a new or novel concept. In Hong Kong, similar dwelling spaces are aptly titled “coffin homes.” Here in the US, the verbiage is different; the end result is the same.
Some say these manufactured tiny shacks are being called homes in order to sway public opinion in favor of their construction. If that is the case, the misleading moniker is working.
According to an LA City Council campaign made possible by supporters of Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell, “…voters have approved funding for facilities like this”. Voters also appear to be the key financial contributors for on-site services housed within these prison-like properties.
COFFINS:
“My health is going quickly, my mental health has worsened, & my hope of ever having a home is just hanging by a thin thread ?For me to be put into one of these would be humiliating, degrading, unsafe, and well… I would just not accept”.
Misinformed readers could wrongly perceive the quote above as a form of shelter resistance. But in reality, this human being is simply voicing a natural desire to be treated with respect and housed in a safe place. Since the dictionary definition of house lacks much-needed clarity, below are a few characteristics I believe we all can agree should be present in any humble abode. (source: 59% of Americans are Just One Paycheck Away from Homelessness)
FUCKING Amazon, Bill and Melinda Gates, all the other fuckers in SEATTLE
FUCKING SEATTLE: Lux has been homeless since she was 16. Growing up, her mother was critically ill, so Lux lived with her stepdad. He would kick her out randomly when he was drinking. “I wouldn’t know where to go,” she said. “Eventually, it got to the point where I didn’t want to go back.” Lux is now 19. She has lived in her RV for three years and has been forced to move about 20 times.
Seattle’s controversial RV homeless sweeps have been a source of contention among advocates, residents, and city officials alike. By forcibly removing vehicle residents from their makeshift mobile homes, these sweeps not only displace vulnerable individuals but also often leave them with no alternative shelter. This policy, aimed at addressing the visible impact of homelessness in the city, has been criticized for exacerbating the issue by further marginalizing those who already face significant challenges.
From that FUCKING Fortune Magazine.
57% of Americans can’t afford a $1,000 emergency expense, says new report. A look at why Americans are saving less and how you can boost your emergency fund
Paul Haeder, Author 