All programs should be fairer, Luch many others I read where an estimated 50,000 people lined up for housing  from the stimulus program in Detroit.  All they could aid were 3,000. But they did not tell the fine Detroit people to go home. That might have caused a roit. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/oct2009/lead-o08.shtml

Telling the truth means mainstream reporters might get wind of it, and let the public know. Then the public would call for action. Heck if the underpaid were not wasting their time, they might actually get the news to cover their cause.

This information is from a socialist web site. Yahoo is telling us people in Detroit lined up for cash, and the were ill mannered. The Mainstream story "Blames the poor."  It does refer to 50,000 application for housing being handout out when there were only 3,500 slots. But leaves the reader with the taste the poor should have known that fact.

The news is not that scuffles broke out.  But the fact that heartless government allows 50,000 people in one city, to need housing.

When trying to understand statements of supposed facts, I even look to the Christan right.  Ok, usually it to see how wrong they are, but occasion there is some aspect of the issue I have not thought about. 

I also check out the facts of what I am told by the so called non baised, and Left. Have found these advocates also short change us poor in their figures. One group's said said a 2 bedroom goes for $533 a month in their budget.

The Newspapers and HUD both says a 1 bedroom starts at $700.  Their figures are wrong!!! Our advocates, making the low budgets do not suffer. Us poor and uncounted poor suffers and prematurely dies. 

Programs such as TANF and SSI & SSDI should pay a fuller amount Both should have there cut of point raised to a Real livable wage. 

When President Woodrow Wilson said, "You are here not to merely make a living. ....... You are here to enrich the world." he summed it up.

 If John Kennedy had said this he could have said, "Ask not to make yourself rich, ask to enrich our nation our world.

I do not know about any of you ,but when I am feeling down, I usually feel I have no other purpose in life-but to pay my bills. it is a bit off topic but not far.

If programs allow us to earn  more, or PAY's us the REAL costs of living we would feel more humane toward ourselves and others.

I was just interrupted by an 19 year old mother, and I am near tears, because I tell her A-B-C-D  steps of how to get housing. And do not tell her the chance is good her Town government official will lie to her.   "The above might not work."

I tell her she has been lied to in the past, I tell her how to counter those lies. Put its the officials who have what they agree to is "bad training" who has the power. So all of this I mention is not theory alone, its practice.

Programs are flawed either be 'Design' Not paying the SSI person enough to pay their rent. Not allowing Welfare mothers to earn a decent wage before being cut off of aid. These are two things we have to fix. 

Or by  programs are intentionally flawed by there bad 'Application'.  As General Relief telling people leaving a Hospital for open heart surgery that the GR cannot pay a motel. 

We must never lose faith and the courage it takes to uplift those around us to have the strength to strive for doing the best that they can each and every day.  The harshness of daily survival is daunting with the stress of how long and steep the road out of poverty, ill-health wearing out the most lively individuals.

The "systems" are broken.  Families are fractured and distant if there are families.  We need to gather into family model with others whether related or not.  Mental, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, physical strength is gained by sharing.

Each of us has a creative spark that has been doused by the current social models, advertised excesses trap the younger adults.  I feel strongly that people need to think of struggles as a - moment - in time so as not to become tamped down by what seems impossible to change. 

Change crashes upon us and yet real growth, that which is sustainable is more deliberate - one step at a time or one breath at a time.   Sometimes growth is just getting by and I can attest it is quite uncomfortable and frightening.

It is important to voice our stories and give a voice to those who are unable to have a forum of expression.  Keep talking, pray, stay open hearted, work with purpose and do not lose sight of a dream.