My CHRISTMAS PRAYER... HERE IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR SHELTERS FOR THE HOMELESS... THEY PERPETUATE HOMELESSNESS, THEY DO NOT END IT.
Laird Snowden
HELIOS, AHEL, IFPIC AT&T Bell Labs SONET CHIP SET. VFMA Wafer scale test , High Energy Laser Weapons, Millimeter Wave, Senior Electro-Optical Manager, Process & Electrical Engineer High Energy Projected Beam Weapons
Our Homeless shelters tell us of the great work they do, pat themselves on the back and praise themselves. When you talk to the homeless, you hear the other side from those who are the recipients of this largess, it is not nearly as good as it is made out to be.
I think in a few days i will begin a documentary on this, interviewing, not the shelter directors, but rather the homeless themselves.
Simply, evidence, shows, without words, that ipso facto, homeless shelters do not end homelessness. They do not heal, they do not offer a solution, they only offer a revolving door right back out onto the street... for years, because "The System is Slow"and "we can do NOTHING about that"... well. they ARE the system, they choose NOT to do anything about it, nor do they even consider it, nor do they even know the people they are supposed to help, that would require talking to them and empathy to actually hear what they are saying and to discern what thew want and need.. to live like a human being and not something people scrap off the bottom of their shoes, and THIS is what is missing from our diseased institutions in post modern America.
These workers will bridle and bite at any one who challenges their work and suggests that it can be and should be made better. I know of not one worker who would turn away from discussion on how to improve his work or who would fail to search for ways to improve, these folks will bite at any anyone who even suggests that they work is less than flawless, and we have only to see the homeless turned back out into the street from their shelters every morning, the same ones, day after day , year after year
Homeless people do not need food (which many institutions raise moeny for, evn though they get the about to expire food for free form restaurants and food markest (as tax deductions). Most homeless can raise enough to eat at McDonalds and Burger King. Homeless people can find shelter and get sleeping bags at Goodwill. Homeless people are searching for ONE THING... A HOME... PERIOD, i will brook no dissension.
This is the one thing denied, the system is too slow, the system has failed. We need to stop contributing donations to these failed homeless shelters who do nothing, many enriching themselves, while they fail miserably at helping the homeless.
It is time to develop a program that actually works and contribute to that and these failed institutions can then disappear or change and adapt these new and effective strategies.
We must stop funding failure.
You know, i brought up an entire semiconductor fab (AT&T BELL LABS, GaAs SARGIC HEMT EPI) in 90 days with first lot success at 98% yield (considered impossible in one of the most difficult technologies in the world)... no w i can not and will not accept that the system has to be this slow, i can not and will not accept that a 62 year old crippled man in walker must be turned out into the cold for 20 years, or even 1 week or 1 day, perhaps that is the difference between operators of these shelters voluteer or paid and i, they have accepted the broken system (don't do that, with God all things are possible) , i do not and never will, even when i was told the fab could not be brought up because our sister group tried for two years and failed miserably, i took it away from them and made it happen using an entirely different methodology.. well there must be alternatives and with prayer, they can be found, if there are not, then they must be made. Mike asked a pastor at a church if he could sleep in the basement or a garden shed, just to get out of the wind, he was told no, since he was not a member of the church,
WE MUST PUT PEOPLE ON A PATH OUT OF THIS LIVING HELL AND NEVER PERPETUATE IT AS IS DONE TODAY, perhaps out of ignorance, but failing to see the truth here is crossing from ignorance to malice !
I had one shelter administrator berate me, first admitting to doing all of the vile things i mentioned: turning people out into the street, only being open 4 months a year, failing to find homes but from the homeless themselves.. you see i am a researcher, o collect facts and data to solve problems i do not even bother with the people who are failing in their effort, because that is well, FAILED...they told me the system is slow and we can do NOTHING about that" but you can go to our site and make a donation... i think NOT. But apparently they saw themselves as heroes in their own eyes for offering the homeless good intention, but nothing of merit. the homeless however have different opinion about these people and their shelters, i have already described their
comments..
dangrous, people steal your shoes while you sleep, noise, dirty mats on the floor, person next to me snored and farted all night, crowded, dirty mats on the floor.. Now let me ask you "would you want to live this way ? how about your family ? okay for them ?.
.. then i was told by one religious shelter administrator saying it was to bad i cut them down for doing that and i did not know the fine work they did, there was nothing they could do about the slow system., I know exactly about the work they do, not from the the bloviation coming out of their mouths, i went to the source, their customers , the homeless and spoke to them... One, a cripled man who was told by hos case worker she could not put his walker in her official car, but gave him an address to get a replacemtn for his stolen ID, he asked her what he was supposed to do.. tke his walker and push it down the interstate ? no response, ! YOU SEE ? He has no address, his hone was stolen but he can not get a replacement now that he is out of rehab for a broken knee, He has no transportation to get an ID and so on and so on, but show up at one of these miravle shelters, sit a bench for 4 hours in the cold waitng for it to open, get assigned a filthy mat on the floor and then, at 5:30 in the morning the lghts come on and everyone is told to leave, but leave your name if you want help with housing.. that never comes... it is a scene right out of Dantes Inferno and all too often it is under the sign of a church (which brags on their homeless program and the great men and women of God who work there)... i wonder how Jesus would feel about that, i know the homelss are not very impressed if you speak to them outside, I wonder if Jesus would turn a crippled man back out into the cold.. for twenty years and say "Sorry the systemm is slow and it is not our fault and there is nothing we can do about it, we are sorry" yes indeed, these people are sorry excuses , yes indeed.. uh huh... sorry,
i can not accept this level of poor performance, especially from Christians who are giving these people a reason to curse God, which is one of the problems i know have to deal with.. seperating the True Christ from the hypocritcally appearing actions of religious organizations
Oh, i asked for help for the man who is 62, has had a broken neck, crippled fingers, broken knee, steel rods in his back, can barely walk on a walker but does not want assisted living, he wants a home, because he can still care for himself and wans a bit of quality of life, before he is no longer able to care for himself, he just wants his own bed to lie in, some peac from criminals stealing all his belongings, clothes blanket cane, so he often must use what little money he has just to buy new blankets to sleep on the street, exposed to robbers, and predators... So No offer for help to me for him, just check in and check out andleave your name, just as he has dome for 20 years just berating me for asking for help to find a home for this man, not more damn excuses about slow systems... really ? twenty years ? really ?
So God, what are you going to do about this... about the people whose hearts are cold dead and stony and those who are abused under their care and who cry out to you. I could care less why You do the ones with hearts of stone, i ask You to open their eyes so that they may see and cry out.. but for those who are suffering.. i ask you for help, because no one, NOT ONE is helping. so help me help God, Bless me, restore everything satan has stoled from me so that i may restore what satan has stoledn from the these, they are Your Sons Sheep.
Merry Christmas
Genco labs
7 年Cape Fear Mission in Wilmington NC, has a very unique approach, along with a men's shelter is has a store right next to it in the same building with sells used item donated to the shelter, cloths, appliance, electronics ect. All the men there have to work in the store and do earn a very small amount of cash. I am not sure if it's completely self funded, however it is something to consider, one last comment many of the men are military veteran's as well as prisoner returning to society. Rob