The Trump Administration has claimed, “Job well done!” in seeing that victims of Hurricane Michael have had their basic needs met. Trump and porn star, Melania, toured areas devastated by Hurricane Michael and concluded that the government disaster relief agencies are ALL on top of their game. Well, this couple begs to differ.
Child of the storm: Homeless baby, family shelter at Walmart
PANAMA CITY, Fla. — Their home full of soggy furniture and mosquitoes, Wilmer Capps was desperate to find shelter for his wife and their son Luke, born just three days after Hurricane Michael ravaged the Florida Panhandle.
So Capps, his wife Lorrainda Smith and little Luke settled in for the longest of nights in the best spot they could find: The parking lot of a Walmart store shut down by the storm.
On a starry night, mother sat in the bed of the family’s pickup truck; her child sat in a car seat beside her. Dad sat in the dark and pondered how it could be that his son’s first night out of a hospital could be spent outside a big-box retailer because of a lack of help.
This is reminiscent of another child who was a newborn and there was no place for mother and child and this is why we celebrate Christmas. Do you remember THAT story? Well, here we have a mother and three-day old baby boy put out of the hospital with no place to lay their heads since the federal government was useless and so a ‘good Samaritan’ came to their rescue when the federal government was supposed to be doing its job to assist people in finding suitable living accommodations after they go through a natural disaster. The same can be said of the Red Cross. The Red Cross has no problem spending our donations in advertising that it is a charitable organization charged with the task of coming to the assistance of people who are in the midst of trying to survive a natural disaster or fire or some such calamity and yet, where were they when this couple needed them? I would certainly inquire as to what is going on with your donations, if I were you because it would seem to be that they are not going for the purpose of what they were intended.
The article goes on to mention the fact that this couple had been given a ride to a hospital by the police but while at the hospital, it was decided by doctors there to not induce labor. The pregnant woman could not find a ride back from where the police had first picked her up and so had to walk seven miles back to her point of origin while almost ready to give birth. The next day, her labor pains began in earnest and she was driven to yet another hospital in Dothan, Alabama where she gave birth to a male child and then was promptly released from the hospital back into homelessness with a newborn baby. Ain’t America great? Because due to the fact that the couple could find nowhere to stay in or around Dothan, Alabama, they drove back to Florida where they were still unable to stay in their storm-damaged home and so the only place they could think of to park and not be harassed was at a Walmart that was closed due to storm damage. They settled in the parking lot, whereupon police officers showed up after an AP reporter descended on them to write a story about their plight. The police escorted them to a center whereas the newborn was checked out, however, the center did not have any availability for them and FEMA advised them to stay at a shelter that was riddled with bugs, both bed and of other varieties and the couple declined. I would have done likewise. And so the couple drove back to the Walmart to spend the night since they were almost out of money and gas, but thanks to the kindness of strangers, a security guard paid for them to stay at a hotel near Panama City Beach and the father of the newborn is adamant that he is going to pay back the donations once he gets back on his feet because he is just overwhelmed with joy that someone would came to the assistance of his wife and newborn in their darkest hour.
Sadly, these are the very people who would vote for the likes of Donald Trump who could care less what his supporters are going through since there are other stories similar to this one thanks to Hurricane Michael having caused so much destruction, misery, homelessness and death. Trump and the republicans would rather institute tax breaks for the very rich and throw more money at an already bloated military budget than fund necessary programs to keep people from having to depend on the ‘kindness of strangers’ in times of natural disasters and other calamities since you can plainly see that the Red Cross is next to useless as is FEMA. No woman who has just recently given birth should have to stay at a homeless shelter with her newborn after their home has been rendered, uninhabitable by a natural disaster because those shelters are breeding grounds for bugs, communicable diseases and germs. Breathing the air in those places is enough to send one to the hospital and a newborn and a woman who has just given birth should be the very last to ever hear that a homeless shelter is the place for them.
What is wrong with us when this is acceptable in the richest country on the planet? How can we sit back and read such as this and not be moved by it? Are we that selfish and self-centered that we have no problem with this being the status quo? Quite obviously we are especially seeing as how there are millions of people who have no home and though it is not due to a natural disaster, many of them are homeless through no fault of their own. Many have mental illness, some are homeless veterans, many are children who are most definitely NOT to blame for their situation of homelessness. And many of those who are homeless have lost jobs to overseas sweatshops since manufacturing jobs are all but gone and with Trump upping the ante on this trade war with China, who knows what’s coming down the pike except that it will not be good. We are to the point where there are plagues coming back that were thought to have been eradicated. How is it that the richest country on the planet has a group that consists of millions who are homeless, sick with typhus, hookworm and other horrific diseases and illness and we just look the other way?
I have said numerous times all over this blog, that if the Christian’s “Jesus” were to come back, he’d damn well better come back driving a Lamborghini Veneno Roadster and adorned in a Dormeuil Vanquish II suit and sporting a pair of Testoni Norvegese shoes because if he comes back looking broke, wearing a plain cotton robe with a rope tied around his waist and sporting sandals, he’ll be locked up for being a vagrant and made to earn a dollar a month making license plates and what’s more you ALL know this!
Though this couple depicted in this post are not Joseph, the Virgin Mary and Jesus, their story is reminiscent of why we supposedly celebrate Christmas and so what has changed? There is still no room at the inn. The government officials are still just as cold and callus as they were in the story of the birth of Jesus and I guess we still need gifts from ‘Wise men’ which in this case would be the security guard who donated a hotel room for the couple and their newborn baby. And so the next time you decide to write out a check for charity, I’d think twice about it if I were you since only ten cents of every dollar that you donate to the Red Cross actually goes to help those in need. Ask yourself where the majority of every dollar goes. Take a look at the CEO’s salary and those who make up upper management, you’ll find where the money goes. And FEMA is just as useless now as it was when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. You all know what happened at that time. Should what went down then, still go down today? The answer should be a resounding, “NO!” But it isn’t. Think about it. The next disaster to strike could be where you live. Who or what are you going to depend on and will a kind security guard be there to help you? You’d best hope so because the Red Cross and FEMA are next to useless as is Donald Trump alongside his porn star wife.
I think this goes well with this article. America is in sad shape. You can see it at the street level. Along the gulf coast there are fer seagulls or birds at all. Rents are so jacked up all over the country, people are barely making it. Like the great depression. The orange haired turd and bastard repuks is what we got for it. The same corporate devils with the fake progressives that caused it. My grandaddy is rollin over in his grave.
Most of what people think they see, in murica are gutter lies, manipulative smelly horsecrap, psychotic conspiracy confabulation madeup by rightwing hacks, hyperintellectualized inanity. Many people like me have done every job there is, in crudhole murica. Worked in nuclear plants. Breathed industrial chemical poison, or radioactive dust in muricas backbone ,industrial pukeholes.
We have cleaned at mcdonalds. Bagged groceries. Dug ditches. Shoveled horse crap. If people came even close to getting payed, by how hard, they had to work, and how dangerous a lot of peoples work is, maybe things would be different. The entitled think the sugar machine never ends.
It is now becoming the law of diminishing returns. If many more people were given decent places to live , decent healthcare in this rotten place, maybe things, would be a lot different . Maybe things might be different for many, in this assinine blowhard, parallel universe . This degenerating-crudhole society. But they are not.
If every month a person like a sociology college professor, a quack blowhard doctor who constantly misdiagnoses overprecribes garbage drugs , and spends most of its time bitching about crappy private and medicare reimbursements had to really work. If a slimeass lawyer, had to work a day a month, at a burger king or, in a smelly dangerous chemical industrial plant, or as a low end medical aid or bedpan nurse . If they had to work a day a month at amazon or at walmart, or as a cop, things would be different.
If they had to pay 2/3 of their income in a ghetto tenament for rent, w no access to medical care, barely paying bills, watching this crummy society fall apart around them…….
If crooked politicians and their sire …….
Maybe people who work hard, would get paid ok . Maybe more would have a decent place to live, healthcare, food that is not riddled with nasty-poison chemicals, maybe things would be different. Maybe the people who have comforts, would stop bitching about the other people , they percieve less than human and, become semi
-human themselves.
If more people here, saw the real murica, maybe there would be some changes.
If people from africa saw the way things really are here, for most people:The garbage, the violence, the smugness. There is the fraudulent- med care there is overindulgence in the junky phoney-wasteful, fake society . Piles of chemical and redioactive garbage. The chronic illness from the pollution and poisonous-fake abundance, the overconsumption.
It they saw, what most likely awaits most of them, if they come here: The hate, the itinerant shelter, maybe they would rally to save their own countries that still have some clean water , air, and soil. If scumwad muricans saw reality, maybe they would do something with the evil demon
Killers leaders. The liars and scumbags that make a mockery of democracy. The criminal politicians , that are destroying africa and the rest of the world. That are destroying this country.
Maybe there would be incentive and help for the africans to do something about their own countries.
And yet, all the dumn monkeys here, ignore the ecocidal destruction of life support that makes them fat, stupid, makes their children be birth defects, makes everyone hate everyone else, in this chemical-radioactive sewer.
If you saw the lousey, delapidated boarding houses, with 100 rooms in major cities. The firetrap boarding houses that have feces on the walls in the main halls, shared toilets an 8 by 10 room for 800 hundred a month, with 3 african refugees in each 8 by 10 room . African refugees that go to Mcdonalds down the street, for free wifi.
All the chaos, waste, violence, nonsensical bullcrap, walking over homeless people in craphole cities. If you stopped and really saw and, talked to young people who cannot afford to move out of their parents houses. Talked to young people and working poor families, that work three crap jobs, to pay 1100 a month for a slumhole.
There are the more priviliged, working at chemical plants. They breath smelly-crap-poisons, that will kill them in 15 years. Working in filthy-chemical plants, makes half the kids they sire retarded with birth defects. They work there, so they can drive that nice big truck. So they can contribute further , to the huge islands of garbage in the ocean, the size of texas. Have more water, full of radium from fracking and cars and coal plants, yet the illusion must go on.
There are a lot fewer birds in many cities in murica, not many because of pesticides, fuku, car exhaust, nucular power trash. 75 percent of insects in n hemisphere dead.
Nuclear power plants on the verge of blowups and fuel fires , that constantly belch radioactive tritium dioxide in with the water vapor from their cooling towers. Deadly tritium dioxide dispersed en masse, into the environment.
Whats left of wildlife in murica, are coyotes and crows, moving into degenerate-urban human sprawls, to eek it out for a while.
There are the molycoddled sycophants and suckasses of the entitled, who have lived comfortably, as librarians et al, and cannot really think for themselves . They prattle on about payed political hack racists and demagogues. Canned republican neoracist gibberish w Loser demagoues and pseudointellectual trolls to boot.
Demented idiots living on social security and or some bloated pension, they do not deserve, watch fox tv. The same fox tv, where a talking head tells them to vote for asses, that want to further degrade them, screw them and everyone else over. The talking heads want to bomb more innocents all over the world into oblivian. They relish keeping murica, up to its neck in blood.
Their are engineers and workers. There are adminstators, vampire ceos, sukasses, criminal politicians, wall street vampire squids living comfortably. They create the weapons and munitions . The death machines for the empire, to massacre innocent people, all over the world. Death munitions, arms, and machines that turn people outside murica into refugees.
Depleted uranium munitions.
Of course, the refugees are forced to cum to this degenerating-chemical-radioactive , sewerhole . Many end up in poverty or, maybe 1 or two can be sociology professors..
Meanwhile, The Vampire squid shitheads that pedantic college professors call, masters of the universe, in their suckass intellecualized diversions talk, enourage the propaganda. Wall street vampire squid, hedge fund “managers” are destroying peoples pension funds, gulping resources en masse, killing what is left OF THE ENVIRONMENT,. They are pushing more people to the edge, in this damnable-eraserhead nightmare.
What is left of an eco-system, in this fake fraudulent chemical, radioactive craphole, In this police and, nuclear-security state, is rapidly dying.
There are far fewer birds, anywhere in the putrid usa. All of the puppet-show people with their rosecolored glasses, never notice it. There are not so-many birds because, of pesticides.
There are the chemical and coal plants. There is the fracking , that poisons our water with radium. There is the jet exhuast, the car exhaust, nucular power trash. 75 percent of the insects, in the n hemisphere are dead. Most birds are gone. U cannot eat fish, from the great lakes. Really, not even the ocean.”
harsh reality
This comment is spot on!
People, Wake The Fuck Up!
Your fake ass Disneyland Cinderella could be homeless! But you’re not telling little Ryan and Doreen that shit, oh hell no! You’re not telling your children that those workers who are decked out in cute, cuddly costumes are in reality, living out of their vehicles or are 5 deep in a motel room to cover the cost of working for low wages at fake ass Disneyland.
Millions of people are living in deep poverty who are working but because America has now become the land of the haves and the “I got nothings,” that is okay.
But wait until Disneyland decides to do away with humans which is most definitely Amazon’s intent in a few years and Cinderella will be a robot and Mickey Mouse, as well.
Take a look around you, just a few short decades ago, we were not as sorry, sad and pathetic as we are now. I noticed years ago, that there were no fireflies anymore. What has killed them off? The same thing that’s killing us. Pollution! Pesticides, runoff, toxins. We are all walking toxin factories and still, we don’t have a clue as to how bad our situation really is! And chances are, it is already too late to do a damn thing about a damn thing! But right now, we’ve still got Disneyland! A magical kingdom of make believe. Well, believe this! The mirage will soon fade away and what will be left? The reality of poverty, homelessness, suffering, despair and not a decent paying job in sight!