FFuuuuCKKKK!!! (a rant)

[undergroundpanther]

AaaaaRRRGH!! Godammit...I fucking HATE the decadent rich people in America.I hate even more are the fools that ape them..All the fucking nimby pieces of shit,in debt to thier eyeballs , selfish dickheads with thier little leauges and REliGious Faith Based BULLSHIT....They are fucking comfy and so they get to be oblivious .The weakest suffer and starve just so the rich can prosper even MORE..the rich get wealth exploiting pain and misery..There is something really perverse about this.


Add the fact that most duped Americans think it's GHASTLY idea to cap a CEO's wages,limit the size of thier golden parachutes and huge bennies packages that they vote for themselves to get,and force them to share... but these same moderate fools that would balk at limiting wealth see no problem cutting benifiets for the disabled or food stamps to people who can't survive with out them..all I can say is WTF is Wrong with people???!!!

I guess this is the pain of financial opression and unlike too many stupid people I got the guts to say what opresses me, it's socially sanctioned INEQUALITY and wealth hoarding by the few...I admit i fantasize about the Bush admin assholes having to have to choose between food or medicine ...watch them squirm..Make them go crazy filling out a billion papers,that get lost,get late,get confused and come away with nothing but more desperate..
I would love to see them break down under stress and lose it.I would laugh in thier quivering faces and tell them to go fill out more forms.

I still wonder would these fuckheads like Savage or Oreilly bray so much about how horrible and lazy poor people are,and would they have the GALL to say poor people choose this, after living my lifestyle for awhile? How would rush pay his oxycontin dealer on %00 bucks a month? Would these creeps wise up and say no to this cutting of SSI if they had to live on it? What if they had to live on SSI for the rest of thier lives would they care all of a sudden than?...

But how,how can the rich be forced to give a little so we all can live ok ..if everyone else is duped by the myth that the playing feild is even and BELIVE the weathy have rights to be greedy as they can and they can stay insulated from the people they exploit and hurt?

What amazes me is most stupid people in this country think it's ok for the wealthy to EXPLOIT humanity and exploit desperate people and exploit them for cheep labor and scam them for thier suffering..

Who says poor people arenn't supposed to covet what has been stolen from them?? The fucking rich and thier self serving churches that's who says this shit. All this cocercion for the colonialist cancers to be comfy on our backs...fuuuuck them ALL...Damn right I covet and I do it without shame, I do it with ANGER..I was BORN here,forced by DEFAULT to live in America,I grew up stuck struggling to no avail in THIER self serving commecial culture/social system of cocercion..I didn't CHOOSE this bullshit culture.I didn't get a fair chance because the game is stacked AGAINST the poor ever becoming sucessful because the rich can't handle real grass roots competition or alternative cultures.The rich are WEAK..They are scared of the people they have scammed scared people are better than them ..That is why they live in thier gated communities,pose as big men and hire extra security.They know they don't deserve all they have taken , they know they are not all that special compared to me or you or anyone else.
I wish the Americcan people would realize this and stop being taken as suckers.


These corprate asswipes now own most of the land and shelter in America now.. If I (ever got money to buy land btw)...owned land or a house, by Default the government that does not represent me would force me to pay taxes on it even when I am poor .And where pray tell would that money come from if I don't have SSI and I cannot work?

The rich have been waging class war with the poor for decades..When will the "middle class" people realize they have been sucker punched when the poor got it? There is no way out of this set up as long as people believe so much in it.!!..The rich want people dependant on them, to buy thier food ,shop at thier prices...But if I can't afford it I have"choices" I can starve or serve THEM as a slave,.That is not freedom or a choice it's a THREAT.Fuck that catch 22 shit the Boosh shits are pulling... Why not EAT THE RICH?? They already eaten up everyone else...


S I think some Ceo asshole going without ANOTHER Lexus by repealing the tax cut,so I can eat isn't gonna make the pathetic richboy suffer poverty no matter how much he whines and calls himself elite and plays superior and pretends he is skereered of poor people.Repeal the godamn tax cut,before you cut susteince to MILLIONS...The PRIORITIES in this country are FUCKED!....Take back SSI from the undeserving exploiting financially abusing ASSHOLES who would have us starve..If they won't give back....what is the other solution..I guess we got to do what they did to US..

FUCK bush's slave state ownership society bullshit.. When will America WAKE the Fuuuck UP..and get with it and realize they are being set up for debt slavery! Godamn is thier empathy broken? Is thier brain mashed potato? is thier heart dead? Stupid shit on TV don't matter anymore if you have no TV or place to plug it into stupid middle class moderate fucks still in la la conserveo-fundee land..! And that so oblivious middle class you could be next..if you do not understand that happens to the poor tends to move UPWARD because leadership is corrpt in empires.. it goes that way until society is"purged" or napolean has a waterloo.

Godammit, I wanna do something to help people that are in danger.. but I don't know what to do, I ain't got no money orr place to offer.I hate just sitting here.... everyone online is so far away,

Everywhere I go I need a fucking car to get anywhere..Fuck YOu Henry Ford!!Destroyer of ecosystems and destroyer of mass transport that everyone could use!


I REFUSE to kill myself now.... I will not die that way because of these asswipes taking away SSI money from people that need it to live,No way..I'll never go down easy like that,I owe it to my own dignity..



Tired of this psychological rat maze..Lies are all born into..



There rant done.. I feel better..

[Carolab]

1. I saw a sign on a streetpost about two weeks ago.

It was homemade, on cardboard and read, simply: "You are not alone."

I found it very comforting.

Remember that. You are, most definitely, NOT alone.

[Mnemosyne]

2. My belief in karma helps

tremendously when wanting to rip their heads off. What goes around...

Only my faith in that keeps me sane over these issues.

Disability sucks! And they are going to make it suck worse, guess they think if they make it harder we will lift ourselves out of being disabled. You know how it is, if you insult someone it'll make them want to be better! A**holes.

Anyway, here's a hug, across the miles.

smilies won't work

Good rant, many are with you on this one!

[beam me up scottie]

3. Awesome rant, my friend.

My dad has a good theory on why the middle class keeps wearing the blinders, the haves have convinced these sheep that if they work hard enough, they too can live the "American Dream".
They wont agree to take anything away from the rich because they believe they will someday be living next door to them in those gated communities.

Fucking idiots.

[NMMNG]

4. You go UGP!

I feel you man!

I too am sick at the idea of vapid heiresses like Paris Hilton who don't have to work a day yet can blow more money in one shopping trip than I'll have in my lifetime. I detest the idea of fat-cat politicians who vote themselves exhorbitant pay raises in the same session as they cut benefits to disabled people.

I work two full-time jobs, scrimp and pinch to pay my bills and drive a '97 Saturn that I'm still making payments on. If I ever save the money (and have the time) to go go grad school I might be able to get a single job that pays enough for me to live on.

There are people who spend money left and right. They have multi-million dollar mansions, a car for every day of the week, enough clothes that they don't need to wear the same outfit more than once a month and more jewelry than Tiffany's. What they waste on their indulgences could feed a third-world village for a year.

If I could have that sort of money I'd put it to some beneficial sort of use--but of course I don't. I have to be satisfied with doling out the chump change I'm able to give.

[Sugarbleus]

5. GO UP.......Yeahhhhhhhhhh baby!!!! Don't stop with the rants..

You speak for sooooo many of us. You speak for me. I'm just livid about the living conditions for the underclass/poor/disabled/aging and/or struggling families in this country.

My mood is at a murderous level. I'm that furious. I've also lost about 90% of any respect I ever had for the LAW, as it is legislated today. If one is so poor, can't find a decent job, has no credit, can't find shelter--they are likely to resort to unlawful activities and all those shiny new penitentiaries are just waiting to "house them", able bodied AND disabled. I can barelykeep a civil tongue in my mouth.

I know what you mean about envy and all that. I was taught not to envy and to be happy with what I have.:spray: That was total bullshit then, it's bullshit now; I completely reject that notion today!

I was also taught that ALL work is honorable. I still believe that but the greed monsters aren't into honest work, they are into WEALTH gathering at any cost, status, and greed. At one point in time, a person working in a modest job (janitorial, waitressing, retail etc) was able to afford a place to live and food to eat. Not anymore.

Over the years and with the drumbeat that "greed is good", money/wealth/status has become GOD to Americans. NOTHING else matters. I see this society being turned back to the gilded age of robber barons and "every man for himself". Gone/leaving are any advances we've made in terms of human decency for the weakest among us.

I too find myself wishing the worst trauma on those who Lord it over us; I don't worry about that sentiment either. Even in Christian theology there is a phrase that applies: Righteous Indignation.
Our grief, anger, frustration, and suffering have caused this sentiment and our resulting indignation IS THE KARMA...for them.

The middle class are living in a "Fools Paradise" if they think they will EVER reach the pinnacles of aristocracy/super wealth in this society; our "system" is rigged against them..it always was. Only a handful of particularly creative, inventive, ruthless, ever make it that far.

As for the rest of us who suffer poverty, disability, old age etc. we are extra baggage to them. Our lives are not worth the air we breath--even though we may be supporting not just ourselves but others who may have a chance at a better life. Our health, shelter, and well being means NOTHING to them--even though many of us are the 'generous ones' who work the soup kitchens and take in lost souls. The power elite LIE to the public about how we got where we're at. They are in denial about how much it takes to sustain life and enjoy a bit of happiness down here. The rich don't care, the middle class are in la la land about these issues. "It won't happen to me".....like in a child's mind completely out of touch with reality.

Indeed: EAT THE RICH and occupy their homes. :grr: :grr:

[Sugarbleus]

6. I wanted to add another issue to this thread

it belongs in the poverty forum as well. The issue is this: HOUSING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not only are we being molested financially and medically, we are being treated like animals that can survive living in "kennels".

THERE IS A HOUSING CRISIS. It's not just for the working class, it's also for the disabled and elderly!!

How many communities out there are integrating accessible housing for those who rent and have disabilities AND HAVE WHOLE FAMILIES?

I went to look at one of those new redevelopment agency "projects" nearby. It's gorgeous on the outside--at first glance. Upon closer examination, we discover all the units are TWO STORIES. Some of the "driveways" to a cramped garage were just three feet long (???) If you drive your vehilce up to the dwelling, there's no place to unload a wheelchair. Also,like in our case, the vehicle in the driveway prohibits entry into the garage for those wanting to drive their wheelchairs into it. There was no off driveway parking.

The inner floor plans were extremely cramped. There are NO full bathrooms or any bedrooms on the ground floor. The entrances are NOT accessible for those using assistive devices. I found THREE units in this "project" that were on level ground that claimed to be societies answer to FAMILIES with disabilities. They were CRAMPED (small) with one bathroom that wasn't big enough. Small unadapted kitchens, tiny little living room spaces with only two bedrooms--I guess disabled folk aren't suppose to have GUESTS over for get togethers or have more than one child??????!!!! Additionally, they are building some of these units FOR SALE to low income buyers. Low income around here is anything less than $60,000. Why would anyone want to pay that kind of money for a dwelling that wasn't accessible or roomy enough to turn around in???????? :grr:

A new concept in construction today (for those who can buy new homes), in order to comply with the aging population and those with disabilities, is called "VISITABILITY" construction. At least one entrance has to have a flush threshold at least 36" wide. One bathroom that will accomodate a wheelchair user, and the hallways and inner doorways have to be at least 36" wide. The idea for this is that FINALLY, someone got a clue and figured out that PEOPLE DO AGE and DO become physically disabled. Constructing a new home this way prevents owners from having to tear down walls and pony up big bucks to remodel their homes WHEN THEY DO AGE OR BECOME DISABLED or have family or friends that need these accomodations upon visiting.

Hmmm, now WHY didn't the builders of these beauiful new "Projects" show some foresight like that?????? These low income projects, ONCE AGAIN, goes blind and dumb in terms of building dwellings for DISABLED people or family members and guests etc... WE DON'T EXIST!

:nuke: :nuke:

[Carolab]

7. Absolutely.

"THERE IS A HOUSING CRISIS. It's not just for the working class, it's also for the disabled and elderly!!"

I was just reading about this locally. Projections are for SEVERE shortages of "affordable housing" by 2010. MOST of the projections are for poor, single-parent families (mostly female heads of household) and for older adults without children (read: elderly). As for the disabled, there are ADA laws that are supposed to be followed in new construction of commercial dwellings and in rental units to accommodate them. In existing residential facilities, disabled persons can insist upon modifications to accommodate their disabilities, but it's at THEIR expense!

[Sugarbleus]

8. Thanks for that affirmation...I sometimes feel like NOBODY'S listening!

My S.O. worked for years on accessibility issues in this town. He worked with new construction and remodels to ensure buildings were handicapped accessible.

He worked with various groups/committees and task forces for the elderly and handicapped; most recently on issues related to transportation.

Our town is largely liberal; it's a university town. STILL, the planning commission and others completely forget that disabled people's needs are largely ignored...HOUSING in this case.

For those who do own their own homes or have inherited one, GOOD ON YA. However, and unfortunately there are untold numbers of disabled persons who HAVE TO RENT. If I were a single person, a simple apt would do. I have a large family and friends and dreams and hobbies..I need larger accomodations. Friends of ours have children with one disabled parent who have to live in one dinky little trailer. NO room for guests or family meals at holidays ... NOTHING extra. Some places won't even allow pets!

The whole ADA law is being tossed to the curb.

PS: :evilgrin: S.O. just told me I should take my original rant on this and send it to the city planning commission...what a waste of money not to include eventualities like disability in families who occupy those developments. I believe I will send my rant out forthwith.

[undergroundpanther]

9. Don't get me started on HOUSING......RRrrwoeerrrr..

OK Get this shit cause that's what it IS...

There is a way to make a decent house with an in ground pool if you wanted it that would be very efficient it's called a Cobb house,

http://alternatives.com/cob-building/whatiscob.html
http://www.cpros.com/~sequoia/

but with Earth houses you have to deal with HOUSING codes written for lumber companies,electrical companies mining companies etc.That make MONEY off crappy buildings.

http://www.deatech.com/natural/cobinfo/cobcode.html

The ironic thing is how cheaply constructed these nearly all plastic dwellings(?) are.compared to Earth houses in New England or overseas or other historic buildings that will outlast the crap they sell now...ever walk up to a site where they are building 500,000 buck cardboard Mc.mansions that these fools go into debt thier WHOLE LIVES for? Germans think these houses suck, but dumb Americans Looove it.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1566660,00.html

I have contractor friends and they demonstrated to me why I would NEVER want buy a new house,They showed me how you can punch through the walls of these houses with your fist or a hammer.The vinyl siding cracks and the drywall inside dents out ward. That is how flimsy they are.

They are often built on questionable quality land and the topsoil is not topsoil anymore, it's often clay because they move the earth around to make berms and other bullshit"landscaping".Gardens don't grow well in the poor dirt and new developments wreck all the trees so there is nothing to enrich the soil..however GRASS as in LAWN loves it once it's drenched in pesticides and chemicals...
http://www.usatoday.com/life/2002/2002-04-12-landscaping.htm
http://www.medicalpost.com/mpcontent/article.jsp?content=/content/EXTRACT/RAWART/3732/47A.html...

It takes a long time for neighborhoods to become established..by time these Mc mansion neighborhoods ever get established they will be falling apart slums..


People are so goddamn stupid it blows my mind.. Don't get me started on the stupidity of suburban living space planning/zoning....Who's bright idea was it to FORCE people to drive to get ANYWHERE else? Why Isolate the homes in miles of dead end Cull-de-sacks,,than have one main way out of the tract homes ,all clogged up with traffic that goes to the malls,or the schools..close down everything at 900 pm so people have nothing to do and no one to socialize with,,especially if they have no car..What is there to do in suburbia if you don't want or like kids?? ... except get up go to work shop for shit you don't need,come home crash and begin all over again.Ooh that's the high life..Har de Har...


No wonder Americans are so SICK in the head,they are disempowered,and taught to ACCEPT all this bullshit as important but in reality does it matter is it worth wasting YOUR LIFE over?,that race makes them sick in the heart, since they can't be allowed to LIVE thier OWN life in a way that leads THEM to happiness(because happy people are not profitable) let alone find thier own voice so they can reclaim their own power from these fucking corporate pieces of shit engineering their minds anfd lives ...and everything else around them. We have all this shit and no time to enjoy life..WonDerFul isn't it?

And they call this Freedom?? What the fuck..I think its not free,because it's just dumb.

And fuck mowing the lawn,I got better things to do with my time..

[Sugarbleus]

10. My now deceased bro n law was an advocate of alternative

materials in buildings. His latest one was living more or less underground. A cave like thingy was more like it. He proposed using old tires and recycled materials to sheer up and/or make the walls.

He lived in the mountainous regions of Calif here. But, like you say, PERMITS PERMITS PERMITS and all sorts of other bull pucky stood in the way. My brother n law had it all mapped out... it looked like a really cool idea. Cool in the summer, warm in the winter, solar power..the whole nine yards.

I have seen alternative dwellings on this order when watching one of those "adventure" channels. A few people around the country somehow managed to accomplish what you're talking about. I believe there is an "Earth House" located someplace in the mountains right here in my own community. I may have seen that one over one of these travel/adventure channels as well. I didn't know it was up there.

I live on the Monterey Bay in Calif. Santa Cruz to be exact. It is BEAUTIFUL here; coastal mountains with thick forest on one side, the sea on the other. We are nicly tucked away from the hustle and bustle of the big city...except for the summer time when the tourists come flooding into town.

This is a university town which is extremely concious of the green agenda. We have a "green belt" law in place here. It's all very beautiful. HOWEVER, I ask my self: Where did all these new dwellings come from? I thought this area was about ZERO growth?! All of a sudden every empty lot is being CROWDED with these ticky tacky two story mini developments. My guess is that the city planners were paid off because the temptation was just too great. What with all the six figure earning folks streaming over the mountain from Silicon Valley to pay any price to live here!!

My complaint is: if the city is going to turncoat and allow development, WHY IN GOD'S NAME didn't they provide for the disabled and poorer members of this community while they were at it?!! Even buying up falling down older homes and remodeling them to accomodate those who need shelter would be a grand idea. There are old buildings standing empty that could be used for shelter.

The city DID spend the funds to build and open a beautiful homeless shelter with all sorts of amenities to help those who want it. But the rest of us with special needs have largely been ignored. UNLESS of course one wants to live in those little warehouse neo-nursing facilites. Cracker boxes, cubicles called 'apts'. I think those accomodations are fine for some folk, but not nearly the answer to WHOLE FAMILIES with physically disabled members.

I NEED space. I cannot handle living right on top of each other like we are coping with now. You cram a bunch of people into a boxcare like dwelling and they are going to be very irritable and go nearly insane. It's unnatural.

I LOVE to garden. I crave sunshine and the out of doors. I grow all sorts of plants when I have the space. I started growing veggies (in raised containers) since the cost of food has blasted through the stratosphere. I want a pet. I am a crafter, a maker of of "things". I used to participate in our craft faires. Today, I can't even find the room to put up an ironing board much less dig out my materials to practice my hobbies--all of my gear is in storage. Each of us needs a private space...ain't got that here nor do I find it in any of the low income dwellings I looked at. Again, if I were alone, a small space would be fine because I would be the only one occupying it.
I've stayed in motels/Inns that have more room for disabled guests than some of these "accessible homes" do. It's ridiculous.

So, for me, I'm not talking about sprawling suburbia in general. I'm merely talking about adequate, sensible, modified shelter for people with special needs who cannot afford to even RENT in mainstream "Suburbia" anyway.

[bobbieinok]

11. 20 or so years ago I saw info about Scandinavian architects who

were designing homes and furniture for older people and the disabled........from what I remember, there was some comment that concern for this type of housing had a long history in the Scandinavian countries

maybe some contact could be made

maybe a group could meet with architectural students at local universities........courses have real life assignments for term projects

[Sugarbleus]

12. That would be neat...

Like I said in one of my previous posts...there is a new construction idea that has come into it's time: "Visitability" construction for new builds. It's a start and waaaaaaaaay overdue.

WTG Scandinavia; honoring people from the cradle to the grave :toast:

[China_cat]

14. The ADA is dead in the water

The provision that allows anyone to opt out is that accomodations DON'T have to be made if it would impose a 'financial hardship'. And the right wing is making sure that companies know about this clause, and use it.

[Megahurtz]

13. This makes me very angry too....

And sad.:cry: This lifestyle really stands out in California.

I see all of the older houses being torn down and all of the decandent homes go up day by day.
I see the wealthy move in and elaborately decorate their new homes.
People driving around in their very wealthy cars and gas-sucker SUV's incessantly talking on their cell phones and ignoring everyone else.

I wonder, where in the world do they get all of that money???
They just selfishly hang very tight to their ill-gotten gain with their "Fuck You I've Got MINE!" attitudes.

I then look and see a panhandler on a street corner, all the wealthy just pass by.

Depressed :cry: my self esteem is shot because I look down at the dashboard of my 20 year old car and it is torn up, seats are torn and there is no ceiling (all metal, picking up the heat of the sun) and I can hear the sound of the rotation of the tires because the front end is going out,
and we have no money to fix it.
I live off of a disability check every month which doesn't even cover the rent, and my fiance has a low-paying job and is doing all that he can.
His car is broken down, we only have one barely working car.
I also have a 15 year old daughter whom I get no child support for. We are living from hand to mouth.
New clothes? What the hell is that? We have to buy all second-hand.
And Doctor bills, I can't even go there right now......

I will write more later on this.......but I agree. I wish I wasn't legally obligated to stay in this country, because if you are poor here there seems to be no way out unless you win the lottery or something and yeah, good luck on that one.:cry::cry::cry: