Dear Jake

Dear Jake,

I remember the day you were born with your umbilical cord tied around your neck , the first thing you did was pee on the doctors fancy silk tie. Ha, yeah you came into the world full of piss and vinegar. Seeing the birth of a child, especially your own is truly an amazing thing.

I remember after you were born coming home covered in metal shavings and jet fuel from building an air-craft carrier and spending an hour to clean up so I could hold you. Ah, I remember we took some good naps together little buddy.

I remember when you were 3 months old in the NICU with tubes plugged in everywhere fighting for your life from the beast of RSV. I remember we were fighting an eviction at the same time and some secretary forgot to make a phone call and we lost everything we owned. I would post your newborn picture and your footprints but some bitch landlord made sure that all that stuff went in a dumpster. She made sure she kept all our kids x-mas presents for her own kid that year though, that was for sure.

I remember what a handful you were, climbing to the tallest bookcase in head-start you could find and leaping with no fear. I remember the stitches in your nose from leaping off the bunk beds too.

I remember when we lived in Washington and us and 65 other families lost our homes one summer because some fucking land developer had better ideas. But we kept on fighting the world, your mother and I, the best we knew how.

Part of me wants to pray that the Great Creator will come and take you away from the suffering of this world, especially the part that comes during recovery. We all know the rest of the world is only concerned with how much labor we can produce to build someone else's home and fill it with fancy plastic shit. If you can't fulfill any of that, well then you get left by the wayside under a bridge somewhere (or with any luck in a basement).

The other part of me, what there is left of it; is praying that somehow I can fight my way out of this fucking depression and make it across the 2500 miles to be there with you.

Dammit Jake, now I gotta go pull myself up by the bootstraps again. Oh, wait. Some asshole called government tore the straps off my boots and shredded them as well. Looks like I'll be comin' barefoot little buddy, hang in there just a little longer.

http://www.gofundme.com/5m4kwk

Dear BitCoin Santa

Dear Santa Claus (The white one, the black one, any Santa of any color/race/sex/religion etc,etc...)
Please send BitCoin this year.  btc: 1M1NYFPUjJbBLqvrbHSTsDWeEL5GRfFwSD
I know I haven't been especially good this year but I haven't been especially bad either.

I want to be a part of the new digital revolution - digital currencies/maker revolution/robotics/wearable computing.

You see Santa, I happen to be one of the American 1% - the bottom 1%.  I have been fined, taxed and feed from the first day I entered the 'working class'.

Ha, the 'working class'.  I was taught in school that when you have a job there is supposed to a reward, a 'light at the end of the tunnel' so to speak.  So I built big custom homes.  I thought being a working man, a carpenter; was a respectible reputation.  Hell it's not like I made some plastic shit toy that breaks in a week.  I built built big ass houses that wil last a lifetime or even two or three lifetimes.

And in 1987 when I started as a carpenter my worth was $5/hr.  The funny thing about being a carpenter and having a crappy vehicle - You sure as hell get pulled over alot. And I have to tell you, it's expensive as FUCK to keep up with all the 'taxes' and 'madatory insurance' just to be able to be a part of the 'working class'.

Well, I know you're a busy guy/gal(who knows? maybe Mrs. Claus will help too) I don't want to bore with the rest of the details (I am sure this isn't the first story of the 'working class' you've read)

You see Mr. Santa Claus, I would love to be a part of society.  I want to be able to contribute in some way.  Just because I am half disabled and broke doesn't mean I am worthless.  I could imagine that if I had the resources, I could do all kinds of amazing things.
(parts list for amazing things - http://blogstew.blogspot.com/2013/12/parts-list.html)

Thanks for your time Santa,
signed
Just Another Broke Working Class American (lookin for a free ride and a handout)
 btc: 1M1NYFPUjJbBLqvrbHSTsDWeEL5GRfFwSD
#BTC #BitCoin #Santa #Poverty

Parts List

Wish List

Scorpion computer chair http://www.mwelab.com/index.php/en/products/emperor-LX

$21000

or  ulitmate emporer

http://www.mwelab.com/index.php/en/products/emperor-200

$50000

10-20 rapberry pi computers ($25/ea) - $250/$500

20-40 for robotics stuff - $500/$1000

10-20 usb asic miners (price unknown $100/ea) - $1000/$2000 as of ‎11/‎20/‎2013

               http://www.coindesk.com/redfury-2-6gh-usb-miner-now-available/

               calculator http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator

               (net diff = $592/mo return = 3weeks return)

'Compound Annual Growth Rate - CAGR'

               $592 * 12mo = $7104 (1yr)

               7104/2500 = 2.8416

               .2368 = %23 return 1yr

               $592 * 24mo = $14208 (2yr)

               14208/2500 = 5.6832

               .2368 = 23% return 2yr

16/24 port ciso router

solarpanels/batteries - enough to power raspberries

               $5000

fix hp computer

               Setup & Install for HP ProLiant ML350 G4p Storage Server

              http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/setupInstallDisplay/?sp4ts.oid=501616&spf_p.tpst=psiContentDisplay&spf_p.prp_psiContentDisplay=wsrp-navigationalState%3DdocId%253Demr_na-c00290871-1%257CdocLocale%253Den_US&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken

               http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantml350/specifications-g4p.html

               5 scsi drives $250ea - $1250($2500)

               2x 3ghz zeon w/2mb cache $500

               Dual GB NIC

               12GB RAM ECC

               2x power supply $200

3D printer(s)

               $2000 - $10000

gopro camera - $400

Tools

               Air Compressor - (600gal shop)

               Air tools - grinders - paint guns

               Snap-on Full Box - EVERYTHING

               Grinders (various) / Dremel

               All-in-One            Machine Shop / Lathe (one for wood - one for steel)

Misc

               Robotics parts

               Fabrics / circuit path inks (wearable computing)

              

Picking myself up by my bootstraps again - The New 'Value Based' Economy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3G0A2gQnew


BitCoins / The Maker Revolution /
YES !!! I want to be a part of it !!!
If you are one of the rare humans who believes that other humans have more to offer for society than a life of cheap wages and poverty this post is for you.

I have reecently stumbled into an amazing feed, it could be an amazing new world. Unfortunately I happen to be one of the 'other 1%'.

First things first. I know I am probably - more than likey - most definitely going to get flamed for days for this but screw it - I got nothin left to lose.  For those of you who want to percieve me as a beggar - go ahead (Then go flame everyone on kickstarter and gofundme).  I am the result of American trickle-down economics in a military fear mongered police state.  I am one those poor bastrds that wasted his youth thinking I would get rewarded for my hard work. LOL, the 'Amercan Dream' is a fucking lie to make us feel like we have chance. (Well, according to studies at least 8% of us do)

I have been following the Bitcoin / Maker / 'Value' based economy feeds for a while.  What an amazing concept - come up with an idea and then get help, i.e Kickstarter/GoFundMe

So here I am world. In my mid 40's living in my aunts basement. The result of constant work for low wages and a governtment that hasn't done a thing for me except make sure I am ridiculed and pushed even further into the position of not being able to help myself.  Fucking driver licenses are the greatest invention ever to subvert poor people.

Just because I'm partialy disabled and broke doesn't mean I can't contribute.  So I have a million ideas for the maker community and robots and bitcoins and all things technology.

So this is my call to the new 'Value based' economy.  My call to the makers and believers (the believers that think we are all worth something beyond 40 and 60 hours a week). My fellow 'Value economeers' - help me do something worth some value.

I have a gofundme(http://www.gofundme.com/5m4kwk) page started so that I can get access to all those things I need to get started and get out this rut.

What do you get out of it ???
You get the satisfaction of knowing that BTC donations go right back into the BTC community (and there just might be one more BTC mining pool starting).

You get the satisfaction of knowing that US dollars(as worthless as they are) get pumped back into the economy when I buy shit and pay bills - (And BTCers get the satifisaction of knowing theres more US dollars getting 'dumped' in favor of BTC)

Look, I have asked my own corrupt fucked up govt for help already - they told me they were having more fun spending money killing people and giving it away to bankers.

So that leaves me here - asking my fellow humans for help so that I can be worth something more than a piece of basement art.

Thanks and peace ;)

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My Broken America

My Broken America

I used to believe in the idea of hard work, hell I believed in it so much I ended up having a back surgery. But my problems with poverty and depression started long before my injury.  This 'so-called' great country we live in is nothing more than the same old age of kings and queens that our forefathers fought so hard to escape from.

My indoctrination into this lie we call 'The American Dream' went just the way it was planned.  I believed all that bullshit I was taught in school.  One of the worst lines of bullshit ever - 'Driving is a privilege'.  <-- FUCK THIS BULLSHIT

This fucked up government we live with has spent a great deal of time and money beating the shit out of me.  I have had my 'driving privileges' taken away more times than I care to talk about.  I have had several vehicles that I 'worked' for and earned merely confiscated because I am just a low life carpenter that could never make enough money to even afford the privilege to fucking work.

According the magna-carta it is my God given right to be able to travel freely so that I can support myself.  Funny thing how our great country beats it's own citizens into poverty.

Oh well, Fuck it.  It's my own fucking fault for not being born into the land of riches.

The funny thing about all of it is, even through all the driving bullshit I continued to pay the fucking fines and fees and poor tax that go along with just trying to survive.  And I kept working and fighting just to keep my nose above water in my sinking ship of life.

It strikes me as odd how all the laborers in this great land of ours are treated like dogshit.  If it wasn't for all of us low life workers those rich fucks wouldn't be where they are today.  And yet for some reason the middle class looks down on us like the peasants of old.

Now I just sit and laugh about it.  While the great government media machine continues to pit the middle-class against the working class (Hey dummies, there is no middle-class) and pit the homophobes against the heterosexuals and pit the 'right-to-lifers' against the abortionists. Lets not even get into the constant war on drugs , war on terror and war on anything they can think of to distract us.

Yes, I am one of those low life 99%ers (Actually I am one of 99.99%ers) but that's OK.  I can see the end in sight.  50 million Americans continue to have their rights usurped and the so called 'middle-class' is right behind them.  Once the powers that be have had their way with the low life laborers they will find some way to bash the next group of 50 million into farther debt and poverty too.

So fuck it.  I have been denied my disability benefits and once again I have had my God given right to travel freely usurped once again.  This is all I have left at the moment - internet panhandling until it warms enough for me to limp my crippled ass to a corner somewhere.

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The Luck of the Poor

The Luck of the Poor

(response to http://killer-martinis.squarespace.com/my-wordpress/2013/12/3/coming-out-of-hiding)

It amazes me at the absolute abhorrent behavior of so many judgmental people. I have been following Linda's story from the beginning and I think it is friggin awesome.  If you look up the mental diagnosis of a 'psychopath' it pretty much fits every public official and definitely the haters and nay-sayers.

Hey, if your so pissed off that the universe decided to reward someone for bearing their soul - jump on the band wagon and bear yours too (or are you afraid your life of luck and good fortune doesn't compare?). Linda deserves the reward for that which she has accomplished, she stepped up to the plate and made an effort to do something - the same thing everyone does when they go their pathetic piss poor hourly wage job - they make an effort and get paid for it.

I don't see anyone bitching about how the 1% take more from society in 5 minutes than the rest of us make in a lifetime. It's fucking incomprehensible.

So I can't get this out in any more of a coherent manner either but here's my story of luck and good fortune.

I have been lucky enough to be evicted with a dying child in a hospital because some secretary for a judge 'forgot' to make a phone call.  I have been lucky enough to have my license suspended almost every year because my life as a carpenter just won't support a family of six - let alone pay for all the fees (poor tax) involved with just being able to get to work.

I have been lucky enough to be evicted when the mobile home park I lived in was bought by out of state investors who decided that me and 65 other families living day-to-day just weren't worth the effort to accept late rent payments. (Yes I even went to court with the other 65 families and we offered to pay our rent - but Landlords have final say whether they will accept it or not)

I have been lucky enough to have 5 vehicles towed simply because I made the choice to feed my children and pay the electric bill and whatever else it took keep them alive. I am lucky enough to have been able to rack up a $24k debt when I picked myself by my boot-straps to re-educate myself after a back-surgery.

I have been lucky enough to once again have my god-given-right to travel freely to make a living usurped by a corrupt government once again because I can't the fees (poor tax).

I am lucky enough to be denied every 'livable wage' position I apply for because now I fall into that trap of over 40 -half disabled - unemployed longer than 6 months - can't pass a fair credit reporting act check to even get a job because I haven't made a payment on my $24k education to get a fucking livable wage job.

I'm a fucking adult goddammit and I deserve better than $10/hr flippin burgers or selling cheap imported shit from china for some fucking thankless billionaire at wally world.
I can't fucking wait to see what stroke of luck comes my way next.

My apologies Linda, I know you are keeping your sense of decorum but somebody has to tell these self righteous fucks just how disgusting their behavior is.

May you and your family and friends have a wonderful holiday.

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Minimun Wage on Black Friday

Minimum Wage
Yay, the states and even the government are talking about raising the minimum wage.
When a company pays a worker minimum wage here's what they are telling you.

Company:
HAHAHA, your lucky I even pay you at all you worthless piece of crap.  If it wasnt against the law for me to chain you to the wall and beat you into submission and starve you until your dead I would.  It's not my fault as a company that you can't pay your bills, or eat or afford to do anything for that matter.  Thats your fault for being born into poverty you piece of shit, and I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure you fuckin stay there.
You need money to pay for somewhere to live.  You better hope somebody in your family with some money croaks off and I don't get my hands on the inheritance before you do (probate).  You should be able to sleep in the street you piece of shit, and make sure you wash up at the fucking public toilet before you get here - because if you like shit on the wages I'm forced to pay you I'll fire your sorry ass.
Do you want to eat? Fuck you, go get some food stamps paid for by taxes (The lucky bastards in middle management that managed to squeeze through my poverty gap.LOL, I'm workin on fuckin them next).  I don't pay taxes because I spent enough money to support a small nation just to make sure I don't have to.
Uh Oh, you got sick. Fuck you I'm not paying for your goddamn health you worthless maggot, go rack up some medical bills so I can destroy your credit and keep your dumb ass in the shit where you belong. I wish you would just fucking die already so I can get some younger slaves in here - they're easier to control because they dont quite know how to think yet.
Great, I think I will just pay everybody in the company minimum wage from now on.  I might even be able to get away with salaried employees.  Then I could make em work 60 to 80 hours a week and get even with the little bastards.  Hell, I might even be able to ruin the lives of a few of those middle class fucks that managed to skip the poverty gap.
You want a holiday? Fuck you dirtbag, I need another multi million dollar home, another million dollar car and at least a 600 million dollar yacht. You don't deserve one fucking day off. Thats why I don't pay you decent to begin with. I have to make sure you and every other poor mother fucker like you are so broke that you can't take a day off.
Look here you fucking dirt bags, your lucky I even decided to make a company at all to give your dumb ass something to do.  I could just as easily not do a fucking thing for the rest of my life but where's the fun in not being able to control an entire nation ROFLMAO.
Enjoy your black friday - the top 1% expect thier coprotations to make 600 billion dollars in sales in one day.

Rants

ARG screw it. I'm just gonna rant and type until its all out.

I read this article found on http://killermartinis.kinja.com/why-i-make-terrible-decisions-or-poverty-thoughts-1450123558 the other day and wrote a quick response, but it just wasnt enough.

So today I am just going to go absolutely raving mad and get some stuff off my chest.

It's amazing some of the comments from the trolls, it's absolutely appauling to think that some people either just were'nt raised with empathy or dont have the gene for it - lack of empathy is a fucking disease. It's like a rotting plague eating away at the planet. (We have consented to the authority of sociopaths - http://www.wikihow.com/Determine-if-Someone-Is-a-Sociopath)

The first part of my adult life I was a carpenter; right out of high-school. I graduated early (thats the redneck way to say I quit). I built big custom homes on a golf course. I produced an awesome product and got paid for it once.  The funny thing is, the product I made will stand for a hundred years or more. And I am sure the banks are still getting mortgage payments on a product I helped create.

Wow, when I stop and think about what I just said there it blows my mind. I built custom houses for rich people that are still making payments on something I built 20 years ago for $5/hr.  I wish I could get a piece of that income - hell, I am partly responsible for a 30 year income for some fat banker.  I have suffered the pain of back surgery for some fat fuck that probably cant pick up anything heavier than a fucking pencil.

Poverty will beat your ass. Poverty will beat your ass and then beat your ass some more, and then when you get to the point where you can pick your head up and look someone in the eye it only takes the smallest problem for poverty to come back and kick your ass some more.

Actually its more of a disaster, poor people don't ever really have problems - we have disasters. A broken appliance can be a disaster. Car problems and driver license problems  and fucking mandatory insurance (poor tax) are an even worse disaster.

I spent the majority of my adult life and income just trying to be able to drive to build the fucking rich mans house.  I had to 'pay' to work - what the fuck is that shit any way. Everybody stop and think about that one for a minute. You have to 'pay' to go to work. Not just poor people but rich people too. The only difference is the rich people don't even think about everything on auto-pay.  But when your trying to raise a family on $10/hr you have to make sacrifices.

I love it when some ass hat says - 'just pick yourself by your bootstraps and do better' - fuck that shit.  Do better - better than what?  Building houses is a good decent job, at least thats what I used to think - turns out the world needs a million corrupt lawyers and bankers more than it needs fucking houses.  Id like to see some fuckin prissy lawyer with a smashed fucking finger when he hits it with a hammer.

You know , if it wasnt for all us dirty carpenters and plumbers and electricians all you motherfuckers would still be living in fucking tents and tee-pees.

The thing that pisses me off the most is being thought of as lazy - followed closely by being thought of as uneducated.  Lazy? Are you fucking kidding me? I was so fucking lazy I ended up having a back surgery you pompass rich fuck!!! And I didn't wind up having that happen from sittin on my fat ass.  I probably moved more weight in lumber before most peoples breakfast than you'll ever move in your life.

And welfare, yeah that was my fucking lifes ambition.  It's like a goddamn job keeping up with that mountain of paperwork - and the embarassment of taking all the bullshit paperwork to employers and landlords is not worth the trouble.  If I wouldnt have had 4 kids to feed I just would have went without because of the bullshit.

The uneducated part burns my ass too.  Look here you self-righteous judgemental SOBS, you were able to go to college (more than likely paid for by mommy and daddy).  I went to community college while working and trying to raise a family on welfare. The best fucking thing I got out of that was - 'Hey great degree, you got any experience to go with that' - and then to find out $24k in debt leads to fucking $10/hr tech-support for idiots that are barely able to pick thier fucking noses.

Now I fall into that 'Over-40' and 'unemployed longer than 6 months trap.  It's pretty much over from here. Am I lazy now ? You bet your sweet ass I am.  I don't think flipping fucking burgers is going to lead me to that dream job I went to college for.  I'm an adult god-dammit and I deserve an adults job. It's fucking hillarious when I see these companies I interview with hire some fucking 20-something that can barely formulate a fucking sentence and has no concept of how to talk to people.

Thank you killermartinis

Thank you Linda (http://killermartinis.kinja.com/why-i-make-terrible-decisions-or-poverty-thoughts-1450123558)
Well OK here goes some more 'observations' about poverty and how it effects peoples lives - especially the lives of those living it.

So before we get started let me re-iterate some of Linda's points that are important.
1)I am only writing this from my point of view, I make no claims to be speaking for anyone but myself.
2)I don't feed trolls. If you leave a troll comment I will leave it for your posterity.


And now for some Plagiarism . You are absolutely right Linda about not being able to put everything (or anything for that matter) into a coherent structure. Especially when you try to dump your lifes story into a 1500 word essay.

I have a rough draft of most of my timeline started here - http://blogstew.blogspot.com/2013/11/living-in-poverty-american-slave.html and the best of my thoughts here http://williamhgross.blogspot.com/.

The sad fact of the matter is there is more money to be made by killing people than in keeping them alive - (Just look at the US Military budget for the last 30 years).  The conversation you have started is amazing and I am awesomely excited by the response you are getting.  Unfortunately once the holidays are gone and we hit Jan 2nd it will be back to business as usual.

The tons of stories I see rolling through the page are amazing - it's like rolling through memory lane.  Even though I do not speak for anyone but myself, I can definitely relate to all the horror on the page.

I watched the live piece on http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/why-poor-peoples-decisions-make-sense/529379d802a7600de5000276 and thought it was awesome.
To all the 'morons' that wouldn't give this woman a job because of her appearance - F*** you - your idiots.   But I digress, what the hell do I know. I'm just some dirty carpenter that probably built your house.

I made a simiar attemp several years ago to write about my life's misadventures but alas - eviction and homelesness put an end to that - maybe I will try to do it again (once more with feeling)

Thank you Linda (http://killermartinis.kinja.com/why-i-make-terrible-decisions-or-poverty-thoughts-1450123558)


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Living in Poverty - An American Slave - Memoirs of a Carpenter (rough draft)

Living in Poverty - An American Slave - Memoirs of a Carpenter

I found a really cool post with a great story (http://killermartinis.kinja.com/why-i-make-terrible-decisions-or-poverty-thoughts-1450123558) Thank you for writing and puiblishing that, and thank you to everyone who reads it and shows any sign of 'empathy'
I have found several other stories on the web lately as well and thought I would throw mine out with the rest of them.

So this is a roough draft of my life so far - Belive me, there is tons more but I had to start somewhere.

The Florida Years 74 - 94
Occupation - carpenter/pipefitter - wages $5/hr - $10/hr
First ticket - driving without 'license' - 17 years old (1986)
driving the motorcycle that I worked for and paid for (i.e earned it)
first license - $260 after fines/fees
ticket - driving with no headlights(atlantic blvd, jax bch FL - 4 lane bouelvard lit up like it was daytime) - no insurance = $250/$500

First lost(stolen) vehicle - dec24th (raining) - car broke down(station wagon), wife called for help - car 'towed'

Laid off from pipefitting job - (Atlantic Marine - Mayport NAS - SRA - Uss Saratoga - Aircraft Carrier)
$400/mo winter electric bills leads to first eviction process
First born contracted RSV - almost died (medicaid in the south , county hospital turned us away twice - the third time they finally admitted us and little Jake quit breathing in my arms)
Court house issues a stay of eviction (10 extra days due to hospitalized child)- secretary doesnt make phone call to sheriff
Found most possesions in the street (Landlord kept all the childrens x-mas presents to give to her grandson)- Police told us they would arrest us for trespass/disturbing the peace if I tried to salvage what was left of our possesions sitting on the side of the street.


Quick Omaha stay
Left for Omaha Ne -by train - Feb 11th
Arrived Omaha Ne Feb 14th 1am (got 18inches of snow that night)
Built several houses - best one - 14,000 sq ft (roughly 1 acre floor space)
Achieved my GED
Bought red conversion van - $650-$750
Left for seattle wa - july


Seattle Years 94 - 2000
Apartment (quad-plex)
Carpenter - piece work - monthly pay
Employer goes bankrupt - doesnt tell anyone till payday - lost a months wages $2000-$2400

Borrowed money from family to move
Mobile Home/Trailer Park
First episode of 'reactionary migraine' while wife is 6 moths pregnant with 2nd child
Life-Flighted to Harbor View Medical - seattle wa


Ticket - 45mph in 40mph - pay for rent/food/necessities or ticket ? - license suspended
Red van dies - unable to repair
Took the bus to work
Second lost(stolen) vehicle - green car($500 - wouldnt pass emissions test) - invalid temporary tags/no insurance - towed
Got lucky and found a cheap station wagon for $500
Mobile Home Park gets new owners - refusal to accept late payments leads to 65 family evictions
my first true homeless experience
Wife finds seattle shelter on my birthday (6/25) - great present ;)
First temporary shelter in house (30 days)
Followed by downtown shelter
wife took community college classes - medical reception
I took a bus to first computer classes - A+certification
Followed by subsidized housing
computer repair (actually printer repair) - min wage
fired for missing two days to care for a sick child
License reinstated - $1000+ - seattle
Left seattle june 27th 2000


Omaha Years  2000-2004
Arrive July 4th
Worked as temp for HP/Compaq ($10/hr) during HP takeover (hiring freeze).
Constantly changing schedule - erratic hours - going to comunity college
back surgery - disc ectomy L4-L5

re-educated - achieved associates degree
Ne - white aerostar - just cashed tax refund, had 2k cash in my pocket to get insurace - cop was an asshole and still gave no insurance ticket - leads to suspended license
Third lost(stolen) vehicle - red conversion van($1200) - invalid tags - towed
Also got assaulted and arrested and jailed on this one too. I would have done better with a public defender, my shitty $500 lawyer only got 1 charge dropped.

License reinstated - $1000+ fees/fines omaha ne

Oregon Years 2004-2008
Pulled over for bad running light - no insurance ticket - leads to suspended license
No computer work leads to carpentry work again - worked for ~6 months till my back went out again
(This is where the fight for disability begins)
Pulled over in front of my house - driving w/suspended license - expired tags
Fourth lost(stolen) vehicle - red conversion van($2000) - oregon
No vehicle and no income leads to eviction
lived in a hotel for 2 weeks
wife found a subsidized apt at the last second - kept us from being %100 homeless
License reinstated -  Nov 2008 - $1200 - oregon


Seattle Years  2008 - 2010
The one true regret I have in life.
I will write about this brief period of my life later.

Omaha Years Aug 2010 - 2013
Temp job manufacturing / installing vinyl windows ~3 months
I can't believe I lasted that long doing contruction again. It felt good to use my talents but damn it was painful.

Door to door sales - pulled over by over-zealous police with a miltary attidue at least once a week. There were a few days that we wre pulled over several times.
police followed me for hours until pulling me over for 'failure to complete stop at stop sign' - it was late (after 10pm) and no other traffic for miles.
license suspended - ticket ($135)
Iowa stop - speeding / driving w/suspend license - unable to get to court - $500


Now
Having back problems/pain/depression.
Living in my Aunts basement - with not a damn thing to show for my life.

Make Your Vote Count - (and revolt too)

Everyday I sit and wait for my court date to get my disability while being told told by DHS(Department of Human Services) that I can't get any help unless I 'get a job'. I just don't fuckin get it. Im filing for disability because I can't work after 15 years of banging nails and some pompass asshole is telling me to get a job.

For christ sake - stop feeding the machine(Corporations). Stop shopping at any corporate monster that imports their product from another country using slave labor.

I want a better life, without having to beg and without being told that welfare(Well Money or Money to be Well, the original purpose) makes me scum of the earth.

Whatever you do - VOTE FOR DENNIS KUCINICH in 2008.

If you want a chance for universal health care, or to kill these corporate machines that are killing our civilization (by putting an end to NAFTA) - MAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT.

If your one of those that 'dont vote' and your going to throw away your vote - FUCK IT - throw it away for me, because I want a better life for my family, and families to come.

NAFTA - North American Free Trade Agreement = North American corporate whores that buy all their products from foreign slave labor companies , how in the hell is an American worker supposed to compete with slave labor for christ sake.

And these corporate scumbag health care companies that take your money and then tell you your insurance 'doesnt cover that'. FUCK THAT !!! - It's your money - NEVER TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER.

I've been broke for all my life, not that it really matters - I was perfectly happy being a carpenter and building houses - But I am so far in debt now that I don't even care anymore, as a matter of fact; I have vowed to die with as much debt as a person can possibly rack up.

Because let's face it - When is the last time a bank or collection agent scumbag ever gave you a break LOL _ NEVER!!!!

So I say - FUCK EM...... Enjoy knowing that when you die you'll be sticking it right back at them - they can't call you after your dead.

With any luck at all - we'll actually get a President who understands more than war, and death , and poverty , and famine - Someone who actually cares about other people and his wallet.

If you want to have a better life for you and yours - VOTE KUCINICH

p.s. - I need money - donate via paypal - send it to rxhector2k5@yahoo.com

Burned Again

Well, here we go again with another typical day in my life. As a disabled carpenter, there isn't a lot of jobs I can actually do considering I am in pain most of the day because of my blown disc.

So, while I wait for my court date and fight my own govt. for the "Insurance" they took from me for 15 years I have been learning how to build web-sites and trying to work from home.

Let me tell you, it's not easy to retrain yourself and find work, but I managed to pull off a few jobs here and there.

I wound up working on more than one project for this particular person, and it was always hell getting paid because they are so damn picky.

After finishing several projects for a person you would think there would be some sort of rapport, even on a small level.

As luck would have it; while working on not one- but two projects for this particular person, I asked for a small payment on the small project that was originally "just a favor" and the Facist Nazi Bitch had the gall to tell me she wasnt going to pay me until it was finished , and I should be concentrating on the other project and wait another two to three weeks to get any money.

I dont know who burned this little bitch in the past, but when someone who has worked on several projects for you asks for money - THEY PROBABLY NEED IT.

Not only is my phone and internet as risk for being lost again - but so is my power. And I had to tell my kid I need to postpone his birthday because the Nazi Plantation Owner slave worker bitch wouldnt pay the hired help.

If anyone reads this - give Tracey Williams at ProWebAvenue a call (319-247-0869) and tell her she needs to get rid of her "everybody is out to screw me" mentality, and learn to be a friggin human being and give a crap about other people.

Help the Broke Carpenter

OK people - here's the story, we accumulated an RV for free but it needs some work.

And as always my disabled a** is still fighting to keep the power and phone on LOL, another day in the life of me.

The worst part is I can still walk(limp) and talk, just not long enough for a real job let alone a career.

SO, here's my proposal --

If anyone can help donate to the cause - we are willing to be corporate whore's.

Any and all businesses that want the world to know they believe in America or the American dream, here's your chance - you help us reach our dream and we'll gladly put your company logo's on our RV.


Well, there it is - that's our plan.

Just because were disabled doesn't mean we shouldn't have the chance to see the world.

Any and all people willing to help us out - send your donations via pay-pal to rxhector2k5@yahoo.com , and corporations feel free to contact The Broke Carpenter for corporate advertising.

Futile Complaints

I read several articles today, mostly about the state of affairs in different countries and it made me think of how trivial my problems are compared to the rest of the world.

In several parts of Africa populations are experiencing genocide, the lowest level of the caste people in India are under extreme sanctions and not allowed to change their religion to escape being part of the caste system. The Mexican "guest workers" are continually ripped off by so called "job recruiters". It's not bad enough that they are so much worse off than I am, that they want to come to this country just to try to survive because they can't in their country.

And I wonder - Should I really be complaining about how bad I have it, that I have to fight my own corrupt government for my disability. Should I be complaining about how crappy my subsidized apartment is and how I have to fight the utility companies.

Some of these people in other countries are lucky if they can make it through the day without being slaughtered, or beat or robbed blind for some of the opportunities that I have had.

You know what, I deserve the right to bitch about any damn thing I want, any time I want. Because I live in America - the "so called" greatest country in the world.

The US is just as good at ignoring their own citizens as any other country. As long as the "corporate" elite keep raking in huge profits at the expense of the lives of the pathetic slaves that keep them going - who gives a shit?

Finance the Broke Carpenter (slash Geek)

OK, well I am already in debt over my head for a degree that I can't get a job with because NAFTA sent all the countries work over seas.

But that doesn't mean I still don't want to do something with my life LOL (What's left for a disabled carpenter anyway?)

So until I actually have my day in court and get my disability I need some help.

I need help with my phone/internet and power bills - and I really really need help getting new computer parts, my hard drive is on its last legs I think.

If anybody happens to have a couple extra bucks - send it via pay-pal to rxhector2k5@yahoo.com

Thanks,
Joe the Broke Carpenter

God Save the Queen
(or - the old bat doesnt need to be)

Aww how sweet, the Queen of England gets to eat off the fancy china at the White House with our corrupt government officials while soldiers die and our own citizens have to sue their own country to get their disability.

Will somebody please tell those fat elitist fucking pricks (and bitches) that shoveling their face full of food isnt going to solve any of this countries (let alone the worlds) problems.

Why do we even give a crap about that old bag anyway - isnt she just another powerless figurehead (I guess her and bush have something in common after all)

I hope they fucking choke to death on their fancy fucking dinner while the rest of the poverty stricken US and world has to suffer.

That just about covers me for today.

Peace Out...

This Corrupt Government can Kiss My "American" ASS

I guess I can't blame them for being corrupt really though, I mean think about this for a minute.

If you had a bunch of people putting an almost endless supply of money in your pocket who's side would you be on?

When it comes right down to it, we're all to blame - Hell, we're the ones that voted for the corrupt sons-a-bitches.

But when it comes down to it, do they ever really give a crap about the people that are responsible for them being where they are?

Hell NO !!!! I personally can't put millions of dollars in their greedy hands because I am only a stupid carpenter. I busted my ass for 17 years of my miserable life in slavery to the "ILLEGAL" federal reserve and only made $117k ($8k/yr). I never made enough money to compete with the gigantic corporations lining the pockets of our corrupt elected officials.

Now we have the most disgusting display of disregard for the constitution ever as a president. After "two" rigged elections(with convictions in OHIO) and enough evidence on the internet pointing to the current (Bush/Cheney) administration as having direct involvement with 9/11 and a president who continually shows absolute contempt for everything our Constitution is for.

What is going to take to have these people brought to justice?

Who is responsible for the arrest and imprisonment of our highest elected officials for crimes of high treason against the people of the United States of America?


The American people, "We The People" have been speaking out and protesting and we even sent a message during the last round of Senate and Representative elections and our highest elected officials continue to ignore the demands of the people who they are supposed to "Serve".

George W Bush and Dick Cheney are "NOT" above the law. (Not to mention everyone else appointed in the Illegal Cabinet)

These foul people continue to scheme and blatantly disregard the law by having secret meetings and signing documents with other countries that "We The People" are not informed of.

Why do you think they call it a "secret"? People usually tell secrets or with-hold secrets because they are "BAD".

Our "Secret" (remember - "Secrets" are bad) Government has been forcing us into a facist slave state since the "Secret" establishment of the "Illegal" Federal Reserve since 1916.

With that being said...

I am on "permanent holiday" until the following events occur...
1) George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are arrested for the crimes of high treason against the people of the United States of America
(As well as every member of their corrupt appointed cabinet members)
2) The Federal Reserve is dismantled and the "Power" to print currency is restored to the Government of the United States.

More Political Rhetoric

More Political Rhetoric

As the politicians vie for votes they continue on the same path as previous Regimes.

It's all bullshit. While they continue to throw their money at the largest Corporations in America.

IF ANY OF YOU CORRUPT BASTARDS WANT MY VOTE - YOUR GOING TO HAVE TO THROW ME SOME MONEY DAMMIT.

The only candidate that even comes close to saying anything I want to hear is Ron Paul.

Yes we all the war to end, and while national health care for all sounds good; until we actually end the war against our pocket books we will continue be slaves to the Federal Reserve.

While all the politicians except one have repeated the same shit we have heard for years, there is only one who really stands out.

Think about it, it's nice to know that you will be healthy - of course you will. If you stay healthy you can continue your slavery for the Federal Reserve.

SO PISSED OFF!!!!

OK, well it's another day that I set here in my apathy and think about how pissed off I am at the current regime in office, and how every day of my adult life has been spent in slavery for the rich fuckers that perpetuate their wealth by screwing the already poor even more.

The more I think about the state of affairs in this fucked up country and the filthy bastards in office cheated to get there - there is documented PROOF that these lying thieving fuckers cheated to get where they are and nobody has the power or resources to put an end to this shit.

If I thought for a second that I could march my crippled, disabled ass to Washington and kick those fuckers in the ass - I would do it myself. It's not bad enough that we're already slaves to the corporations and these corrupt bastards, but now we have to be slaves to the military industrial complex too?

I say screw that - If I wasn't married with a family, I would take advantage of my 2ND amendment right to bear arms and take care of business.

But what can one poor, almost homeless, living on welfare and fighting for disability person do?

I can at least write about how I feel... Putting it into words is not as effective as actually doing it - but I am trying to be more involved lately.

At least I can say I have written to my representatives and senators and congressmen - at least they know how offended I am at the current administration and I am one of hundreds, and thousands, and hundreds of thousands that want a change.

I have heard this proverb/saying more than once and it made me think about how most of my life has been.

We are all created equal (from the Declaration of Independence)

– just some more equal than others (Orwell/ Vonnegut, maybe even others earlier.)

During the course of trying to find the origin of that quote, I find more than one article or discussion regarding the impossibility of “all” people being created equal, and that it would be a “horror” story if we were.

I was absolutely amazed at the sheer “idiocy” of those morons. They totally missed the point of the “philosophical” meaning of this statement put forth by our forefathers when they wrote the Declaration of Independence. Yes, even our forefathers I am sure; thought of the sheer stupidity of everyone being “identical” in appearance.

This brings me to why I tell my story. I have lived my adult life in poverty. My childhood wasn’t too bad I suppose – as far as I know we were “middle class”. OK, so it was just barely over the poverty level. Yeah we had a house, and a car, and food and… Now that I think about it; that’s all we really had. I wasn’t the best dressed kid my school, and mommy and daddy sure as hell didn’t buy my first car or my first crappy trailer home for me. Hmmm, maybe we lived in poverty then too.

I have had to live my life in this country; from my birth until now I am a citizen of the United States of America. And I can honestly tell you that “We” are not equal, we aren’t even close to being equal.

I have tried to be equal. I have worked long and hard. I have tried on more than one occasion to improve my life – be it through buying a house, be it through continuing education; be it through changing careers.

And every step of the way through my life I have tried to be a good, “productive” citizen. But there have been several hardships along the way. There have been hardships along the way that no human being anywhere should EVER have face, especially not a citizen of the greatest nation on earth (Which has been effectively eroded away to nothing during the current Regime of our “so called” elected leaders) The United States of Greed.

For the seventeen years of my life that I was actually able to work, I managed to earn a massive $117,000 (according to my social security records, that’s an accurate assessment). That looks like a pretty good number doesn’t it? Let’s do a little math and see just how much money I really make.

$117,000 divided by 17 years = $6882.35 per year. WOW, what a great life I’ve had. (My wife still loves me and only 1 of our 4 children has abandoned us – I guess that’s not too bad).

It never ceases to amaze me how there are people out there that can make my yearly average salary in one month. And even more amazing that some people make my entire life’s earnings in one month.

Why is it, that some of this nations most skilled workers (I “used” to be a carpenter) are paid the least amounts of money? I’m not by any means trying to imply in any way that I am any better than anyone else – quite the contrary. I am saying that I should be considered an equal. Yet, my yearly income does not reflect equality in any way, and some of the hardships I have had to endure during the last 17 years would suggest that not only am I “less than equal” to many of my peers – I have from time to time thought that my only purpose for being a citizen of this “so called” great country, was so that my “more equals” could have a laugh at my futile attempts to survive.

When the carpenters of this country cannot afford to live in the houses they build, and the janitors cannot afford to use the services of the hospitals they clean, and the teachers of this country cannot afford to pay for car insurance to get to our schools and teach our young – this country is failing miserably to achieve the dreams set forth by our founding fathers.

The last three years of my life have absolutely been the worst three years of my life. Not only have I had to endure being homeless (with my family) but I have received the absolute worst treatment ever from our countries own division of human services. As if it’s not bad enough that the division of human services has been a part of my life on and off for the last 15 years in three different states, but the state of Oregon in particular has the absolute worst case policies and the worst case workers I have ever had to deal with.

If it were not for the amazing help from my church, and the amazing luck of blindly stumbling into a subsidized apartment, my family and I would be homeless. Imagine that, the luckiest thing to happen to me in my life has been to get a subsidized apartment.

I am currently in the process of fighting my government to get my disability. I worked for 17 years as a carpenter. For 17 years I have spent countless thousands of dollars trying to maintain unaffordable car insurance, I have spent countless thousands of dollars to re-instate my driving privileges, I have spent countless thousands of dollars replacing vehicles that were “taken” from me by the very system that I spent so many years building houses for.

Now, after 17 years of pain and servitude and for my country, after 17 years of being FORCED to sacrifice a percentage of my income whether I wanted to or not, I have to “SUE” my own government for money that is rightfully mine. Money that was taken from each and every paycheck I ever received.

I didn’t vote for mandatory insurance, yet I have suffered through the indignity imposed on me more than once of being forced into the “legalized racketeering”. Our own government is nothing more than a façade hiding the “mobsters” with the most votes.

I have suffered through 17 years of honest hard work through poverty and homelessness and I as a citizen of the United States of America DEMAND to be treated with dignity and respect and I DEMAND that this country that I have faithfully served through poverty and homelessness GIVE me my disability.