I am a single Grandmother raising my granddaughter which is 12 yrs of age. I am disabled an live on a disability check. Our car has died on us, i only gave $400.00 when i got it, so i cant complain about it. I dont have any way of going now an i live 2 an a half miles from town . I am not able to walk it,I have C.O.P.D and other Medical problems that pervents me from doing a lot. I am trying to keep my house payments up plus all the other bills. We need a roof on our home BAD ! Christmas is just around the corner an i have no money to buy anything with. When my grandaughter was in Elementry School i would sign her up on the Angel Tree. S ince she is in middle school they dont have anything like that . So please pray that God will send us a Blessing an keep the Angels protecting us. Also pray that we can somehow get us a car,an out roof fixed. If you know of anything that might help us please let us know. Thank You an Merry Christmas. God Bless
I'm a newly grad. of empire beauty school in spring lake park MN. I'm currently working making 7.85 a hr and paying hotel fees because we cant get an apartment, for my family to have a place to sleep and can not afford Christmas for my son that will be 5 on Dec 16th... Any thing will help help! PLEASE help me make this Christmas be on that he"ll be grateful for!?!
Barack Obama, US President; Steven L. Beshear, Governor of Kentucky; US Senators from Kentucky: Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul; US Representatives from Kentucky: Ben Chandler, Brett Guthrie, Ed Whitfield, Geoff Davis, Harold Rogers, John A. Yarmuth; ------------------------------------
To Whom this may concern; I am writing to you hoping that you can help my grand daughter an myself.I am a single disabled grandmother that lives on a fixed income from month to month. It is so hard for me to make ends meet. I am trying to keep up the payments on my house,my roof is starting to leak bad an i can not afford to have it replaced.The rest of the house will be ok if i can get the roof fixed. I had a car but it has blowed up. Which i gave 400.00 dollars for it 5 years ago, so i cant complain about it. But it has run its last mile. I need transportation for medical purposes,an to have a way for my grandaughter in case she could have a medical emergency or if she gets sick at school or misses the bus. Or a way to go to the store. My phone has been shut off already,and my bills are pileing up more every month. I dont know which one to let go each month an which one to pay . Should i pay the Electric or water or the house payment or try to keep these bill collectors off my back. I draw Food Stamps but they dont last a month.Believe me i spend them very spareingly. I need help very bad !!I have a lot of medical problems an this stress sure aint helping none. I have sold about everything in my house in a yard sale just to try to make ends meet for another month. Now i have nothing left to sell an i dont no what to do. I worked 3 jobs a day to raise my children but got down sick at a early age andthe Doctors signed me up on my Social Security at the age of 29 yrs old. I never thought i would be raiseing a grandchild but no one knows what they will have to do through the years.I have checked all the organazitions around here an they say there is no funds to help us out.I have looked on the web sites to try to find some kind of help but ive got no response from anyone.I have lived in my home for 19 years an owe 13,000 on it, i sure would hate to lose my home over a roof. When the tornado came thru a few years back it did a lot of damage to the roof i tryed FEMA but they said it wasn't bad enough to fix. Since then it is in a lot worse shape. You can check my income an i have proof of where my money goes each month. As i said before i have bills that is long past due an i am doing the best i can. My Grandaughter an I draw less than 800.00 dollars a month . I am not able to work at all or i would be instead of living on a fixed income. I am so thankful that i have a understanding grandaughter. She wants to do things like other kids do at school but i can't afford to let her do things other children do in school. Thats really bothers me a lot, she is a very understanding little girl. She is a B & C student which i am very proud of. Its bad to know your child is stressing over things that a grown up is stressing over. We need some relief if there is anything at all any of you can do to help us. I am not wanting anyone to feel sorry for us, we just need help like so many others. I want to Thank you for taking time to read this an i will be looking for a response back. May God Bless each of you.
hi, I have been disable for 10 years already and my wife has been unemployed for 2 1/2 years already, we are haveing a rough time with going on my monthly income, i dont make much to support my 17 year old son that passed to the 12th grade and my other 5 grand children that i have adopted 6 years ago. we were getting by when my wife was working but ever since she got laid off everything has just been aweful everytime we think we are going to make it we end up falling off on our butts, we need help BAD sorry for the out cry but praying doesnt help much these days neither, but i still keep praying for an angel in heaven, my utilities are ready to be shut off, need money for my truck the gobbles up gas like water need to get ready to buy school cloths for my children ages from 6 to 17 years of age, someone please help me hear my cry out.
Hi iam 53 years old ive worked,All my life I worked in as a farm when i was just a kid,with my mom and dad.till i was about 15 years old.why still school,my summer viction was woking in the fields of calif.all summer long,so went i turn 18 i join army for 18 years,and started to work in the consrution as a cement finsher for next 30 years,but now its bad for me and my family we went from 56.000 a year to allmost o $ me and family are havening a real bad time so iam,hopeing some reads this letter and can help use?
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Barack Obama, US President; ------------------------------------
Dear president Obama,
Hi im a young woman living in Camden NJ and i just cant take it no more can find help anywhere
without people or public asst thinking that the fund you sending us is coming out of their pockets.
we the people on low income is having a hard time raising families and finding support to be stable parents, and people please help us send some help for us the people and not those whom dont know what to do with it like welfare, cause half of them thats your grants and miss use them.
just like the mayor laying off 180 police officers, firefighter, them the one the city needs xspecial after we was just rated worst city in the nation
An interesting comment given in a recent showing of CNN news..."the Bush administration has compiled more national debt than the last 42 adminstrations combined."
Apparently Bush has problems in seeing/understanding who pays for his solutions...
Ya know...it's amusing how much money is spent on one man's idea (about Iraq) much to the neglect of those who need it most...development of the infrastructure would benefit the people of America much more than high gas prices...something quite similar happened in the 70's (reflecting on the Southeast and the people who line up to fill their cars with gas). So, what about the renewable energy issue and the reliance on foreign oil? What will it take for some important people to realize the necessity for keeping our resources for the future? Essentially a lot of finger pointing in Washington...it remains to be seen what will happen next...what will marblehead do to safeguard our economic future?
Information is abundant, Wisdom is scarce...the Druid
Jesus came here offering the gift of God's rule, God's love - it was still rejected.
The Declaration of Independence is outdated. It was written by a group of people declaring their independence from Britain. I think it is time for a new one. Not all men are created equal - all humans are. And we are born with certain inalienable rights - life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness being among them. No man, nor government, has the right, or the authority, to deny any human being these rights (again without just cause). If you murder someone, then yes, you are stripped of your rights and sent to jail.
However, our current government has given itself just cause to strip all americans of their rights - especially the right to privacy ( among others).
Religion and government do not mix. Each was created to control humanity - nothing more.
Our ancestors came to this country to escape religious persecution, not to have it shoved down their throats by well intentioned fundamentalists. Too many wars have been started over whose god is better. There is ONE GOD (with many names/forms) and s/he has taught us love and acceptance of ALL. Too bad people can't see beyond the religion to the truth.
thats very true, Jesus was killed, and killed by HIS own people, but NOT because HE came to rule at that time, HE came to sacrifice HIS life for the sins of man, and to reconnect sinful man with a perfect, sinless GOD in the only way it could be accomplished in GODS economy, a free gift, sent because of GODS love for us, offered to whosoever will, HE covered our sin, so GOD could relate to us through HIM and only HIM.. JOHN 14:6 HE knew what HE came for, and what was going to happen... thats the heart of the Christian faith.... Jesus crucified, and gloriously ressurrected to rule and reign. I look forward to HIS soon return.
GODs sovereign rule was rejected way back in Davids time, when HIS chosen nation wanted a King, like all the other nations around them, and they chose Saul, rejecting GODS rule, but GOD allowed it, and when Saul would not listen to GOD, GOD chose David. Its ancient history, and here we are, still rejecting GOD, and GODS man for the job. What do I really think about it all, well.....I would never vote for Obama...never, he is scary, have you read his book? he thinks that the Declaration of Independance is out-moded, this document declares that all men are created equal, and are endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights...Obama says that it means we are born into this world free, and arrive with a bundle of rights that can't be taken away by any person or state without just cause...hmmm, wonder what just cause would take away our rights? being old? disabled? he already thinks that the unborn have no rights, and an infant that survives an abortion should NOT be protected.... this country has lost a great deal of respect for life because its value has been diminished and the dollar has become more important...what I am writing is all too true... so whos next? the old, or the disabled? as for Mccain, I am not enthralled with him either, but for me, he is the lesser of two evils. I have this magnetic sign on my car....see below
"They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not (against me you've appointed unholy people to lead my nation): of their silver and their gold have they made them idols (your money was more important to you than your moral beliefs), that they may be cut off. (Cut off from what? -- From God's protection) (When we appoint non-Christians to lead us we literally bring about our own destruction) Hosea 8:4
so you see where I am at, and for IMHO a very good reason, the benefit of all humankind, GODS will, WILL be done, I KNOW HIM, and thats just how it is....plain, simple, and honest.
I am sure I will be labeled a crackpot... or perhaps a cracked pot... I don't care, I am not in a popularity contest for humans, I love them, and care about them, I am one and I am here on earth to serve GOD, the best way I can, the good Lord willing. the truth, is the truth, pretty or not, popular or not, and I don't believe there is one truth for you, and another truth for me, and another for someone else, if that were the case truth would have no meaning...its truth, or its not truth!!! I know that truth will prove itself with time.
I have read a portion of the article (8 pages?! OMG!) and your comments and I have to say ( because I can never keep my mouth shut) that although he speaks/means well, I think Obama will be nothing more than corporate america's puppet. He will be the poster child (so to speak) for middle class america. Just a figure head, nothing more. There will be others, behind the scenes, pulling the strings. That is, IF he is allowed to run. Now there is a question of his citizenship. Apparently there are rumors which say he is NOT a natural born US citizen - a requirement for presidency. Whether people choose to believe it or not, this presidency is about race. Whom would you prefer the same old stuff with a rich old white guy OR a young, black man who promises a better way of life? One who remembers when the phone was invented or one who carries a blackberry? One who thinks everyone whould be a POW or one who thinks our guys/girls should be home NOW?
Would he be better than McCain? I certainly hope so. He'd do a hell of a lot better than Hillary.
Regarding justmenow's comment - while I do agree with most of your thoughts, I do have to disagree with one. People were given the opportunity to have God lead them - they crucified him. What do you think they would do today if Jesus Christ announced his candidacy?
I know what I am about to say may fall on unreceptive ears, and you may find it comical, this is ok, I understand where you are coming from. I put ALL my trust in GOD, and believe staunchly, and unequivocally that HE owns, and is in control of everything. I think money and power are useless things to fight over, or worry about... fleeting and very temporary, a drop in the bucket of eternity, if even that. I believe, however, that moral issues have great value, are worth fighting for, and shape generations thereby dictating what our world is like for the human race both now AND in the future. I also believe everything that is occurring now, GOD has planned for, and in it, has a purpose. I believe out of all of it that HIS will is going to be served, despite mans ideas to the contrary. GOD loves us, and will only allow degeneration of the earth, and mankind to go just so far and those that wish to continue, against HIM, will only destroy themselves. I think that those who are very rich, with great power have no beneficial plans for the sheep of the United States pastures. I believe they like to have poor, and dependant masses, they make great guinea pigs for the huge pharmaceutical companies, and are helpful in making their "generous" [perhaps that should read onerous] benefactors look good when they toss them crumbs. I could go on and on, I am of course disgusted with all of it, and its all out of our control, people sat by, and watched their freedoms dissovle, would NOT stand up for what is right, and decent.... they didn't even whimper as long as they felt economically secure, and had plenty of government hand-outs to keep them from feeling any unpleasantness. I think its already too late to make much-needed change, and that those who are hoping, and working for change are focused on the wrong things!
I believe we should be governed by GOD, a theocracy, as it once was...for you this statement borders on fairytale I am sure, and the way things are now most people do not have a personal relationship with HIM they don't really know or care who Jesus is or what HE has done or what was meant by any of it....so its just not possible but this will not always be so. I know we are coming from an entirely different spectrum of belief so I do not expect you to think what I am saying here to have any validity...but watch and see it all unfolds before our very eyes, GOD is awesome in HIS majesty and power. Jesus sits at HIS right hand forevermore For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, Every Knee Shall Bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. Romans 14:11,12
and GOD will rule and reign forever more
GOD bless you Emil, I am sure we can agree to disagree, and I have learned over time that things change :)
by the way I already read all of the Mccain and Obama exchanges, their mistakes, and comments... and I really believe they are both way out of touch with what Americans want and need and they both are pandering to a public that has lost a lot of interest in the whole fiasco... not sure either of them could tell you what the price is at the gas pumps and I AM sure that neither really cares
Thank you for the "soft" (meaning civilized) response... Frankly, I was preparing for a harsher politicized exchange here... :)
About McCain's positions on important moral issues - I just don't believe him when he says the things he says just to get your vote.
I think the Republican party is using moral issues to take as much voter attention as possible away from the main battles fought in Washington - the battles for money and power. I believe that people like George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and John McCain had never any intention to really mix politics and moral issues. And they are, in a sense, right - politics (especially at the federal level) shouldn't be about people's moral choices. The US is a huge country of 300 million people of all kinds of races, religions, beliefs, etc... (and it is only going to get bigger and more diverse) - you can't and shouldn't let a federal government bureaucracy tell people what to do in their bedrooms. People in a small town in Texas should be free to live differently from the way people in San Francisco live. There is no other way for the US (the many United States) to stay united.
When you vote for US President (the ultimate federal bureaucrat) - you better NOT vote moral issues... because you are knocking on the wrong door (the right door would be your church door I guess). The federal bureaucrats should be taking care of the issues you see here on Aidpage - Americans who cannot afford health and dental care, Americans losing their jobs and living in fear of becoming homeless because of the failure of businesses to stay in business... while the "responsible" executives still get their multi-million dollar bonuses and happily go into their next business "venture" (in reality, it is never a risky venture for them - but it is a truly risky venture for the employees)... Americans not having the means (time and money) to get the education they need to be competitive in an already global job market, etc...
In one word - the US President has nothing to do with God. The US President is NOT a king (what was the American Revolution about for God's sake!)... It is deeply wrong to mix political power with God... as it is deeply wrong to mix money with God - as we do by printing religious beliefs on our federal dollars. I wonder what Jesus would say about our federal "dollar" expressions of belief in Him... but I'm sure Wall Street bankers and the Washington politicians they bankroll only love the mix up. It clearly works well for them.
Now... on a lighter note... here is what I found about Obama's and McCains' notions about who's rich and who's middle class in America today.
Rick Warren's question to Obama:"Define 'rich.' I mean, give me a number. Is it 50,000, 100,000, 200,000? Everybody keeps talking about, well, who we're going to tax. How do you define that?"
Obama's answer:"If you are making $150,000 a year or less as a family, then you are middle class... or you may be poor."
Rick Warren's question to McCain:"Okay. On taxes, define 'rich.' Everybody talks about, you know, taxing the rich and -- but not the poor, the middle class. At what point -- give me a number, give me a specific number. Where do you move from middle class to rich? Is it 100,000, is it 50,000, is it 200? How does anybody know if we don't know what the standards are?"
McCain's answer:"So -- so -- so I think if you're just talking about income, how about 5 million. So -- no, but seriously, I don't think you can -- I don't think seriously that -- the point is that I'm trying to make here seriously -- and I'm sure that comment will be distorted, but the point is -- the point is -- the point is..."
haha... I think we have terrible choices, and its too bad we can't go backwards in the way candidates are selected, as it is now they buy their way in, and no one without large sums of money can even get themselves considered. Sad. I vote for moral issues, as you know I have great faith in GOD, and believe HE is in control. HE alone can make things work, and I refuse to go against what HE outlines as right. Having said that, I will say this, you are correct I do NOT know what Mccain considers middleclass but I do know where he stands on some important moral issues and thats what really matters to me. I don't think he is a good choice, just, in mho, the lesser of 2 evils and nothing will convince me otherwise, just as nothing will make you think differently than your strongly held beliefs... in that I am sure we can agree. I would, out of curiosity, like to know what Mccain thinks is middleclass. I find a lot of their rhetoric amusing, and since they are running for the [publicly acclaimed] most important, and influential [also publicly acclaimed] position in USA government that I also find sad. GOD bless you, I enjoy your site and your comments. oh and by the way, GOD does ignore time, to HIM a thousand years is as a day and a day is as a thousand years.... 2Peter 3:8
"In some fundamental ways, the American economy has stopped working.
The fact that the economy grows - that it produces more goods and services one year than it did in the previous one - no longer ensures that most families will benefit from its growth. For the first time on record, an economic expansion seems to have ended without family income having risen substantially. Most families are still making less, after accounting for inflation, than they were in 2000. For these workers, roughly the bottom 60 percent of the income ladder, economic growth has become a theoretical concept rather than the wellspring of better medical care, a new car, a nicer house - a better life than their parents had."
I am 25 yrs old and have 2 children ages 8yrs and 3yrs, i just lost my job and have no income at all the bills are due in two week, I dont know what to do,I have no way to come up with the money I am so scared,I dont know what is going to happen to us, thank you for reading my story and god bless who ever out there, that can help us.
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MY WIFE AND I HAVE BEEEN DOING THE BEST WE CAN TO SURVIVE DURUNG THE PAST 2 YEARS .BUT WITH HER KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY AND THE PENDING OTHER KNEE REPLACEMENT ON HOLD DUE TO THE FACT THAT I HAVE BEEN LAID OFF HERE AND THERE FOR THE PAST 4 YEARS (THEY WAIT UNTIL WE HAVE TO PUT IN A WAITING WEEK THEN CALL US BACK FOR TWO OR THREE DAY'S A WEEK SO WE HAVE TO GO WITHOUT A PAY CHECK FOR TWO WEEKS) THINGS JUST SNOWBALLED ON ME AND NOW I AM GOING TO LOSE MY HOUSE . I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO .THIS IS MY LAST HOPE.OUR GRANDAUGHTER IS NOW STAYING WITH US AND I WANT HER TO HAVE A STABLE HOME TO GROW UP IN AND NOW I AM NOT SURE I CAN PROVIDE IT. I AM NOT ASKING FOR MUCH JUST A LITTLE HELP TO CATCH BACK UP.ANY HELP ANYONE CAN GIVE US WOULD HELP US OUT ALOT.I KNOW TIMES ARE TOUGH FOR EVERYONE NOW A DAYS AND THAT I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE IN THIS SITUATION BUT I HOPE THAT SOMEBODY OUT THERE TRULY CARES ABOUT THE WORKING MAN HERE IN THE USA.WE ARE STILL PROUD ,WE ARE STILL HERE, AND WE WILL MAKE A COMEBACK!! I HAVE NEVER BEEN ONE TO BEG FOR HELP,BUT WHEN IT COMES TO PROVIDING FOR MY GRANDAUGHTER I WILL DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO MAKE SURE SHE HAS THE SAME OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE DID WHEN WE WHERE YOUNG!! THANK YOU FOR ANYTHING YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO PROVIDE!!
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