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  Does anyone else not really care about Katrina?

  by sonnyboy in

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  ok, some people may call me a heartless bastard for making this thread, but i have to be honest.. i really don't care about the hurricane victims.

  i highly doubt that the people walking through walmart with shopping carts full of clothing and electronics would send me one f'ing red cent if i was in need (and i am in need, by the way).. i just can't find it in my heart to care at all.

  maybe i'm the only one who thinks like this, but i've been struggling to survive for the past 2 years and no one has ever lifted a finger to help me.

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  Thanks, Finally-Free. I do help others when I can, but now I'm focusing on helping myself and getting back on track.

  I'm still trying to grasp the situation. When I bought lunch for the homeless man at the Harbor a few weeks ago, we sat outside eating, watching passers by. He told me how his life was pretty much f'ed after the war, and he was shell-shocked all to hell. He then said, "Watch this," and tried to start conversations with a few people who were going about their business.

  Not ONE of these generous, giving Americans would even look at him. Not one. Some turned their heads, and others kept looking straight and they walked on. The man didn't look dangerous or overly 'homeless', as in wearing rags, but you could tell that he lives on the street.

  It's too much effort for some to even look at such people, yet it's so easy give support and turn on the waterworks during a natural disaster?

  I guess I really don't understand how compassion works.
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  Does anyone else not really care about Katrina?

  by sonnyboy in

  1. jw
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  ok, some people may call me a heartless bastard for making this thread, but i have to be honest.. i really don't care about the hurricane victims.

  i highly doubt that the people walking through walmart with shopping carts full of clothing and electronics would send me one f'ing red cent if i was in need (and i am in need, by the way).. i just can't find it in my heart to care at all.

  maybe i'm the only one who thinks like this, but i've been struggling to survive for the past 2 years and no one has ever lifted a finger to help me.

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  So you sit and lament the condition of your life all you want, but any sympathy I might have felt at your plight disappeared with the attitude of entitlement that accompanied your relaying it.

  That's exactly what I mean. People lose their homes and their lives every day and few people care, regardless of their world view. I care more about the people who've been struggling to survive for years as people walk over them. At least the hurricane victims are getting support.

  I'm not asking for sympathy, but making a point. At least I was trying to, but I wish this thread would go away now.
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  Does anyone else not really care about Katrina?

  by sonnyboy in

  1. jw
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  ok, some people may call me a heartless bastard for making this thread, but i have to be honest.. i really don't care about the hurricane victims.

  i highly doubt that the people walking through walmart with shopping carts full of clothing and electronics would send me one f'ing red cent if i was in need (and i am in need, by the way).. i just can't find it in my heart to care at all.

  maybe i'm the only one who thinks like this, but i've been struggling to survive for the past 2 years and no one has ever lifted a finger to help me.

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  sonnyboy

  Can the nearest mod please close this thread?

  I feel like an asshole now.
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  Does anyone else not really care about Katrina?

  by sonnyboy in

  1. jw
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  ok, some people may call me a heartless bastard for making this thread, but i have to be honest.. i really don't care about the hurricane victims.

  i highly doubt that the people walking through walmart with shopping carts full of clothing and electronics would send me one f'ing red cent if i was in need (and i am in need, by the way).. i just can't find it in my heart to care at all.

  maybe i'm the only one who thinks like this, but i've been struggling to survive for the past 2 years and no one has ever lifted a finger to help me.

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  Just for the record, I do care as in if I had something to give, I would. My first post was made in haste. I give to homeless people all the time and I actually stop and talk to them when I'm in the city, which they seem to enjoy because they're most often treated like ghosts.

  It's just that I don't see this as much more tragic than things that go on every day which are overlooked because they're commonplace. I don't understand why people's 'suddenly give a shit' buttons are pushed because an event is larger in scope.
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  Does anyone else not really care about Katrina?

  by sonnyboy in

  1. jw
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  ok, some people may call me a heartless bastard for making this thread, but i have to be honest.. i really don't care about the hurricane victims.

  i highly doubt that the people walking through walmart with shopping carts full of clothing and electronics would send me one f'ing red cent if i was in need (and i am in need, by the way).. i just can't find it in my heart to care at all.

  maybe i'm the only one who thinks like this, but i've been struggling to survive for the past 2 years and no one has ever lifted a finger to help me.

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  But I can't get myself to see how that makes it any different. He has more than MANY people on this earth.

  But I live in America, where if your salary gets cut in half someone comes and takes your house. You can't even get a decent apartment on 20K per year. I'm not saying that I have it worse than the hurricane victims. I'm saying that any one of us can get put out on the street given the proper circumstances.

  I keep telling myself that things will pick up after graduation, as long as my unreliable roommate can hold his job in the mean time. Once he gets fired (which is always right around the corner), I'll either be homeless or living in a box somewhere that someone has the nerve to call an apartment.

  But this is getting off topic anyway.
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  Does anyone else not really care about Katrina?

  by sonnyboy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok, some people may call me a heartless bastard for making this thread, but i have to be honest.. i really don't care about the hurricane victims.

  i highly doubt that the people walking through walmart with shopping carts full of clothing and electronics would send me one f'ing red cent if i was in need (and i am in need, by the way).. i just can't find it in my heart to care at all.

  maybe i'm the only one who thinks like this, but i've been struggling to survive for the past 2 years and no one has ever lifted a finger to help me.

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  Don't get angry, get training.

  I still have another year or two of school to go.

  I don't understand why the government allows companies to relocate if it isn't going to do more to help displaced workers find good-paying jobs. Is George Bush trying to put people on the street? Going from $40K per yer down to $21 is a bitch when you have a mortgage.

  Luckily I have a roommate to fall back on until things pick up, but it's still frustrating. I don't like to rely on anyone. I know at least 5 people from my old company who lost their homes because nothing around here pays anything. Unless you own your own business, you're pretty much screwed.
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  Does anyone else not really care about Katrina?

  by sonnyboy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok, some people may call me a heartless bastard for making this thread, but i have to be honest.. i really don't care about the hurricane victims.

  i highly doubt that the people walking through walmart with shopping carts full of clothing and electronics would send me one f'ing red cent if i was in need (and i am in need, by the way).. i just can't find it in my heart to care at all.

  maybe i'm the only one who thinks like this, but i've been struggling to survive for the past 2 years and no one has ever lifted a finger to help me.

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  Maybe it simply hasn't sunk in yet.

  It just baffles me that people only 'care' when something like this happens, yet there have been millions of "Katrina victims" all over the US and the world for years, dying every day on the street. They may have lost their homes due to a lack of employment, mental illness, or who knows what, yet it's ok to put them out on the street?

  I just don't get this double standard. Maybe I care too much but am frustrated with the world in general. Maybe I feel guilty because I should be doing something but can't. I don't know what to feel right now.
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  Does anyone else not really care about Katrina?

  by sonnyboy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok, some people may call me a heartless bastard for making this thread, but i have to be honest.. i really don't care about the hurricane victims.

  i highly doubt that the people walking through walmart with shopping carts full of clothing and electronics would send me one f'ing red cent if i was in need (and i am in need, by the way).. i just can't find it in my heart to care at all.

  maybe i'm the only one who thinks like this, but i've been struggling to survive for the past 2 years and no one has ever lifted a finger to help me.

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  I do feel for the children who had no choice but to be in that situation.

  As for the situation in general, I'm having a hard time feeling any sort of compassion. I'm not exactly sure why that is. Maybe if I actually were there I'd think differently. It's not that I don't want to care, but I simply can't.

  But when 10,000 people die daily from [hunger|disease|war] over a country or a continent, it hardly makes the news, much less stirs the emotion.

  
  Exactly. I guess my topic was made in haste, because I would help them if I could, but why is it OK to ignore others in need and even throw them into the f'ing street if they can't pay their bills? Bad shit happens to good people all the time, yet it's only fashionable to help certain people? Whenever I go to the Inner Harbor in Baltimore I'm met by at least 5 homeless people. Why? Because they know me (they know my money anyway). I've even had lunch with one of them, who was a Vietnam veteran, and he explained how the government gave him the shaft after the war and he's been living on street for over 20 years. Why are people like him ignored? Does a f*cking tornado have to pick him up before anyone will take notice? Why do people walk by him like he's not even f*cking there? I hate this world.
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  Does anyone else not really care about Katrina?

  by sonnyboy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok, some people may call me a heartless bastard for making this thread, but i have to be honest.. i really don't care about the hurricane victims.

  i highly doubt that the people walking through walmart with shopping carts full of clothing and electronics would send me one f'ing red cent if i was in need (and i am in need, by the way).. i just can't find it in my heart to care at all.

  maybe i'm the only one who thinks like this, but i've been struggling to survive for the past 2 years and no one has ever lifted a finger to help me.

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  sonnyboy

  Ok, some people may call me a heartless bastard for making this thread, but I have to be honest.

  I really don't care about the hurricane victims. I highly doubt that the people walking through Walmart with shopping carts full of clothing and electronics would send me one f'ing red cent if I was in need (and I AM in need, by the way).

  I just can't find it in my heart to care at all. Maybe I'm the only one who thinks like this, but I've been struggling to survive for the past 2 years and no one has ever lifted a finger to help me. If I can't pay my bills, someone comes and TAKES my home. Does the mortgage company have compassion? No one gives me shit, so I'm not giving shit to anyone else.

  People die every day. That's life. We live in a cold, cruel, godless world, and there's no changing that.
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  New Orleans: Day Six- Is this how the Nazi's dealt with Jews?

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  what is the government's plan here?

  is this a convenient way to remove several thousand undesirables from the welfare rolls?

  i watch what is going on at the superdome and the convention center, and it looks like some backwater african nation you see on sunday morning on a feed the children special.

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  There's always more than could be done, but where do you propose we put an entire city full of people? Build another city over night?

  I'm sure this is more complicated than we're aware.