This Reality is America

Mental illness of being burnt out?

Dude, I work 65 hours a week minimum. Usually about 80 chasing me dreams. That isn't a mental illness.

I gave one example. The cleaning lady got divorced and elected to live out of her car to "start over"

I feel sorry these people made decisions that impacted them negatively, but conversely to what is presented, this situation is not indicative of a failed system.

 

'Dude', if you haven't watched the whole documentary then don't make a fool out of yourself pretending to know what the circumstances of those poor people were. No, you cannot relate.

 

I did watch the documentary.

That's why I'm able to give specific examples, which you didn't refute

 

Why haven't you mentioned the mental illness of the man you're talking about or how the woman that you mentioned getting kicked out of her home by her husband is living in her car and working every single day of the week - cleaning houses? Why is it that you people can only get things half right?

 

Mental illness is not, in his own words "being burnt out".

And she had the option to get half if the value of the estate, but elected to live in her van to start over.

The difference between me and you is that you find everybody a victim in an effort to push a broader agenda where as I see these stories for what they are... poor individual decisions.

 

Open your eyes sir, they are all around. Apparently more in California than here in Florida. If one is looking at one's surroundings instead of one's 'smart' phone, they are very easy to see. Maybe I'm just less distracted than you are?

 

Poverty isn't affected by the economy. For the most part it is caused by the poor and maintained by the poor. There has always been poverty. There will always be poverty. Sometimes it is higher. The reality is that everybody is doing better except for the poor. People at lower end of the income spectrum are gaining income faster than those further up. I realize you don't want to realize that because it fogs up your resistance. Poverty is slightly down at the moment but, don't worry, it will worsen again. Then you can smile and throw stones at Trump.

 

Another thing that bugged me about that documentary was the guy filming the documentary trying to shame the landlord who was having the woman evicted for non-payment of rent.

Yeah, renting that house is most probably what that landlord does for a living. That's what he does to make money so he won't be homeless. If he doesn't evict a tenant who's not paying rent, then he will lose his means of making a living, and he will then be homeless.

See how that works?

The documentary guy says to him "But what if she has no place to go?"

The obvious answer to that being "Then she can go stay at your place for free, right, Petey Pious?"

 

Please no action is ever taken on most of those complaints because they are bogus.

 

But you claimed there were no cases..

 

The man never said anything about mental illness. He said he was "burned out". I've been there and done that. I got totally burned out working a field service job that had me on the road 5 days a week, working 60+ hours days, and living out of crappy hotels. I got totally burnt out to the point where I couldn't take another day of it. Was I mentally ill? No, not at all. I was just sick of working that particular job.

I got burnt out, so I quit, and got another job. I didn't decide to stop working altogether and live on a steady diet of charity pizza.

And the lady who was homeless because her husband divorced her. She said that she lived a comfortable life before her husband cut her loose. She lived a comfortable life, and yet she had basically no viable job skills. In the course of her decades of being alive, and her time living a "good life", she never put in the effort to acquire any sort of jobs skills? She just lived her good life, stayed untrained and uneducated, and just assumed the gravy train would take her all the way to the end of the line?

 

Well with a healthy assist from leftist governments who will cheerfully trade you a pittance at the cost of your future success.

 

Damn few legitimate cases. Ninety plus percent of the filings these days are sleazy lawyers hoping the company will settle rather than go to court. Also most of them involve physical handicaps of one sort or the with the occasional bizarro land case like the waitresses that sued Hooters because of on the job sexual harassment.

 

If parent(s) don't teach their children they should teach them this:

"Every time you make a bad decision and get knocked down a rung it's a little harder to get back up. Every bad decision stays with you for life. And your friends putting pressure on you to do like they do won't be there when you're down and out."

 

Oh but it is, to some extent. For example, the rising costs of home purchases and the rising cost of renting an apartment has put many people in a very precarious position. They are force out of the rents that they were struggling to pay every month because the increases just made it impossible to afford it at all. Searching for another apartment or affordable home in some areas of NY, California and Seattle have forced some to live out of their vans or mobile homes. These are people that still have jobs and go to work every day but essentially they're living out on the street. These people used to be the middle class in American, now they live at or below the poverty line. Poverty is in no way down at the moment, quite the opposite. 3.5 million are expected to experience homelessness in any given year.

 

Yep, liberal governance sure does suck.

 

Illegal aliens and China have driven down wages. Welcome to globuleism.

 

Our system is broken.We need reform so that our immigration laws match our values and economic needs. Immigrant workers are not responsible for the massive job loss that's been happening. We're in the middle of a global economic crisis and everyone-immigrants and native born, in the US and overseas-are feeling the effects. Immigrants contribute over $133 billion in taxes every year, and our social security system would collapse without the contribution of immigrants. Undocumented immigrants contribute at least $7 billion every year to programs they can’t claim benefits from.

 

We need to shut down all immigration for ten years, and shut out illegal aliens with whatever it takes to shut them out, then reevaluate the situation at the end of ten years.

 

Yeah, but that is just in the dem paradise of CA.

 

That's not even legal.

 

Make it so.

 

double post

 

California had the highest number of homeless people decades before cannabis was legalized, and illegals are not relevant to this discussion because so few of them are homeless.

Also, please don't shout. It's rude.

 

Unless the Democrats stop royally F-ing up in front of the voter, and unless they can arrange fraud greater than they've ever committed, you may find out exactly how -legal- moratoriums on immigration and mass deportation can be in the next few years.