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[quote=Anonymous]I know a 63 year old woman whose life became derailed due to medical problems. She lived in a mobile home and had a couple of heart attacks and other problems and spent a couple of months in the hospital. She didn't have anyone to mow her patch of lawn and when she came home was physically not able to do it. The park imposed steep fines she couldn't pay and ended up evicting her. She did not have the means to move her trailer so they had it hauled away and got a judgment of a few thousand more against her for that. She had more hospitalizations--another couple of months where she had muscle tissue breaking down causing kidney failure was one. Shhas rheumatoid arthritis and a blown disk and uses a walker. She lived in her car last winter. She got 6 months of rent help (another federally-funded state program than is going away) but her rent is 2/3 of her SS disability income. Most of the rest goes to a storage unit for the belongings that don't fit in her tiny studio. She had applied for housing assistance but confirmation came while she was in the hospital and she missed it.

In connection with the trailer house debacle she ended up owing utilities of a few thousand for gas and electric. Now she can't even get utilities for where she lives because they want that paid back.

She made a bad decision 30 years ago, becoming a meth addict with her then husband. She spent a year in a state prison, got clean, clean ever since, but a felony record so few places would hire her--she got jobs paying $8/hr. Now they would probably do a diversion program and her record reduced to a misdemeanor at worst. But we can have a self-proclaimed drug user (yes, I know K is legal but ecstacy is not and I think he's also talked about mushrooms) using the Oval Office as his playpen (and I don't mean his kid) with no repercussions. [/quote]

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