POVERTY SPELLS DEATH– RIGHT HERE, IN THE USA

OH, YES. IT DOES SPELL DEATH. With the help of government and society who look the other way, and have slid into a current state of uncaring status quo on the subject. I know whereof I speak.

My daughter died recently, an incapacitated disabled adult in a guardianship. The guardian was not one of her family members. She died young, less than 30 years of age.

How did poverty spell death for her?

The legal system is based on money, and whoever can pay, will get the upper hand. Pay? yes, pay attorneys, who know how to navigate the system, and say the magic words, to open all the doors, of the den of thieves’ huge cavernous underground complex. Oh? yes, it’s kinda like, the System, Gulag, whatever.

And it just so happened, I was too intimidated by the past mistreatment i had experienced by the system, to stand up alone and represent myself, to take her away from this guardian. It just seemed too hard, I surely did not know how to do it. And time ran out, before I could do anything else to save her.

When I first saw Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, I was amazed at how much it truly contained mystical references to my daughter’s situation, down to having the same names, and all such things. And a sewage system maze that is ruled by a snake (devil), and a girl lying injured about to die…..

Only i, the hairy potter-ess, did not get her safe. She really did die. The snake in the system won.

The system made sure of her early death.

She died of a treatable chronic disease, that the medical establishment has trouble treating; but alternative and nutritive therapies work better with.

The guardian was obsessed with her, and threatened me, intimidated and cut off all visits and communications from me, for years. I have plenty of knowledge that I use always, about her specific types of health ailments, that are controllable / healable / preventable with good home health care based on good common sense, nutrition, and other therapies that work. I could have at least shared this information, but this guardian would have none of it. It was a very scarey situation, but no one would take my case (edit 8-15-08: the attorneys all wanted something like $5000 retainers, which i could not personally scare up even with credit).

At times I had to report problems to the authorities, and they did intervene a couple of times. But the adult protective services and caseworkers could not legally talk to me about my own daughter, yeah, that’s right: “confidentiality”. Supposed to protect people, but it is a very stupid setup that ends up harming plenty of people when their families don’t even get to find out what the victim needs us to know.

And they did not intervene enough to save her, obviously.

IF I HAD HAD THE MONEY TO PAY ATTORNEYS UP-FRONT, RETAINER MONEY, I could have gotten my daughter back.

First, she was stolen from me by her seriously abusive CONVICTED, INSTITUTIONALIZED, VIOLENT, DRUG ADDICT father , so that he would not have to pay child support; and he as much as stated, that he was after the SSI benefits that he applied for, in her name.

I did try two different free/ low-income organizations for legal help, but they both sold me out, rather malfeasibly; and sold my kids down the drain. I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THIS WAS ATTORNEY MALPRACTICE. (but i did not know this concept til much later). After he stole them from me, when i was their only nurturer, he got to keep them, and abuse and neglect them, with the blessing of this evil corrupt system in this state (Oregon). This all started in the early 1980′s but as we can see, the effects have lasted til now, and are ongoing for my daughters.

Very long story, i am giving you a tiny little nutshell to make my point.

So the sold-out money- hungry legal system repeatedly failed my kids including the one who died. They grew up very damaged. Their lives have been in serious disorder ever since. Their relationship with me, the loving nurturing and intelligent parent, was completely alienated by the abusive parent—very typical scenario. Abusers do this to kids when they get custody.

Then the medical system, another sold-out- money- mongering scene…. failed my daughter. Because someone without a brain (the idiot jerk guardian, NOT my DD daughter!) , relied on it too heavily, minus any personal knowledge of good home care. Whereas she would have gotten the full smart mommy who does research, full good treatment from me at my home. She did not get the benefit of it.

i won’t even go into other aspects of abuse and neglect that occurred at the guardian’s home. Those were not so provable but why leave her there when there is so much probability?

So she died of an infection, and a whole system set up to kill the poverty-stricken. RIGHT HERE IN THE USA. It happens every day.

Section 8 Housing Choice, and the Foreclosure Market

The foreclosures are piling up, investors and middle class homeowners are losing their speculative real estate investments and even primary residences. Meanwhile, section 8 renters have been unable to find anyone willing to rent to them. A couple of years ago, the statistics show that somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 percent of section 8 housing voucher holders, had to LOSE OUT ON THEIR SUBSIDIES. THEY HAD TO RETURN THEIR VOUCHERS, AND RELINQUISH RIGHTS TO ANY HOUSING HELP. [THAT'S THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN THIS ONE STATE ALONE. MULTIPLY BY 50 ]….Because not enough landlords wanted to rent to them, for whatever reasons. Or, maybe the deposits and rents were way too high. So what happened to these 30 percent of poor, who lost out? where are they? well, no doubt, this may account partly, for the huge increases of homeless in that same time frame. THIS STATISTIC WAS RIGHT NEAR THE TIME WHEN HOUSING PRICES IN GENERAL, HAD REACHED SKY-HIGH LEVELS IN THIS STATE AND EVERYWHERE. And they haven’t improved, they may have in fact gotten worse for renters.

So now I ask…..in view of the foreclosure crisis as well…..

Why on Earth hasn’t HUD been using this opportunity to help section 8 voucher recipients to become homeowners?

Some housing authorities allow the voucher holders to BUY, not just rent, housing with the vouchers. That makes sense! Poor people desperately need to develop equity in something. It does not cost the program any more than renting. It helps society in general. It’s a great option. BUT NOT ALL HOUSING AUTHORITIES OFFER THIS CHOICE OF BUYING VERSUS RENTING WITH THAT VOUCHER!

That’s why I say that HUD should wake up, and require all the housing authorities that can afford it, (or help them afford it) to give that buying choice to all the section 8 voucher holders. This is the moment, or coming soon, when house prices are the lowest since what, 15 or 20 years ago?

This is the opportune moment, to get those low cost housing payments into the hands of the low income renters. AS OWNERS.

SO, i AM GOING TO BE CALLING ON MY SENATORS, REPRESENTATIVES, AND MY LOCAL HOUSING AUTHORITY, TO TRY AND URGE THEM TO GET THIS TYPE OF THING GOING.

IF YOU AGREE, OR GET A GOOD IDEA ALONG THESE LINES TO HELP THE POOR IN THIS HOUSING CRISIS, THEN WHY NOT CALL YOUR LEGISLATIVE PEOPLE AS WELL. AND YOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY.

WHY SHOULD ALL THE OPPORTUNITIES BE GIVEN BY HUD, TO ENTREPRENEURS AS INVESTORS, WHO WILL THEN “FLIP” THE PROPERTIES AND PROFIT OFF THEM BY DOING WHAT THEY ALREADY DID, RAISING THE PRICE TO MAKE A PROFIT? BUY LOW, SELL HIGH. THEY SHOULD NOT BE THE ONLY ONES TO BENEFIT FROM THE FORECLOSURE CRISIS.

HUD AND THE RULEMAKERS, SHOULD TURN THIS CRISIS, INTO OPPORTUNITY FOR THE POOR, THE DISABLED, THE ABANDONED WIVES, THE BATTERED WOMEN, THE STRUGGLING OVERWORKED OVERTIRED SINGLE PARENTS…. AND JUST WATCH THE BENEFIT AND THE IMPROVEMENT TO INDIVIDUALS, AND SOCIETY IN THE USA.