Posted by Cecil on October 29, 1999 at 12:33:37:
In Reply to: brokering 'outcast' people: an oxymoron posted by Cecil on October 29, 1999 at 11:47:57:
So, what happens to 'outcast' people is this: You try to make ends meet, and end up screwing your numbers and time management on your goal to maintian basic daily life living, you end up at a shelter and find that there exists a whole new class of 'underclass' people that exist.
Their lives of residential trasnfer will tell you the story of the 'underclass' market place. You can make all kind of moves. From jail to mental institution to halfway house to shelter to another shelter to another halfway house to another mental instituion to a nursing home to jail to a shelter to, and so on, you get my picture. This is how these people live.
What is so DIFFICULT to get OUT of this constant 'transitional living' is the income requirements.
These 'underclass' of people compose of the majority of Social Security, Welfare, Disability, Unemployment, Public Aid paycheck collectors, crime, and below or at the minimun wage income job earners.
They never quite 'make it' past that initial 'start-up' stage. They lack the cash for a bridge and the outcast-turn-around-specialists who sincerely (not being sarcastic here) do their best to help turn-around an outcasts' personal life end ups keeping the outcasts dependant upon them, primarily due to lack of 'bridge' between moving from one class out to another.
The greatest obstacle is the outcast losing all power to make decisions about the re-organization of your life decisions.
The outcasts must follow all rules and regulations that their advocates require them to do, which, is not designed to the outcasts getting 'free' from their advocates, but instead designed to help the advocates get more 'proof' that they need bigger budgets to 'help' thier guests.
Meanwhile the guests get divided into 2 groups, the ones who try to break free, the others who feel comfortable in letting others control their lives.
Cecil
who wants to run and finance her own shelter for outcasts someday
and change the funding incentives to reward the guests (outcasts) for financing their own beds and shelters or something were they can take resposibility and feel more in control over their lives, but the competition, the ones already entrenched, the ones who have been running the 'transitional assistance' programs for their whole careers got control over too much the market and don't want to give it up, you know