Posted on 12/26/2008 1:26:04 PM PST by dbz77
A week before winter officially begins, and Southern California is having its first cold spell. Mid-day temperatures on this sunny Sunday are down in the mid-50s, with a breeze making it seem even colder here in Venice. Still, this being a SoCal beach community, young men and women are out riding bikes on 3rd Avenue, while teens glide down the gentle incline on skateboards.
The street is a gentrification potpourri of two-story stucco apartments and spacious Spanish-style homes with tile roofs. At the top of the hill, however, is a brown brick three-story rectangular building that seems somewhat out of place. Moreover, in back snaking along one side is a line of a dozen mostly men with weathered faces waiting to get a bag lunch of a peanut butter-and-jelly or tuna fish sandwich, piece of fruit, snack and box of juice handed to them through an open window.
Lorenzo has already been in line and is sitting at a red picnic table in the back yard under an old Eucalyptus tree, munching on his free meal.
"I used to be able to find some work gardening or cleaning up places, but it's really worse, like there's nothing now," he tells a visitor to St. Robert's Center. "Before I was able to get more work and food, because before they used to give out food everywhere in Venice. Not no more. And now there's a lot of people sleeping on the beach and homeless everywhere."
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...just some San Franciscans down for vacation from the sanctuary city, nothing to worry about, just ask the Mayor
‘Every week there’s more people’
Barry will make sure that abortions are safe and rare(whatever that means). Then there will be less people.
Twelve years?!?!?! The economic downturn has been going on for that long? /s
Who was President twelve years ago?
Homeless guy has $12 a day to survive and has shelter of his motor home which is paid for?
What’s the problem? Even with gas for his motor home he’s still pulling more than enough to get fed plenty. Not the great life by all means but he is far better off then people in other countries.
Not to mention he’s been at it for TWELVE YEARS. At some point it because a choice and that was around 11 1/2 years ago.
No pity at all...
Yesterday at my church we provided a free ham or enchilada dinner, free balls and bears for the children and a couple pieces of clothing for 1100 people.
At Thanksgiving we fed 1242 people.
I guess the snowy weather kept the numbers down for Christmas — we expected 1200, but were not able to get most of the publicity out since schools in the area had closed due to the 8-12” of snow (depending on who you talk with.)
Enchilada dinner?
I hope it came with a one-way ticket back home.
I still respect him for having better grammar than the editor who wrote the headline
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