ok man. I could tell by your earlier thread selling your benz that you "had fun with for the summer" that you are making some MEGA dollars.

I don't know how long you have been wealthy but people with money tend to get soft and forget what it was likd to not have money, if they even knew at all. If you get sad seeing people standing on the street corner in AMERICA, then you should come with me next time I go to a third world country.

I was in Nigeria where people were working hard as shit for 5 dollars a month! All of the city of Lagos is a traffic jam 24 hours a day and there are little kids, women, and crippled people reaching in the car window BEGGING for shit. I saw this one mothafucka that had half of his face eaten away by this disease prevalent in Africa called Yaws. HE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A FUCKING MOUTH! PLUS HE WAS BLIND!

I went down there feeling sorry for muthafuckas and all of that. I stayed in a village for a few weeks and I was passing out money. Seeing "poor" african villagers for the first time could make you sad. But after a few weeks living with them, you'll realize that those african villagers are nothing but some beggin ass niggas.

even in an african village, you can still get lazy and expect a handout if there is someone around willing to give it. You take one of those poor nigerians and stick them on the SAME street corner in New York City where you're feeling sorry for those people, and watch that Nigerian driving a new car, living in a brand new home, and bringing at least one of his family members to the US withing 2-3 years.

I don't feel sorry at all for a healthy individual who is standing on a street corner in America. If he is healthy and has half a brain, he could EASILY get a place to stay and some food within hours.

Money has made you soft Escortbiz. Soft as a newborn baby's ass......

Two years ago, I didn't know what I was going to do with my life and I had a mouth to feed. Now I'm sitting my fat ass in this recliner chair pushing porn. God Bless America!

And time to go to the YMCA and hit that treadmill........peace....

hahahaa... i was looking for that thread because i forgot if it was Escortbiz or not that posted it

... looked like a $150,000.00 car to me.
no wonder it has to be sold.
probably just doesnt hold enough boxes of canned goods
and blankets for distribution to the homeless
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Guys im doing well don't worry about me

Again its not right that so many are out of work, standing on corners and stuff. There is only so much I can help these people.

Martha Stewart is in trouble for insider trading. It's illegal. I'm glad they're taking her down for it. Maybe she's being made an example of, but I think that it's good to see SOME peope going down for it.

Only so much you can do, eh? Like what?

How about this: Buy yourself a nice car that doesn't cost an arm and a leg that's gonna last you for the next 2 years. We're gonna go on the theory here of the $150k car that you had "for the summer". So let's say you get yourself a nice new Jag for $30k or so instead, and you've got the rest of that $150k (about $120k now) to "do something".

Sit your ass down and spend a day calling around to the local temporary workforce places (like Manpower) and find out what they need. Data entry people? People trained in MS Word and Excel? People who just know how to type? Ask what their finder's fee is.
Last I checked, it was about $150 (in FL anyway) to file papers for a non-profit corp.

Look around a bit, and lease out an empty building. It doesn't have to be in the slums - you'll spend extra money getting security for the place - and it doesn't have to be in a gated industrial park. Something as simple as a vacant firehouse in a suburb will do.
Get some computers - whatever's cheaper, buying them straight from the manufacturer or building them yourself. Let's say about 6 to start.
Now you've spent about $5k on the deposit for the building and the computers, and let's say another $30k on the car, so you've got another $115k to go. Let's plop $15k of it into an account to pay for the utilities and lease for a while. Call Microsoft and tell them you're opening a training center for the underpriveleged and unemployed, and they'll send you full software for all 6 of those computers - free.

So now you've got a building, 6 computers, and software. You can't do this alone - stick an ad in the paper for displaced tech workers (god knows there are plenty of them out there) to come in and do training. You'll need 5 of 'em. The sixth person you want to hire will have experience dealing with the local social services, will know where all of the local food banks, goodwills, salvation army stores, and shelters are. If she doesn't definitely know where these places are and/or have contacts in them, she'll at least know where to find the information.
Even better - get these people to come in on a volunteer basis. High school or college students who need an internship or experience "in the field", something to look good on their resumes (and this would be a big gold star on their resumes), retired people... even your computer-savvy friends.

So now you've still barely dented the $100k you've got left. Go get yourself 5 of those people you saw standing on the corner. Find out how many of them actually *want* a job. You're going to have to spend the most time doing this, because standing on a corner makes pretty damn good money.
You bring 'em in. Your 'concierge' worker immediately gets them in touch with all of the local social services that can benefit them. Food stamps, emergency housing assistance, emergency utility assistance, food banks, etc. If they're homeless, you set them up with a shelter. See if the qualify for unemployment, medicaid, etc.

Once that's done, the training begins. Whatever Manpower needed, you'll start cultivating. As little as one week of training could give a person enough computer skills to get a damn good job doing data entry. Two weeks, even better. As one of them is trained well enough, your concierge or another volunteer takes the person down to the goodwill or salvation army and gets them some nice clothes, buys them a haircut, and goes with them to Manpower (or one of the other Temp Hire places you called). If they get the job, good! They stay in touch with you for at least the first two weeks of the job. If they need transportation to/from the job, you can also find volunteers for that or simply buy some bus tickets for them. You help them out with whatever they need those first two weeks and let them know that after that, you're still there if they need you - for more advanced training, for someone to straighten out issues with the local social services, etc.

If they don't get the job, your concierge is there with them to find out exactly why. Bring them back to the center, and fix whatever it is that caused them not to be hired. Maybe they're not strong enough in this program or that. Maybe their interviewing skills need some work. Whatever. Work with them until they're ready to go back and get the job this time.

When they get the job, you get a finder's fee. Run a few people through the program and get them jobs, then apply for a grant and any local social program small-business funds you can. You're running an Adult Rehabilitation Program. While your 6 workers are handing your current 5 rehabilitees, you're developing stronger relationships with the Temp-Hire places, and even contacting local companies directly about getting your rehabilitees hired. You settle on a hiring price - which is higher because you can give them workers specifically trained for what they need - and you take $2 per hour off of the top to go back into the Center and the rest goes to the worker. After the worker has survived their "probationary" period at the company (usually a month to three months), they get the other $2 you've been holding back and they're on their own.

You *can* do most of this with volunteers. You'd be amazed how many of the sweet, well-mannered, and utterly patient little ladies down at the local retirement home would love to come out and help with something like this. Want to make it even better so you'll get more grants and/or community support? Bring in women - single mothers, women on welfare, etc. to get trained. Set up one part of the Center with some donated toys and another one of those little old grandmas to watch their children while the moms get trained.

As you grow, you can branch into other areas. Train guys to terminate cables and do simple networking. Satellite installations. Cable installations. Get your own personally-trained 3-person team to go out and pre-wire houses for phone and internet. Work with the local construction teams and builders to get a deal where you do all of their new houses. This 3-person team alone can bring you a lot of fucking money. When they're not wiring new houses, they're re-wiring older houses or wiring up local hotels and businesses for internet. (The hotels pay damn good money to have their rooms wired for data.)

It's not the people holding signs in DC yelling about the war that help the unemployed get jobs or help turn the economy around - it's the "evil rich guys" - like YOU (yes, if you're making more than $70k per year you qualify as a greedy, selfish "evil" rich man) - that make a difference.

You *can* do something - it's just how much you're *willing* to do and how far out of your comfort zone you're willing to step in order to do it.

Bush is asking for money ?

The only person I have heard that is asking for money is that DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR DAVIS in California..

Bush has nothing to do with the cost of living in New York. Of course, there is going to be a larger amount of unemployed people to go along with the inflated taxes, property costs and property taxes etc.. I know I could not afford New York and I know my sister-in-law pays more than double what I pay in property taxes ....

This is Soooooooo very true... He's worse than Clinton was.

Fuck do you REALLY think he's going to do any of above.. Why hell NO he's going to set RAT there in his chair and complain how Bush put these people out of work. And now is going to take money...build bomb's and missle's... were that money should be given to the poor... So they can buy some more CRACk (granted now all poor smoke CRACK). The thought has not entered his mind...if Bush does not build those bomb's and missle's... he might be the one standing on that street corner...and not looking for a job...but a safe Cave to live in.:1orglaugh

Bush is getting funnier and funnier with every appearance.

Most Americans wake up every day embarassed knowing that this man is their "leader"

I have NO ideal were you get MOST Americans from...What poll are you looking at? Am not embarassed one (1) dam bit... Hell I wasn't even embarassed when Clinton was in office:Graucho .... Am a proud Amercan... I guess you are not...

i am pretty embarrased at Democratic Congressmen flying to Iraq to criticize their own president, government and country in a time of serious crisis - questioning the intergrity of our own goverment over that of Saddam Hussein.
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What else???????

He's been eating Pussy !!!!!

Nice Dog you must have LOL.....