President Obama: Thank You.

This evening we watched President Obama on Barbara Walters and I commend him for doing the best job that can possibly be done. What many are forgetting is that he inherited Bush’s messes I respect him for staying strong and giving God glory. It’s time to place yourself in his position and realize you would not want his job. As I watched Sarah Palin, I understand she is lonely and bored for the spot light and as Matt Damon said it best, “what a scary thought if Palin was President”.

Grateful for the following people in my life.

The year is coming to an end next month, and what a year it has been. I give many thanks for the many blessings this year and those whom have helped for the Glory of God and the love for others. I have been totally blessed to have a great family, also my partner in business and life Kevin, whom has been very supportive to get “HIS LOVE STREET MINISTRIES” going in the right direction. For this year has been a very difficult one but I have learned that it is in Gods timing.

I would like to acknowledgement special people like singer Brett Mikels and for him helping us get the word in his up and coming video to help the many homeless that I am fighting for daily and Tommy Garrett for writing a great article on us in the San Francisco Newspaper, also my mother and family for their help feeding the homeless also the donations from Apples bees, and Albertsons as well as the support of my many friends on face book one which Is, Carlo Coppola whom wrote today and is sending coats from Canada for our homeless event December 15th 2010 and all this is for the love they share for others and for the awesome God we serve, and last but not least John Noran for his support and financial giving to pull us though this year .

I thankful for each and every one of you and may God bless you this coming year of 2011 for the best is still ahead of us. I love every one of you. Trey

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Homeless In downtown Denver.

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Top Economists: The Second Great Depression has Arrived.

Despite the gloom and doom, it's best to remember that things could always be worse.

CHICAGO) - David Rosenberg, market guru, has officially declared that the US economy is in a state of depression, and he sees the economic superpowers woes worsening. On the heels of that bleak forecast, the statistics for existing home sales for July were released and the numbers were ugly. The weak housing market collapsed. Reflecting the worst slump in American history, existing housing sales had plummeted a stunning 27 percent and there's no sign on the horizon that sales will stabilize any time soon.

The bottom line, argues Rosenberg and others: the US economy has collapsed into another Great Depression.

Citing the period from 1929 to 1932 and the eerie similarities, Rosenberg said, "We may well be reliving history here. If you're keeping score, we have recorded four quarterly advances in real GDP, and the average is only 3 percent." The same happened during the early 1930s stock market rebound of 50 percent after the 1929 crash. The Great Depression followed the brief economic upswing.

As long as two years ago, one of Britain's top economists predicted a decade-long depression, $45 trillion in debt defaults and unemployment in the US and UK approaching 25% or higher. During October 2008, economist Fred Harrison told the Foreign Press Association in London,""The massive contraction in demand caused by this 'wealth effect' will condemn the western economy to a decade-long depression." Like some economists who alerted the Clinton and Bush administrations about the approaching economic crisis, Harrison warned future Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the looming financial danger when Brown was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1997. Brown, like Presidents Clinton and Bush, ignored the warning. "Brown blames America for the global crisis. But every country in the world permitted property speculation, which is at the heart of boom/busts. Brown now defends himself by claiming that he tried to get global agreement on a stabilization plan. But he failed to tell the other governments about the tax reforms that could have prevented the crisis," Harrison explained in his speech in London.




Two years later, more economists agree with Harrison. Such luminaries as Arthur Laffer and Paul Krugman are two. Although at the opposite ends of the political spectrum, both see dire times ahead for the United States: higher unemployment, a worsening of the credit crisis and housing slump, more loan defaults, more business failures and more foreclosures. Add to this economic witch's brew the possibility of simultaneous currency deflation and inflation and you have every ingredient necessary for another extended Great Depression.

In fact some economists have begun using the term, Great Depression II.

Harrison concurs and believes that the situation has become so serious that whole nations could fail and something unseen in the West for hundreds of years could appear again: wholesale starvation of peoples in some Western countries.

Back in 2008, Spectator Business reported that "Harrison's predictions earned him the epithet 'Prophet of Doom' until his forecasts proved correct. He is now described as 'the canary in the housing mine…(his) prediction is chilling: Nostradamus...could scarcely have been more accurate." On the other side of the pond, in the US, sits Arthur Laffer. The author of several important books on economic theory including his latest, "Return to Prosperity: How America Can Regain Its Economic Superpower Status," Laffer was also an adviser to the Reagan Administration during the 1980s and a member of the Economic Policy Advisory Board.

His economic models have been proven to work and withstood the test of time. Now Laffer has declared that the US economy is heading for a very big fall early in 2011. The economist, best known for his economic model called the 'Laffer Curve," came to national prominence when his model was adopted by Ronald Reagan in an effort to turn the economy around after the disastrous economic policies of Jimmy Carter.

Back in the late 1970s the media kept track of 'the misery index' an informal gauge of inflation, stagnation and taxation that put a damper on the economy for years. Laffer's recommendation—to cut federal taxes significantly and roll back the rate of government spending—was employed in 1981 after Carter's bid for a second term was roundly routed by an angry American electorate.

Laffer's 'prescription' created an economic boom that carried into the Clinton presidency. It also surprised many critics of the model when it achieved what Laffer had predicted: higher revenues to the treasury despite the deep tax rate cuts.

Now Arther Laffer has analyzed the direction of the federal government over the past two years and hears alarm bells going off. The savvy economist has studied the potential impact of the historic debt, an economy hovering just above a depression, and the building pressure to raise interest rates when inflation rises in the future, and compares the ship of state to the Titanic.

"Today's corporate profits reflect an income shift into 2010. These profits will tumble next year, preceded most likely by the stock market," writes Laffer in the Wall Street Journal article, Tax Hikes and the 2011 Economic Collapse.




Laffer calls attention to the one thing that has kept the economy partially afloat, as poor as the economy has been: the Bush tax cuts. When they expire (on January 1, 2011), "federal, state and local tax rates are scheduled to rise quite sharply." Dividend tax will skyrocket from 15 percent to a whopping 39.6 percent, the capital gains tax will increase 25% and the estate tax will jump from zero to 55 percent.

These taxes—a triple whammy to the economy—will serve to further depress business growth and hiring, depress real estate further and add an even greater burden on the ability of the consumer to spend discretionary income, which will sink like a rock. To all that must be added the re-introduction of the infamous "marriage penalty" that could lead to more home foreclosures.

If all that is not bad enough, tax rates will be raised further on income earned outside the US, payroll taxes will rise in 2013 squeezing the middle-class wage earner more, the alternative minimum tax will affect people at lower income levels and taxes are scheduled to be imposed on so-called "Cadillac health care plans."

Nobel Prize winning Paul Krugman, a liberal economist, concurs, but for different reasons. He believes the federal government has not spent enough fast enough. Much of the so-called "stimulus money" authorized by Congress is languishing, unspent. Some hundred billion went to dubious projects and grants designed to stimulate nothing. Krugman is furious. Writing in a New York Times OpEd piece recently, he condemned the current administration's economic policies and predicted a Second Great Depression. He also raised a rather bellicose alarm against Treasury and other responsible for US monetary policy—including the Fed. Krugman is convinced that tens of millions will never find work again and the economy will worsen in 2011 and 2012.

All economic indicators echo 1929 - 1933 Finally, Robin Griffiths devines the future economy from a technical market approach. Griffiths is a strategist at Cazenove Capital who recently shared with viewers of CNBC that "the world has entered significant financial depression." According to Griffiths “Equities are for losers and bond markets for winners. Equities are simply for people who like losing money,” Griffiths said. “A double-dip is inevitable and imminent, as Keynesian stimulus measures have never worked anywhere. We are in the equivalent of a Great Depression following 3 years of credit crisis,” he added.

Before You Become Homeless.

Today, it is foolish for men and women to live with their head in the sand when it comes to their future. All marriages end one of two ways--Either by death or divorce. I have heard the following statement quoted and repeated time and time again, "We are all just one paycheck away from becoming homeless." Yet, most people play Russian Roulette with their futures, refusing to acknowledge that a sudden illness or a loss of a job could create a chain of events that ultimately can lead to homelessness.

For those who are now finding themselves homeless, I am truly saddened. Yet, there were thousands of things that could have done before getting to that point. Utilizing these options could have kept many from becoming homeless. These are the issues that need to be addressed today: What to do before you become homeless.

The first, and most important point is a reality check. Homelessness is happening to middle and upper-middle class white collar workers at an ever increasing rate. Even corporate executives and professional people are being hit hard by this phenomena. The reality check is the most important way to prevent the problem and should be done long before the crisis arises.

I believe it starts with too much house. From my research I have found that most families purchase homes that require two incomes to maintain. That is the first, and most crucial link along the homeless chain of events. Whether because of ego, or through social pressures, or status seeking, or denial, many of us today relate self worth through possessions and image. This faulty way of thinking sets people up for financial trouble, not to mention, produces stress and worry that often breaks up families, rather than bringing them together.

The old criteria used for figuring budgets is, even today, a wise path to follow: Spend no more than 25% of your income on housing. Make sure that it is net income, not gross. Trying to keep up with the Jones never brought happiness to anyone but the Jones. For married, as well as single women and men, it is crucial to plan ahead. What if , is an important question to ask yourself. What if your husband died? What if you got a divorce? What if you or your husband became ill? What if the medical bills ate all your savings? There are many questions that need to be answered. We talk about keeping a nest egg for emergencies, yet me don't take the time to create an emergency plan that can be implemented before a situation becomes a crisis. Waiting until the family is emerged in the crisis is too late. Most of the energy needed to make the critical decisions is being used up in just surviving. So, ask yourself the important questions. Decide what your savings goals are. Decide how long you try to maintain the status quo before you start to really act on your emergency plan. Do you try to maintain your normal living standard or do you put the house up for sell and try to get out from under it before it is taken away? How long can you survive on your savings before you must cut your losses and let your home go? What happens if you just walk out? Check out bankruptcy laws ahead of time. Talk to family members and ask for their input. Check with relatives and ask them for a commitment if such a crisis should hit. Can you stay with Mom, or Grandma, or Aunt Jane? Will your best friend help? What about your grown children, would they be willing to help in an emergency? Learn about all your options before it happens.

Did you know that you can purchase homes for under $10,000.00? I know that in Oklahoma this is possible. They are fixer-uppers, but some will sell for as little as four or five-thousand dollars. Many are just sitting vacant because there is no work in the area. But for someone who could end up homeless, and is sitting in a home with a $500,000.00 mortgage, at least your would not be homeless. You would have a roof over your head. Of course, this may mean relocation. But look at it as a temporary solution to a temporary problem. It buys you time and provides shelter for you and your family while you are still able to utilize your remaining funds. You can later rent out or use as second vacation home after the crisis.

You may want to even consider purchasing a good, used motor home or camp trailer that can serve as shelter in a pinch. Most of us don't think of these solutions during the crisis. We don't let go of our old lifestyle until all of our assets are sucked dry. By then, it is too late. One other important item is the ability for future employers to be able to contact you. You can provide this necessity with an answering service or a beeper or cell phone service. If you own a computer and printer, don't give it up. It is an important tool in job searching. It will provide you with the ability to create resumes at very little cost.

If you are proficient at a skill or trade, there are Contract Firms who hire contract employees. There are Contract Services firms, such as Headhunter.net, Monster.com, or our favorite, Contract Engineering Weekly, which help the busy tradesman make contact with the Contract Firms which have work. The work is usually short term, lasting anywhere from a few days, a few weeks, a few months, or, occasionally, a few years, but can be a life saver when you have been unable to find a local position that can meet your bills. You must travel wherever the work is. If you have a travel trailer, you can seek out RV Parks near your work which allow you to rent month to month. If you rent apartments, you can rent furniture while you are there, but that is expensive.

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Local homeless set up camp for winter.

The keys to surviving cold winters outdoors are dry clothes and a tarp over the tent, said Jesse Roe, who has lived in Horse Gulch for seven years.

Jesse Roe, who has been living outdoors in Durango since 2003, takes a moment to rest while hiking up to his campsite in Horse Gulch.

Jesse Roe shows off the fire pit at his campsite. Roe said the rocks, which also line the bottom of the pit, radiate heat, making large campfires unnecessary.

Jesse Roe holds the gloves he uses when the weather turns cold.Jesse Roe talks about his campsite in Horse Gulch.

“Always keep an extra set of dry clothes,” he said recently while eating lunch at Manna Soup Kitchen. “I see a lot of homeless don’t keep up on that.”

As winter approaches, some homeless residents will pack up and head south. They are called snowbirds. But many others stay year-round, camped out on the public lands outside Durango.

They are motivated to stay for the same reasons others have chosen Durango as home: “I like it here,” Roe said. “I’ve met a lot of good people. The Durango people are very giving and helpful.”

Residents who are homeless are aided by Manna Soup Kitchen, which provides hot meals, sack lunches, showers, thrift store vouchers, donations and laundry facilities.

“I’ve been to a lot of places in the United States,” Roe said during a visit to his campsite. “That’s about the best soup kitchen I’ve been to. How many places do you know where you can do free laundry?”

For Richard Landmark, who also lives year-round in Horse Gulch, La Plata County is home.

Landmark moved to Southwest Colorado from Denver in 1979 and graduated from Ignacio High School in 1981

Some people who are homeless leave for the winter, he said, but most stay.

“It thins out a little bit,” he said. “People do like the birds and fly south.”

Landmark said he resents it when people expect him to change his lifestyle to resemble something more traditional.

“Who’s to say we have to pay rent?” he said. “Who’s to say we have to have a 30-year mortgage?

“You’ve got the attitude of, ‘I can do it, you can do it.’ Well so do I. If we can live outside when it’s 10 to 20 below zero, you can do it.”

Landmark said it’s easy enough to survive the winters here, with a little common sense. It is important to stay dry, remain hydrated and maintain a balanced diet, he said.

Those who get drunk and pass out in the snow are the ones who die from hypothermia, Roe said.

It happens about once a year, said La Plata County Coroner Dr. Carol Huser.

The Durango Police Department does sweeps of homeless camps once a year, typically during the spring or summer. It forces the homeless to find a new spot for a couple of weeks, Roe said.

“Once a year they come by, run us out, clean it up, and then we come back,” he said.

Homeless advocates estimate 90 people live year-round on the public lands outside Durango. Only about a third of the homeless population moves for the winter, said Mike Richard, back office manager at Manna Soup Kitchen.

“A lot of times, they’ll come traipsing through the snow, and their feet are wet,” Richard said. “And once their feet get wet, they’ll get cold and get sick.”

Roe said it is important to plan ahead in the winter. When he leaves his campsite in the morning to go to Manna, he packs an extra set of dry clothes. He needs them after walking through the snow. At Manna, he’ll change into the dry clothes while drying his wet clothes. When he goes back to his campsite, he gets wet again, but he’ll have the dry clothes for the night.

“You leave out of here, you know you’re going to get wet,” Roe said.

To stay warm, Roe has a futon and two sleeping bags.

He visits local thrift stores before winter to stock up on snow gear. His favorite winter accessory is a pair of lightweight NorthFace snow pants.

He stretches a tarp over his tent that allows the snow to slide off to one side rather than pile up on the tent, which can cause it to collapse, he said.

Some people sleep year-round in cars.

Gary, who declined to give his last name, said his own breath makes his car 10 to 15 degrees warmer than the outside temperature.

The winter is tough, he said, because there are fewer hours of daylight. Gary said he doesn’t use alcohol or drugs.

“It does get to be hard psychologically during the winter to keep yourself occupied,” he said. “What do you do to keep yourself occupied in the dark? You can’t read. Where do you sit, and what do you do? It’s too early to go to bed at 6 p.m.”

The library helps a lot, he said, but it stays open only until 8 p.m.

The homeless are especially grateful for gloves, hats and socks residents donate to the soup kitchen, Roe said.

“A lot of us depend on donations to the kitchen,” he said.

He picks up odd jobs like snow removal or cutting wood during the winter to help support himself. If conditions become too intolerable, a group of friends may pitch in to pay for a motel room in town.

But for the most part, winter is like a rainstorm, Roe said, but colder.

“It ain’t hard to do,” he said. “You just have to put yourself to doing it.” Help ua "Make A Difference In A Life" Hislovestreetministries.com

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Former Middle Class Family Loses Sight Of The American Dream .

As part of our Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up local stories of formerly middle-class families who are now struggling to stay afloat. If you or someone you know has a story to tell, please e-mail me at LBassett@huffingtonpost.com.

Heather Tanner put herself through law school, working during the day and attending classes at night, so that one day she and her family could move out of their two-bedroom rental apartment and buy a house. She saw that dream slip away in August of last year, when she was laid off from her job as an attorney and was unable to find work.

"Before I got laid off, they were talking about year-end bonuses, and I put in as many hours as I could so I could hit that mark," said Tanner, who lives with her family in Pacifica, California. "My husband and I were going to use that bonus as a down payment for our house. You go from dreaming about that house you want and having a backyard to not even being able to pay the rent on your apartment. My six-year-old will say things like, 'Mommy, you can have my money for the new house.' But the dream is out the window -- it will be years now."

As an attorney for an insurance defense firm, Tanner was making about $100,000 a year. Since being laid off, she has been working two hours a day at her son's school to supplement her $450-a-week unemployment checks. She told HuffPost that she is willing to take a job doing just about anything, as long as it's legal.

"I've applied for jobs at Target, Macy's, as a camp counselor. I've been on many interviews, but the comments I get at non-legal jobs are, 'Why do you need a job?' I mean, I have a family to support."

Tanner says that because day care is so expensive in California, she and her husband Carl decided it would make the most sense for him to stay home and take care of their two children, now ages 4 and 6, while she worked full-time to support them. But now that Carl really needs a job, he is having a hard time finding one.

"He's been out of work for seven years raising our kids, so there's not really a resumé to send out," Tanner said.
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Growing Number of Homeless Pack Shelters.

Growing Number of Homeless Pack Shelters
KTTC.com ^ | Oct 13, 2010 | Associated Press

Posted on Thursday, October 14, 2010 2:58:58 PM by Son House

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Some families have been turned away from emergency shelters in Ramsey and Hennepin counties because of the growing number of homeless.

Ramsey County commissioner Toni Carter says more than 100 people couldn't get into shelters in August and September. Carter says county and community agencies have been trying to support as many families as they can, but the need is much greater than the capacity.

Twenty-two-year-old Stephanie Kirk tells Minnesota Public Radio News she lied about being abused by her partner in order to be admitted, along with her 2-year-old daughter, to a suburban shelter for battered women.

Before that, Kirk said, she and her partner, Antonio Walsh, and their daughter were staying in abandoned houses in St. Paul. There are over 3,7 million homeless and growing daily due to lack of jobs, and more middle class are experiencing food stamps, pan-handling and becoming homeless.

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Middle Class America Mom 67 Loses All.

Barbara Harvey climbs into the back of her small Honda sport utility vehicle and snuggles with her two golden retrievers, her head nestled on a pillow propped against the driver's seat.

A former loan processor, the 67-year-old mother of three grown children said she never thought she'd spend her golden years sleeping in her car in a parking lot.

"This is my bed, my dogs," she said. "This is my life in this car right now."

Harvey was forced into homelessness this year after being laid off. She said that three-quarters of her income went to paying rent in Santa Barbara, where the median house in the scenic oceanfront city costs more than $1 million. She lost her condo two months ago and had little savings as backup.

It went to hell in a handbasket," she said. "I didn't think this would happen to me. It's just something that I don't think that people think is going to happen to them, is what it amounts to. It happens very quickly, too."

Harvey now works part time for $8 an hour, and she draws Social Security to help make ends meet. But she still cannot afford an apartment, and so every night she pulls into a gated parking lot to sleep in her car, along with other women who find themselves in a similar predicament.

There are 12 parking lots across Santa Barbara that have been set up to accommodate the growing middle-class homelessness. These lots are believed to be part of the first program of its kind in the United States, according to organizers.

The lots open at 7 p.m. and close at 7 a.m. and are run by New Beginnings Counseling Center, a homeless outreach organization.

It is illegal for people in California to sleep in their cars on streets. New Beginnings worked with the city to allow the parking lots as a safe place for the homeless to sleep in their vehicles without being harassed by people on the streets or ticketed by police.

Harvey stays at the city's only parking lot for women. "This is very safe, and that's why I feel very comfortable," she said.

Nancy Kapp, the New Beginnings parking lot coordinator, said the group began seeing a need for the lots in recent months as California's foreclosure crisis hit the city hard. She said a growing number of senior citizens, women and lower- and middle-class families live on the streets.

"You look around today, and there are so many," said Kapp, who was homeless with her young daughter two decades ago. "I see women sleeping on benches. It's heartbreaking

Ricky Martin And Joss Stone

Ricky Martin a Man that does allot to help others and his kindness and love is felt by many through out the world. I know coming out was hard for Ricky, but I feel like everything else that Ricky has been through that this shall make him even stronger. Ricky my wish and dream would be for you and Joss to help us raise much needed money for a pantry and our project to open a great homeless hotel in downtown Denver to restore hope to many that no longer see hope.

Applebees Fundraiser

Join us tomorrow Saturday November 6th at Applebees if in Denver area at 410 South Colorado Blvd. Denver, Colorado for all you can eat Hotcakes and sausage to benefit the homeless from 7am til 10am and only 7.00 per person.
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