A Plea from One of Our Own

[The One Man Gang]

I just got an e-mail from Gray stating that his current employment will end in 30 days.  He is in dire straits and has three children to support.  He is seeking something in the Nashville/Middle Tennessee area if possible. He currently lives in NYC.

I also am asking a favor...could you post something on the board letting them
know I need a gig?  I have 8-9 years management experience- but I was a music
teacher and a teacher of teachers.  I've done everything from paper routes to
drumming.  I would prefer the Nashville area.

I need income starting 2/1.  Nothing is off the table.  I'm not "good with
tools" but that's about it.

Helluva a time of year for this to happen, but, then, I don't think there is a good time.

If anyone can help or has any ideas/sources to help you can send him a PM through the board or send one to me and I can forward it to his e-mail.

Thanks

OMG

[rudedog]

Sorry to hear about that Gray.
I hope you find something soon.
I will pray for you.

[Yo Mamma]

Bruce and Phil would have hired you to do their lawns but you trashed the greatest coaches in UT history. Best of luck to you and yours.

[Acc Hawk]

Bruce and Phil would have hired you to do their lawns but you trashed the greatest coaches in UT history. Best of luck to you and yours.

Typical Da Vicky... Classin up the joint just like Alimony's

[GRAY]

I never trashed Pearl, and FRAUDmer was bought out for more than I will make in my lifetime. 

[Flummoxed Lummox]

From the "Best of Gray" collection. These are his actual posts from the past. Remember this is a guy who "wants a favor" from the rest of us because he finds himself unemployed. Please bear in mind, I wish him no ill-will and sincerely hope he finds work soon. I just find it ironic that the same guy who posted the following about the misfortunes of others is now publicly asking for help.

Karma is a bitch. I sincerely hope Gray becomes a little more compassionate and caring as a result of what he is going through, because the person who wrote the posts below cares little for the suffering of others.

1. February 5, 2011:

my "reasoning" is just fine.

it is typical of the left to point to any boogeyman when discussing the topic of welfare.

this topic is welfare recipients, and the fact that as Victor David Hanson points out in his piece "Two Californias" there are many who apparently don't work, have the taxpayers pay for their food, and otherwise live like middle class Americans, with Blackberries, Toyotas, and Coach bags.

it is also easy to deny this is taking place if you live in a teeny tiny city like Knoxdhad. most of you, despite your braggidoccio, dont travel outside your middle class white nabes.
in large cities, this is a rampant problem. you can bitch about wall st on another thread. has NOTHING to do with this.

2.  February 5, 2011:

the question was asked exactly as intended. why should someone for whom myself nd millions of others are paying for their food, have a blackberry? a car? much less a lexus or even a toyota camry? why should they have the internet to surf at home to their heart's content? why should they be allowed to indulge in harmful vices like alcohol, tobacco, and worse?

again, get off the public dole, and live your life however you see fit. this Is America.  but take ONE dime of taxpayer's hard earnings, and your every breath should be regulated.

3. February 3, 2011:

we now have 43 million taking food stamps.

should someone who has EBT be allowed to have a smart phone? internet? a cell phone period? cable tv? a car?

4. January 29, 2011:

I assume "failed social programs" would include things like unemployment insurance and food stamps.

you wanna pay extra for failed social programs, go right ahead. Me? no thanks. I'll keep my own money.

5. January 16, 2011:

because i manage a business in nyc and philly, i have travelled thru camden more times than FRAUDmer has moved up in belt size.

many of the multi family houses are boarded up. it's a ghetto that makes magnolia ave look like the vegas strip.

how does a ghetto become so? i would argue that organizers like the pres himself encourage an entitlement mentality whereby residents by and large becoem dependant on at least some form of govt handout. EITC, EBT, disability that isnt legit, unemployment that pays so well that getting a job makes no sense, or all of the above.

couple this with a liberal northeastern state where unions get 5-10% increases while the private sector stagnates, laws stifle ordinary citizens from owning guns to defend themselves, and you have a recipe for disaster.

there is no solution. these ghettos will have to be destroyed before the US can bounce back. its that simple. we can't afford them anymore. sorry.

January 12, 2011:

illegals will continue to get free health care in our emergency rooms and with the SSNs and EBTs they steal from legal citizens.

[Flummoxed Lummox]

6. This one isn't related to unemployment, but does demonstrate the level of callousness Gray has toward others. In referencing the great scientist Stephen Hawking, he said this on January 7, 2011:

If I looked like Hawking I'd keep my friggin mouth shut.

7. December 31, 2010:

if someone is illegally in this country, their race is irrelevant.

a white who is here legally cannot be compared to a border jumping wetback.

8. December 28, 2010:

In two supermarkets 50 miles apart, I was the only one in line who did not pay with a social-service plastic card (gone are the days when “food stamps” were embarrassing bulky coupons). But I did not see any relationship between the use of the card and poverty as we once knew it: The electrical appurtenances owned by the user and the car into which the groceries were loaded were indistinguishable from those of the upper middle class.

By that I mean that most consumers drove late-model Camrys, Accords, or Tauruses, had iPhones, Bluetooths, or BlackBerries, and bought everything in the store with public-assistance credit. This seemed a world apart from the trailers I had just ridden by the day before. I don’t editorialize here on the logic or morality of any of this,but I note only that there are vast numbers of people who apparently are not working, are on public food assistance, and enjoy the technological veneer of the middle class. California has a consumer market surely, but often no apparent source of income. Does the $40 million a day supplement to unemployment benefits from Washington explain some of this?

9. November 25, 2010:

we have the fattest and most gluttonous "poor" in the history of humanity: FACT.

10. November 25, 2010:

we have the most obese "poor people" in the world. on that i will agree with the left.

snack cakes and soda with your 43 million EBT cards will eventually lead to the above stated stats on obesity.

11. October 10, 2010:

What brings his words to mind is news that 41.8 million Americans are on food stamps, and the White House estimates 43 million will soon be getting food stamps every month.

  
A seventh of the nation cannot even feed itself.
  
If you would chart America's decline, this program is a good place to begin. As a harbinger of the Great Society to come, in early 1964, a Food Stamp Act was signed into law by LBJ appropriating $75 million for 350,000 individuals in 40 counties and three U.S. cities.
  
Yet, no one was starving. There had been no starvation since Jamestown, with such exceptions as the Donner Party caught in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846-47, who took to eating their dead.
  
The Food Stamp Act became law half a decade after J.K. Galbraith in his best-seller had declared 1950s America to be the world's great Affluent Society.
  
Yet, when Richard Nixon took office, 3 million Americans were receiving food stamps at a cost of $270 million. Then CBS ran a program featuring a premature baby near death, and told us it was an infant starving to death in rich America. The nation demanded action, and Nixon acted.
  
By the time he left office in 1974, the food stamp program was feeding 16 million Americans at an annual cost of $4 billion.
  
Fast forward to 2009. The cost to taxpayers of the U.S. food stamp program hit $56 billion. The number of recipients and cost of the program exploded again last year.
  
Among the reasons is family disintegration. Forty percent of all children in America are now born out of wedlock. Among Hispanics, it is 51 percent. Among African-Americans, it is 71 percent.
  
Food stamps are feeding children abandoned by their own fathers. Taxpayers are taking up the slack for America's deadbeat dads.
  
Have food stamps made America a healthier nation?

[Flummoxed Lummox]

Gray, I really do hope you find a good paying job soon, along with your humanity.

[BTX]

FL:

Your Gray tirade lacked one important element...relevance. Gray isn't asking for a handout or government assistance, he wants to work. How clouded is your mind with hate that you can't see that? Regardless of ideology, the man wants to work. You are full of hate FL.

[Flummoxed Lummox]

FL:

Your Gray tirade lacked one important element...relevance. Gray isn't asking for a handout or government assistance, he wants to work. How clouded is your mind with hate that you can't see that? Regardless of ideology, the man wants to work. You are full of hate FL.

I'm full of hate?????  

Dear Buddha, did you read any of his posts? I've never seen such vitriol, prejudice, bigotry, and hatred of all who don't happen to be in Gray's erstwhile shoes (when he had a job) in my life. Gray has a long history of blaming others for their problems, especially the unemployed. I am simply pointing out the irony. I never claimed he was looking for a handout and I clearly wished him well in his search. There is absolutely no hate in pointing out HIS WORDS.

By the way, the "wetbacks" and other immigrants he references over and over just want work too. And I'm sure a hell of a lot of those on food stamps would prefer to have real jobs as well, something he seems incapable of understanding.

You are way off on this one.

[BTX]

I'm full of hate?????  

You are way off on this one.

Yes you are and no, I'm not.

I'm not comparing you to Gray. I am using what you said and referenced. What Gray has said in the past is not relevant to anything you are saying. HE IS ASKING FOR WORK. Not a hand-out. How hard is that to understand. Can't you see the difference?

Gray may very well be full of hate as well, but that is not germane to the point I made...
You are trying to prove that Gray has been critical of people receiving government assistance and now, since he is asking for help, Gray is a hypocrite. The connection is simply not there. Not that same thing at all. He is asking for help finding work, not asking for food, money, or housing. You are blinded by your agenda.

And for the record, I am more inclined to your normal point of view toward government assistance for the needy than I am towards Gray's point of view. You are just wrong here.

[Sasquatch]

@BTX
 

It would seem to me if you are asking for work, you are trying to AVOID government assistance.

Also, from Gray's note, he says "Nothing is off the table". I wish all of the unemployed had that type of attitude.