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To the attention of:

Barack Obama, US President;
Beverly Perdue, Governor of North Carolina;
US Senators from North Carolina: Kay R. Hagan, Richard Burr;
US Representatives from North Carolina: Brad Miller, David E. Price, G. K. Butterfield, Heath Shuler, Howard Coble, Larry Kissell, Melvin L. Watt, Mike McIntyre, Patrick T. McHenry, Renee L. Ellmers, Sue Wilkins Myrick, Virginia Foxx, Walter B. Jones;
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john l merrell 271 gaskey road salisbury,nc 28147 usa lindsaymerrell@gmail.com 09/08/1975

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Trying to stay afloat but I feel like I'm drowning. Just used the last of my money to buy medicine they put me on for depression and anxiety and for my ADD medicine I have always taken. Was in the ER twice last week and am trying to get through the financial aid application for the hospital. I applied for unemployment in the beginning of September and still have no response and for SNAP (food assistance) in beginning of October, still with no reply. Am having severe problems that require an OBGYN (not recovering from a ruptured ovarian cyst) but they keep having to move my appointment back week by week as they try to get me financial help to pay for my appointment. I am $600 short on rent for October 1st and am literally out of money. (I am overdrawn in the bank). I need to buy a book for school, but can't. I needed to use the food pantry for food and toilet paper. I have a car that has 4 old tires (literally at least 6 strangers have said my one tire looks really dangerous) and its leaking oil and power steering fluid (if not more), squeaks really loud, and occasionally dies while I am driving it (but so far it always restarts (knock on wood!!)). I have about a 1/4 tank of gas and then I will have no money for school (I take 2 classes) or job search. I think I may be starting new job soon and I should hopefully make $300-$500/week working full time but I am so behind on all my bills it will still take me months and months to try to get caught up on rent, cell phone, electricity, etc. and I need new eye glasses and other things like feminine products, etc. I also have a weird skin rash and some other medical issues I want resolved but can not afford an appointment or treatment. I am just so stressed out because I think I am going to lose my apartment and I don't know where i'll go or where I'll store my stuff. I am also really behind in school because I have been so sick lately and to make matters even worse I can't sleep at night because I am so stressed out. The new medicine seems to be helping A LITTLE but not much. I don't know how to do this and its so overwhelming.

My car died and I mean DIED. the transmission went out and i junked it. I work part time and dont have the money for a vehicle. Are there any Orginizations who could help me get just some type of vehicle? I work and work and get farther and farther behind. Im grateful I can at least pay my rent, (barely) ANYONE? I will lose my job if Im late again. Help?

below poverty stricken

NEED CAR PAYMENTS 2MONTHS BEHIND600

To the attention of:

Barack Obama, US President;
Robert Bentley, Governor of Alabama;
US Senators from Alabama: Jeff Sessions, Richard C. Shelby;
US Representatives from Alabama: Artur Davis, Bobby Bright, Jo Bonner, Mike Rogers, Mo Brooks, Robert B. Aderholt, Spencer Bachus;
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I'm not sure what you can do to help but like so many others these days i'm stuck on the street sleeping in a old open tractor trailer no food no money no job can't seem to get a job because i don't have a vehicle because I was stupid and was trying to pick up scrap metal off the old army fort in Anniston and got caught.  me and my mother spent 53 days in jail after we were told first off by one of the workers that all we were going to get was a trespass warrant then we have about 10 anniston cops and a investigator show up and off we go to jail where we sit until our court date aug.15 2011 where we were realeased on 2 years probation and $5100 in fines which neither of us understand why because we did'nt get anyhting we were caught before we left the fort.   All I'm asking is a helping hand so I can get a job and we can get back on our feet.  I lost my truck when we went to jail because i was unable to get it out of the impound and now I'm stuck having to walk everywhere I go can't even get bus tickets to ride the trolley because no1 seems to have them or won't give them to us.   If there was someway I could just get a decent vehicle I could probaly find a decent job if I had to go to Birmingham or something to find one.  But with no money I have no hope of being able to buy one so if theres any vehicles that have been donated that you don't have to buy like the salvation army does then please please help we have no family that will help if they wanted to only my dads mother is financely stable enough to even attempt to offer any help but seeing as she had us put out back in feb. I seriously doubt if we could get anything from her. If you can please offer whatever kind of assistance you're able to thanks.

 

 

                                            Sincerly Bobby Lewis Hood Jr

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I am 18 years old and homeless with my boyfriend we are now currently living on the streets with no more options our parents wont even take us in im tired of fighting and im very confused with what to do i just started working at the kangaroo 3 days ago and wont get payed for the next 2 weeks we need somewhere to stay till then but no one will help us at all what should i do for asistence and help?

the bone morrow in my right is dying so they had to take out my teeth to prevent an infection in my knee after the knee removeal so i have no teeth.im losing wieght fast

Depressed

Help me please.......we are on the brink of disaster. My husband has gambled away everything. Nothing left. He has drank everything. I cannot feed or clothe my 16 yo daughter. We cannot pay any bills....we are broke...I work 3 jobs just to keep us in car and and safe. please, please, God my father, help us, anything will help. I love you! Please send anything you can to 108 wyndham drive, winter haven, florida 33884. Thank you and and God Bless you! Suzanne Cretcher

Sad and worried but try to have a somewhat good out look for the future. Lots of prayers helping me make it through the days.
Always been a giver never a taker, but now I am so tired, drained and broke from helping everyone around me.
Now that I am down and out there is no one I can ask for help, how sad is that?
No one hardly ever comes around now that I am broke, there is no one to talk to, no one to confied in, no one cares.

I wanted to just draw and write, but knew I wasn't good enough to make it. I graduated high school because it was the "right thing to do". I wen to college to become a teacher because it was the "right thing to do." I had no help or counceling. I find myself 10 years later in the same situation I was when I left my parent's house. I've been applying at different places every day for two weeks straight. Every day I hear no, every day people don't call back, every day people aren't hiring. But it isn't just two weeks, it's bee since I was 17. And as I read the messages of those around me, I find I am not alone, and yet I am completely alone. We are in a puddle of loneliness. We are a group of people that has been ditched. I speak three languages and went to school, why won't anyone hire me? How the hell am I going to pay rent and buy food?

Life is suffering. Life is nothing but suffering.

Hello, My name is Alecia. I am 23 years old. I am currently pregnant with my third child. My husband left us on the streets. I dont like asking for money. i like hand up's not hand outs. But we have $20, food stamps and cash aid are pending because we need proof that there is no income and that my husband left. If someone could help, anything will be helpful.

Thank you so very much

I am having surgery on my foot Monday, March 21, and I don't even have enough money to pay the co-pay. I'm on disability and have already spent my money for the month of March on doctor's bills, medications, groceries, car payment, etc., plus I had an emergency that cost $100.

Someone PLEASE help us! I am a single mom of two teenage girls and we are freezing at night. I need help paying my gas bill $150.00. I know it doesn't seem like much but I can't pay it. I'm struggling just to put food on the table. It's going to get shut off any time now.

The last 4 or 5 years have been the hardest of my life. After suffering chronic degeneration in my ac joint in the shoulder dictated that I quit the landscaping/masonry trades, I enrolled in college at the age of 33 to major in education. The jump from working and getting paid to becoming a broke non-traditional student was very tough; I went from being healthy and working outside, simultaneously making pretty good money, to being cooped up inside and not earning a dime. During college, I was also primary caregiver for my young son, as I was still married at the time and my ex-wife continued to work and support us during that period. However, last year we divorced due to major compatibility issues and now we share custody of our five year-old boy. I managed to recently graduate in December, but have yet to find a job. The bills are piling up, and I'm scared. I'm already in tons of debt. Depression, fear, and uncertainty pervade. I'm working with a job placement provider and try to remain optimistic, but the reality is, I'm pretty much a mess and have never felt so low, on so many levels. I'm grateful for having the opportunity to earn a degree, but the 50k of student loans and thousands in credit card debt are looming. I just want to provide for my son and myself, but soon, if I don't get a job, I don't know what's going to happen.

its hard having no money..and when there is a little bit of money its always hard to figure out the best way to spend it to make it strech and worry about whos going to be upset in the end when its all gone.

I should live anywhere but Hutchinson, Kansas. Nothing here to help. Hud has 1 1/2 to 2 Yr waiting list for section 8 housing. If I had the money to move from here, I'd have the money to rent a place at full price. I've been to sights all over the web, and have come to the conclusion that the only ones who come to sites like this, are those who need help. Those capable of helping, just don't bother.

(am reposting this because the first time I accidentally posted it as a comment to someone else's post ...)
I've been a single parent since the end of March, when my children's father became suicidal and entered inpatient treatment. After being discharged from the hospital, he moved into a halfway house. The kids (ages 2 and 3) see him once a week for a couple of hours each time. I thought I would be okay with raising these kids on my own; but it has been so much harder than I thought it would be! I'm frazzled, anxious, exhausted, and completely broke. We survive on my disability income, because I cannot work. I get food stamps, but they only stretch so far. By this time of the month, they are gone and I'm left with no way to buy food. I did manage to save a little bit of money to buy the kids each a Christmas gift; but now I have no money to buy general things like diapers, wipes, laundry soap, etc. I know it's a long shot to expect anyone to be able to help here, but I'm trying everything I can. This will sound horrible, but I really do understand now why a lot of women turn to prostitution ... for single mothers, it sometimes seems like the only possible way to get extra income! (Not that I'm considering that -- just saying I understand the mindset of those women that society judges so harshly.)
Anyway, if anyone can offer anything -- even just 5 bucks ... I have no idea where else to turn ... seems like the local aid organizations are stretched to their limit and can't offer any help. Many of the links on this website end up being nothing ... I don't qualify for grants or loans, and my area doesn't have a 211 call center. I'm at wit's end ...

I thought things were going good with my husband and I, then we lost our apartment, and had to move in with his parents. They didn't like us being together, so everyone in his family devised a plan to break us up, and it worked. I moved in with my sister. I am 34 weeks pregnant, and I have nothing for the baby because I had to leave it behind so I could get out of that situation for my son's sake. If there is any way that you can help me get some things for him, I would very much appreciate it. If you want, I can pay it back, or pay it forward after I get a job and get on my feet down here.
Thank you for reading.

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