Jim,
In today's economy, at least where I live (Denver), unemployment is
about 2%, anyone who wants a job can find one. there are help wanted
signs everywhere. Maybe it's different in Ohio, but here, those who
panhandle, beg, etc., clearly don't want to work, and I suspect it's the
same in Santa Cruz. maybe Ohio is different.
Barry W2UP
On 9/17/2019 2:00 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
Thanks Hans and others. Life is hard for those left behind by
automation, the migration of jobs to other places, and of money to the
richest. There are many homeless folks all over our country, and many
with homes that they're likely to lose because they've lost jobs or
had medical catastrophe. I know a bit about that -- my mother was born
in KY coal country, her father was from MD coal country, and I was
born and raised in WV. Dayton has been on hard times for many years --
among other things, downtown and the surrounding area had been wiped
out by a major flood. I learned about this when I had client in
downtown Dayton about 15 years ago, a church for whom I designed a
sound system. Walking distance from the Crown Plaza.
There are homeless encampments in Santa Cruz, CA, ten miles from me,
and in many major cities. As a student in 1962, I worked for a small
radio station and broadcast consultant in Charleston, WV. I walked a
bit less than a mile from a rented room to sign on the station at 6 am
and sign it off at 1 am. I often encountered panhandlers, but never
felt threatened. When I visited Chicago for a job interview in 1964,
and later moved there for 42 years, I regularly patronized jazz clubs
in the heart of the Black community, and never felt threatened.
Sadly, things have gotten much worse for those left behind by our
economy, and to add to that, the ravages of opioids. A long time ham
friend lost his son to this.
73, Jim K9YC
On 9/16/2019 8:01 PM, Radio KØHB wrote:
I’m only familiar with the area immediately adjacent to the
CrownPlaza, so I can’t speak about the “Oregon area”.
In my (mis-spent) youth in the Navy I navigated a lot of dark and
sketchy waterfronts in down-scale foreign ports.
In none of them was I ever so apprehensive for my safety as I was
this last May after the Contest Dinner walking 2 blocks from CP to
where my vehicle was parked in a surface lot. Approached twice with
offers of intimate horizontal refreshment and once by a pair of
fellows desiring “money for the bus”.
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