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Dec. 7, 2012 1:40pm Liz Klimas

Reddit User Pays for Water Bill of Father of Three After He Posted Thread Stating As a Father of 4, I have Failed

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A father of four took to a Reddit thread meant exclusively for getting things off one’s chest, as a sort of therapy, to tell the heartbreaking story of how he was dreading Christmas, having to look in his children’s eyes that morning with no money to pay his water and power bills, let alone for presents.

“I just wanted to vent, and perhaps cry a little, for the pain I feel for my kids,” the user ProZacDose. “I hate myself that I could of not done better, or I could have a better job with more income. I am supposed to be a father and a provider and I can’t even do that. I am dreading Christmas morning, and wish I can just escape all of this.”

Why would he take to the social news site and forum? He wrote that although he was half tempted to stop writing, but continuing some how “makes this hurt less.”

In an effort to take away some of this hurt, a touched Reddit user offered to pay one of his bills. The user girlinthecity wrote:

I would like to pay for your past due water bill. I am 100% serious. Please PM me to see how we can figure this out. There is no reason your children should have to do without; you are not a failure. So many of us don’t realize how easy it is to get into a tough situation. We’re all practically one paycheck away from it.

Let me help you.

And help she did. According to the post, ProZacDose confirmed that his water bill was paid in full. ProZacDose wrote that he’s been receiving donations of toys and other necessities as well.

The help he’s received has overwhelmed him so much he wrote that he can’t even accept any more.

“I’ve been choking back tears all day,” he wrote.

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Comments (127)

Sweetrae
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 3:38pm
That’s wonderful, and the government DIDN’T do that either. In spite of the socialist policies of this regime there are still good people out there willing to help others.

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- James83940
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 4:38pm
  “That’s wonderful, and the government DIDN’T do that either. In spite of the socialist policies of this regime there are still good people out there willing to help others.”
  
  Absolutely love that comment. 100% agree word for word.
- danielmchick
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 5:02pm
  Your response tells me you understand nothing about socialism. If anything, this glorious feat proves Marx’s ontological assumption about humanity–that the nature of human nature is inherently collectivist, that we are naturally inclined to look out for one another.
- betsyyoung
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 5:08pm
  Loved, loved, loved your spot on comment, Sweetrae!!!!!
  
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- betsyyoung
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 5:13pm
  Must also say Danielmchick in turning on his pseudo intellect, more resembled a toad!!!
  
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- danielmchick
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 5:35pm
  Perhaps, Betsy, if you cared to understand the teachings of Marx rather than what Beck says on the airwaves, you’d understand where I’m coming from. This sand-buried head syndrome will only get you so far.
  
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- Swimming-with-the-Sharks
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 5:41pm
  @danielmchick You got it completely upside down. The nature of most people is to express “individuality”, but with the tendency to seek for a higher power. It is in that realm that people seek like-minded companions.
  
  Those who understand who they are, and what they are– will be more inclined to reach out to others to lift them up and give them a hand-up. Whereas, in socialism, when everybody is equally miserable, yoked under a repressive leadership hierarchy (which is how it always ends up despite good intentions), their freedoms are restricted, and their actions in society are mostly coerced by overlords. It is then that the light of good will is diminished in all but the most godly of souls.
  
  Marx may have meant well, but his proposed brand of communal branding; but it could never, ever work in this world. So keep preaching socialism if that is really what prefer. I’d love to see you live under it for a number of years. A person like you would probably emerge as a darkened soul, void of charity.
  
  Those who seek for socialism based on a superficial idea are generally those who tend to be parasites to society anyway.
  
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- danielmchick
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 5:49pm
  @Sharks –
  
  You don’t know what it is I stand for. Simply because I argue in favor of something does not give away my position on the matter. Given your post, however, it is clear that you do not understand socialism as it is not what you are describing. Related to such, yes, but it is not that.
  
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- Nancys Red Diaper Doper Babies
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 5:49pm
  @ danielmchick
  
  Tell me then why Marxist, Communists and Socialists enforce their policies with the barrel of a gun. Why shouldn’t people be giving the freedom and choice to decide if they want to help others rather than be forced to provide for others. You’re comment makes me think you understand nothing about conservatism. Conservatives donate to charity because they choose to do so out of the good of their heart. Liberals and Socialists think they donate by allowing the Government to redistribute wealth as it sees fit. At the end of the day it’s all about freedom of choice but that concept is likely lost on you.
  
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- cbswcs
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 6:32pm
  Socialism is an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and co-operative management of the economy,[1] and a political philosophy advocating such a system.
  
  In other words give your money to me because I’m smarter and more compassionate than you. I will make sure the money gets in the right hands. Trust me.
  
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- toto
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 7:02pm
  DanielSchmick, The difference is that in this case people have CHOSEN to help someone, under socialist regimes, people are FORCED to give to the government so that they can “give” it to people of THEIR choice, whether you feel those people are deserving or not. And those that receive government largess feel ever more entitled. See Greece.
  
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- Derfel Cadarn
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:08pm
  The key here is needing help NOT expecting help.
  
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- Dr Vel
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:58pm
  Goes far beyond this. Their unending destruction of our economy to give to people gaming the system is why the man cannot make enough money. The takers easily could provide for themselves. They refuse to and while this man is working (when He can find it), they are robbing His house for drug money because their EBT card will not support their habit. These are the norm, the majority of them, not the exception. This is not my prejudiced theory, I have seen it many, many times. They vote to keep those in power to keep this evil corrupt system going.
  
  Private citizens helped this man. Not the thieving politicians who are drunk with power and ill gotten gain.
  
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- mclhurley
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:44pm
  @danielmchick
  
  And at least one more thing. When you wish to challenge other peoples claims or suppositions, you need to have an actual argument, just “I’m right and you are wrong because I say so” is not a valid argument.
  
  See, I also to philosophy.
  
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- danielmchick
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 10:27pm
  If you had a basic grasp of logic, you’d understand the difference between a positive and negative claim, sweetheart.
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 10:38pm
  DANIELMCHICK HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD! I love how you guys hate marxism, but praise it at the same time
  
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- mclhurley
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 10:57pm
  @danielmchick
  
  Well you know what? First, I ain’t your “sweetheart”. Second, YOU are a typical intellectual coward who claims that reality isn’t what it is because you won’t identify it. You tell everyone what socialism is not, but you won’t say what it is. I WILL tell you what it is. It is slavery in which the master is the state. A state with no name and no responsibility but its own continued existence. And if you can’t come up with a cohesive argument, maybe you shouldn’t play with the grownups.
  
  And just so you can’t say that I am typical of this site, I am an American, I am a human being, and I am gay. See how grownups have to make a decision about what they support and not what they don’t.
  
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- mclhurley
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 11:29pm
  @danielmchick
  
  And I thought of something even worse than a first year economics student. You’re actually a philosophy or political science or social work student aren’t you? You plan to work for the government and make everything right.
  
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- mclhurley
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 11:49pm
  @KeatonC33
  
  If you had a basic education you would know that logic can be both plural and singular. As my statement covered all of philisophical arguments, then didn’t is appropriate.
  
  Also, if you had a real argument you would have countered my statement, not my grammar. But that is the typical strategy of a liberal, attack the inconsequential while ignoring the real argument.
  
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- LightOnAHill
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 12:17am
  I was going to post the exact same sentiment. Glad I read it first. RIght on!
  
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- LightOnAHill
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 12:29am
  My Comment was @SWEETRAE, the original
  
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- pamela kay
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 1:21am
  I agree. I bet the majority that helped this man were conservatives.
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 1:49am
  MCHURLY.. Logic is a singular term. Logics is plural.. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/logic BOOM SON!
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 2:12am
  Pam.. ha ya we all know how much conservatives love to help the poor. haha
  
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- endthemindlessspending
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 3:48am
  @KEATONC33
  
  Do you really want to argue or who helps the poor more? Lets look at the last presidential race when it came to charity donations. Mitt Romney gave 29.4% of his income for 2011 to charity, totaling over four million dollars. Between Barack Obama and Joe Biden together in 2011 they gave 23.3% to charity. Joe Biden only donated 1.5% of total between the two of them. Over a 10 year period Joe Biden gave only 3,960 to charity. That is 369 dollars a year. Conservatives are all for helping those in need, they just don’t think the government needs to be the middle man. Please, name me one government social police that is running fiscally responsible. Oh, and by the way, I am an accountant and I know you will have a hell of a time searching for one.
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 12:21pm
  Why does no one delete these trolls? Don’t they realize how much site traffic the blaze gets daily?
  
  Do you really think visitors, potential subscribers and even potential sponsors want to see the garbage these two users (probably one person) spew here on an almost daily basis?
  
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- shorelineliz
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 12:33pm
  Amen! Americans always step up for other Americans and lots of other people world wide!
  
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- JapesMacfarland
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 11:17pm
  I actually appreciate the ‘trolls’ sometimes, because of all the often thoughtful, informative responses. And DANIELMCHICK it is true, or as Dennis Prager says, “The bigger the government the smaller the citizen.”
  Yet also the smaller the family, community, personal charity giving in time and money, prosperity for the society and happiness overall.
  
  Growing the size and power of the centralized State is all about power and what the Left always wants to do, via things like Socialism, egalitarianism, etc. The capitalize on compassion for power, like bankers capitalize for money. Greed for money is bad, greed for power is probably worse.
  
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- loneindividual
  Posted on December 9, 2012 at 3:51am
  danielmchick
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 5:02pm
  
  Your response tells me you understand nothing about socialism. If anything, this glorious feat proves Marx’s ontological assumption about humanity–that the nature of human nature is inherently collectivist, that we are naturally inclined to look out for one another.
  
  ****
  
  And the fact that this man had private conversations with people and was able to do without A THIRD PARTY somehow makes EVERYTHING that Marx has ever said about Collectivism…redeemed?
  
  What the crap are you smoking….or are you just a Luciferian/Promethean Character?
  
  The Individual is REALITY. The Collective is a god-damn ABSTRACTION.
  
  These were INDIVIDUALS having A PRIVATE RELATIONSHIP.
  
  Get the ****ing ****face ****er **** OUT OF HERE!!!!
  
  UNHOLY FRACKING SHIITE’Z!!!!
  
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vic108
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 3:24pm
A local family that used to own a small beer/wine distributorship never forgot their humble beginnings of having to work hard to make ends meet. even when they had very little, every Christmas they (kids and all) would do something for a needy (needier than them) family. When they took over the family beer biz and were better off, they kept up the tradition. Over the years even the grandkids were enlisted to save up through the year to help. they also started a fund drive to get other folks to join in too. It wasn’t just toys, they would help pay bills, bring food, the Christmas tree, pay the rent, car payments, etc. I helped with a donation but I was thinking to myself: “who heals the healers, all these years, they have given, let’s see how good they can receive!”

One day around Christmas, the son and I were at work talking “guitars” and I showed him pictures of my many guitars. He spotted my red fender telecaster and said that he used to have one just like it but had to sell it when their first baby was born. He said he always regretted selling his guitar. The next day, I came in with the guitar in case, and showed it to him. “wow! that’s a beautiful guitar there!” and I said: “Glad you like it, Merry Christmas, It’s yours now”. He was stunned “You can’t do this…”. I said: “I just did, what goes around, comes around”.

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- GENEPAGLIARI
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 4:04pm
  Not to brag, (well maybe a little) my Pastor is also a singer/guitar player/songwriter who has given away many guitars. As a matter of fact, he is always giving things and money away. And he always has more to give. A true blessing to those around him. No one ever comes to our multi-denominational church in need that doesn’t go away with what they asked for and are in need of. One time he even gave away his Harley, gave a ten year old kid an axe worth a few thousand…You name it he’s given it. Time-food-salvation…He’s always bestowing something on someone.
  
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- cptenn94
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 4:07pm
  Huzah good for you. If i had much to give i would give you a gift. You are a prime example of how capitalism is supposed to work and how people are to help each other. When i am out of college and making money i shall do the same, until then i shall help those in the ways i can(ill do it any ways), as i was taught by my parents and i will drill in my kids some day when i have some. Youre a great guy.
  
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- cptenn94
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 4:17pm
  vic…as i read more of what you have done, you have moved me to tears…..you are such a great fella….if i can help at all let me know…..im honestly speechless as words cannot describe how kind you are.
  
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- vic108
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 9:58am
  CPTENN94,
  
  i think of ‘random acts of kindness’ as sport…..
  
  i laugh when liberals will get in their car and drive to some ‘social cause’ when on the way, they must pass all kinds of folks that are in need of some sort.
  
  even if they are not in need, find a active soldier or a vet and brighten their day ‘just because’.
  
  I’ve been doing this for years and have many dozen stories along these lines…. from paying the road toll for the person in the car behind me too and cutting the grass at the home of an elderly neighbor while he was in a nursing home – always on the sneak! :)
  
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- OlderCowGirl
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 9:31pm
  My husband has done this same gifting many times. He has such a big heart. It truly hurts him to see people and animals hurting. My main mission is for the helpless animals. His mission is for people. My husband will give someone whatever he’s led to give.
  
  We are very conservative. We work at something 7 days a week. I have 3 younger siblings who are on disability. They are “Takers”. My sister actually thinks that I should give her things because I have more money. I suspect that God will have a talk with her one day.
  
  The Holy Bible says that if you don’t work…you don’t eat.
  
  I agree with the Blazer that said to the Libs…go live for several years in a socialistic country before thinking you know and understand Communism, Socialism, or Marxism. Theoretically these systems work…but they don’t work in the real world.
  
  I know a wonderful giving family that created a “Commune” on their property. It worked in the beginning, but then as many people are…lazy…selfish…and “Takers”….this commune did NOT work.
  
  You can only save just so many people before you begin to drown yourself. (I have no idea who originally said this).
  
  Last note: A fellow co-worker-boss told me “People only have as much power as you allow them to have”.
  
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vic108
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 3:09pm
a few years back, on a guitar forum, we had a young lad join the forum that seemed like the nicest kid we all had met in years. with his southern Texas manners and wit, we (the older guys) soon gave him a nickname and took him “under our wings” as “one of us”. Unlike alot of the younger folks that visited the forum, he wasn’t the head-banging, self centered, “know it all” that alot of young musicians are today. He had a tough year: during Katrina, his family had to move to safety, his grandmother passed away, they got hit by another hurricane, and his guitar amp died on him. So I packaged up one of my guitar amps (a nice Vox combo) and shipped it to him for Christmas. I think he thanked me a million times. All I told him was that when he becomes an old geezer like me and sees a young musician struggling like he did, to do the same…

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red_white_blue2
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:50pm
I would so help him too. If anyone can connect me to him, my email would be tmcavey64@gmail— please let me know if I can help him and his children.

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- DIgnified
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 3:26pm
  Make a reddit profile and PM him.
  
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- Rald277
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 4:56pm
  So many people need help this time of year. Shouldn’t be hard to find one near you. Merry Christmas everybody!
  
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Deliverance_from_the_left_now
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:44pm
I’m shocked BIG Gov didn’t tax the both of them…just goes to show you that wonderful and great things happen when government is no involved!!! I’m very happy for that family and hope they have a happy and blessed Christmas and new year!

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vic108
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:43pm
I first had that lesson shown to me years ago by my father. A rough & ready 3rd degree black-belt redneck that wasn’t the warm & fuzzy type. he had been taking care of his semi-disabled sister her entire life. He bought her a home and paid her bills just to keep her off the dole. He thought it was a family’s duty to take care of family. But over the years, she took it all for granted and became demanding. Even her grown kids (with their boyfriends) moved into this house and enjoyed the free ride. On my Saturdays off, i would go and cut the grass and clean the yard because no one there was doing anything. One holiday, my dad and i were on our way over to her house when my dad said: “to hell with this” and stopped a few houses down from hers, at some place that was no more than a shack. He grabbed this huge ham and other goodies we had and went up to the door of the shack.
A very old black man answered and my dad said: “happy thanksgiving”. The old man started crying and almost fainted. i heard him say: “I prayed all day that i would have something to eat today” as he
grabbed my dad’s arm and hugged him and kept saying “God Bless you…”. My dad got back in the van and said nothing but i could tell he was moved. So was i…

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- HollyRye
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:51pm
  A story worth sharing. Thank you for doing so.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 3:14pm
  If you are young, have 2 arms, 2 legs and a brain and can walk and talk, I wouldn’t give you the sweat off of my nose. NEVER give able bodied humans a damn thing. Now, old poor guys, all colors, truly handicapped and kids, they can have the shirt off my back. NIce story. Remember, give ‘em stuff and you ruin that person forever. Saw it hundreds of times in my life.
  
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- colascguy
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 3:22pm
  Last year I ran the angel tree for our Church. We put and angel for each member of families in need. About two weeks before Christmas we invited them to the church to pickup the gifts and have cookies. Anyway we had a couple of families missing on that day. I found out later that they had to move because of not being able to pay rent. I tracked down one who family moved in with the mothers brother in government housing. I thought it was such a simple thing to make the extra effort to deliver the items for her two children. But her brother completely overwhelmed me. He just kept shaking my hand and hugging me telling me the children would have not had Christmas if I had not showed up. I know it was true too. There was no Christmas tree in this tiny apartment with bare cement floors. They had a couple of folding chairs but really very little beyond that. God bless everyone who has it in there heart to perform outreach.
  
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- M1A2_Tanker
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 3:46pm
  VIC,
  
  Your Dad is correct we need to take care of our our own. I am a young Disabled Vet with 3 teenagers, Earlier this year my Disabled Mother and Recently divorced (ultra Messy) unemployed brother moved in with me they came from CO down to AR. I got my Mother her own place last month. My Brother started his new job this last week he won’t get paid for another 2 weeks. I have paid their bills, Food, Car repairs for my Mother and my Brothers car payments for the last 6 Months. On my Brothers second day of work he blew a tire on the highway I promptly spent my Christmas money on a set of new tires for him so he can work and hopefully pay me back before Christmas. My tires are completely bald. I have wiped out my very small savings. The thing is I would do it all over again than to see them without a home. I don’t consider this charity it is the only right thing to do. As long as nothing pops up between now and his payday we will all be just fine. If only the rest of the country did this when their families needed help we would all be on our way! Thanks for the story it gives others hope that just maybe we can pull out of these bad situations.
  
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- c.parker
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 4:43pm
  Ok so, you made me cry….
  
  I am an American Military wife stationed in England. Every year at Christmas time many of us get together and donate several big boxes of food to some of the very poor elderly people in the area. So often we are met at the door with tears and smiles. I wish we could take them all home with us and take care of these precious ones but there are too many and we are just barely hanging in there as it is. God bless everyone who gives from their heart to a person in need.
  
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- vic108
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:40am
  I agree with you, MIL-DOT – don’t give a lazy person anything except inspiration to get them off of their butt… as you know, I’m talking about the helpless, someone down on their luck, the truly needy, the lonely, the widowed, the sick, the young, the elderly, and when you feel it in your heart at that moment. What and if a person gives is their own biz – after all, it’s what they’ve earned and it is theirs.
  
  I just think of the few times that someone went out of their way and was kind to me… Back in the early 1990′s. after I got laid off from a job that I had for 12 years, I thought I’d try my luck in the Monterey/Carmel Valley area of California. Turns out, all my money went to rent and I would go to bed hungry for months at a time – i was pinching pennies anyway I could. I lived on rice and cheap local squash for MONTHS. I also lost 30 lbs in the process. Across the street from where I worked was an older Japanese lady that ran a heath food store where I would go and buy the cheapest thing I could for lunch. After awhile, I guess she noticed that I was losing weight or something….. she started bringing me BAGS of almost out of date food over after she had closed up for the night. If it wasn’t for her sweet kindness, I would have had a tougher time than I did.
  
  Also, after I got laid off from my last job (after 17 years), things got really tight but someone I barely knew went out and bought me 4 big boxes of groceries. Man! Some people are so thoughtful…
  
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RoDogg
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:42pm
Being unemployed the last four years while raising a 3 and 4 year old. I feel his pain. Just last week I completely broke down after having to beg a woman not to shut my gas off.

Our first born came in 08 when we started losing everything. I’ve literally never know what it feels like to be a provider.

BTW, those family minute commercials on Becks radio are very depressing to a stay home dad. Its always normal family stuff. Make your husband feel special for providing etc. How much do you care about family when you only view it one way???

I would give anything to be able to provide for my family. I actually dream about working for Beck and being able to provide for my wife and kids.

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- airportengineer
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:51pm
  Where do you live?
  If you live near me, I would like to help you. I’m a small biz owner, and may be able to locate a job for you. Our fist child was also born in ’08, June 08.
  
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- vic108
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 3:03pm
  Hang in there, Rodogg! I hope some good things comes your way soon…
  
  I was laid off on 04/01/2011 after 17 years at my job and it took 16 months to find another job – making only 46% of what I used to bring home a week. Savings will run out soon as my bills are $300 per month more than what I make now (all based on what I USED to make!) and I’ve cut off all luxuries and am down to the basics… I eat alot of rice and P&J sandwiches. I had to adopt out my dogs, as I could no longer afford to feed them – man! That broke my heart! Time will tell if I can keep my house – I hope I can refinance at a lower interest rate or get my mortgage adjusted somehow. For Thanksgiving, I ate some pasta…
  
  The shame is, alot of folks are in the same boat… or worse…
  
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- Small World
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 3:13pm
  I have my doughts about this one.
  
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- thorkyl
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 3:57pm
  What part of the country are you in?
  What kind of work do you do?
  Can you relocate if you find work?
  
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- RoDogg
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:50pm
  Thank you for the positive responses. I’m in southern Oregon but looking to get back to so cal. Not by choice. I tell my wife we are moving back to the lions den but its where all our family and friends are. The hardest part about the last four years have been raising our kids with no support.
  
  I worked in aerospace quality control. So CNCs, CMMs, surface plates, and mountains of specs and standards is my specialty. A couple things I was involved with making are parts for the Mars rovers, Satellites, tomahawk missiles, F-22, F-35, etc. Just crazy tolerances and processes. I loved it. I could spend entire days on a surface plate or reading specs tied to a print.
  
  Needless to say, I’m a big American made supporter.
  
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- gdd2010
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 4:52am
  E-Mail a Resume’. I’ll pass it along to our QE group and anyone else. I work at Raytheon and we are still a bit busy. Caviet, It’s in N. Texas.
  
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- gdd2010
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 4:55am
  GAhhh! Hit Enter B4 I could give e-mail. glenndiaz74@gmail.com
  
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- sgtswifey06
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 11:12am
  Do you mind me asking what company you used to work for? I work for United Technologies Aerospace Systems (formerly Goodrich Aerostructures) in Riverside, CA. If you are looking to move back to So Cal have you looked at them? We had a hiring freeze due to budget issues but we have 3 new contracts that will be expanding rapidly including the Boeing 787 and the Airbus A320 Neo. I’m not sure if we have a need for a QA but if there’s nothing in Riverside there might be a need in either our Chula Vista or San Marcos plant.
  
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- vic108
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 11:54am
  Rodogg.
  
  N.A.S.A. Wallops Island seems to be busy these days. Near Chincoteague Island, VA, it’s a nice place to raise kids and enjoy nature. Lot’s of good fishing, hunting, boating, bird watching, beaches, etc…
  
  Along with NASA, there are many sub-contractors too:
  
  Orbital, Lockheed Martin, Fluor, CSC, VT Group, LJT & Associates, URS Coporation, and a few more…..
  
  Hope it all works out for the best soon for you & yours…
  
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AmericaMustBeFree
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:32pm
This is what American’s do! Well the most of us! God bless this father and his family and all those who helped make Christmas a better day for this family. Now if someone would just call and offer this father that better job!

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- DIgnified
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 3:28pm
  Never underestimate the atheists huh?
  
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vic108
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:32pm
Pay it forward…..

A few years back at a local restaurant, there was an elderly couple having dinner. I noticed that he had on a US NAVY hat with a WWII ship name on it. These hats are worn by veterans to show that they have served their country and which ship they were deployed on. I hinted to the waitress to come over and be discrete. I told her to put their dinner on my bill and to accept nothing from them, not even a tip. When it was time for them to leave, the old fella asked for the bill and the waitress told them that it was taken care of, that the person that did this just wanted to thank him for his service. I kept my head down looking busy eating as they scanned the dinner looking for who might have done this. They left the dinner thrilled and all smiles…

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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 3:17pm
  Nice work Vic.
  
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- FreeCarolJoy
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 3:51pm
  God Bless you. They kept our freedom for us. They gave us a great country.
  
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whatthecrazy
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:29pm
Awesome but waiting for a follow up as well.I am litterally being stopped daily by people asking for money to get back home ,REALLY, everybody with the same issue?Obamas peoples are a credit to him,find mess we are in thanks prez………..

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- theamericanvision
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:38pm
  Challenge them. Ask them what they need and why. If it’s money for gas, offer to buy them gas. If it’s money for a bus ticket, offer to meet them at the bus station. If they want food, offer to go pick them something up. This will 100% filter out the needy from the typical “pan handlers” as the needy will do what it takes and take you up on your offer. I’ve helped fill a couple of gas tanks and provided some meals but even more, watched people switch and ask me to just give them the money–ain’t gonna happen.
  
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- DisgustedinUSA
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:41pm
  Eventually, there wont be any RICH to help those in need. Then whats obummer gonna do.
  
  So happy to hear this and other wonderful stories. If theres anything that can put a smile on Gods face, its someone that gives. They’re children after His own heart. After all, the bible does say “For God so loved the world, that He GAVE His only Son Jesus, that whoever believes in Him shall NOT perish, but have everlasting life.”
  John 3:16
  
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- deeberj
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 4:00pm
  Most people begging for money to get back home are scamming for drugs. I would not give them cash.The last person who tried this with me, he said his kids were in the car and they ran out of gas driving home down south. I told him I’d gladly put $10 of gas in his car and he quickly left.
  
  I know someone who was a heroin addict and he would go to the train station and dress as nicely as he could and tell businessmen his wallet was lifted and he needed to get back to…whatever destination cost the same as a bag of dope…and people helped him all the time. He’s ashamed of what he did during that time.
  
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theamericanvision
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:27pm
Having been on both ends of this scenario myself, it’s far more difficult to ask for help than it is to give it yet I argue that giving has the greatest reward. I have had more than one Christmas that just showed up on my doorstep. We’re good people. If you want to help don’t ask if people need help, ask them what they would like most right now. They’ll tell you that. If it’s something extravagant, they likely haven’t hurt enough yet. I remember a friend asking me what I wanted most one Christmas and my answer was to be able to pay the mortgage. My mortgage was paid and presents under the tree from people I had rarely even talked with.

God bless ProZacDose! It takes a real man to put his family before his pride!

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- TurboCat
  Posted on December 9, 2012 at 9:36am
  I was homeless once for a few months. I had a mental breakdown. A psychotic break. I ate food out of garbage can. I never asked anyone for money or food. But sometimes kind people took one look at me and bought me food or gave me a five dollar bill. That was rare. Sometimes, people were cruel. I did not drink or do any drugs. Just had some crazy kind of break down. I will always remember the kind people. They made me feel hope inside. Sometimes I can tell when someone is in trouble and even though they did not ask, I look and see something familiar and give them a few dollars. However, I am very skeptical of the professional panhandlers.
  
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vic108
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:25pm
Keep your ears and eyes open to those around you. Sometimes, it’s the little things that mean alot…

A few years ago, a young lad with a military haircut and a t-shirt on with arabic writing on the back was in line at the local convenience store buying a few auto magazines, a candy bar, and a bottle of iced tea. i could tell just from looking at him that he just got back from an overseas tour of duty. even his straight posture gave him away. So, I asked him if he was recently back from the middle east and he said: “Yes, Iraq”. I asked him what his job was and then we got into a bit of a conversation. When we got up to the counter, he put his stuff on the counter and got rung up. turns out he was short a few bucks and started to put things back. I told him that his cash was trash and i would consider it an honor to let me pay for his goodies. he looked at me and grinned from ear to ear and thanked me. i told him: “No, thank you…”

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- ravenalexs
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 6:03pm
  A few years ago after my son, Brandon, graduated from the Air Force Academy and after he had completed additional training in New Mexico and got his orders for Afghanistan (still there btw flying cover for the Marines) we were at the Reagan Library and I cannot tell you how many people asked if they could pay for our tickets…I guess his buzz-cut, his aviator glasses, and his jacket and cap gave him away…..then later that day in LA, we were having dinner and when we asked for our bill, the waiter told us that an older fellow (later identified himself in a note Brandon received as a retired AF pilot) had paid for our entire bill as well as a handsome tip. He handed Brandon a note from this gentleman. Somehow he must have known Brandon was about to fly his first missions in the war….Brandon later told me that all it said was, “God Bless and God Speed Son. My spirit is with you-always”
  
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- vic108
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 12:03pm
  Great story!
  May God bless you and your family!
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:16pm
Photo of his kids, and some messages that he posted.

http://i.imgur.com/37RTf.jpg

http://www.reddit.com/user/ProZacDose?count=25&after=t1_c7cj5jz

http://www.reddit.com/user/ProZacDose?count=50&after=t1_c7ch1e5

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cbyrd1985
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:12pm
I love stories highlighting the generosity of PEOPLE not government. Yep, just checked, this story is nowhere to be found on the huffington post…odd…but HEY Paul Krugman says that “america is not facing a financial crisis”….so we’re good. I wish Mr. Krugman would walk a mile in this guys shoes!

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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:11pm
It is more blessed to give than to receive. Some people are too proud to ask, however, ask and you shall receive. In such a blessed nation we should not forget that we are all here together to help one another in always possible. One can never know these blessings unless one speaks out. The one small post he made opened hearts for change. Merry Christmas to the child in us all.

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- JMJ6391
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:50am
  Pigs,
  I have lived my life giving and yes, it is a wonderful feeling but I have needs that hinder me from doing so now. You stated people need to ask if they need help, but it is hard to ask when you have been vilified for doing so in the past. I feel as though I am dying more and more each day because I NEED to work in some capacity to feel useful so I will humble myself and ask people reading this if they can help. I need things we can’t afford despite my husband working around the clock.
  I am in a lot of pain everyday and suffer from a lot of health issues that keep me from doing a paying job. I cant get disability because I was a foster parent for 7 years before I became disabled so I didn’t have enough work credits to qualify. Charities nor the government will help unless I divorce my husband of 40 years because they say he makes too much. He works hard to keep up with just basic living expenses and we don’t get help because he then makes too much. But, believe me you can never make enough when you need ongoing expensive medical care. I won’t divorce my husband to game the system, and I find it a failure of our country’s values that I or anyone in need should be told to consider that, to get help.
  My husband is the hardest working man I know, working as many days as they will allow even Sundays and holidays to care for our disabled daughter and myself. When he gets home he cares for us until he goes to bed exhausted only to get up and do it all again the ne
  
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- JMJ6391
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:54am
  My husband calls himself a” country bumpkin.” one of the last hard work ethic dinosaurs . A man who hasn’t had a vacation in almost 12 years. Yet as much as he works it isn’t enough to get things I need so I can continue to be able to do my hobbies in bed which are intended to help others and to keep me from losing my mind, like I made over 200 hats for people with cancer a few years ago while in my hospital bed but it is broke now. It was very used already when we got it, and the frame eventually broke, the springs came through the old mattress, but it gave my bad back the support I needed for awhile to be able to make things like the cancer caps from bed. So I need a new hospital bed among a few other items.
  I will be 60 next month, too young to lay in bed and dying bit by bit letting my talents go to waste because I don’t have the resources to help myself much less anyone else. And even though it is Christmas I’m too old to write to Santa for things I need.
  I lost my independence when I got ill. That in itself was hard enough to accept but to have to accept just laying in bed waiting to die because we can’t afford the things I need to continue participating in life is even more difficult.
  It is extremely humbling and emotionally hard to write this post but, since you said people need to ask if in need, I will say if anyone would be willing to help me it would take a load off my husband and it will be paid forward many times over.
  
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Slowman101
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:07pm
God Bless everyone involved.

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jakartaman
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:04pm
This is how it use to be and how it still should be.
Government is not the answer. A good job, charity, the churches neighbors etc.
Socialism is a dead end philosophy!

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- Mainer forever
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:12pm
  Amen Brother Amen. I could not have said it better.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:19pm
  Agreed. This is what Christmas and being a Christian, or just being a good person, is all about. Love your neighbor as you would love yourself.
  
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- zorro
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 3:29pm
  Absolutely.
  
  But you see, to a liberal, paying taxes prevents them from having to deal directly with people like this man who need help. It’s easier to sign a check than it is to drive an ederly neighbor to the doctor or take a needy family food to eat. By signing a check, they don’t have to “deal” with these “riff-raff”.
  
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pluqqer
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:03pm
Got to be a way in this modern tech age to Put people that want to help in touch with people that need help.

Issues that come to mind
1 programs for help always get abused
2 verifying true need
3 make human contact imho always important with help

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ResistSocialism
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:02pm
Yea I want to see the follow up. The boots guy in NY not so great.

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dangergirl
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:02pm
This may be me in 2014 when Obamacare fully kicks in.

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- Zipit
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:22pm
  And Danger! When someone steps fourth to help you, one of the 16,000 newly hired IRS agents will soon be knocking at your door, to investigate wether or not you reported the help you’ve received as additional income! All in the name of better healthcare, don’t ya know!!!!!!!
  
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Livia
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 1:53pm
This is a great story! The man was venting, and I can sure understand that, From the message that Iget, ht wasn’t asking for anything, he was asking for anything (although I could be wrong). It’s great that people are helping.

I wiah I had the money to pay the water bills for our service men and women that come to the office in our building, I know they aren’t paid a lot for what they do, and they ahve hard times also. One thing I heard that was/is helpful was giving them the coupons that come in the sunday papers, so I will have to check into that. I’m going to check on this and start savin them for if the uniforms wants them.

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Owt_Raged
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 1:52pm
Another example of how people, NOT the government, are the one who help those who truly need it.

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IAMMADDOG
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 1:50pm
Right on Jackact!!

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progressiveslayer
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 1:47pm
Aww quit your whining you candyass and get out there and get a …………….. oh wait you won’t be able to because Barry kept his.

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jackact
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 1:44pm
Everything good happens WITHOUT the assistance of government.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 1:53pm
  Amen.
  
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- theamericanvision
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:29pm
  Well said!
  
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