Homeless stay tech-savvy

D.G. needs to establish an identity...
NO matter what it takes.....START FROM SCRATCH...if need be..... d.g. obviously worked at one time or another....i'd say at a minimumumum...solicite the help of the s.s admin folks....then get a I>D> based on that....[NOT a driver's license]
just something with a pix on it....possibly
seek the aid of those previous employers...

wherever they may be..........pass this on to MR D.G. pls

Clean the mess wrote:

The vagrant situation is crazy downtown. They are aggressive and without shame, this city is filled with vagrants, illegal aliens and drunk locals...I wonder why anyone would come here on vacation!

What do you propose to do with people down and out? Look at the price of rents in this town, look at the job market. The underclass is growing through out the country. Would you prefer we put them in a camp out of town?

I know a some homeless people, I wouldn`t trust them, or invite them over the house. There is one I know who`s very stand up. He doesn`t do drugs, drink, or smoke, and he don`t beg. He`s kind of a computer geek, health nut. He sure could use a tarpaulin, not to mention work. Email me if you can help this guy out. I`ll give you his email addy.
Ambrovista1@yahoo.com

Many people are just a pay check away from homelessness. So walk lightly, and don`t be so proud. Pride is one of the seven deadly sins, you know.

This is ridiculous. facebooking and twittering while homeless! Never give these guys handouts, never!

You lose your ID you are in a world of hurt. No ID, no nothing....

it's easier to steal someone's identity than to get a new one if someone stole yours.

Ridiculous wrote:

This is ridiculous. facebooking and twittering while homeless! Never give these guys handouts, never!

Most jobs are found through networking on the internet.

People are so judgemental. Careful people, what comes around goes around.

"....homeless by CHOICE...." says it all.....3 hots and a cot, free internet, good water....Santa Fe is widely known as a prime destination for the homeless

Come on! Losing his ID is just some sort of excuse. Maybe he doesn't want to get an ID because he is a wanted man. Years ago I had a classmate who was mentally ill and became homeless. He carried no ID on purpose. He's keeping in touch with people. Worst case, he can hitchhike to his mom's in Baltimore and get an ID. This story is a bunch of nonsense.

Some homeless bum with an old computer gets prime real estate on the front page? Must be a slow news day! Isn't that picture sort of an invasion of privacy?

But seriously, 10 years ago you never saw all these homeless people panhandling on intersections. This is a social ill, reflecting the drastic division between rich and poor we now have. And many of us are only four steps from homelessness.

Mr. Whats His Name HAS A PAST. And because he has a past he has an identification. He will need a photo ID, and a place of residence. Or he will need a letter from, let's say a shelter stating "in residence" to begin to (re) establish his identity. And, I might add, an identity that he might very well desire to remain obscure.

Mr. Whats His Name, sufficiently savvy to navigate the internet is well aware of the SCAMMING AND SKEEMING he's up to in garnering SYMPATHY while hiding in plain sight.

For instance: He stays in touch with this family.

For instance: He stays in touch with his friends.

For instance: He might actually have a SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER!!!

Yikes, a SS #.

So,(before you hump on my back for being so, oh so cold hearted) let this more likely than not sad case for a human pack up it tent condo and high tail his in arrears rear over to the local shelter!

Yikes, he's giving up his "FREEDOM." You see, and I've learned...homelessness is the ultimate condition of freedom within a state of nature.

Anyway, if Mr. W. H. Name becomes "in residence" at a shelter he can then haul his laptop and his rear end over to Motor Vehicles and apply for a Resident Photo ID Card. Of course, Mr. W.H. Name would than have to REVEAL HIS SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER. Or, heavens forbid...at the ripe old age of 50? get a SS#. The BUM already has a SS#. He's just hiding it.

The, his sorry excuse for breathing our air can GET A BIRTH CERTIFICATE.
He was born, wasn't he? He does know where he was born, doesn't he?

And, with his finely honed internet skills he will IMMEDIATELY learn the requirement for a birth certificate in his place of birth.

NO ADDRESS YOU SAY. Well, either use an "IN CARE OF" if the shelter allows that.

OR: use this... HIS NAME (whatever that is), GPO SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO 87595. Then when he knows the certificate is mailed out (use the internet to communicate) he will be able to walk his scamming rear over to the PO and retrieve his birth certificate.

Then He Will Have ID.

And, in the interest of saving the public a lot of money I will give this hiding in plain sight guy not a single bit more of information.

you might think this harsh but i've just enabled this sleazebag to get legitimate with IDENTIFICATION which is more than the other comments
have offered.

ASK YOURSELF WHY HE IS INCOGNITO?

In addition, he ain't starving. There's a huge resource of food kitchen available in Santa Fe. And they serve wholesome and abundant food.

Or, as an alternative, stop saying "HELL0" to bums.

have a nice day :)

Well reading some of this i have to shake my head....It is for sure you have no clues in some ways in what you are tlaking about...COme walk in my shoes and see if you have the same views then but I still send blessings of smiles to you...
WIll I defend my situation?? nope it is what it is and I will continue to deal with it and make life better...
until then i will keep smiling..

Ambro wrote:

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What do you propose to do with people down and out? Look at the price of rents in this town, look at the job market. The underclass is growing through out the country. Would you prefer we put them in a camp out of town?
I know a some homeless people, I wouldn`t trust them, or invite them over the house. There is one I know who`s very stand up. He doesn`t do drugs, drink, or smoke, and he don`t beg. He`s kind of a computer geek, health nut. He sure could use a tarpaulin, not to mention work. Email me if you can help this guy out. I`ll give you his email addy.
Ambrovista1@yahoo.com
Many people are just a pay check away from homelessness. So walk lightly, and don`t be so proud. Pride is one of the seven deadly sins, you know.

good points. And we should all recognize that even if we lived in a perfect world with plenty for everyone, there would still be homeless. I am not sure why this mayor feels it is his responsibility to invite them from all over the country. He certainly is not going to be successful in his campaign promise to end homelessness in five years. In fact when he leaves office next year, the problem will be worse than when he made that proclamation. What HAS coss done to address the homeless issue? But hey, at least they have the internet! And they can thank coss for that.

moi wrote:

Santa Fe is widely known as a prime destination for the homeless

Not true. there are WAY more homeless in other places, like Denver for example. Many more scruffy panhandlers, and more demanding too.
In the last 15 years the police have gone a long ways getting rid of homeless people, and those sleeping in cars. Why do you think the jail is halfway to Madrid? So they can toss you out at 1 in the morning in the middle of nowhere freezing your @ss off. Now THAT's Santa Fe hospitality!

someone wrote: "Why do you think the jail is halfway to Madrid? So they can toss you out at 1 in the morning in the middle of nowhere freezing your @ss off. Now THAT's Santa Fe hospitality!"

Nope...It's called FREEDOM. Really.

Unfortunately, and that is very unfortunately...the current "economoic" climate is not conducive to employment.

"Get Real"...very few should sit so high and secure as to ignore the real possiblity and fact that those who worked in "good faith," were laid off,
have remote possibility of reemployment, have lost medical insurance, home, family are guilty of irresponsibility. Being poor IS NOT A CRIME.
It is a tragic condition but not a criminal act.

And it can happen to many of us is we just slip a little bit and fall hard.

The real CRIMINAL is the individual(s) who precipitated the current crisis. The 2.5 billion a week spent on Iraq, the bundling of mortgages and selling them on the open market as a "financial product," NAFTA.

This bunch knew exactly what it was doing and what it would do.

It seeped into the culture incrementally as so not to notice. Not by the boxcar full but one by one. Given time we have arrived at the current station.

It ain't no accident. Not by any means is this situation and confluence of events an accident or a coincidence.

Anyone who proposes otherwise is not telling the truth or an ignorant.
That's putting it nicely.

Seems that the New Mexican needs to investigate the increasing dangers of the growing homeless population in Santa Fe. Santa Fe is developing a national reputation for a "hands off policy" our police are forced to maintain even when homeless exhibit bad behavior. As a result homeless are coming into Santa Fe from around the country. Our community has set up a sort of sanctuary status for homeless that is beginning to backfire as we all watch with horror at the explosion of crime in our community.

St. E's now has hundreds of homeless sitting around outside their building and wandering through the surrounding neighborhood and railyard park. Soon we will be reading about a student at Alvord Elementary, a tourist at the railyard park, a teen from warehouse 21... who lost their life from someone in the homeless population who was drunk, using drugs...

Coss's program to end homelessness in 5 years has really turned into a miserable failure for our community.

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actually.. while sitting on the sidewalk while on the public library network.. he's probably logged onto charles schwab and checking his stocks! or ordering a new lexus...

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Flanked by books and magazines on branding and marketing
Ever

would someone tell me how to get to my stocks and also darn let someone use my Lexus and I can't remember who...

For those that think that all the homeless are drug addict and drunks really need a wake up call...

Sure there are alot that are that and now i wonder if some of them may have just given up.Not right but it happens and can understand almost why.

Me, well i only drink socially and that is very often, I do not do drugs. I do not Beg or fly a sign or bother people.

Do I like the present situation???? NOT AT ALL!! but i make the best of it and I know that each step I take each day is a good one.
Most do not know how i got here but if any really wish to know all they have to do is come ask.

As far as HIDINg as it haws been suggested.\...lol...well it loks like I am really hiding from something and of course the local law enforcement has done their job and check to see if i was one of those wanted people.

Anyway sending blessing of smiles to all

I'm sitting inside the library on my laptop looking out the window at you. Watch those insider stock picks. Remember where Bernie ended up.