Getting To Know Guy part II

GUY, IT TURNS OUT, is homeless. (see article "Getting To Know guy" below) That is to say, he lives in his car. I had no idea, and finding out shocked me. The information came from an impeccable source, so I'm sure its true. Also, he apparently can neither read nor write. He comes to our local senior center every day, and eats, and several people think he looks better than he did when he first arrived. He brings a Tupperware container for leftovers. We managed to get him an application, many pages long, for low income housing, and filled it out for him. The word is he is going to get into a nice apartment very soon. In our very small town we have a very nice government subsidized apartment complex, with a dozen units or so, all very nice. Across the nation, we need a massive investment in housing for low income people, and seniors. Guy must be seventy five or eighty years old, but I would be more than happy to teach him how to read and write, were he willing, which, for all I know, he might be. Remind me to ask him. We all agree; its never too late, right? Of course, he'll probably say no. If he were interested in learning to be literate, he probably would have become so, long ago. Guy can't hear a thing. He says the thing he misses most is his hearing, and I think anybody can understand that. We were sitting at his table, and across the room a country band was playing, loudly. he couldn't hear a note. I think he understands me only because of lip reading. Hearing aids are, of course, ridiculously expensive, and should somehow be made far less so. Dare I utter the dreaded word "socialism"? Getting Money in Guy's hands, by any means, can only help the rest of us, by supplying the economy with another consumer, driving up demand, fueling production, job growth, and prosperity for all. The more money we can get into the hands of more different people who do not currently have much, the greater the stimulative effect on the economy. So let's all pitch in and help guys and gals like Guy, by any and all means.