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My grandad was told he’d have to give back his electric wheelchair due to some change in insurance.
He was like “let me know what day, so I can have the news here as your tip a 100 year old ww2 veteran out of his wheelchair”
They let him keep the chair.
i don't know even what insult i wanna use for those people. those are horrible people
"refusing to leave"
Where, specifically, did they expect her to go? Being thrown out on the streets at 93 is effectively a death sentence.
The cruelty is the point
State spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to chase a nonagenarian out of her home over a four figure rent check.
All so some landlord can afford another wing on the McMansion
"Hundreds of thousands of dollars" dude, absurd exaggeration doesn't help anyone. an eviction requires a single non-emergency callout, which in flordia costs around $2500 (evictions are usually categorized as property crime)
Legal filings are covered by the landlord and are significantly more expensive (numbers I am seeing for florida are hovering around $5000, but like all things legal it varies wildly). This was disgusting, but the state isn't paying out orders of magnitude more than the loss just to protect some random landlord.
Yeah it is. It's going to cost between 20 and 30k a year to keep her in a prison, and tax payers will have to pay for her medical treatment as well
She's 90 years old, it's a safe conclusion that the taxpayer was already paying for her medical care via medicare and she was already released (from jail) and the charges were dropped (as has been pointed out elsewhere in this thread). The original comment just made up the cost to farm outrage, and it's fucking ridiculous they felt the need to do that on a post about a 90 year old being evicted.
I know it's rough to see propaganda you agree with called out, but that's what's happening here. That people are reacting as though I'm devaluing or excusing this travesty, I'm not, is the reason I'm doing it - even propaganda you agree with poisons the discussion. Hell, to my eye the cost to throw an ancient woman out of her housing being so incredibly cheap should really make this story all the more disgusting, as it highlights how cheap human suffering really is.
How do you even live with yourself if you've been a part of those proceedings?
Every single assisted living facility in the United States would do the same thing. They are businesses designed to strip every last bit of wealth before we die, they do not give a shit about their ~~residents~~ customers.
Yeah but have you ever tried to care for aging parents outside of a retirement community, sucks all your time, money, and energy leaving nothing else for the rest of your family. End of life care is a great place to extract wealth if you're heartless. People are their most scared and vulnerable, they'll pay anything to feel normal for just a little while longer
Yes, my mother has advanced Parkinson’s and I was her primary caretaker for years before we finally had to move her into assisted living. I know very well how ill-equipped our society is for elder care.
People always talk about how it takes a village to raise a child, but we rarely talk about the village required to care for our elders.
Personally, I would rather kill myself than end up in a facility like my mom is in.
I think it says a lot when people remark they would rather be dead than in a assisted care facility. Something is clearly wrong with our system.
It's funny how the person commenting is still saying unable to work as an argument. In what word a 93 able to work should be expected to... work?
I think they mean it more in the sense of "this lack of money at 93 is not the fault of the individual as there is no means for them to continue to bring in income" not "put her in the mines'
More to that story.. Turns out charges were dropped within days.
Notice the part where she said she stopped paying rent because she thought she was going to die, and later when she was offered money, said she didn't need it and would likely give away the donations and just wanted her bible..
Hmmm.
Always look up the stories behind the memes. They might not really be about what you think they are.
There's a bunch of articles with conflicting details. It does look like the facility tried a few different avenues before evicting her, but I haven’t seen a report mentioning involvement from a healthcare professional trained to handle situations like this. Every article does make it sound like that’s exactly what she needed though. It’s also entirely possible that when she said she thought she was going to die soon, she was referring to the potential mold issue she had been complaining about. I don’t think the article you linked mentions anything about that. I could be wrong though since I read a few.
There’s also this quote from another article:
Ms Fitzgerald, who was interviewed in jail while dressed in an orange jumpsuit, tearfully refuted the claims. Asked about why she would not pay the rent, the woman, who was handcuffed and appeared to have bruises up her arms, said of a housing facility employee: “She wouldn't take it, that woman blamed me for the mould.” She added: “I paid my September rent and when she decided she was going to put me out, she wouldn't accept any rent after that.”
The truth is probably somewhere between the two accounts. But honestly, that’s beside the point. Even if the living facility's version was completely accurate, a 93 year old woman should not have ended up bruised and dragged out of her home by police just because she withheld rent for two months and refused to follow an order to vacate. Full stop.
Like a 94 old person isn't quite there any more and doesn't know how to deal with labyrinthine bureaucratic processes?
You can't be 'the richest country in the world" if 40% of your citizens are in poverty. The US "gov" is corrupt and greedy. This place truly is a shithole...
The most disturbing part of this is, she made it to 93, and wasn't able to pay rent. Does America have no way to pay their retired and elderly people a living wage at the end of their life?
Like, she's not even just retired, she's elderly. The "Golden years" of wearing a diaper and needing a walker, kind of elderly.
Even if the charges were dropped and she was allowed to go home, the fact that it got to the point where she was hauled off to jail in an orange jumpsuit and cuffs should not have happened. Someone should have stopped and said, "are we really going to try to send a 93 year old to jail?" And that should have been where it stopped. Because that's not something you do to a 93 year old for missing a few rent payments.
America is cracked man. Should not have gotten there. What the actual fuck.
Yup.
American here.
As far as I can tell we are totally fucked. As in, if I was smart, I'd be finding a way to get citizenship elsewhere before I get too old.
of course its florida. eventually florida will be evicted by the ocean,
This is what republicans seem to want. Thinking THEY will never be in such a situation so they have nothing to worry about.
Y'all should change the dollar bill line from "in God we trust" to "Got mine, fuck you"
I dont understand why you handcuff people who clearly are not a danger to anyone.
Because acab
So you mean they will house her only in a more expensive and more dehumanizing way.
Trigger Warning: Now before anybody comments that I'm evil for this, I'm not saying I would do it, or that I condone it but that I would understand why someone would, and could totally see it becoming an issue. Especially with copycats and such.
That being said I could totally see people getting to the point of hopelessness and going out by suicide by cop, either directly going after police, or whatever mega-corp, or landlord or whatever they perceive to put them in that position. Obviously a 93 year old woman likely doesn't have the strength to pull a trigger but as this inequality issue continues to rise and more and more people are losing hope due to issues outside their control dangerous and scary things are likely to happen. Just like we never solved bullying and it led to school shootings, if we don't solve inequality, I'm afraid that mass shootings are going to go up.
But being poor is a crime! She could have invested in crypto and gotten rich off of dumping it, but noooooo!
She had to "RrTiRe" and "EnJoY hEr wInTeR YeArS". Lazy layabout. She'll learn the value of HARDWORK once she's making license plates, and maybe then she can pull herself up by her bootstraps by investing those $2 a day and earning her keep in about- oh, say a 100 years?
People live to be 200, right? I don't know, I'm not good with numbers.
What makes anyone believe she's capable of surviving eviction? Oh right, they don't care if she dies.
"heartless animals"
This is basically how I view the United States at this point.
I am American.
If I were in that position I would do the same. Either they can't evict me or I get sent to prison and I would be kept warm and fed, rather than the streets where I would probably starve or freeze to death.
Money is a stupid concept
Checked my mother's facebook and sure enough she's concerned about it. If there's one thing the elderly care about it's their social security checks. She still doesn't understand who is responsible though.