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To the attention of:

Barack Obama, US President;
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It's been a real struggle this holiday season I've been layed off for almost two years. The whole time trying to find a job and have not been sucessfull yet. Bills are very hard to keep up with especially the oil bill which cost almost $400 to keep full for us to stay warm the whole entire month. The food stamps I do get is never enough to last all month long with all other situations coming daily how do you stay above water with out loosing your mind??

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Post Open Letter to your Elected Representatives

   Hello, I am a mother of two boy 4 and 5.  I am from california.  I have a job that barely makes my bills and i go to school so one day i will be a psychologist and help all the people i possible can.  I have a dream for my family to get a home for my children.  I dont make enough to get a home loan. I wish i could get a secound job but their is no childcare open 24/7.  I have a child in speach therapy he had a delay in speach now he is stuttering. My secound child has sevire behavioral problems and is in a special needs program. Just the other day he cut his teacher.  he also throws big tempertantrums i mean throwing things breaking windows hitting bitting people out of control.  One teacher told me i need to medicate him he is out of control this offended me.  I dont want my child on chemicals i would perfer to use natural things like teas or herbs.  i would rather him find a way to deal with his anger some coping mechanism.  I am not so quick to medicate my thought is if one day he stops taking the medicin on his own when he gets older he is going to have to deal with it than so why not learn it while he is young.  i do get stressed i do cry but i deal with it because i know it will be for the best when he grows and learns how to deal with his emotions on his own appropriatly.  The father of  my boys got deported and he wants me to move to mexico and live their.  though i have much love for him i have so many oppertunities for my babies hear i cant do that to them.  I try to explain how tough i have it over hear its going to be that much tougher for us over their.  i struggle everyday but i do this for my boys they saved my life really?  I have a bad past before i was a mother i was doing drugs and stupid irresponsable things.  it is embarassing and nobudy knows about my past exept my family of course.  i have been off of drugs when i found out i was pregnant and have been clean ever sence.  i grew up in a home of drinking and drugs abuse mulestations rapes. my dad beat me with things and left me alone with his friend to rape me than told me it was my fault that i wanted it.  i was 13 he was 3o something who wants that?  I know i am getting a bit personal and that is why i am anonymous.  i cant hold it in anymore it hurts. i get flashbacks of everything that has ever happened to me.  it wont leave my head i relive it... as i was saying though my boys test me and push me but they saved my life would i still be off drugs if i didnt have kids probobly no i would still be using but i just couldnt do to my children what my dad has done to me i didnt have the heart to do that to them they dont deserve that.. they deserve a chance to live the best life i in my power can give them.  They gave me my dreams they gave me my goals. ha they even give me my stress.  out side i try to put out this "i am so strong" effect.  though inside i feel week.  i have a dream to give my children a home a home of our own being 25 with two kids i believe i should have this but i feel it is to out of reach.  i dont make enough money for a loan i wanted t get a mobile home their cheeper than regular homes.  i work so hard but still dont have much.  i will go so long without anything new for myself just to give to my children.  i want to cry i feel like giving up right now.  but tomorrow ill wake up get up for work and do another day.  using again is not an option not to say i dont struugle with my own mind but i just cant i might as well die first before i use drugs again i would loose everthing i work so hard for every single day.  you might read this and think WOW way to much information can you believe thie crazy nut... i tell you though i dont like to ask for help i am so stubern it would take away from the fake i am so strong attitude i give, right?  i am not strong  i need help and i dont know what to do i am scared i am lonely and i hurt i am everthing i pretend not to be. this is not a joke this is not a fake this is someone who doesnt know how to get herself out of this hole of being poor god if i could only get a home of my own. i ahd an appartment once but they kept raising the rent a one bedroom appt small infested 1000$ a month. out on our own though i had much better self esteem i was so proud of myself how ashamed i was when i had to move into my grandmothers house with my mother.  well i guess i will i have typed enough of my life story im sure... right?  sorry for rambling on..... thank you!

I am a survivor of so many different kinds of situations it's really kinda mind boggling. Starting from being a childhood survivor of physical and mental abuse from my father to domestic abuse by my first husband and a boyfriend in between my two husbands. To surviving drug and alcohol abuse, my own and the exes. I've had my children removed from me for "exposing them to domestic abuse" and I've earned my parental rights and my children back. I had 11 years of a good relationship with a man who taught me that I deserved to be loved and not blamed for anyone else's bad behavior. I survived my depression, suicidal behavior and drug/alcohol relapses after my husband was killed. I actually lived under a bridge for a month during the two years of lost time after his death and eventually I survived all the psych medications I was put on during those years also.  Four years ago I stopped taking all those meds and woke up again! I took my two sons back from my oldest son, who found himself responsible for their care when he was 19 after I gave him the boys and power of attorney because I felt I wasn't' being a good enough mother to them. Since then we've lost a mobile home in Hurricane Wilma, lived in a 30 foot FE MA trailer, and worked my way back into another mobile home. Today, my boys (oldest one included) and I live in a beautiful home in a nice area. I take care of my teens and my grandsons (for Joey who's separated from their Mom) and I know that I'm needed by them all. We're having a tough Christmas season but we all know that there are more important things than presents this time of year.   My teens didn't want me to put them on any charity lists...they want the younger kids who need help to know that they are loved too! They know that they are loved....by God...and me.  

Hi!  I just wanted to introduce myself and make my situtation known to all.  I am 64 and retired.  I survived Hurricane Katrina and am still trying to recover from her 4 years later.  My whole world changed as I knew it.  All my ways of living vanished.  Now at my age, I am starting anew.  I have become envolved in several online ventures, none as of yet has earned me the added income I need.  I am not a quitter though and will continue to search until I find my little piece of the pie.  I am trying an online business at the present that seems to be stable hoping this is the one to make me succeed.  Take a look and see if I am heading the right direction, please.  www.EYEEARNER.COM/10415756  

Hey  i am  male with a little baby girl on the way we r starting a falmily its hard. i work all the time , just to get by , i have a lot of debt when i was younger. i been working on getting out of most of it .  i dont make enough right now to but a place but if the is some one to help sending a little. so i can have the right kind of life for our little girl due in aug. i love my family with all my heart and want the very best for them if you can help send what you can to 501 n taylor box 66 pryor ,ok 74361 thanx.

I would like to start a group of people helping people. Because I myself I'm without a home and a part-time job.  I can't find a full-time job nor are there people willing to help you.  My home foreclosed I don't know where in the next week or so where my disabled son whom I help care will go.  But i'm willing to get with a group of people who care about others to help so that this will not happen to me or anyone else if possible.  I'm lost right now just praying for God to send me a fulltime job and a place to live.  Most churches here want help they are always out of funds.  So let us start our own organization to help each other. I need help desperately and so do a lot  of other people.

email ray7559@bellsouth.net or write P.O. Box 140382 memphis, tn 38114