"We're like 4 months behind rent, and it's just my brothers, they might be homeless…..

// March 19th, 2009 // Uncategorized

…..I mean, I can get out, but my brothers,” he said, breaking down into tears.

Student speak on how the Economic Crisis is effecting their lives:

(from ABC.com)”Right now I am currently the only one that can support my family and can’t. My mom won’t let me get a job to help her, and I’m really, really scared that I might have to put off school for another year.”

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Chris Schultz’s father, Donald, is unemployed and trying to find a job as accountant. His mom is a teacher’s assistant and doesn’t make enough to cover the $900 monthly rent. Their apartment is so small that Chris sometimes gives up his bedroom and lets his little brothers Joseph and David, who has Down’s Syndrome, sleep in his room.

He plans to join the Army in June but is worried that if his parents, who are behind in the rent, lose their apartment his little brothers will be homeless.

It was hard for his parents to watch the video. “I started crying. I didn’t know he was stressed that much,” Donald Schultz said.

In January the students posted “Is Anybody Listening?” on YouTube. It was viewed thousands of times.

Last Tuesday, while “20/20″ was in the classroom interviewing the students, Steinman surprised the class by announcing that he had learned that President Obama had just given a major speech on education that morning and had mentioned the Village Academy High School, the video they made, and Yvonne in particular.

“He saw it!” Yvonne told the class.

Her fellow students erupted with applause and tears.

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“In the speech the president said, “It was heartbreaking that a girl so full of promise was so full of worry that she and her class titled their video ‘Is Anybody Listening?’ … I am listening. We are listening. America is listening.”"

This is real…. this is happning and it happening to everyone everywhere….. and with Tennessee’s Unemployment rate up to 9.1% this is going to happen more and more.

So yes … I am Pissed the fuck off that the AIG guys got their bonus….Bring on the piano wire…..