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Hello My name is Isaiah. I am a brand new father of a beautiful baby girl named Miriam. I am having trouble finding a job that pays enough for my family to live off of. I would part time helping veterans, the pay is minimal. My wife just recently lost her job so things have been hard. Family has helped where they can and I am grateful for that. I will need to start making more money soon or we will lose our house, its in foreclosure currently. Our car is also on its last leg and without repairs will not last much longer. I have been training myself in small business management and marketing for the past year. I am hard working but my current efforts have not yielded any results and I am starting to get discouraged. I want to start my own business but lack the funds to get started. The business I would be starting would be helping veterans and local people get the skills and training they need to get jobs. There are a lot of jobless vets out there that I think I could really help with this business. If anyone is interested in helping me out with funds or information on where I could attain funding for a business please, it would be greatly appreciated. Any amount you could donate would be helpful. After taking into account the house, car and starting the business I would realistically need around $50000 but any amount I can get help with puts me closer to that goal.
Thank you

Updates: September 11, 2011 - I have been able to get a part-time job which is good news, but the rest is just about the same. Thank you for your help Malum Designs
and Pete B.
Since my previous posts have yielded only four donations over the last five months I thought I would try this approach. My financial problems are quite real. If you find my fable entertaining please send a small donation.
- Fortuna vitrea est, tum cum splendet frangitur -

The Grasshopper and the Ant
A Classic retold by Joseph the Beggar King
Part One

Once upon a time, not so very long ago, there were two friends, the Grasshopper and the Ant. Why these two became friends is a bit of a mystery. The Grasshopper was a dreamer and a drifter. The Ant was a believer and an achiever.

In school the Grasshopper would look out the window without thought and only learned the subjects he found interesting. Sometimes he would fall asleep in Math class, other times when a angry teacher would jump him with a pop question he would give the correct answer in way that would confound them.

The Ant was a teachers dream, he soaked up every subject the system taught him, gave the correct answers in the correct way and got straight A s. He would delight his Math teacher by doing compound interest in his head. The Ant believed that what they taught him would help him succeed and was very completive. After graduating High School the Ant got an Academic Scholarship and the Grasshopper got a Pell Grant.

Within four years the Ant got two BS degrees in Business Management and Engineering. The Grasshopper dropped out after the first year. He went to live with the Rainbow Tribe for a few years. On the way to the bus station he found an old fiddle in a trash pile along the road and when he got station he was able to panhandle his bus fare. That was the Grasshoppers first beg.

The Ant took the College like a fish to water. During open Rush some Greeks invite him to be a brother in their Fraternity. He earned his dues by being the Frat Houses Accountant and made beer money by writing term papers. One day while visiting the Tri Deltas he watches the girls play volleyball and is amazed that even though they are playing a vigorous game not one of them breaks a sweat. It is there he meets the girl of his dreams, Polly Fishbane.

While the Grasshopper was living with the Rainbow Tribe he never meets the girl of his dreams, but it does not really matter too much because they believe in Free Love. So free, in fact, that after what you might call the Honeymoon he found himself getting a little bored with it. From the Rainbow Tribe he learns to live off the fat of country and from his new friend, Buffalo with Runs, he learns to live off the land. Buffalo with Runs was an very old Indian that was adopted by the tribe. He taught the Grasshopper what wild plants were safe to eat or use for medicines. He showed him how to set traps and hunt small game. Then, during one winter Gathering four people froze to dead because they were too stoned to come in out of the cold. The Grasshopper became very sad and hopped away.

The Ant is recruited by a Aerospace firm even before he graduated college and goes to work on the Apollo Program. He and his new wife Polly loved the Florida sunshine and settle down to start the American Dream. They decide to have two and half children. Even though the third kid looked a bit odd the Ant loved him as only a father can. With easy money down and mortgage tax deductions compliments of Uncle Sam, they get a house with a two car garage. Next they get two cars and the Rat Race is on. The Ant loves it! Working on the Apollo Program is more than a job, it is being part of history. Polly loves it! Raising their kids and Keeping up of with the Jones. She starts selling Avon products on the side. The Ant buys the best bass boat in the neighborhood, but only uses it once a year because he too busy working. He sets up his retirement funds and a small stock portfolio. Life is Good!

After leaving the Rainbow Tribe the Grasshopper panhandles his way across the country. He sets up in parks and subways where he pretends to play his fiddle while selling jewelry made of deer anthers and beads. The noise he makes with his fiddle sounds like a cat being killed and people give him money just to make him stop. Before the Cops run him off, the Grasshopper usually made enough in one day of begging to cover his needs for the week. When he is hungry he goes to a Soup Kitchen and when he needs clothing there are the Sharing Centers. Every now and then he lets some good hearted woman try to save him. Life is Good and he hops away.

The Apollo Program ends and the new Shuttle program does not start for a couple of years. The Aerospace company were the Ant works at does not win any of the new bids. They offer him a job in California at 20% less of his salary. Polly and the kids are in a rage. Nobody wants to move and leave their friends. The Ant sells his house at a loss because the real estate market in flooded by the laid offs. The one car and the boat are reprocessed. He sells off his stock portfolio for the down payment on the new house in California and even though money is tight the Ant decides to take the family on a short vacation to Key West to uplift their spirits. He finds the Grasshopper selling deer antler jewelry at the Front Street Market. While Polly and the kids go shopping, he and Grasshopper catch up and have a couple of beers. The Ant tells his friend about the laid offs and the move. The Grasshopper asks him - Are you Happy - ? The Ant says - Yes -. His friend says, - Good - . They watch the sunset and see a green flash on the horizon.
To be continue.

Dear everyone who accidentally came across my beg.
My name is Yve Sparrow.
I was just wondering how many benevolent hearts can be found out there in the world. That's one of the reasons I decided to write on the Web. The other reason is my desperate, unbearable situation. It's useless to describe it to you for all the desperate persons have ended into, more or less, the same situation in their lives(unpaid bills, lack of work, tax increase, and son on and so forth up to the point where you end passing quite hungry days). Some of them are begging on the streets, others like me, have chosen to beg on the Internet. I have no guts to hit the streets begging and hope with your help will never need to. Certainly, I am not going to ask people for money all the time, God prevent me from it, but for the time being I am constrained to do so. Up to now I have tried tirelessly to pull myself out of a misery life. All my efforts yielded only desperation. Nevertheless, I keep trying using all the possible means to make the ends meet. Despite my distress, I have sometimes beautiful mornings when my heart is full of hope and certainty that the coming day will bring success to my efforts. It rarely happens. So rarely that I am now here appealing to your charitable and generous hearts for alms.

I set up a PayPal account which is: yvesparrowgby@gmail.com where you can send me some pennies, as little or as much as you can. You are also welcome to write me if you please, I'll try to answer as soon as I read your messages if time permits. The fact is I accede to the Internet from public libraries or from wherever free Internet is accessible for a limited period. However, I would answer to all your postings or messages anyway.

Many thanks to all of you who had patience to read my beg and God Bless You!