By Viper Meade Santa Monica
Lori Emerson and her husband (SMDP, March 5, letters to the editor, page 7) need to learn a thing or two before judging a book by its cover. I do agree about the schools needing help, but everyone is a paycheck away from becoming homeless. For your information, there is a housing shortage as well as a Section 8 crisis happening at this point in time. As a homeless person myself, I work at a homeless newspaper office, but do help feed those in need. How would you feel if you had no food because there are not jobs available for those who want to work? Wouldn’t you want the same help they get? I know I would, and many people I have talked to have said the same thing. So my advice to you and your husband is this: Get off your high horse and grow up and face reality. I know where I will go when I die. Do you, with all that self-righteousness?
Do you know God personally? Apparently not, because in the Bible it talks about people like you and that when you go for judgment day he will not know you.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 6, 2004. Read the original PDF.