Talk of Waco

By ginny

September 6, 2008 7:47 AM | Link to this

i want to know how she can be working if she’s collecting disability? hello if you are disabled enough to get a check from big brother you shouldn’t be able to work.period. this must be why SS is so screwed up. sorry the woman is losing her house but that’s what happens when you don’t make payments.

By null

September 6, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this

There are a lot of wealthy family in Waco that could help this woman and her son. Both have severe medical problems. We think nothing about sending money to other countries—what about helping people in our own town. Come on people!!!

Ginny could you live on $637 a month? I didn’t think so! At least the woman was trying to feed her son so SHUT UP! Until you have walked in someone else’s shoes you have no right to judge.

By null

September 6, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this

There are a lot of wealthy family in Waco that could help this woman and her son. Both have severe medical problems. We think nothing about sending money to other countries—what about helping people in our own town. Come on people!!!

Ginny could you live on $637 a month? I didn’t think so! At least the woman was trying to feed her son so SHUT UP! Until you have walked in someone else’s shoes you have no right to judge.

By null

September 6, 2008 8:29 AM | Link to this

There are a lot of wealthy family in Waco that could help this woman and her son. Both have severe medical problems. We think nothing about sending money to other countries—what about helping people in our own town. Come on people!!!

Ginny could you live on $637 a month? I didn’t think so! At least the woman was trying to feed her son so SHUT UP! Until you have walked in someone else’s shoes you have no right to judge.

By nisha

September 6, 2008 8:34 AM | Link to this

I am very sorry that she is going through this situation as we read in the article she only receives $637 a month from disability and as we all know that is not enough to make ends meet from month to month so people have to find jobs where they can make so much money without losing their diability benefits, I understand how she feels I am a single mother of two and my youngest daughter has been diagnosised with a rare condition and I can not get any help from anyone I work a full-time job but times are still very hard. I pray that everything will work out for her and her son.

By Mo

September 6, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this

Are you serious? Dammed if you do Dammed if you don’t.

http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10029.html#part11 After you start receiving disability benefits, you may want to try working again. There are special rules that help you keep your cash benefits and Medicare while you test your ability to work. We call these rules “work incentives” or “employment support” programs.

Also the kid might also be getting benefits.

I have a lot of respect for single moms. Being a mom is hard work, a 24/7 job. I give this woman credit for working being a good example to her son. I give her the benefit of the doubt. $7.50 an hour! That is hard to live on. I’m not saying you can’t but it is hard, then add two disabilities to that. I go to the doctor on average of 3 times a year. Those are just for allergies or something minor and the visit plus the medication is EXPENSIVE and we make more then $7.50 an hour. I can’t imagine what the bills are for treatment of cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis. Those aren’t things that go away in a week or two. I’m sure if she could she would be working somewhere for more money but we sometimes have to take what is out there, it’s better the nothing. At least she is trying instead of just collecting a check. You should always pay your bill, no doubt, but there is such a thing as empathy.

By Laura

September 6, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this

Ginny, I hope that one day in your life, a similar circumstance does not happen to you as has happened to this lady.

By JP

September 6, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

Ginny:

That is cold and heartless of you to say that! If you bothered to check into the disability program you would know that some work is allowed. All I can ask you is REALLY!!! $637 minus $349 for mortgage… comes out to $288. If you want to add the $144 (before taxes) that she makes at her part-time job, that comes up to a total of $432. That is to cover every utility, necessity, and a means transportation. If you can make that work… I want to elect you for President. You are then capable of doing the impossible. Please think or at least reseach, before you comment something stupid like that again. You make Waco look like the hick town that it is already perceived as. I wish Ms. Thrush and her son well!

By null

September 6, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

Ginny must be one of those people who work very little to get welfare. an nothing wrong with them.

By tracy

September 6, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

You what is sad is this is happening everywhere in Central Texas. It is happening to your neighbor, your co-worker, and or your church member. Robbing Peter to pay Paul. What will be next. You know they go up on minumum wage but what good does that do when a gallon of gas is half of that wage. I agree a comment above everyone is gung ho about helping other countries but what about our own country? I at one time was a single mother of four children, I was making good money but came upon a hard time, but when I asked for help the doors were closed because I made a few more $’s than what is considered poverty so all they could say was Sorry! Again what is a person to do these day when you can’t even afford to buy gas to go to work or if you do that you can’t afford to feed your family because your electric bill is as much as your house note??? What is this country coming too is my question???

By randy

September 6, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

I agree with ginny. People want some one else to always bail them out . It is time that people need to do the right thing for themselves then this world would be better for everyone.Having a house for 50 years and you keep getting money on it is NOT A SMART MOVE. She said it was her nest egg, well I got news for her and others that support her SHE SOLD OUT HER NEST EGG, so I am not sorry for someone that makes a mistake like that. I have been homeless for 1 year but you know what I got off my a* abd did some changes in my life BY MYSELF. I t was no’s fault of the situration I was in but my on fault. Now I have a great job a nice hemi pick_up and a house worth about 250,000.00 and damn proud of it. I did that also on my own since 1990. SO get off you little sorry trip and make people do for themself before someone takes everything from them. REmember she is the one that lost her nest egg.

By randy

September 6, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

I agree with ginny. People want some one else to always bail them out . It is time that people need to do the right thing for themselves then this world would be better for everyone.Having a house for 50 years and you keep getting money on it is NOT A SMART MOVE. She said it was her nest egg, well I got news for her and others that support her SHE SOLD OUT HER NEST EGG, so I am not sorry for someone that makes a mistake like that. I have been homeless for 1 year but you know what I got off my a* abd did some changes in my life BY MYSELF. I t was no’s fault of the situration I was in but my on fault. Now I have a great job a nice hemi pick_up and a house worth about 250,000.00 and damn proud of it. I did that also on my own since 1990. SO get off you little sorry trip and make people do for themself before someone takes everything from them. REmember she is the one that lost her nest egg.

By randy

September 6, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

I agree with ginny. People want some one else to always bail them out . It is time that people need to do the right thing for themselves then this world would be better for everyone.Having a house for 50 years and you keep getting money on it is NOT A SMART MOVE. She said it was her nest egg, well I got news for her and others that support her SHE SOLD OUT HER NEST EGG, so I am not sorry for someone that makes a mistake like that. I have been homeless for 1 year but you know what I got off my a* abd did some changes in my life BY MYSELF. I t was no’s fault of the situration I was in but my on fault. Now I have a great job a nice hemi pick_up and a house worth about 250,000.00 and damn proud of it. I did that also on my own since 1990. SO get off you little sorry trip and make people do for themself before someone takes everything from them. REmember she is the one that lost her nest egg.

By mary

September 6, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

MAY GOD BLESS YOU, AND I HOPE YOU FIND A HOME FOR YOU AND YOUR SON.

By null

September 6, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

Ramdy - read the article, the house was in her family for 50 years and she inherited it. Don’t judge until you’ve been a single mom with an illness and a child who also has an illness! She is doing what she can!

Ginny - same goes to you. Are you a single mom with multiple sclerosis with a son who has cerebral palsy?

By Patsy

September 6, 2008 6:36 PM | Link to this

Randy…Aren’t you taking a little too much credit for all that you have? You should give the Lord some of the credit too. After all we would have nothing without him. Yes, material things are nice, however they don’t last forever. Other things are important too, like compassion.

By na

September 6, 2008 7:03 PM | Link to this

i believe we should try to help this family out is their anybody out there that has program where she could get help from It might be to late to save her house maybe a week at a hotel or something I think we should find ginny and give her a beatdown !!!

By print the hold story

September 6, 2008 9:27 PM | Link to this

The house was payed for ,why did they get another loan and spend the money,its time that the trib print the hold story and not just the part about her losing her ? home.It’s looks like the aunt took the money out of the home ,where is the money,then where is Thrush’s husband and child support,please print the hold story.

By eric

September 6, 2008 9:57 PM | Link to this

Ok…here is the real story for the paper…if they print it…ill be shocked. She was given money a few years ago off a loan that her aunt took out on the house to help her pay off bills that she would not pay on her own. She COULD have done so but she has sucked all her other family members dry from day one…she has never really worked or cared to using all other things in her life as a crutch. So…her aunt gave her thousands to pay for her other bills…she then dies leaving said house to her…and she knew full and well that she HAD TO PAY THE LOAN BACK. She asked all the other members in her family to help her but since she had screwed all of them before thy all said NO. Maybe the trib should go to the nail and hair salons she would visit…amongst other places that was just wasting the money she was given instead of actually working or doing anything helpful in her own situation.

By BoogerHook

September 6, 2008 11:26 PM | Link to this

Eric sheds the real light on this. These sob stories often have this same underlying story. “WAH! Poor me! Poor me! Society should bail me out! Please Obama, redistribute the wealth of hardworking, resposible people over to me!””

Maybe we could elect Obama as president. Then he and the Democratic congress could pass a law allowing all of us to pay our bills with excuses! If this happens, this lady could buy a mansion!

By dmorales

September 7, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this

My God! What a bunch of illiterate people. The least you could do is learn to spell before you get on here and trash somebody.

By Sailor Girl

September 8, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this

“Whether Chase Mortgage jumped through all the legal hoops…” - Come on, Mike Copeland, is this what you learned about professional writing in college? I guess if this is the kind of journalism you can get away with at the Trib, maybe they should go hire some chimpanzees to write the articles and save money. They could be paid in bananas.

By ginny

September 8, 2008 8:15 PM | Link to this

for all those that asked no i’m not now a single mom with ms. but i am a wife with LUNG CANCER!!! and havea husband with dementia and seizure disorder. and I CARE FOR BOTH OF US BY MYSELF!!! so get off the cry baby band wagon