Homeless man died outside his tepee on Thanksgiving

[kentuck]

http://www.gazette.com/news/thanksgiving-90081-outside-died.html

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Medina, 53, was featured Monday in a Gazette article on the city’s growing homeless population camping along the creek. He was interviewed for the story Nov. 24, two days before his death.

His friends and neighbors on Monday recalled a generous man and a hard worker.

“He worked his butt off. He was not lazy,” said Cynthia, a neighbor who discovered him dead Thanksgiving morning. “He wanted to keep himself alive.”

Medina had recently put down a cardboard floor for his tepee. He gave his camp mate Dave a tent when the tepee was finished, and he recently joined his neighbors selling flowers.

His camp was among the neatest along the creek last week. He kept leaves raked, pots clean and trash at bay.

Medina said he came to Colorado Springs from Grand Junction about three years ago after hearing there were construction jobs at Fort Carson. He moved to the creek about four months ago, he said.

“None of us really want to be here,” Medina told The Gazette. “I’m hoping (construction) will pick back up, hopefully in the spring.”

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[tekisui]

1. How sad. RIP.

[tabatha]

2. I hate the RW meme of people being down and out

because they are lazy.
The US citizens are some of the hardest working on the planet.

RIP hardworker, among the many who have succumbed not because they are lazy.

[Double T]

3. If I hear the 'wh' or 'dnc' (do nothing congress) say things are getting better..........

I'm going to go ballistic. The stimulus has done little or nothing and the bailed out banks are greedier then ever. hope and change is a fraud and scam.

[tabatha]

4. So you expected Obama to wave a magic wand

and undo 8 years (maybe 30 years) of bad policy in less than 1 year.
That notion is a fraud and a scam.

[blues90]

5. Screw the magic wand theory

No what people expected were jobs not bailouts that resulted in even more job loss. It was wall street and main street and he handed wall street the keys to the country boasting it had to be done to save jobs and the result was just to prolong the loss but did not create or save jobs and main streets are now the ghost towns.
Sounds like a MS patch .

[Double T]

7. I didn't say a damn thing about BO.

WE need to VOTE OUT every single member of the 'do nothing congress'; that's REAL CHANGE with SOME HOPE.

[Echo In Light]

6. There's your "American Dream" for ya