Yeah... he is never going to stop begging for money to "get his life back". Which may just amount to, doing what he wants to do while others pay for the food, lodging, transportation and entertainment he regards as his due.
This would all be sad enough, and I would say contemptible, but he will also say whatever he thinks will move people to give him the cash he feels he is owed. And then he STILL doesn't pay his bills.
Someone commented at The UFO Trail blog recently that Gene, "considers these donations to be regular income.
Not one off gifts, but an integral part of his income stream." Which I think is exactly right. They went on to say, "Lets say he did indeed get enough cash from these pester mails to catch up on his outstanding bills, and then enough to pay a deposit and moving costs to a new apartment. They would remain an essential income component to sustain that situation going forward.
As you say he isnt asking for gifts or donations, he wants you to subscribe to these begs and keep paying on a regular basis as regular income for him."
And no matter how much the experiences of this year might show what a really terrible plan that is, for he and his family for sure (and I'm not convinced he is capable of caring about anyone else), he is committed to this idiotic, parasitic course - a course which has left him homeless more than once already.
I like to think he's astounding in part because I hate to think there could be many others like him.
(Also - I am sympathetic that at 73 and after what appears to be decades of not working, he's not exactly anyone's model employee. But that doesn't entitle him to live off as he pleases while exploiting the goodwill of others to foot whatever bills he absolutely has to pay. He is a nightmare of a person who will burn people to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars a head, given a chance - and we know this. This is documented.)