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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of the homeless people i encounter are elderly and often struggling mentally as well.

They need a safe place to live longterm and healthcare. So many with abscesses on their feet and missing teeth from lack of health and dental care. [/quote]

Trump doesn’t care about them, Trump doesn’t care about anyone but himself. He just wants to push them further away from the White House and couldn’t care less if they died. He’d probably be happy if they did. [/quote]

Have they lived their lives in a way that leads to a long, healthy life?[/quote]

Such an astonishingly dumb, privileged, moronic question. Doesn't even deserve a response. [/quote]

Not at all. Drug use is a choice before it becomes an addiction. Many homeless choose that lifestyle even when offered rehab, housing, and food. [/quote]

I hate to use the word "privileged" but this post personfies the word. You have no idea what it's like to not grow up in a world where drugs and crime are a part of life. It takes a lot to make someone who they are -- it took a lot ot make you so successful and safe (and smug). You were not born that way -- you were raised that way. So were a lot of people who grow up to be drug addicts. And don't forget people who are mentally ill through no fault of their own. You are a despicable person, PP. Show me one religion -- ONE -- that endorses cruelty and judgment on those less fortunate or suffering. You suck.[/quote]

And?  The solution is to let them fester on the streets and camp out in rat infested unsanitary under-highway compounds? City streets do not have infrastructure to support people living outside, no toilets, not enough garbage disposal and even then many of these people are incapable to taking care of throwing out their own trash.  Some cannot even take care of their own bodies.  These are people who gave up and are slowly dying by extended suicide. Are you honest enough with yourself to recognize this?  they gave up on life, but because they don't have safety net of a family to stay with or an institution or aren't in the extreme state to actually kill themselves they are doing this slowly festering on the streets one day at a time.  Very few are trying to get up on their feet and usually seek help or stay in rehabs and deal with draconian shelter rules to get ahead.

We do need better shelter system that provides non-prison like rules and allows couple to stay together, allows some pets, allows people to come and go (like in any other form of housing) at any time, which allows homeless to take on some shift work.  We need shelters with dignity for people who want to recover.  But those who don't or too far gone (dude to severe mental illness or addiction or both)? What are you going to do about this, witness their mass drawn out suicide outside of your home in plain view? [/quote]

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