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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The homeless generally have one or all of the following:
mental illness/ alcoholism/ addiction/ prior felon (unable to get jobs)

Many don't want public services because of the screening.[/quote]

Your generalization of the homeless is very convenient.  Reducing them to one-dimensional caricatures thru disparaging labels [b]takes away their humanity allowing you to be unapologetically apathetic to their individual experiences and challenges. [/b] Good job  :thumbup: [/quote]

I'm the original poster here.  My  comment comes from someone who has served 23,000 lunches (self funded) once a week on the street to homeless who lined up for
lunch.  How many homeless have you personally fed, clothed or homed with your personal monies?

Generally the homeless also help each other, live in camps and have self appointed leaders.  Again, my comments came from someone who has actually served
23,000 lunches (self funded) to the unhomed.

How many homeless have you fed?  On your own monies?

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I'm really offended by your comment.  I'm the original poster.  I helped my friend every Sunday at noon.  Five of us would show up to feed the homeless, in an ad hoc
on the street feeding.  Food prep took about 3-4 hours every Saturday.  We were self funded.  Generally we fed around 200-400 lunches each Sunday.  Lunches were:
hot dogs with rolls, bananas, hard boiled eggs, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, hot coffee, water, and generally ice cream sandwiches, sometimes home made cookies.
My fried who spear headed this is low income by DCUM standards. I'm guessing he makes about $50,000 per year.  He got food donations when possible but spent
a fair amount out of pocket.

So believe me, we are not apathetic to the homeless individual experiences as we were out there rain or shine on Sunday afternoons at noon.

How many homeless have you fed?

And yes,  most are unable or unwilling to hold down jobs due to felon history, mental illness, alcoholism or drug addiction or a combination of the above.
Occasionally we had families in our lines for food who were down on their luck, so yes we also fed down on their luck folks.[/quote]

NP.  Consider me unimpressed by your charity as performance art.[/quote]

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