Thread: Poverty in CO: 73% increase since 2000 only to grow worse

Poverty in Colorado: 73% increase since 2000 only to grow worse
By Frosty Wooldridge

[i][size=150][b][color=red]“Can you think of any problem in any area of human endeavor on any scale, from the microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally?â€

Immigration and population overload will prove our greatest crisis in 21st century Colorado. We better deal with it: today! We must work for a sustainable society. To continue on our current path proves as stupid as the captain of the Titanic.

Exactly. We have been overloaded and aren't capable of handling it all.

Heck I've heard of people who commit crimes on purpose just to go to jail to get a shower, meals, and medical care. Something simply poor people aren't always guarenteed. What sort of environment is it when we can't care for our own citizens and the potential to make them a criminal just for survival. I remember the last time we had an un-real amount of homeless and how many families were torn apart because in order for the kids to get help or even a roof over their head the father had to divorce the mother because the government didn't help "families"...only single mothers with children. Except back then they actually checked to make sure no other people were in the house and the father wasn't secretly staying there. A whole lot of this country isn't condusive for tent cities and there aren't enough places for people to go. Everything has it's limits. I remember spouse abuse and child abuse and suicide were high. So was alcoholism and drug use. I remember families sitting on the side of road holding signs "will work for food". There wasn't a restaurant or a business out there where there weren't people begging for food or money. Guess the difference was for me.....I wasn't afraid of them. They weren't clubbing people to death for 10 bucks. There weren't gangs of people comming at you. I'm sure it happened somewhere but I didn't see it. It got annoying......mostly from guilt of not being able to help enough because I was struggling myself. We can't take all these people and we can't displace our own citizens in exchange for another countries poor. That's not fixing the problem...it's just shifting it.