Thread: U.S. Homeless - This is not America - Vid

U.S. Homeless - This is not America - Vid


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Has the U.S. abandoned its homeless?

These one sided dramas about homelessness drive me crazy.

Often, homelessness is a lifestyle choice. The people shown are living in tents because they choose to and circumstances did not put them there and are not keeping them there. These people choose to get a little cash from day labor, handouts or family. They choose to live in tents or in the open, be unwashed, to eat free meals at the shelter and wear free clothes. It is easier than working and paying the bills.

Anybody that thinks I'm full of it has never talked to homelss people.

They will ask you for money, before they will ask you for a job.

The ones that want help will get it and it is offered to them by all kinds of community services. There is a way out but they have to want out.

Dixie

Originally Posted by Dixie

These one sided dramas about homelessness drive me crazy.

Often, homelessness is a lifestyle choice. The people shown are living in tents because they choose to and circumstances did not put them there and are not keeping them there. These people choose to get a little cash from day labor, handouts or family. They choose to live in tents or in the open, be unwashed, to eat free meals at the shelter and wear free clothes. It is easier than working and paying the bills.

Anybody that thinks I'm full of it has never talked to homelss people.

They will ask you for money, before they will ask you for a job.

The ones that want help will get it and it is offered to them by all kinds of community services. There is a way out but they have to want out.

Dixie

What you say is true to a point. For many living on the street is the only companionship they have and they do not want to give it up. For the thousands of homless Vets and Children who live on the streets I do not believe that is the case.

Originally Posted by Dixie

These one sided dramas about homelessness drive me crazy.

Often, homelessness is a lifestyle choice. The people shown are living in tents because they choose to and circumstances did not put them there and are not keeping them there. These people choose to get a little cash from day labor, handouts or family. They choose to live in tents or in the open, be unwashed, to eat free meals at the shelter and wear free clothes. It is easier than working and paying the bills.

Anybody that thinks I'm full of it has never talked to homelss people.

They will ask you for money, before they will ask you for a job.

The ones that want help will get it and it is offered to them by all kinds of community services. There is a way out but they have to want out.

Dixie

Remember the other half of the homeless story, Dixie. There are families living at tent cities and job displacement has cuased their circumstances..to support a family of even just 4 can be pretty expensive today. It takes a long time once you are unemployed to set up 2 jobs which call for full time hours that coincide with one's schedule. I saw such a scenario on TV about a month ago. The parents were helping their children with homework at a homeless shelter..pretty bad. The age old addage that states that the homeless are homeless because the choose to do so is getting pretty old and outdated. New circumstances of today will place people in places they would of never expected to be in. It would be mean-spirited to label all homeless people as lazy. You're right, this story is one-sided.