Posted on 02/07/2007 3:18:40 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Hey, Einstein! It's been SUB ZERO for a week straight now.
"People seem to care more about ...than they do about men like him, who line up in the cold every night to race for a cot in Madison's oldest homeless shelter."
He gets it. Now he should use that new-found knowledge to make a life assessment.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy them all a one-way bus ticket to San Fransicko?
I would think that even if the place had everything but bubonic plague, it also had the one thing the outdoors in Madison, Wisconsin lacked this time of year: heat. While that alone might not earn it a five-star in Zuggat's, it should at least merit some appreciation.
I'm curious about Bernand Lewis, the 56 year old retired GM employee. I wonder why he retired so young, and I also wonder where his retirement checks are.
I'm curious about Bernand Lewis, the 56 year old retired GM employee. I wonder why he retired so young, and I also wonder where his retirement checks are.
Nah. "Helping" the homeless and other (mostly self-inflicted) "victims" is the mainstay of a "Feel Good, Do Nothing" Socialist town like Madistan. ;)
And Gawd-forbid the courts actually order the mentally ill be hospitalized! That would just be mean. They should be allowed to roam at will amongst us! *Rolleyes*
There's a stigma attached to the homeless and that's as it should be - it makes for less of them.
Thanks a lot.
A GM retiree who can't afford to support himself?
"In addition, the men say that the blankets and pillows they use are not laundered often enough. "They stink," they said"
To this idiot: Get off your %$#$%%$#@ a-- and help the shelter people that are giving you your welfare!
(oh, wait, there is a reason you and the others are on the street isn't there?)
My apologies to both Republicans in San Francisco.
How many of them were once punkish youths demanding drug freedom, and promising not to leech off of others if they ever lost control of their habit?
They are the same addicts we see here occasionally, just in a different stage of life.
Have these guys ever heard the expression, "beggars can't be choosers?" Actually, they can be choosers. They are free men, and they are free to find other places to go which are more to their liking. If they don't like the free accommodations and service at this church, why do they keep coming back?
Beggars can't be choosers.
"Of the three toilet stalls, the men said, only one has a door. Blankets hang over the openings of the other two stalls, they said. Schooler said that replacement doors are on order, remarking that the doors were ripped off their hinges.
Vandalism grows out of the way the men are treated, said the man who has been working to bring public attention to shelter conditions. "We disrespect the place because we get no respect," he said."
They tear the place up, then complain conditions are substandard. The "logic" of complete losers.
These guys were sleeping under bridges and on park benches, and they complain about the showers and the tiles on the floor.
A major step in the right direction would be to move on from self pity. His life is his fault. After accepting that, he'd be more appreciative of the kindness of others and possibly start to better himself.
"No one pays any attention," said Petty, 48, a standout on the University of Wisconsin-Madison basketball team in the late 1970s who recently finished a prison term and now lives on the streets. "
A major step in the right direction would be to move on from self pity. His life is his fault. After accepting that, he'd be more appreciative of the kindness of others and possibly start to better himself.
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