Posted on 02/06/2014 6:01:49 PM PST by thecodont
Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier is gearing up for what she hopes is the next big fight in Congress — balancing out the growing economic inequality that has ravaged the middle class for years — so she reckoned she’d do a bit of ground-level research first.
And since you can’t get much more ground level than a homeless shelter, that’s where she went last Friday — to spend the night.
The Maple Street Shelter in Redwood City was the destination. Speier had actually been there a week before to chat with the residents, and the fact that a well-off Hillsborough member of the Washington power structure was hanging out with the penniless was lost on nobody, least of all the member herself. That was the point, she said.
“I’m still kind of reeling from the experience. Every member of Congress should be required to do what I did,” Speier said this week. “It would help us appreciate who we are talking about. We rattle off numbers, but it doesn’t speak about the people themselves.”
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No, there aren't.
And a great deal of people who are homeless are not into drugs or alcohol.
It's a serious, profound problem with many legitimate levels of need.
Bumpersticking it with drug addicts and alcoholics doesn't work anymore.
I’ve seen homeless in a “nice” section of town, sleeping in their cars in the transit station parking lot, or camping out under a freeway overpass. Not all of them look like addicts. Some look very down on their luck but with a deep desire to remain independent.
Every member of congress SHOULD be required to follow the constitution. Arrested for treason, for ignoring the Constitution.
There fixed!
No thanks needed, it's my job...
“balancing out the growing economic inequality that has ravaged the middle class for years”
What she is really saying is that she is fine with the poor being poorer, so long as the rich are less rich. That is what “income inequality” means! It is the tacit admission by those who speak the phrase.
Homeless people are like locusts.
They only come out and are seen when a republican is in the White House.
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