at stop lights under the Gardner expressway in downtown Toronto,
with their little cup in hand.
Last few years it has not been a problem....for some reason...
;~)
This is to digress on my part,but..... I had accessed on Google THE HOMELESS PEOPLES NETWORK. So far so good- why not? An article by Josh Brown of the Toronto Star, gave an account of - with tolerance in mind, certain statistics.
Three men in Toronto. Alcoholics and glue sniffers. One for over 18 years, constant trouble. The figures to society annually are quoted.
1. $112,000 2 .$151,000 and 3. $181,000 yearly. This includes threatening merchants to "pass out" in front of their stores, unless.....yes,money is produced. A farm is proposed for the poor dear souls.
It is tolerance gone mad.
Actually, it's "good intentions". When Western societies began to let the mentally ill be treated on a out-patient basis, rather than be hospitalized, they unleashed the mentally ill to walk among us. Those persons who would otherwise have avoided the perversion that accompany the bi-polars and schizophrenics, were instead exposed to their self medications, illegal drugs. The drug epidemic began.
This has been going on since the 1960's when the Kennedy family witnessed , up close, the mental illness in Rosemary Kennedy and the failure of her surgical treatments. In the end, it was thought to be cheaper to just let the mentally ill shift for themselves. Some became famous like Lee Harvey Oswald, others influential like the Dunblane massacre perpetrator. He disarmed England.
Either way, the crazies now run Western societies, as in the Third World. We have let the "progressives" regress civilization.