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Nothing's changed. For example, if I asked college professors which state "cares" more about the poor, Massachusetts or Mississippi, the answer would be obvious. Yet government data show that Massachusetts ranks dead last among all the states in average itemized charitable giving, yet it's the fourth wealthiest state in the union. By contrast, Mississippi is the most generous state in the nation yet only one state is poorer.

That one line makes the whole article a charm. I live in NYC after moving from a small town in Texas. I am always offended by the lengths my neighbors will go to show that "they care" and how the homeless are "oppressed" that is until one is sleeping in our apartment foyer. When that happens, they knock on my door to ask me to get the "homeless person" to leave. I always say, "Oh, you mean the crackhead bum?" They hate to hear that line almost as much as my NRA sticker on my apartment mailbox. "Don't you know that guns hurt people?", says one of my neighbors.

P.S. I am a Catholic and if you flame me because of it, I will call the Pope and we will run over you in his bullet-proof Mercedes SUV.

P.S. I am a Catholic and if you flame me because of it, I will call the Pope and we will run over you in his bullet-proof Mercedes SUV.

Hah ha!!! You and I will get along just fine!

Freegards!

:) ttt

It's time we called a spade a spade. Poverty is not a virtue. Being an addict living on the street should be considered shameful. Let's stop calling them homeless and call them what they are - bums. Once we start giving homelessness a bad name, and stop worrying so much about their dignity and their rights we will be on our way to solving the problem. Make it shameful enough that these folks will give some serious considertion into getting into rehab and the rest of us into encouraging them, rather than coddling them as oppressed victims of circumstance.