[newgeezer]

A closer look at the human condition.

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[newgeezer]

FWIW, same source:

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[aimhigh]

Why, because you bought the liberal lies that:
-freedom has no consequences.
-the government will bail you out of every problem in life.
-freedom has no consequences.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

A better question for the title would be, "Is it fault that my life is like this?" I am not assigning blame, I just think they should look for a way to change their lives, not just vent emotion.

[Shenandoah]

We all have choices.

I've been on my own since I was 17 with no one to turn to. Being a bum on the street would have been unnaceptable to me. I chose to be successful.

[Stick a Fork in Me - I am Done]

I was a street kid. I left highschool and home at age 15 and thumbed around a while. I was raped three times and tortured once for three days. There are a lot of freaks out there. There were two monymaking choices for kids on the streets, sell your body or sell drugs. The stupid sell their bodies and the smart sell drugs. I was smart. I lived in doorways and slept on porches or crashed on stranger's floors or the local flophouse. I worked when I could find it. I made friends with other street kids, dealers, numbers men, low end mobsters, criminals and pimps. I was a fifteen year old girl, I looked about 12.

Subsequently, I finished some of my highschool work at one of the most prestigous universitiies in in the country, married, have received an advanced degree, and have a wonderful family. But it has been hard work because the issues that were in my life and that drove me to the streets took years master.

You know me here by another log in.

[RicocheT]

Youths on the street wonder: 'Why is my life like this?'

Dude, it's 'cause of your drug habit and 'cause you're farkin' crazy. Take your legal meds!

[freeforall]

I have a store close to a homeless yute shelter...most are shiftless and not interested in working but they will beg for spare change... and will sell drugs. Sorry, no sympathy from me.

[MonroeDNA]

Socialist liberals took down the guardrails of society. Now our kids are running off the tracks, into the bushes.

[aruanan]

Matt Witt, a 19-year-old with a penchant for violence, rolls a cigarette with butts from bus kiosk ashtrays.

Looks like Matt Witt also has a penchant for doing violence to lots of chow judging by the tens of thousands of kilocalories he's carrying in extra fat.

At least the "homeless" kids of the 60's claimed to be in touch with something psychedelically cosmic.

[timm22]

Homeless youths out on the street wonder: 'Why is my life like this?'

In many, if not most cases, it is because of their own irresponsibility and poor choices. They choose to get addicted to drugs, or to associate with violent people, or to reject their family. That's why they find themselves on the streets.

Of course, in articles like this one, their poor choices will get one short, euphemistic phrase - "after making some tragic mistakes, blah blah blah...". Then paragraph after paragraph of their suffering will follow, all with the implication that it is somehow not really their fault.

Of course, there are cases where someone may find themselves on the streets through circumstances largely beyond their control. They may have to escape from an abusive home, or suffer an unpredictable, catastrophic financial setback, or even be born to irresponsible street dwellers.

However, even in these cases, it is possible to escape the street life. There are charitable and church groups in almost every town that offer shelter, food, and sometimes even education. There are also odd jobs that don't require a resume or nice suit to make some money for a few weeks. With a little hard work, a person can bring themselves back into a safer, more stable lifestyle.

[Lizavetta]

In spite of how miserable it is to be a failure, it is easier to do nothing and be a failure than to bust your ass and be a success.

[boris]

Someone pointed out that the 'problem' of the homeless seems to vanish when Democrats are in control of the government and mysteriously makes headlines when the Republicans regain control.

--Boris

[headsonpikes]

These children are the product of the modern socialist welfare state.

Communities and families have been systematically liquidated by organs of the caring sharing government. Why would any other result than vicious alienation be expected?

There's always a prison industry to expand - there'll be jobs for the obedient!

[sistergoldenhair]

ping

[Cacique]

In Argentina where I hail from, such people would be regularly picked up and would find themselves "drafted" into military service. It gives people purpose, discipline and direction.

I think such a policy would be to some advantage. Those who are anti-social and mentally ill would be weeded out and institutionalized so they are no longer a danger to themselves and others.

[cardinal4]

Im going home to hug my kids. What a depressing article..

[jodorowsky]

Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

[timestax]

I once gave some extra big pizza slices I had over bought, and couldn't eat, to a homeless young man on the boardwalk of Mission Beach, SD. He said thanks and wolfed them down. Then later on, I wondered if I had just given an under cover cop a meal. I hope that I didn't give a cop a free meal. I then decided to buy gift certificates from McDonalds (Jack-In-The-Box didn't sell certicates). So , I handed them out to homeless, that hang around StarBucks at Garnet and Mission Blvd. and, you guessed it...some of the homeless men didn't want them...they wanted cash, prolly for drugs, or wine. I don't know..I don't know anything! Ha!

[biblewonk]

This and a thousand articles like it around the country are right on queue to help set the mood against conservatives as election time gets closer. Next we will have a few gay bashing articles and some right corporate heads screwing their people.