I'm willing to imagine they do bathe occasionally .... where?
You don't just exist without doing SOMEthing to maintain your life ... what IS it ?
I have never bought the homeless line .... not since I willfully went out on the streets myself in 69, 70 and 71
I frikkin' LOVED gettin' over by not working a traditional job, but sold handmade roach clips and panhandled
I rented a room for the winter months (Boston) and got back out on the street in May or so
I did take a clock puncher one winter for a few months in a mattress factory ... but as soon as it was hip eye time ... I was there
I knew a LOT of street peaple ... about half of 'em were cops of SOME kind, playin' the role, and I knew it and was able to converse with them ... which soon left because they couldn't be undercover anymore after befriending me
I learned SO much out there
NO ONE WAS OUT THERE BECAUSE OF SOME LANDLORD THROWING THEM OUT OR WHAT HAVE YOU ... EVERYBODY HAD CHOSEN THE LIFESTYLE
A good number of them are mentally ill.
Maybe thirty years ago, that might have been the case. However, most homeless have drug addictions or mental.illnesses that impair their ability to live a stable lifestyle. They used to be psychiatric patients until Rivera loused things up for them.
-You don’t just exist without doing SOMEthing to maintain your life ... what IS it ?-
I was in a Seattle hotel listening to the news. They were discussing the homeless problem. The interview was of some uber-liberal woman who wailed, “We feed them. We clothe them and take care of their medical needs. Why! Why do we still have a homeless problem?” I stopped dressing to watch the reporter b*tchslap her. But he just murmured agreement.
They have a homeless problem because they want to have a homeless problem.
Incidentally, they should not be called homeless as that implies the problem is they are regular people but without a home. The problem is they are drug addicted or alcoholic or not sane. If society stopped caring for their physical needs then they would need to stop their addictions or starve and freeze. What we are doing by supporting these people is not kindness or compassion.
I am reminded of the several times I tried to get the company I worked for to arrange treatment for alcoholic employees, who, incidentally, were doing actual damage to the company. In every case the company enabled them to stay in their job until they died of alcohol related problems. In each case those who worked under them and with them breathed a long sigh of relief. The company was complicit in their deaths as far as I’m concerned.
Kinda like being Catholic?
***Homeless have to eat ... who feeds them***
Reminds me of the “DO NOT FEED THE WILDLIFE! THEY WILL BECOME DEPENDENT ON YOU!” signs I often see.
Then there was my tour to the mission in Los Angeles in which within a few blocks you suddenly see lots of men sitting around doing nothing all day, just waiting for their free three meals a day.
Bookmarking this.
You should write a book. Serious about that.