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Originally Posted by Xell101
It generally seems to be from the attitude that if you're homeless it's becuase you've failed at capatalism. There are lots of shelters that take in the homeless and get them work, there are lots of 'things' you can do, but unless you're one lucky hobo odds are it's going to be absurdly difficult to get back on your feet, and there are lots who dismissively instruct them to get a job, as though they're one can of beans and a furiously executed hobo dance away from victory. If a hurricane basically comes in and ruins an entire city's shit it's a tragedy, becuase the devestation hasn't come you failing at life. (lol!) That's how I take it, although I agree, we've got oodles of homeless and poor people and even more flooding across the border, we're amassing a humorously absurd amount of debt and we're still just tossing money at other countries? Eh? We've got problems here, it's like tossing cash at the neighbors while several of your many kids hasn't eaten yet.
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Just a bit of a tangent....
As someone who WAS a homeless guy for a while, yes, you can pick your own ass up. It is easier for some then others, but it can be done. Hell, if nothing else the army is hurting for poeple, and they will take just about anyone. I have little to no sympathy for most homeless. A lot of them are there because they won't get off their ass and do soemthign about their lifes, and/or they are fucking drunks and druggies. Now, before anyone starts blasting, yes I know that not all of them are. Like I said, I was one. The people in NO, however, do not fall into the "lazy sake of shit" catigory. There are some of them there, yes, but most of these people had jobs, homes, and families. They were hard working poeple, who by means WAY beyond their control, lost everything. That is what makes this a disater. Most of these are good poeple forced to live in an extream situation. As for the looting, If I was there, you bet your ass I would be kicking in stor windows to get at the food. Most stores are insured, my stomache isn't. As for the foreign aid, I think most of it should be cut off anyway. Some of theses places we are sending aid to are either A: chantin "death to America" in the streets every other day, or B: Taking htat money and useing it to fund the goverment, and not the poor that it was meant for. If you hate us so much you publicly wish bad thigns to happen to us, then fuck you, have a nice day, we are taking our money and leaveing. If you are not useing the money for what it was meant for, then fuck you, have a nice day, we are taking our money and leaveing. We should use that money to fix the problems here, and if somoene get's to uppity, we should use that money to erase them from the planet so we can go back to fixin the problems here in peace.
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