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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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will yes, I am serious. there are homeless people out there who would rather be homeless. did you not read the NYtime article I posted?
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BUT even with all that help, most people dropped out along the way. Fewer than 100 made it into halfway houses or permanent homes. Of the many reasons for the others' failure, one was undoubtedly the easy money available back on the streets.
''What can I do when a guy tells me he's making $300 a day panhandling?'' Mr. McNamara said as he approached Times Square and spotted a man on the corner they had been trying for years to entice to the center. They invited him again, explaining that they had a coat and shoes waiting, but he waved them off. ''I remember another gentleman,'' Mr. McNamara said, ''that I managed to get in for a shower and a meal. We were working on getting him into detox, but he said, 'No, I'm going back on the street to smoke crack.' Well, that was his right. The next week I saw him on the subway with a cup pretending to be crippled. He said he needed money for an operation to straighten his leg.''
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So let me be clear, to my knowledge I am no longer allowing illegal immigrants to stay in my home.
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If that's what you have to say to look at yourself in the mirror, or keep yourself out of jail. John Lennon has a song that comes to mind, "Whatever get's you through the night." But I can tell you that if you were my neighbor and continued to have transient people coming in and out of your domicile, I'd not like you at all. I would feel unsafe in my own neighborhood suddenly. Not for xenophobic reasons, but just because strangers seem to come and go from your house. If I was your child I'd be annoyed that my father spent time and energy with other people than with me. Again, these feelings are based on my own experience firsthand.
If you believe what you are doing is great. Wonderful! Keep doing it. Just don't ask me for help for it because I don't choose that lifestyle for myself. My parents came here to give me a better life than they had and persue the "American Dream." No where have I read nor seen anything that states my part of the American dream is to hold out my hand and help someone else who came here illegally.
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I don't care if you are black, white, purple, green, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, hippie, cop, bum, admin, user, English, Irish, French, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, indian, cowboy, tall, short, fat, skinny, emo, punk, mod, rocker, straight, gay, lesbian, jock, nerd, geek, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist, either you're an asshole or you're not.
Last edited by Cynthetiq; 04-05-2007 at 12:44 PM..
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