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Originally Posted by WCE
How many millions walk by the homeless in our major cities without making eye contact and breaking on by?
How many give it a second thought before they plan out what they are going to order at Starbucks come lunchtime?
The sheer visible number of homeless shows that the "many many programs, agencies and chartities" either aren't numerous enough or they aren't effective.
I am more and more disheartened by the indifference people are willing to show toward the disadvantaged...But this comment goes beyond that.
Don't want to be helped?
**** me.
Who wants to have to deficate in an alley? Wants to sleep outside in the cold and rain? Wants to...
It goes on and on.
Perhaps the ways we have been trying to solve the problem are the issue? Rat intested social housing dumps? Degrading and dehumanizing clean-up programs?
Do you have any idea how many of these people who "don't want to be helped" have crippling mental diseases? Addicitions?
Do you not think that the closing down of hospitals that used to treats these people isn't critically responsible for the influx?
Which takes precedence?
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SO now I have to feel bad if I go out for lunch? Even if I donate money to charity organizations all the time to help both homeless and mentally ill? Do I need to be living n the streets donating my money to help them before it satifies you? I have to tell you, I do hardly think about the homeless when making my orders at Starbucks and I don't feel bad about it at all.
The mentally ill are some of the people that I am talking about when I say "people that don't want help." We can create all the programs, hand-outs etc we want but if these people are unable or unwilling to use what good are they? We can continually throw money and time but if they are not going to change their ways or cannot change their ways at which point to we say we may not be able to end homeless but we can control the negative effects on the public?
I feel bad for those who hae mental illness and therefore are unable to get off the streets. I feel bad for those that are working poor and can't get housing, although I do think that there are plenty of options for them. They are not always perfect,but as the saying goes "Beggars can't be choosers."
When it comes down to this story you say that many people don't choose to be homeless and live like they do. Well the store owner did not choose for them to be homeless either so why should he have to suffer the consequences for their actions as well?