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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective

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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (1553)	10/8/2000 11:59:27 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) of 10042

I'm not afraid of telling them to "get off their lazy @sses and get out there and work for a living like the rest of us". Did you know that many of these people used to be in mental institutions and were too nuts to participate in society? My mother was a psychiatric nurse for the State of California and this was related to me first hand. The problem was that while these institutionalized people were "freed" from their "prison" of the mental hospital in the 70's, they were sent on their merry way with no infrastructure, no group home and basically told to sink or swim. The only way they could get back in was if someone deemed them a risk to others. That generally didn't happen until they hurt someone which is actually very rare. Again, you assume that because you aren't hearing voices and living in a highly confused mental state, that no one else is. Do you really think that homelessness is a career choice that someone makes? Tell me it ain't so!! I've been as poor as anyone and you have to be totally lacking any kind of resources to end up in that state. Living out of a car is better than living in a box. Ron, you seem to recognize many of these problems exist. That's a good thing. You're not blind. But I'm really puzzled about the unwillingness to accept that things aren't as you want, but you don't seem to want to be bothered to solve them. THAT is strange to me. You see crime, but you don't want to solve the cause. You see dirty vagrants on the street but your response is for them to go seek work. In this full employment economy do you really think that they have the ability to work? No, they'd rather live in that cardboard box and ask nice people like you for money.

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