Karen,
It is nice that you're caring. I am sad every time I pass a homeless person in Chicago, sad, but not because they're homeless, but because they represent lost potential.
It is not the job of every working person in the US to take care of the people who don't work. Some of the tragic statistics you report, are probably due at least in part to illegal immigration. People who've chosen involvement with drugs also make up a decent percentage of those numbers. People who've chosen to drop out of school for hundreds of reasons make up part of the pool you are describing.
Now some of those people are seriously sick and i would agree that as a society we need to find more effective solutions for handling those people, compassionately yet economically, but a handout will not help and many of the people you are talking about have refused handUps before.
Undocumented residents, my foot, they shouldn't be here and I, for one, don't want to waste money on them. Sorry, no compassion for that group.
I am, however, very concerned about the poor conditions that exist for Native American Indians, who deserve a better fate than we've given them.
In the meantime... doesn't tie these two items together. Crooks are crooks, in the 80's we heard plenty about fraud on poverty programs as well. Or perhaps you're suggesting that the way to solve the ills you describe is to force the medico's into poverty, make them homeless, while giving those undocumented residents their places on hospital staff's.
bill@givingitawayisnttherightanswereither.com
PS. If i'm struggling for food, maybe i would set my priorities straight and give up the telephone. What's the phone bill $40. a month. That can be a week's worth of groceries for a family if you're frugal. |
