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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (97844)	3/12/2005 10:23:45 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

The constituents are not voluntarily sending local taxes to Washington. The federal government is forcibly taking more and more. Without an actual revolution, what would you suggest to stop that flow? When you say "deinstitutionalization", are you suggesting that we beef up our mental institutions again and treat more of the mentally ill in them? If so, would that not take a whole lot of tax dollars (which libertarians resist paying)? Did you know that about a third of homeless people are veterans? Do you think it is right that the state takes years of someone's life, leaving them somehow damaged at the end of that, and spits them back out to live on the streets? My opinion is that no veteran should ever be homeless. I think that is the sign of a very cold, crass and dysfunctional society. Did you know that a significant percentage of the homeless are now WORKING FULLTIME and cannot afford both food and a roof over their heads? Do you think a society where this is the situation is a desirable or ethical place to live, or is this even a consideration with libertarian philosophy? I think families do try to help. Most families only have limited resources, however. A down-and-out family member sleeping on your couch or living in your garage is a very difficult and stressful situation for everyone involved, and usually ends badly even though the whole family is trying to help. I think charities do an admirable job, as well. But with the homeless, there seems to be a structural problem in our society that includes the loss of inexpensive housing, reductions in funding so that drug treatment on demand is almost totally unavailable, the pullbacks in mental health care, and other factors that really are quite difficult to deal with on a local level.