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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (206078)10/16/2006 4:08:59 PM
From: geode00  Respond to of 281500
 
Republican policies CREATE the homeless. The words Ichy and Steambaths shouldn't be used in the same post. Add the word Foley and all heck breaks lose.

Republican (along with some idiot Dems) policies that create the homeless:

- Refusal to provide a decent minimum wage even though they have no problem giving themselves something like 9 cost of living increases. Apparently the minimum wage lives suspended in time where there are no increases in the cost of living.

- Refusal to provide family planning, education, contraceptions and abortions thus creating single parent or no parent families unable to live on said minimum wage.

- Outsourcing manufacturing jobs

- Refusal to provide mental health services and facilities

- Massive transfer of wealth from the middle class wage earner to the ultrawealthy partygirls and guys

- Moral degradation of society where the accumulation of money by any means is the be all and end all of human value

- Starting wars of choice and creating PTSD, Gulf War Syndrome and DU syndrome in vets without providing proper and continuing care for such

But, hey, Republicans will now take taxpayer money to construct tiled boxes (Halliburton, Parsons, Bechtel pay attention!) for the homeless to live in. Now aren't Republicans generous.



To: Ichy Smith who wrote (206078)10/16/2006 4:11:21 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
I don't know about Canada, and I don't know about places outside the DC metro area, but our homeless have beds to sleep in if they choose. There's a waiting list for your own apartment or townhouse but sufficient beds in group shelters and group homes.

The people around here who live on the streets are too crazy to handle group housing but not crazy enough to be locked up against their will.