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To: Suma who wrote (51731)	3/5/2008 9:04:30 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Respond to of 540885

<<<So many of those whose health habits are bad or non existent have a mental illness... Most of the homeless have some form of mental disability. I do not mean ALL but who in their right mind would choose to live on the streets without the possibility of showering or ablutions.>>> People here are trying to frame this as rich people versus poor people and that every dollar that the government spends on the poor, it takes away from the rich. They see this as a zero sum game. The whole idea of government is to have government set up to protect rights. Initially governments were set up to protect the rights of kings, but our Declaration of Independence declared that the people (all people) also had rights. We are still at the stage of defining those rights. Nobody is (at least not by me) trying to do away with the wealthy - but we are trying to protect people that are otherwise powerless - those without money. Of course the money needed to protect poor people has to come from somewhere. To say the money needed to protect poor people should only come from charity is cruel and unacceptable.