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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (502890)	8/9/2009 11:30:33 AM
From: bentway	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575489

This has been going on quite a while. When I lived in Silicon Valley, "liberal" San Francisco had a policy of confiscating the shopping carts of the homeless, with the theory that this would force them to leave, losing whatever pitiful possessions they had. To do this, they ordered the cops to watch them, then grab the shopping cart whenever it was unattended, even for a second. I'm sure most of our wingnuts think the homeless "choose" their condition, since this allows them to live guilt free, and avoid eye contact whenever they meet one on the street. Just as they feel the majority of the uninsured "choose" their condition. I make it a point to pay beggars (the accurate term) every time I'm asked. It's the least I can do in this hard-hearted country. When I was a kid, I saw my first beggars in Mexico on a vacation with the parents (also, my first prostitutes!), who told me that the system of society in Mexico created them, and that we don't have them in America. What happened to THAT America?