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christine1 -> RE: HIV positive man gets 35 year sentence for spitting on officer (5/18/2008 3:25:10 PM)
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ORIGINAL: MadRabbit
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ORIGINAL: christine1
yes kittin, there are a lot of people like me who hold down full time jobs, pay for health insurance and just scrape by every month. if something happened and i got more than one paycheck behind and couldn't make the money up, i could be living in my car for a while. it's not just crack addicts and mentally disabled people who fall upon hard times, sometimes it's hard working people too.
Sorry, but I have to disagree.
Yes, there is people like this out there and yes, it does happen.
But as someone who spent most of his life in the city of Memphis which has a huge homeless problem, a rough snowball survey of my personal experiences concludes that these are a small percentage of people classified as "homeless".
Maybe it's different in other cities. I don't know, but the vast majority in Memphis are crack addicts.
I think it is a tragedy when something like you said above happens. As one of the members of the lower class, it could possibly happen to me. However, I highly doubt it, because I have and am sacrificing a lot to get ahead and I can think of at least 10 different scenarios that would put me under some kind of roof within a few days in the face of such a contigency.
I also think it's sad when the mentally ill have no place to go besides the streets.
But the majority of the "bums" out there right....don't feel sorry them in the least. It's not societies "failure" or societies "responsibility" It's a personal failure and a personal responsibility.
There is currently such a strong need for cheap, work labor that we have huge numbers of illegial Mexicans migrating into our country to do it for us.
People will argue this issue until the end of time of "What to do with the homeless?", but unfortanely, the homeless are an inevitable part of a free market and capitalism.
i was simply stating that there are a number of reasons why someone might become homeless, and i'm not saying it is a permanent thing. yes some people have themselves to blame for their homeless situations, but a fire or natural disaster could make someone homeless in seconds whether they are addicts or what have you.
if i were without a home for a week, that would be a hard and scary thing, at least i would think so and i'd do my damndest to get out of that situation. pretty much i'm saying shit happens across the board whether you're insane or an addict or millionaire.
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