The homeless

[Summer Bunny]

it used to kill me when i went into the city and saw this. but now i look at it as why could someone let something bring them so far down to live on the streets...
i live in an area that you don't see homeless people...or so i thought. the other day i was riding my bike on a bike trail and i noticed this van that looked like it had been abandoned for a while. then i saw this guy sitting in it reading a newspaper.. honestly it scared the shit out of me. i thought the dude was dead untill he moved.
its just a shame that is all i can say

 

[vixenbabe]

Originally posted by Prometheus
my post above doesn't apply to battered women obviously. I was referring more to the "career homeless," not to those that are just in a temporary bad situation, and for whom more should be done, IMO.


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Of course it applies, hon!These same women and kids are living in the streets if NO programs are available to them. Do not kid yourself if you think all of these familes can get help when they need it. She will become "career homeless" when she has NO education or family support within her grasps. Sorry, that IS not a" temporary bad situation" in my eyes!

I've seen woman with kids get turned away weekly. Where do you think they go? She'll hit the STREETS and ,God forbid, back to the abuser! The stories I could tell...It would make anyone with a heart cry!

Pure desperation can lead anyone to the streets!

 

[Prometheus]

vixen - I agree. what I was saying was that many homeless are where they are (and where some choose to remain) because of choices they made of their own free will, whereas for a battered woman that's not necessarily the case.

 

[Y_lifter]

yes, some are homeless temporary and other's long term due to being lazy or whacked mentally...

I also am amazed that someone would choose to live on the streets instead of getting the help that is offered if they take the time to either find it or wait their turn...

I have heard some choose the streets instead of shelters because of the crime, rape and other things that go on in some Shelters.

I think you would be amazed by the stories of WHAT HAPPEND to them to cause their homeless situation.

 

[toga22]

When I was younger I was given the opportunity to live, work and attend school in Washington D.C. Coming from a relatively small and sheltered town of 60,000 here in Wisconsin...the differences in everyday life were noticeable immediately as I stepped off the plane. Upon arriving to my brownstone, my roommate who was a D.C. native gave me a long list of "How to Survive in D.C". Believe me I would have been smart to read it...instead, however I foolishly laughed and tossed the list aside.

Before D.C...I had seen homeless people, but I had never seen them in such abundance. Directly behind our brownstone, was a popular gathering area for the homeless...on some nights I would see groups as large as 50+ congregate there. Unlike my roommate, I was not immune to these people and the lost looks in their eyes, left me feeling rather unsettled.

It is sad to say....but it did not take me long to grow immune to the sight of the homeless...it just became a reality of everyday life. But before this reality and my DC wise attitude came about I made a few mistakes...I once gave a man $5 dollars and he followed me home and camped out on our front stoop, and there was a man who "lived" outside the grocery store who everyday would scale the fire escape and drink the milk out of my refridgerator...and then there was the lady, whom I said "Good Morning" to on my walk to the Metro...who for the next 3 weeks would walk behind me on the street screaming the word "Bitch!!" at the top of her lungs...

Don't get me wrong, I was not heartless however, I just learned the best way to carry yourself on the street. I often volunteered at the local soup kitchen, and I would take food weekly to the community living behind me. Small deeds, I know, but at the time it was all I could think of to help.

~toga

 

[satanic goatslayer]

Homeless people who find ways to afford alcohol are among the first to be stabbed and burned.

Homeless people who drink aftershave and vanilla extract will die soon anyways.

Homeless people who ask for spare change will need more change than they will ever panhandle once their appendages are involuntarily amputated.

Give a homeless man a fish and you feed him for a day. Kick a homeless person in the face and burn their makeshift house down, and you laugh for three seconds.

 

[fistfullofsteel]

I rather shovel shit than be homeless.

 

[huntmaster]

I agree with just about all of your post but I don't think we spend more on foreign assistance than we do on our underpriviledged, that is, unless you have statistics.

Not saying that we do spend more on foriegn nations than we do on our underprivledged, just that we should re-alocate more of the money that goes out to other countries, on our own people.

 

[Steroid_Virgin]

I rather shovel shit than be homeless.

Being homeless is like being a fag... no one would ever "choose" to be that way.. Comon show some compassion.

No one would hire a homeless person anyway, because there is obviously something wrong with him/her if they are homeless in the first place right?

Homelessness is a vicious cycle

 

[dballer]

Being homeless is like being a fag... no one would ever "choose" to be that way.. Comon show some compassion.

No one would hire a homeless person anyway, because there is obviously something wrong with him/her if they are homeless in the first place right?

Homelessness is a vicious cycle

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