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Alanna
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Struggles for the Homeless
June 29, 2004 - 02:27 AM
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How many times have we heard people tell the homeless "bums" to get off the street and do something useful? It's a vicious circle which most people don't seem to understand...
Let's say a 16 year old boy is kicked out of his home onto the streets of Toronto, Ontario. He has nowhere to go. He heads over to the soup kitchen, only to find that government funding did not reach the local shelter and therefore most shelters are closed, and the few that remain open are always full. He needs a job - but when the government won't supply him with a social security number, that presents a problem. He has no money for food or healthcare, and those that try to help the homeless see their efforts lost among the tremendous poverty that exists behind closed doors. What can we do for them?
We need answers...answers that just don't seem to exist...
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Re: Struggles for the Homeless
June 29, 2004 - 08:16 AM
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I know what you are talking about. Young or old there are people who arent fortunet enough to be financially stable. Just walk down a street in Mexico, or Key West, or a number of other cities all over the world. Its an awful thing, and there doesnt seem to be a perminant solution. All we can do is help as much as we can. We can help by volunteering at the homeless shelters, donating to shelters, and more. There is so much we can do, but there is also so little we can do. I feel for people who are less fortunet as i am, and i understand that they need help. The only thing i dont understand is why so many people dont seem to care, or know, or even want to be bothered by the thought of helping people. All they do is complain about the number of homeless people on the streets and talking about the "bums that are too lazy to go out and get a job". Its criminal, and i hope one day it can be fixed. But the only way that that will happen is by worldwide cooperation and a lot of care.
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Gene Winston Owens, Sr.
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What is so horriable about being homeless,
July 9, 2004 - 04:50 AM
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there is no safe place to make a safe bed or a safe place to save some little bit of something that says this is home. No safe place for nothing you can call yours, 'cause if you can't carry it with you it will just be gone. Of the homeless I have taken in only one family did not over the years try to over stay their welcome, so taking the homeless in is not the answer. And homeless shelters and soup kitchens are just awful, if you 2 can make them better maybe all of the world will want you to feed and house US, so that is not the answer, either. Homelessness means you can't even clean up to even look for a job and if you even get one you are to hungry to have the strength to do the job, so you lose it. I do know one key, some how youth have to seak wisdom through themselves and the people who are older than I am. Youth has Hope, my generation has sold out, the older generation wishes they had not sold out. Peace/Out, gene
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Lucia Sui
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Re: Struggles for the Homeless
July 12, 2004 - 05:21 AM
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should the government give more money 4 the homeless has always been a debatable issue. my opinion is that we should help them more, but only to an extend because for a lot of those homeless people out there are in that poor state because of their own doing. I understand once you are homeless and poor it is hard to get out of that state, but how did you get into that state in the first place?? if s/he tried hard from day one to earn money and be somebody, s/he might not have ended in that poor state. so i think its more important to help ppl whos on the edge of homeless to stay homeless.
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Gene Winston Owens, Sr.
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LuciaSui, Did Marwan Ever Come Back?
July 16, 2004 - 04:38 AM
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I have trouble with this phrase, "so i think its more important to help ppl whos(who are) on the edge of homeless(ness) to stay (or in) homeless(ness)
Government is in the Business of Service and All of them Need to Serve,. me
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Danny Sweeney
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Re: Struggles for the Homeless
July 16, 2004 - 05:55 AM
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I agree - things like this should be at the fore of government spending - a few thousand people of the streets? - or one more nuclear weapon???
oh that's a toguh one!!!!
When did politicians stop thinking about what is best for the people they serve and start obsessing over what will get them the votes next time round?
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April
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Re: Struggles for the Homeless
July 16, 2004 - 11:14 AM
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Polititians started worrying about votes rather than humanity a long time ago. When they started to "play dirty" and make trouble for other canidates, and when they started to develope that fake creepy grin they have.
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Brian Elston
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Re: Struggles for the Homeless
September 1, 2004 - 04:35 AM
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I absolutely agree that the government should be concentrating more on helping the citizens of this country, but only the ones that deserve help. If you have fallen into a rut you deserve a second chance. The people that are willing to work to make a better life for themselves should get the help they need. But if they are just going to waste all their money on drugs or alcohol they deserve to be exactly where they are. I understand that for a lot of people it's really hard to quit, so they should be able to go to rehab if they want to change. But the people that just expect a free ride shouldn't get it. That's one problem with this country. We seldom help those in need, and a lot of the time when we do it's for someone that just wants to take advantage of the system.
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oops
September 1, 2004 - 04:38 AM
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hey that last post by donkeydude was me. donkeydude is my brother and i forgot to sign out of his screen name. oops
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Re: Struggles for the Homeless
September 2, 2004 - 06:32 AM
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Some options to take:
- Locally subsidizing cheaper building of housing. (this is basic, in order for everybody to have a roof over the head)
- Housing COSTS! People must earn money so they can pay (or spare to buy it)
- Preferrably, companies which would be building those housing, named in first line, should be governmentally owned. And their financial status must be acessed publically.
- Maybe even establish local building companies with building housing as prime (and only?) goal. Futurism has VERY POSITIVE experiences with this.
- Much better information flow on day-to-day needs of the population, so that service improves.
With respect, SL Katulus
Ave Futuria
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