homelessness

So we have a couple of trains of thought going around these days. One is to screw the rich (which I'm part of), and the other is to screw the poor, which laissez-free capitalists appear to be in favor of. Don't believe me? OK. So let's started on the tough medicine. It means people cannot...

orlando has restrictions on feeding the poor???!!! welcome to america! the land of the free! http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-homeless-feedings-arrests-20110601,0,1453301.story By Susan Jacobson, Orlando Sentinel 1:33 p.m. EDT, June 2, 2011 Members of Orlando Food Not...

A Channel 4 documentary showed an alarming number of tent cities which have grown up on disused land in towns and cities in the US. The programme claimed 800,000 homes were foreclosed in the last year IIRC, and a million children are now homeless. I couldn't help thinking of The Grapes of Wrath...

Obamavilles are growing. Redistribute the poverty!

I got an e-mail saying there are 3.5 M homeless people in the USA. I don't want to belittle the homeless and it's a shame that anyone is homeless but for that very reason it seems it's important to accurately state how many homeless people there are instead of exxagerating for effect. I don't...

Beer For The Homeless This is so wrong... So very wrong.

There are approximately 300,000+ churches in the U.S. and Canada. In any given week, there are approximately 842,000 and 200,000 homeless people in the U.S. and Canada, respectively. 842,000 + 200,000 = 1,042,000 total. 1,042,000/300,000 = roughly 3.5, so let's say 4. That's 4 homeless...

Hi there! At a recent town meeting I once gaian got to hear an explanation for the cause of homelessness. HOMELESS SHELTERS. The reason we have homeless people is because we have homeless shelters, isn't that cool! Now all we have to do is close all the homeless shelters and there won't be any...