>> That just makes it painfully obvious how much you >> don't know about homelessness.
> nope, not one bit, but go get a job. ditch digging > is hiring. >> > fuck, monster.com has more jobs than one could imagine. >> >> Not for homeless people. > nope, probably not, but again, go dig ditches, start > there. just get off your ass. There simply is not always a job for every person. It just doesn't happen. I wish that weren't the case, but there's nothing I can do to change that fact. >> > point is... i have no idea what its like to be >> > homeless, none whatsoever, but i get more angry and >> > more violent from the sight of a person sitting on a >> > corner begging than i do for most social injustices. >> > GET UP GO FIND WORK and i BET that people will be >> > more willing to help you. Sit on your tuckus, and >> > you will most likely find yourself sitting there >> > forever. >> >> Yes it's better for them to have something to do to earn >> some cash, but there aren't better options than >> pan-handling for _every_ one of them. Are you going to >> give every one of them a job? If not then shut >> up and stop blaming them for their misfortune. > there's where you went off tangent. HOW ABOUT YOU SHUT > THE FUCK UP? Not a tangent at all. Your claim is that each individual homeless person is solely responsible for their situation -- that it's presumably a "no brainer" for them to go get a job and fix their situation. That's not the case. If it were so easy, you should be able to solve all their problems. Can you? And yet you continue to blame them. Yes, they are involved, yes there are things they can do. But the environment only offers a limited number of job opportunities -- there are fewer opportunities for them in their environment than there are people in that situation. If there are 3 homeless people and 2 jobs, guess what, one of them is shit-outta luck, and no amount of you screaming "get a job" at him will make another job magically materialize for him. You could say it's his fault for not beating out the other 2 guys, but your blaming him won't make a job magically materialize either: if he got the job you'd just be screaming "get a job" at one of the other two, and your screaming won't make _his_ not having a job any _more_ his fault either. But like many other people in our culture you appear to have been bullshitted into believing that everyone can have what they need/want if they just try and therefore victims should be blamed because they're obviously at fault. It's a cruel and stupid lie. >> Yes, some of them will sit there forever out of lack >> of motivation (it's easy enough to be depressed when >> you have a home), but many of them will simply not >> have the necessary opportunities to get themselves >> out of homelessness, just like many crippled children >> didn't have the opportunities Hellen Keller had. > and. go get a job. start somewhere. I take it you've never faced losing odds then... If someone's kicking you in the nuts, and nothing you do changes that situation, how long does it take before you lose your resolve? How long before you break? Hours? Weeks? Years? As a rule homeless people are not homeless by choice -- they become desperate / despondent after weeks, months or years of trying and failing to change their situation. s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://www.sys-con.com/author/?id=4806 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:157974 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
