Graywolf writes: > <snip> I've always have wondered about the intolerance > toward the poor that many have. <snip> > > But in fact many of the poor work very, very hard. I > have known families where the old man works two full > time hard-labor jobs, and the old lady works full > time as well just to keep a roof over their kids heads > and ... <snip> ...and most of them work harder than you > ever even imagined working. > > Most of the street folks also have physical, mental, > and substance abuse problems on top of that. <snip> > > Yes we should lock them up. The US already has more > people per capita locked up than any other civilized > nation in the world. <snip>
Tom, The shame for us (US) is that we have not found a better way to treat the street folks and the poor. After we determined that much of the population of mental institutions were not threats to others and 'could' survive with meds, we closed those places. While I could never recommend them, there has to be a better way to integrate the street folks into our society and keep things like medical catastrophies from driving families into the streets. Regards, Bob S.
