If you really want to help, lobby for a minimum wage law that is high enough so anyone who works full time can afford food, clothing, housing, transportation, and a few buck pocket money. Lobby for Social Security to pay the same. Lobby for support programs for those who are unable to work full time for physical, mental, or medical reasons. Lobby for decent base level housing.
I am in an apartment now because I was willing to ask for help. Many homeless are in that situation strangely enough because the believe they are supposed to take care of themselves. They lose their apartment and can not accumulate enough to pay deposits even if they can afford the base rent. There are churches and charities that will help with that, but they have to look for them and be willing to lower themselves to ask for help. Many of those people have more pride than you do. It is the only thing they do have and they are afraid of losing it.
Yes there are those who exploit the system. I used to be really down on them, but know what? They are the people who have told me what help I could get. Without them I would have taken that "NO" for the definitive answer. Which do you think is worse the welfare defrauder, or the welfare worker whose paid job it is who is too lazy to help the person who needs help get it?
I admit this post is very political. All I can ask is if you don't like it why did you read this far? This post used up a couple of kilobytes of bandwidth. Why don't you use up several megabytes saying you don't want to read stuff like this. (F****** hypocrites...)
Caveman wrote:
Why don't you discuss your photo instead of general politics or the well-being of the Caveman.
You have a sadistic pleasure for taking *portraits* of humans in humiliating/degrading postures. You can do social and political activism photography without being that specific. Think about it.
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
But Bill, The Caveman has left all the problems of his native country
behind and has found a sort of Nirvana in Canada. No longer is there a
need to be concerned with those who have less while one is on the quest for
more. He has moved out of "La Grotte de Lascaux" and there is no desire to
look back.
-- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com/graywolf.html
