Homeless people, what are your thoughts?

[Spicoli]

I think for many it's a lifestyle they choose. Obviously there are some truly sad stories but many I have known have screwed over everyone who cared or tried to help them, leaving them no one else to turn to or care. Some don't wish to work, want to drink and do drugs (I wish I could as well) but you need to step up and take some responsibility.

Yeh everyone's circumstances are different as is environment. I definitely have an age bias when it comes to homelessness. And there are tons of working people who drink and drug regularly working the fingers to the bone.

and wth did Walmart stop allowing Salvation army kettles? Might be a local thing but none to be seen yesterday, meanwhile 2 old gals roaming the gas station and parking lot for 'something to eat', not 'got any money'. Makes sense . I cannot walk away from someone asking for a meal.

[Beanz]

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You know Brock, you're bound to get criticized for this... but you make a good point. A person subjected to the same thing day in and day out... and in quantities... tend to get desensitized. Example: Here in P.R. we have stray dog issues. As is to be expected, you routinely see dead dogs on the road, victims of the obvious traffic that uses the roads. I've seen people from other places without stray dog issues be completely horrified at their first sight of a dead dog on the street. But years of living with these conditions tend to become immune to that. Same goes for crime-ridden neighbors anywhere in the world with high murder rates. Pretty sure at some point people accept it as part of daily life, and just keep on going about their business.

You hit the nail on the head Tito. I have found that people who lead sheltered lives in little towns which are secluded from high population areas ...little towns in which there are absolutely no dangers or threats or challenges..... become very delicate and find things like homelessness Etc such a shocking thing. Unfortunately these are the people who are dictating public policy in the world ....people who live in Ivory Towers far away from everybody are the ones to tell the inner cities what they should do and what's horrifying and what's not horrifying. It's almost a passive-aggressive version of Let them eat cake. I personally have found nothing more grotesque than white rich people's horror at quite normal everyday things

Have a shit Christmas Brockton you clueless assuming arrogant little cunt

[brocktonblockbust]

how dare you wish me a Happy Christmas you cocksucker when I did not wish you a Happy Hannukah.

[Dia bando]

Wrexham has a problem with homeless people on the streets begging etc drug addled really a big problem that the town center is dirty shop entrances are stinking of shit and piss and sick.
I see most people buying them food and hot drinks not giving money, trouble is you are fueling there habits drugs drink some will never improve themselves some have mental health issues.
I am not sure what can be done Wrexham through the years on had a couple of homeless in the town center now there is well over a hundred plus.

[Master]

London Euston station hosted a Christmas lunch for 200 homeless people.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...-a3726886.html

[brocktonblockbust]

London Euston station hosted a Christmas lunch for 200 homeless people.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...-a3726886.html

Plenty of food kitchens in soup kitchens here in New York constantly feeding these people. But that doesn't get rid of the problem does it

[X]

[QUOTE=brocktonblockbust;1458743]

You know Brock, you're bound to get criticized for this... but you make a good point. A person subjected to the same thing day in and day out... and in quantities... tend to get desensitized. Example: Here in P.R. we have stray dog issues. As is to be expected, you routinely see dead dogs on the road, victims of the obvious traffic that uses the roads. I've seen people from other places without stray dog issues be completely horrified at their first sight of a dead dog on the street. But years of living with these conditions tend to become immune to that. Same goes for crime-ridden neighbors anywhere in the world with high murder rates. Pretty sure at some point people accept it as part of daily life, and just keep on going about their business.

You hit the nail on the head Tito. I have found that people who lead sheltered lives in little towns which are secluded from high population areas ...little towns in which there are absolutely no dangers or threats or challenges..... become very delicate and find things like homelessness Etc such a shocking thing. Unfortunately these are the people who are dictating public policy in the world ....people who live in Ivory Towers far away from everybody are the ones to tell the inner cities what they should do and what's horrifying and what's not horrifying. It's almost a passive-aggressive version of Let them eat cake. I personally have found nothing more grotesque than white rich people's horror at quite normal everyday things

I definitely agree that people get inured to and used to things they see regularly. It's much harder to survive in a small town if you're homeless, so there's are more homeless people in big cities. There is more crime, more opportunity and more diversity in cities, so city-livers are more used to those things.

I don't agree that there are never dangers, threats or challenges in small towns though. Everywhere has its positives and negatives. Also, just because someone is horrified at the number of homeless people it doesn't make them wrong. In an ideal world, nobody would be homeless would they?

I'm not sure about the situation in America, but in the UK it is not the people in little towns and villages who influence public policy. The population density in the country is much much less than in our big cities, so they have less Members of Parliament than those people who are in big urban areas. In Britain it is the urban metropolitan city dwellers who really drove public policy and many laws.

It's possible that the Brexit vote was largely driven by rural voters who felt 'left behind' by the metropolitan elite (though there are many conflicting theories about that admittedly)