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I find it amazing how many citizens are homeless while the establishment gives billions in foreign aid to nations that can afford to buy things like military helicopters and have big spending budgets. They should be ordering clothes not ordering establishment helecopters.
 
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kiwidan said:
Depends on each individuals situation.
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Yes.
There are a multitude of reasons for someone to be homeless. And since there is a multitude of reasons, there is not a single or simple response to the issue.
Some are homeless because they want to be.
Some have lost everything due to economic circumstances.
Some or alcohol and/or drug addicts and can't keep a job.
Some have mental issues.
There may be many more causes.
 
I was homeless. Thank God I had an SUV to live in. However, being homeless is horrible. Believe it or not, it's expensive too. You can't go grocery shopping so your choices boil down to fast food or dumpster diving. Going to the bathroom is either hoping you can slide into a fast food place and do your thing or you end up dropping your drawers in an empty field (I've done both).

I am college educated, my husband is former military. I lost my job (they ran out of work), couldn't find another one, unemployment ran out, and so did our ability to pay rent. We were fortunate in that my husband is a veteran and we qualified for help to get housing again and vocational retraining for my husband.

Homelessness is a problem with no easy answers. I can tell you that having more available affordable housing or an expansion of section 8 vouchers would help a whole lot. As it is now, we live in a crummy neighborhood and our rent is cheap for what we have...BUT...we are still one car repair or one big medical bill away from being on the streets again. We do not qualify for any social program help other than using a public clinic for my healthcare, but I can't afford to have any tests run or some prescriptions filled because we just don't have the money. I am beyond thankful that my husband gets most of his medical care through the VA system. Even with that, we have to pay co-pays for his prescriptions and that runs about 150.00 per month. That's money we could use for things like groceries or gas for him to get to work.

Most of the US is one medical bill, one illness or one car repair away from being homeless. I'm of the opinion that in what is supposedly "the richest country in the world" people have to try to crowdfund to be able to pay medical bills. I can't stop thinking about the young man who died because he couldn't afford a 200.00 vial of insulin. There's something wrong with people's thinking when they start talking about medical care and housing being a privilege instead of a right.

I do appreciate the people who have posted Matthew 25 above. I think that says it all.
 
kiwidan said:
And thats a good example. Dependant on the establishment controlled corrupt system where everything becomes a right because in reality it is a privellige.
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So you believe that safe housing and medical care is a privilege? Are you implying that there are some, who are also created in the image and likeness of God, somehow less human? Less deserving?
 
kiwidan said:
No, im saying everyone equally should have the privellige for basic housing and medical without having to be dependant on the system that the government created so people need to be dependant on it.

Why is everyone so dependant on the establishment for everything. It dont matter what it is. Ban this, Rights that. Its where everyone looks for everything and focus's like its some sort of saviour and has all the answer. Jesus is outside the bubble.
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Financially...there is no way churches could fund the needs. I think you're confusing "dependency" with LACK OF money, food, housing, etc. IF businesses would do things like pay people more, offer benefits, if higher education wasn't so expensive, if public transit was better than it is, then maybe people wouldn't be "dependent on the system". However, it is what it is. We are ALL dependent on "the system" whether you realize it or not. The roads, the police, fire, trash collection, street cleaners, mail delivery, stop lights, need I go on?

What is your solution?
 
Housing in some areas of the USA is just too expensive. Unreasonably so. In some places it costs a million dollars for just a modest dwelling. People can't find anything affordable. The US is not a rich nation, only about 10% or so are rich. The rest are just getting by. The bottom 50% not very well.

You tube has videos of people who decided to just dwell in campers full time. Some move to other countries to find affordable prices.
 
Some people prefer being homeless, other prefer jail. Others, even things more bizarre. If a homeless person only has one penny and gives it to the church, it's more than if a rich man has one million dollars and one penny but only gives one million dollars and keeps one penny for himself. Mark 12:41-44
 
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Its amazing how the homeless get nothing but criminals in min prison get a roof over there head, 3 served meals a day, TV, medical care, and access to library and gym.
 
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kiwidan said:
Its amazing how the homeless get nothing but criminals in min prison get a roof over there head, 3 meals a day, TV, medical care, and access to library and gym.
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When I was a teenager, I found myself hitch hiking from Denver to Wa. State. Two cute girls picked me up in Wyoming and dropped me off in Casper where it started raining. I was cold, extremely hungry and extremely tired.
A state patrol pulled over and told me it was illegal to hitch hike and told me to stop or he would put me in jail. I told him I was miserably cold and wet. I hadent eaten a good meal in days nor slept well and jail actually sounded good. I wanted him to arrest me just so i could get out of the weather, get a good meal and some decent sleep.
He looked at me like i was crazy, told me i could walk on the other side of the freeway and then drove off. I was disapointed.

A drunk in a pickup picked me up and took me out to the middle of nowhere on a 2 lane highway and i froze trying to sleep on the gravel shoulder, fearful that a snake would crawl next to me from my heat signature.

I ended up flagging down the first car i saw about 6:30 the next morning. They reluctantly gave me a ride to the interstate about 40 miles away.

To this day, i wish that State Patrol would have arrested me. I am now a huge advocate for programs that help transients.
 
Some clever person over here started a magazine called "The Big Issue". It has different articles in it about current events, community issues etc. and a story and a poem written by homeless people. It usually has the story of a homeless person it too.

Anyone who is homeless and trying to get back on their feet can buy a bundle of these and sell them on the streets. Then they go and buy another bundle. They don't pay the full price for them and keep the profits.

Do you have a similar thing in America? Or what ever country you live in?
 
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