Most other developed countries don't have a major homelessness problem. Zero other countries have the problem of medical bills driving people to homelessness.
Until we stop voting in the same people who don't do anything to help the poor, nothing will change. It sucks because the rich pay millions to elect other rich people and poor people suffer because the elected rich people aren't looking out for us!
It's not just that, they want even more homeless people in the country. Because then they can gouge employees out of even more money/time/etc. because they will be too afraid/desperate to say no.
Absolutely! We live in a society that rewards wealth hierarchy and the modern equivalent of chattel slavery, simultaneously treats the impoverished with distain despite 60% of Americans making less than $40k a year!
They want renters. Homelessness to them are profit losses because they can’t have wealth extracted from them via rent, they are instead punished. They want you in a house owned by your employer or a corporation, ideally. Everything is endless profit seeking 100% of the time.
But obvious homeless is a marketing strategy to make their workers more desperate at seeing the consequences of not obeying their corporate masters. And it works on multiple levels, as the homeless are a ready-made scapegoat for so much.
The 13th amendment says that enslavement is OK as long as you’ve been convicted of a crime - like being homeless. Ebenezer Scrooge understood how this works.
Fun fact - in the Bible, Sodom and Gomorrah (plus two other cities) were not in fact destroyed for practising homosexuality. They were destroyed destroyed for abuse and violence towards outsiders, and theologians have also noted that they victimised (and criminalised the helping of) the homeless.
Homeless people aren't making money for them. But if they get homes they can longer threaten people with it. So they make it a crime so they get arrested and put in slave prisons so they make money again.
This hits way too close to home, I'm disabled and the last of my family. I have a home but I can't take proper care of it because I physically can't do the work, and can't afford the materials or hiring any workers. My car was repossessed and I've had multiple court dates about my house.
What's worse I think it was actually my case worker at the local branch of my psychiatric care provider that sicked the county on me. All because there's literally no programs in my area to help anyone. Hell I can't even get the county to do something about the packs of dogs that already attacked me
How else would you enslave the people not contributing to billionaires ever increasing wealth.
This country used to have a way that anyone could live a decent life.
As the rich continually hoard obscene levels of wealth, at what point do the people say enough is enough
At what point does it break?
The point is perspective and reality. The post is idiotic - to your point if they dislike something then it must apply equally to all, not just western countries. That poster is an Ignorant SJW that sits around looking for things to complain about instead of being the solution.
Is it that or are they just going to be more outwardly critical about things they have first hand experience with? You can be critical over the issues you see locally and also hold that same space for larger issues that aren't so local. Not everyone has the privilege to be able to travel, friend.
The cartoon conveys an "adding insult to injury" which equates to no help at all for those who are down to no particular fault of their own; I also saw people in their 20s living on the streets and parks of Portland, OR by choice, because of some ideological tweak …
I can imagine myself living in a tent in my early twenties. The idea of having the full amount of first/last/deposit for my own apartment was a laugh. I went the housemate route, but longed for privacy/my own space. Landlord capitalism kicks us all.
What's kicking society is all the 'isms and ideologies ~ living in one's head. It only causes conflict because I just won't make my coffee the way you do 🤣
Suppose we need to give soulful living, from the heart, a try …
Then humanity can live in its potential capacity to self-organize & thrive ~
I try to assume the best of struggling people and push back on folks who are very comfortable and complaining about struggling people. I've been both, and I know that struggling is a lot tougher.
Nah, but you're the one who brought up Liberals, so give us an update on how the Conservative political efforts to resolve the issues of poverty are going.
You're thinking of things terms of only either liberal or conservative. There are more positions out there, and both groups are paid off by the people causing the problem.
Sure, the average california liberal politician wants to push the problem out of sight instead of doing anything radical enough to make a difference because it'd hurt their corporate benefactors. What does this have to do with anything prior?
The implication is that we are criminalizing homelessness, which is true in many cases. But most homeless are mental cases. There is a public safety factor involved. And pointing out that we have poured billions to deal with it, and the same politicians justifying that control are stealing the money
Making them more desperate through the legal system ain't keeping anybody safe. Politicians are just spending on useless bandaids. We can't spend our way out without addressing the real problem, but doing that hurts BlackRock's bottom line, and you can't do that to an $11 trillion corp in America.
I hate how western societies have become overspending demographic pyramid schemes to keep growing the government-corporate bureaucracy at the expense of native-born taxpayers.
Oh good, he’s about to become a productive member. After this, he’ll get arrested, be given a prison sentence for failing to pay a fine, and then loaned out by the prison system to a fast food company to work as a slave for pennies on the dollar.
Its a shame. ppl sent CPS to a woman's apartment on tiktok because her, her husband, and 3 children lived in a studio apartment. My comment was basically: How dare you criminalize people for being poor and i got attacked for that. 🙃
I've seen so much discorse in some childfree groups I'm a part of, I'm always shocked when someone spits the "can't afford em don't have em" line. Like I don't like kids, and I don't want kids but I'm not hating on parents for having them because so many people have no freaking choice in their lives
Now, the people who decide they're gonna have 5+ children I do hate because that's just excessive, unnecessary and irresponsible. But that's mostly directed at my own family.
It truly depends on what environment the children are raised in. Some people can have 13 kids and be wonderful parents. And then the exact opposite can be applied.
Oh i agree. Jail/prison is a racket! They get over 117 dollars a day, per prisoner! Those people then, sit, rot, and do NOT get rehabilitated, they dont get help. And its paid for by the homeless person w/ 3 jobs..
The american governments way of 'keeping up appearances' doesn't work anymore.
What I'm saying is that they're going to round up a bunch of unhoused people to force them to work for free, and it'll start a fight with business owners because their cheap labor is getting stolen by the state and there's no one to do those jobs.
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This is a uniquely American problem.
The Shape I’m In
google the lyrics or better yet listen on YT.
Speaks to this .
Heartless vile greed runs governments
This country used to have a way that anyone could live a decent life.
As the rich continually hoard obscene levels of wealth, at what point do the people say enough is enough
At what point does it break?
course i'd think that's bad, nobody should be getting beat up
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Suppose we need to give soulful living, from the heart, a try …
Then humanity can live in its potential capacity to self-organize & thrive ~
Where would we BE without your guidance
I just didn't see what that had to do with the comic, since it didn't appear they were making an opposing point.
However, the gentle I was responding was all to happy to ascribe something as 'Liberal'.
So easy to create poverty villages.
But what those villages look like governed by the religious zealot rich
And what those villages look like with minimalists who put natural resources and education at the helm.
Idk i have to be hopeful. Why not
CPS finally told them it's better than not living anywhere.
But CPS tried to get me to LEAVE the hotel and go to the shelter where they would split me from my son because he was 13. Like that's better.
They don't realize how many homeless people have 2 or 3 jobs, but they're about to find out.
The american governments way of 'keeping up appearances' doesn't work anymore.