Why do we ignore the homeless?

I'm curious about something. What was the point? Was he trying to raise awareness about the plight of the homeless? And did people actually offer him food and a place to sleep?

QP

 

But there is no such thing. Welfare (for the deserving poor) is very much a thing of the past. Reagan and Dubya made it their purpose in life to snatch welfare away from the poor - and hand it over to the corporate world. I have a friend that would be on the streets (along with her five year old son) if she had only "government handouts" to live on.

She was diagnosed with a small brain tumor, and eventually could no longer work. She was able to receive food stamps, but has repeatedly been denied SSI benefits. She even got a lawyer, and still has been denied. Twice. If not for her mother's help, she and her child would be just 2 more homeless people on the street. And she paid taxes for ten years.

QP

 

He was copying the journey of someone from the 1800s I think, where a vicar had left his town and travelled over the moors relying on the kindness of others for the weeks he was away.

He did get food and a place to sleep, although as he had a camera crew with him, it's hardly the same. It was debated afterwards as to whether he would have received the same treatment had he been alone.

 

Don't be too harsh on Rugged Individual, Jack. Remember, as the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

History of the Work Ethic

 

Ah, now I get it. I think you're right about the camera crew - unless people are kinder to the homeless where you live. In America, he'd have been tossed in jail. And the whole thing would have been filmed for entertainment purposes.

QP

 

Except that Individual is an atheist.

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What about being culturally inculcated?

 

good point, his views are straight from the Southern Baptist Convention.

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Please don't take it as a national insult, but most Americans I have met are brainwashed, even if it is subconsciously, with what I call Christianazi values.

 

Sometimes I wish I did- its just it can get a bit much if you do help out in some ways...

Equal balance, you cant help everyone & some play on your goodness but if people helped the odd person out now and again the world would be a better place!

 

Many Westerners are indoctrinated with the Middle Eastern Disease, however far more Americans are infected with their peculiar brand of it, that truly is the Taliban version of Christinsanity.

 

I just gave $10, to an homeless guy this afternoon after buying wipes adn diapers at the store.

every little bit of time, or even saying hi is worth it. I used to be homeless and I wish more people had cared back then. It was a hard life.

 

That is pretty much true, but to be fair, all nations indoctrinate, all Christians aren't bad and all Americans don't buy into the "brainwashing."

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You seem like a very generous person. I agree that being homeless is a hard life. In fact, it's much harder than a full time job. Only the strong survive the streets. So how did you manage to turn your life around? Higher education is the only thing that saved me. :sunny:

QP

 

Not all Christians are evil: I have a lot of respect for Thomas Merton and Mother Teresa. However, I understand your point. I have been damned straight to hell (for being gay) by more than one Christian fundamentalist. But there are other churches which warmly embrace gays and lesbians. So I've taught myself to be selective. Big time.

QP

 

let's all just agree that twelve pages in, we are doing anything but ignoring the homeless

 

Then you are saying that illegal immigrants fare better than U.S. citizens NOT because they depend on government but because they have developed a culture in which they help one another? This is no longer the American way.
Cats are quite proud and independent creatures, and sometimes display the prey they capture not as a gift but to demonstrate their prowess. Animals are quite greedy and often appear to be sharing only because they have lost interest or filled their stomachs. Just watching the three macaques that live with us is quite revealing of the similarity between human and other primates and the perceived frailties related to moral reasoning.
While only an opinion, it appears that the more government becomes involved in interaction between individual citizens, the less effort citizens put forth except in looking to government to do more.
Most any complex problem, including governing can be solved by the use of the tactic "divide et impera", although in governing the results may only be temporary rather than permanent in solution.

 

Taxes aren't insurance.
The example is but one unique case, of which there are many both pro and con that individuals closest to the situation are in a better position than government to determine needs and work towards seeing they are met.
An enormous amount of help could be provided where needed by just eliminating the operating costs of government programs set up to provide that help.

 

Once, while on a trip to Sunnyvale, California I noticed a number of "homeless" people living under a bridge. Curiously they had TV's and refrigerators, and had tapped into the power lines.

A major question I have is WHY are there homeless people, and I think it is irrational to believe there is a single answer to that question applicable to all. I know of one person, a friend who served with me in the military, and worked for NASA who became homeless for a number of years living in the forest in Oregon or Idaho. He came out and found work again a few years ago, but it was by choice that he remained homeless.

 

I said that

So I say, seeing as our Christian dominated society condemns ALL atheists, Communists, Nazis - in fact ALL non-believers - as evil sinners, to be fair we should strictly follow suit.

Only when we hold them collectively accountable for their superciliously insulting, misanthropic, apartheid promoting Weltanschauung, will they start distancing themselves from the essence of their sense of superiority, the Kike's :hide: Mein Kampf, the Bible.

If lock-step political correctness keeps us tolerating these imbecilic rent-a-mind mimes, between the rabidly reactionary Bible, and its insane spin-off the Koran, there is an excellent chance of seeing these feeble-minded arsehole's longed for Armmagedon in our lifetime.