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Originally Posted by Burky
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This is like the beginning of the either the best or worst story of all time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burky
You should do stand up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Saint of Killers
So driving down University Avenue today, I see more homeless dudes as usual populating the intersections, but something different caught my eye. A bunch of other people were standing around picketing the homeless guys. Their signs read "Honk if you Hate Bums!" , "There are over 10,000 available jobs in FL , get one you lazy bums!" etc. and they were giving homeless guys applications and pamphlets for the Unemployment Center. Someone told me that he saw one of the homeless guys get a bit violent, ripping up applications,yelling and stuff. Sounds like these picketers also got burned donating to the "Buy-a-LazyGuy-A PS2-Memory-Card" fund....
I buy food for homeless people when I go to NYC.
I call bullshit on the "most homeless people are batshit insane" card you keep pulling.Quote:
Originally Posted by Saint of Killers
Call bullshit all you like, but you can look at the records to see that something in the range of 60% of the nation's homeless are, or have been patients at government community mental health centers, which have been severely underfunded and inadequately staffed since the early 1980's.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpoDaddy
In most cases, this involves their doctor or case worker attempting to track them down for what usually turns into an hour-long session, and possibly a pitiful (by 1970s standards) allowance if they have the funding, and then turning them loose again for another month or year. These are the same people who used to be in fucking sanitariums 24/7.
nah, most aren't mentally ill, they just like the outdoors alot.
They're spies for the Rat King.
750,000 Dirty Bums!!!!!
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WASHINGTON - The nation has three-quarters of a million homeless people, filling emergency shelters through the year and spilling into special seasonal shelters in the coldest months, the government said Wednesday.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development estimated there were 754,000 homeless people in 2005, including those living in shelters, transitional housing and on the street. That's about 300,000 more people than available beds in shelters and transitional housing.
The report is the government's latest attempt to count people who are notoriously difficult to track. The estimate is similar to one by an advocacy group in January...
...Among the findings for people in shelters and transitional housing:
_Nearly half were single adult men.
_Nearly a quarter were minors.
_Less than 2 percent were older than 65.
_About 59 percent were members of minority groups.
_About 45 percent were black.
_About a quarter had a disability, though experts said the percentage is probably much higher.
The Urban Institute recently did a study on homeless people in Santa Monica, Calif., and found only 6 percent of those using services for the homeless did not have a mental illness or a substance abuse problem, said Martha Burt, a researcher at the institute.