Originally posted on 04/09/2018:

Quote Originally Posted by eidolon View Post
I help out at a local transitional home/resource center, and one of the new programs is helping people that are chronically homeless (can never stay in housing); they get put to the top of the list of government plans to help low and no income individuals. So once they get their 1 bedroom apartment, they will be receiving free resources that equal to about $14,000 a year. Kinda of bullshit if you ask me; minimum wage is $10/hour, and the people working those jobs 40 hours a week only pull in $18,000 a year. So basically they are working 40 hours a week to receive $4000 dollars a year more than someone who is doing nothing.
What a lot of you fail to realize is that many of these people are older disabled veterans, people with mental health issues, former military with PTSD or some other disability that prevents them from being able to function in a normal work environment. Some are literally poor souls who are down on their luck due to economic crisis, divorced parent with kids, elderly victims of scams that wipe out their life savings, and yes, recovering addicts too.

Homeless is a serious problem in our country and an issue that's not going away anytime soon, if fact it's getting worse. And the sad part is, our government could devote move resources to solve this problem, but its often left up to local underfunded charities, outreach volunteer groups and churches.

Our tax dollars are pissed away on politicians who fly in private jets, take vacations and call them "conferences", wasted on wars, bloated defense contracts and dumb fuk trump's border wall. All the while, veterans wait months to be seen in dilapidated VA hospitals, our infrastructure of bridges in major cities are crumbling and in danger of collapse, and children go to sleep hungry.

Tax breaks for the wealthy don't trickle down shit to the low income and homeless.

If Las Vegas donated 1% of the profits they made last year, they could house and feed every homeless person there. The tent cities would disappear in a day. But that's too easy a solution, it's cheaper to let people live on the streets and in underground sewers.