homeless rant

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    I think people need to look up the history of homelessness before they speak. The popular notion is that many homeless people got this way, when they were kicked out of the mental health care facilites during the reagan era.
    Reagan made the point that giving certain individuals free health care in mental facilites wasnt fair and equal to the rest of the population without mental disabilites.

    Many people are homeless because of mental disorder, add that with not having an address, no place to take a shower. How do you suppose they get a job? Who would hire someone who hasn’t bathed in a week and generally looks homeless. What address would you have your checks sent too? How would you open a bank account? Do you have ID to open one with? How would you catch the train to work assuming you wouldnt just sleep outside your job until you got your first paycheck (of course meaning your still homeless)

    Not all homeless people have mental issues, but you have to be cognisent of the history and realites of what your seeing , not just say - its my money and your lazy. Thats just too convienent of an answer, their might be something more behind the story.

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