the homeless
"While there is a man that sleeps in the mud, how can there be another that sleeps in golden bed?" -Jose Marti
While Billions are Spent Overseas on Occupation
By: Jay Shaft---Coalition For Free Thought In Media
As I watch far away images of body bags being filled, I see much closer images of bodies. I went by a local park the other day and it looked like a concentration camp crossed with a mass murder scene.
There were people in rags and covered with filth lying scattered all over the place. At least twenty people were on crutches, had parts bandaged, or with open wounds not even covered. They were all hungry and a large majority was sick.
All around this city I live in, and nationwide, the level of homelessness and poverty is growing alarmingly. From the last counts and estimates nation wide, there has been at least a 35-45% increase in homelessness and poverty. The increases have come over the last two years with the biggest increases being in 2002 and especially in the first six months of 2003.
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We got some records though...
WE GOT THE BEST EDUCATED HOMELESS IN THE WORLD!!!
The homeless are everywhere: parks, beaches, scenic places, romantic hideaways, libraries... The powerful, safe and comfortable in their exclusive neighborhoods, ignore them; the average family, turned down by their presence, is kept away from out better places... We can safely say: America got the best educated homeless in the world!!!
THE PROBLEM
(Source: Homelessness in the United States: A Policy Analysis, by
Jessica P. Wilkins)
An ideal proposal also gets to the root of the homelessness problem.
Some proposals try and deal with the symptoms of homelessness, such as
building the homeless more shelters or allowing them to loiter in parks
and other public places, but these proposals really do nothing to combat
the true problem. Instead of dealing with the symptoms of homelessness,
an ideal proposal would deal with the actual problem by trying to help
the homeless escape from their current condition.
A SOLUTION (Curitiba, Brazil)
Under the "garbage that's not garbage" program, 70% of the city's trash
is recycled by its residents. Once a week, a truck collects paper,
cardboard, metal, plastic and glass that has been sorted in the city's
homes. The city's paper recycling alone saves the equivalent of 1,200
trees a day. As well as the environmental benefits, money raised from
selling materials goes into social programs, and *the city employs the
homeless and recovering alcoholics* in its garbage separation plant.
***Don't give them the fish (or worse, ignore them) but teach them how to fish!***
This is my proposal...
'The homeless, who now occupy our better parks, should be incorporated into light but necessary duties, like picking up litter, in exchange for a decent wage; there should be no homeless. (Again, Curitiba is a model on this.)'
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