Do You Ever See The Homeless? (88)

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You are very kind. Thank you.

I'm off to London tomorrow to work up until New Year in a shelter which has been set up especially for the Christmas period. The organisation has 9 shelters in central London and they try and provide them with everything they need.

Not only food and warmth but Doctors, Vets to check their pets out, Chiropodists, hairdressers and even entertainment. They also provide councellors and advisers to try and help them get back on their feet.

They have centres the rest of the year but at Christmas they try and make a bigger effort for them..

You know the irony is criminals have shelter, food, and even free schooling, yet Veterans are homeless and hungry. That is what pisses me off.

"....even as you have done unto the least of these..."
I read that somewhere.
How does the rest of it go?
Sometime this week I will buy a bottle of cheap wine and give it to a homeless man.It has become a personal tradition.I never have any trouble finding such a man....

I do and i try to help as much as i could. I will be feeding some of them on christmas day. I have been doing this every year for the past 12 years now and in honor of my mother's memory on her birthday every year on May 12 and on my birthday .


I wish i could do more but i do what i can and when i can.

I see them in Syracuse quite often. I've offered them a job, but they dont want it. One guy told me he made more on a street corner than he would working.

Yes, and I think "there but for the grace of god go I"
It is not up to anyone to judge others, I usually buy a sandwich and a cup of tea and just leave them for the person.

All the major towns and cities here are filled with the the poor, the homeless and the hungry, day and night and their numbers are increasing. It angers me that the system which creates and maintains such high numbers of homless and washes their hands of any and all responsibility over the conditions that create the growing numbers is tolerated by the electorate and politicians who preach that new social conditions are needed to help those less fortunate, but also quietly give encouragement to the corporate world to ignore them in favour of making profits, be it from higher rents, food prices, private health care, low wages etc. It angers me that people can suddenly become homeless just trying to pay their medical bills and lose whatever health insurance they may have had; it angers me that when workers are laid off and their so called social unemployment and welfare rates are so low that many lose their homes; it angers me that the local or provincial government will not help these potentially homeless by freezing their rents or mortgage payments until they are again productively working...it really angers me that in North America that having a home is not a human right as it is now in Europe, thanks to France. So far Scotland has signed that accord, others are making the preparations to do so and be ready to implement it asap when they sign those accords. In the short turn, it will be expensive to implement but with the general EU population, it will be quite cheap to ensure that everyone has a home. Would the US and Canada dare to declare having a home as as 'Human Right'? So far the only country that has scoffed at the idea is England...why am I not surprised... while it may be an individual's choice to be homeless, poor and perhaps hungry, it is not a human right as recognized by any civilized country, nor by the United Nations Charter on Human Rights. The multi-transnational corporations seem bent of creating a future of human impoverishment and degradation. As Fox Mulder once said: "Fight the Future!"
The next time 'we' 'notice' the homeless, just remember: "There but for the Grace of God go I..." (irrespective of your own religion or lack of one...)