Homelessness

What is homelessness? It is sleeping rough. It is a condition where people are unable to maintain a regular, safe and adequate housing. They lost a fixed nighttime residence. Sad, very sad, indeed.There is a new wave of homeless people of men, women, and families. They moved out to the streets,their cars, or the homeless shelters because they lost their income. That is right! They lost their incomes because of the recession, housing foreclosures and high unemployment. What can be the cause of this problem??? Greed and love of money for businesses. Why is that? The businesses want more profits generated! How can they accomplish their goal? Outsourcing jobs! A lot of jobs were sent overseas because the pay is peanuts!!!!You cannot blame the business, because you will do the same if you are them!!!! Am I right?? Maybe, but if you have compassion, you will feel the pain of your workers, and will think twice before outsourcing jobs!How many times have I called a large company, only to be talking to someone in India! That is right! India!!!! Wouldn't that be more expensive since it is thousands of miles away from here??? That is why, there is a place in India that is like a city in Florida. The houses are well manufactured, complete with grass and other things that we have here! You will say, that is good! Spread the wealth around!!! That is good, but we should take care of our own first, on our own backyard. Right???? The employees that the companies hired in India were all young people, not "old foggies." Ha! Ha! Ha! I cannot believe you said that! Anyway, some of these young people said that with the rate they are going, they can retire at age 40!!! Wow!!! People in the states cannot even afford to retire at age 70!!! Now, back to homelessness.....Do you know that the greatest percentage of homeless people are in Los Angeles, New York and Detroit? And majority of these people are men and families with children! The local churches sometimes take turns in housing the homeless two weeks at a time, which is good. At these two weeks, they have decent food and they can take showers. But after that, what? Back to the streets!!!There is also a growing number of homelessness on elderly Americans. This year, there were over 44,000 homeless. Why is that? Some lost their savings in the stock market, others are relying just on social security, which is not much. Around 2.6% of Americans over the age of 65 is living in extreme poverty! That does not sound right! Of course it does not sound right! These people have worked hard all their life just to live miserably on their golden years?? What do you think should be done with homelessness? The government, with the help of the very wealthy can help alleviate the problem. But the wealthy are too busy increasing their wealth and the politicians are too engrossed with their own agenda! They do not give a damn about homeless people!!! Oh, Oh!!! What do you guys think? Am I right or not????I wrote to a local politician about my concern with this problem. Did I get a response? Of course not! It went to deaf ears!!!! I knew I will be ignored, but I tried anyway. Nothing to lose by trying!How could America, the greatest and wealthiest country in the world have problem about homelessness? We are so busy with the entire world, that we forget our own backyard! If the higher ups look around their surroundings, and see what is wrong, maybe something will be done! Unless, there is a different agenda around the globe by the powerful and elite about the citizens of the whole world????
Posted by vs at 4/7/2010 7:52 AM Add Comme