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What should be done about homeless children dying on the streets?

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DCal430

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More and more we are seeing homeless families with children. Often times the young cannot tolerate the homeless lifestyle and end up dead in a ditch, or some back alley. Shouldn't something be done to help keep a shelter over these families head and food and clean water in their mouths.
 
Perhaps you could link up a stat listing the number of homeless children dying in ditches......because I don't believe this actually happens to any significant degree. I think that if this troubles you enough, you should put your money where your mouth is and donate your money and time to this worthy cause instead or whining about it but doing nothing..........
 
DCal430 said:
More and more we are seeing homeless families with children. Often times the young cannot tolerate the homeless lifestyle and end up dead in a ditch, or some back alley. Shouldn't something be done to help keep a shelter over these families head and food and clean water in their mouths.
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You could open up your home, if you feel this is a great problem.
 
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

As Ronald Reagan said, "What homeless?" Grind them up for fertilizer. Problem solved.
 
DCal430 said:
More and more we are seeing homeless families with children. Often times the young cannot tolerate the homeless lifestyle and end up dead in a ditch, or some back alley. Shouldn't something be done to help keep a shelter over these families head and food and clean water in their mouths.
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We should elect Obama! That would never happen during his reign!
 
They should be taken to the morgue and buried in a pine box?

I've not seen any kids dying on the streets in months though. Where are you seeing them?
 
Nebor said:
They should be taken to the morgue and buried in a pine box?

I've not seen any kids dying on the streets in months though. Where are you seeing them?
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In my city they at least have the courtesy of going to an alleyway first. If they have the strength to climb into a dumpster as well, it saves us all time and money.
 
Nebor said:
They should be taken to the morgue and buried in a pine box?

I've not seen any kids dying on the streets in months though. Where are you seeing them?
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I recommend the South Bronx. Lots of squatters and 31 out of 32 buildings burnt to the ground to collect the insurance. The kids look real peaceful and almost happy when they're dead.

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Here is what we will do:
*Not donate to charity
*Not volunteer at homeless shelters
*Bitch about it on internet forums full of fellow partisan hacks
*Vote (D)
*Make the rich (defined as everyone that makes more than we do) pay more in taxes
*Prevent drug testing of welfare recipients (in the name of privacy)
*Encourage those that cannot afford kids to have more kids via various social welfare programs in the name of "think of the children"
 
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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Interesting how America has changed in the 130-odd years. Maybe they should tear the statue down, or give it to some other country more worthy of the symbol.
 
Mr. Pedantic said:
Interesting how America has changed in the 130-odd years. Maybe they should tear the statue down, or give it to some other country more worthy of the symbol.
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130 year ago when someone came the US they worked their asses off to make a life here. There were no food stamps, section 8 housing, and welfare back then. Surely if you want to go back in time 130 years of social policies you'll have a lot of taxpayers on your side.
 
Mr. Pedantic said:
Interesting how America has changed in the 130-odd years. Maybe they should tear the statue down, or give it to some other country more worthy of the symbol.
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We could just move it to the Mexican boarder. The pollution in Mexico city is really bad so the part about "yearning to breath free" would still make sense.
 
Down here all I see are beggars looking to get beer and cigarette money. They claim to be hungry but can afford a $6 pack of cigarettes.
 
130 year ago when someone came the US they worked their asses off to make a life here. There were no food stamps, section 8 housing, and welfare back then. Surely if you want to go back in time 130 years of social policies you'll have a lot of taxpayers on your side.
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I would think that it is harder now to find appropriate work for an unskilled workforce than it was back then. I'm not an expert on the topic, but given the whole outsourcing thing, as well as increase in mechanization, worker efficiency, etc. I would not be surprised if this were true.
 
Mr. Pedantic said:
Interesting how America has changed in the 130-odd years. Maybe they should tear the statue down, or give it to some other country more worthy of the symbol.
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Some anti-immigration advocates think the statue is a curse. Given its current immigration policies, America is very very worthy of the statue. It's a shame that mass immigration advocates don't have an understanding of simple supply-demand economics. Otherwise they might understand that adding millions of poor people each year to a nation that already has tens of millions of poor and underemployed people increases the amount of poverty and misery in this country.
 
Mr. Pedantic said:
I would think that it is harder now to find appropriate work for an unskilled workforce than it was back then. I'm not an expert on the topic, but given the whole outsourcing thing, as well as increase in mechanization, worker efficiency, etc. I would not be surprised if this were true.
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Uh, it's also difficult for a highly-educated and skilled workforce to find appropriate work as well. A huge number of college graduates--even people with high-fallutin' science PhDs, law degrees, and MBAs end up unemployed or underemployed-and-involuntarily-out-of-field while being burdened with large amounts of student loan debt. (In other words, contrary to popular belief and what free market dogmatists might believe, it is very possible to have a large oversupply of ambitious, otherwise hard-working college-educated people.) See:

Why Did 17 Million People Go to College?

From Wall Street to Wal-Mart: Why College Graduates Are Not Getting Good Jobs
 
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