It's unbelievable isn't it? You give voice to the injustice and suffering in the world and that too very eloquently. Thank you so much for writing to the prompt!❤️
So astute. There's one city route here that goes past a highway overpass with a cardboard city of homeless beneath, and in a short while takes one to plush hotels and valet parking. It certainly makes one question our values, doesn't it?
I troubles me deeply to see homeless in such dire distress. The only positive is I live in a smallish city that seems to care more than most. And takes positive action whenever and wherever possible.
I think it's the perception (at least in the US) that those homeless people who can be helped, are being helped, by the Welfare State, and their "mental problems" are beyond our ability to solve. In some cases this is even true.
Solutions? From where I am, the need seems to be to get the majority of Americans (who are what some currently want to call "ultra-conservative," or what I still think of as moderate) to recognize poverty as something *we* solve, not by abandoning people to a Welfare State that may do them more harm than good, but by reintegrating them back into the local independent economy of a healthy, free community. With some of "the homeless" population, this is not possible. Some homelessness is caused by poverty, some by dementia. Poverty can be cured.
So true, Rall, and so sad.
ReplyDeleteIt's unbelievable isn't it? You give voice to the injustice and suffering in the world and that too very eloquently. Thank you so much for writing to the prompt!❤️
ReplyDeletePresumably we try not to see them lest one day we might be in the same predicament.
ReplyDeletePavement is hard but, clearly, SOME hearts are harder. Pray/work for change.
ReplyDeleteSadly true.
ReplyDeleteA hard hitting truth for us all to ponder , rather to act upon.
ReplyDeleteSo astute. There's one city route here that goes past a highway overpass with a cardboard city of homeless beneath, and in a short while takes one to plush hotels and valet parking. It certainly makes one question our values, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteI troubles me deeply to see homeless in such dire distress. The only positive is I live in a smallish city that seems to care more than most. And takes positive action whenever and wherever possible.
ReplyDeleteTrue, unfortunately.
ReplyDeleteHeartbreaking truth
ReplyDeleteOne human sleeping homeless, hungry in the cold is an indictment against all humanity. And yet... and yet...
ReplyDeleteI think it's the perception (at least in the US) that those homeless people who can be helped, are being helped, by the Welfare State, and their "mental problems" are beyond our ability to solve. In some cases this is even true.
ReplyDeleteSolutions? From where I am, the need seems to be to get the majority of Americans (who are what some currently want to call "ultra-conservative," or what I still think of as moderate) to recognize poverty as something *we* solve, not by abandoning people to a Welfare State that may do them more harm than good, but by reintegrating them back into the local independent economy of a healthy, free community. With some of "the homeless" population, this is not possible. Some homelessness is caused by poverty, some by dementia. Poverty can be cured.