Recently I retired from 20+ years in IT. Getting bored and needing a little cash I took a job working in a local homeless shelter. very enlightening. a lot things that fly in the face of the stereotypes. A little more than half the people in the shelter have jobs but for one reason or another were unable to pay the rent. Of course conservatives have cut subsidized housing. Many of the rest are diagnosed as mentally ill. But of course subsidies for that have been cut also. There are no mental institutions any more (except in the movies) so those who do not respond to medication just live on the streets or they come to us and we end up throwing them out for the safety of the other residents since we do not have staff or funding to care for them. Fortunately many DO respond to medication and we can at least give them a bed for a month or two. All I can say is that it is a really messed up society we have created.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:34:39 +0000
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