I hate posting pictures like these. Believe me, there IS more on my mind (besides apparently exploiting homeless people). In fact a lot actually runs through my mind when I see people reduced to sleeping on the subway like this. The first thought is usually " how is it that the country that is supposed to be the greatest and richest country on the planet has people out there living on the subway?"
The next thought is centered around how we could help people displaced like this, and when I realize that aside from an occasional handout we really can't do much then my thoughts move on to how much I hate politics. Republicans and Democrats alike. Conservatives generally more than anything. I have argued long and hard that the current philosophy does not and cannot work. Not everyone can hold down a job. A lot of us can't make it on wages we currently earn. There HAS to be a law addressing affordable wages.
That leads to my next thought, which is how angry I am that people bought into the welfare reform years ago. The have not's allowed jealousy to prevail and let them think that welfare recipients were all lazy and instead of creating jobs where people would clean parks, etc., we had them do manual labor for a tiny welfare check. The bottom line today there are more documented homeless children than there were ten years ago and I know I see more homeless people of all races today than I did during the 1990s. Someone suckered the American people into endorsing an ideal that only benefitted a small percentage. Furthermore, the same cruel reform that was implemented ended up hurting folks during the recession where millions lost their homes.
Even now my thoughts are scattered, but it centers around anger and anger directed at greed and insensitivity.
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