“Homelessness, Who’s Next?”
The most shocking sight to see is children living right here in the richest nation in the world and in some of the richest neighborhoods homeless and starving. Is our country putting more of our families at risk of becoming homeless and at the brink of poverty? Unfortunately 3.5 million people, 39% are children, currently experience homelessness, and it’s moving across the United States. Hunger and starvation is increasing not just for adults but for our children as well. Some facts about homeless youth; when it comes to contracting HIV the homeless youth is ten times more likely the higher risk. Runaway females living homeless on the streets account for a tenth of the homeless and are reportedly pregnant. This year out of the 260 runaways and homeless youth on the streets of our cities will die from assault, some illness and or suicide. We need to make a change, “Homelessness, Who’s Next?”
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Like George Bush's, “Thousand Points of Light,” charities are supposed to take up the slack and take people off the street. Yet we find that many charities, while professing to be nonprofit, have expensive hierarchical structures with high paid executives and advertising to siphon off whatever funds are gathered for the people on the street.
The only real safeguard is for the government to step in and not allow capitalism to fuel greed, only innovation and goodwill. Greedy owners and their henchmen should be prosecuted for what they are––thieves. They should be taxed progressively for their gains and restricted in their excess, so that jobs will be available for those wishing to work.
There'll always be those with mental problems who will choose to be on the street, but those are few compared to those that are compelled by society's indifference.
It will happen or there will be a major revolution between the rich and the poor.
Ron