Originally posted by cluck
I don't think many homeless people choose to be homeless. It's easy to say anyone can work their way up but that's simply not true, especially in this Bush economy. It'd be nice if the government would create jobs in the US(possibly make foreign sweatshop labor illegal?). When you have nothing it's pretty hard to get money. Go visit an urban area and you'll see that even if the people find work, they're constantly in debt for the things they need.
I don't think many homeless people choose to be homeless. It's easy to say anyone can work their way up but that's simply not true, especially in this Bush economy. It'd be nice if the government would create jobs in the US(possibly make foreign sweatshop labor illegal?). When you have nothing it's pretty hard to get money. Go visit an urban area and you'll see that even if the people find work, they're constantly in debt for the things they need.
Bush's economy? My family lost it's business during Clinton's economy when the economy was supposedly so good. I saw the decline start in the early 90s and the internet boom is the only thing that temporarily perked anything up.
Any person who is not disabled, can go get a minimum wage job, get a crappy apartment and make themselves not homeless. Poverty in the US might not be appealing, but it is nothing like poverty in other countries, where they live in slums and have no sanitation. At poverty level in the US, you can still have food and water everyday, electricity, heat, TV, radio and so many other things, that don't even exist in 3rd world countries, on top of ways to better your situation. No one "chooses" to be homeless, but they do choose to remain that way.
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