Reply #17: how many $20 bills your friends hand out. [View All]

I am willing to bet zero.

One of the hard things for me is that when you give people money on the street, more often than not it is going to go for booze or cigarettes. But I still hand out my pocket change in the hopes that it is gonna go to food or anything.

But i think it highlights the point that, there are many reasons people are homeless. And for the most part, the vast majority of republicans could care less. What i find is sad is that many of those homeless people have serious drug and alcohol problems, often mixed with some type of mental illness. And these people end up getting arrested and clog our jails, in which the state has to pay these private prisons to house them.

There just aren't any places for these people to get help. I do not believe my state even has any halfway houses.

You gotta love how the aristocratic republicans like bush, think they are wealthy because they deserve it or got it through hard work. Everyone else is just lazy. I know plenty of people who work tens times harder than those people ever did.