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BushOut06

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Fri Dec-08-06 03:28 PM
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12. Speaking as one who used to be homeless and depended on those kitchens to eat...

They weren't always clean. Once in awhile, we would see a rat somewhere in the shelter. But it was our home. It was a place where we knew we could get a warm meal - and usually a pretty damned good one at that. The people that ran the shelter were truly trying to help people. Under those types of laws, this place would have been shut down, and we would have had NOWHERE to eat. Which probably would have some of us to turn to crime in desperation, in order to secure basic needs.

When I hear stuff like this, it must makes me sick. Most people have no friggin clue what it's like to be truly down on your luck, homeless and unemployed.

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