Re: OT:Thanksgiving

Pete Dashwood wrote:
They just ran a news item here mentioning that the US is preparing to
celebrate Thanksgiving.

Greetings to all concerned. Hope you all have much to be thankful for
and you spend a happy time with families.

They also noted in passing that 800,000 American homeless won't be
enjoying the turkey.

That is a sad thought, but we have all become pretty inured to the
lot of those less fortunate. We feel sorry, do what we can where we
can, but accept that poverty is part of life and an "insoluble"
problem.
The thing that astonished me was that 25% of these homeless are War
Veterans. (Korea, Viet Nam, and Afghanistan and the Gulf)

Surely there must be programs to prevent servicepeople from just being
thrown on the scrapheap? We wouildn't want to do that with ANYONE, but
especially not those who have rendered service to their country and
done their duty as it was called (leaving aside the rights and wrongs
of US foreign policy).

Anyone have any comments on this?

Can/is anything be/ing done?

Most systemic problems in America can be traced to an up-stream liberal
program that failed.

In the case at hand, the institutionalization of the mentally disturbed was
challenged on the grounds that many were not a hazard to themselves or to
society and, therefore, should not be placed in supervised facilities. The
insane asylums were emptied.

Paranoics, Manic-Depressives, and democrats were sent forth to work their
insults upon the masses.

The homeless are homeless because they choose to be homeless. That they
reached this choice - and through it drug addiction, malnutrition, health
failure - through impaired mental processes is an unfortunate consequence of
liberty.

Unfortunately, the influx of the insane in the 60's and 70's was not enough
to provide the liberals with sufficient, long-term, political popularity.
Their current strategy is to re-infranchise those convicted of a felony (in
many jurisdictions, a felony conviction is a life-long prohibition to
voting).

Republicans have to rely on the Roe Effect, but that takes generations.

If your 800,000 no-turkey number is correct, then outreach programs are
doing pretty well.

As to your last question, "Can/is anything be/ing done?" well, no.


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