netizencain: You don't have to emulate to have empathy. Dumbass needs to get back work.

However it is the only way to really research the subject at hand.

There's a homeless demographic that can be exploited?

Yep another dip shiat politician trying to pretend he gives a flying fark.

If you want to help the homeless pass out free bottles of malt liquor

way better then the politicians and "volunteers" who take part in these events where they dont even try to hide who they are and have a security detail following them the whole time

He spent years building resistance to iocane powder Colt 45, but knew it could all come crashing down after a few OE's

This person is exploiting a minority in order to manipulate the masses. Yeah, I'm sure he's a politician.

Approves

/kinda

I would guess that the largest thing the government could do to help the homeless would be to increase funding for mental health services. So many people are homeless due to inability to work or even manage simple home economics due to mental illness, perhaps even the majority.

old news.

Carlin got it right (new window)

Hero tag above being mentioned with a homeless shelter?

My roommate was 'outdoor homeless' till last year. He was 'indoor homeless' (city mission) till a few months ago.

Saturday my church is gonna go look for some outdoor homeless & distribute clothes & food. Was hoping to give tobacco, but we're short on cash. I'm hoping we can get food allotments from the Department of Agriculture. I need to look into that.

You don't have to put on makeup to go to a shelter. Just tell them you've just lost everything.

You also don't have to trick the shelter into taking you to do research. That'll leave someone else outdoors that night. Stop by & talk to the guys. Go to the coffee shops & libraries around the shelters. Look for guys picking up butts & say hello. 's not difficult.

TFA said he called 25 shelters, but couldn't get in because of eligibility. It's not like that here (Buffalo, NY). There's church sponsored shelters that don't require insurance. Though the state will pay for some of the beds. But we're in NY. That's why we're taxed twice as much as anywhere else, for things like this. Also, there's VA homeless veterans programs.

Then there's the very mentally ill that are ejected from the shelters (outdoor homeless). I heard there's about 1000 of them here.

Lord Dimwit: I would guess that the largest thing the government could do to help the homeless would be to increase funding for mental health services. So many people are homeless due to inability to work or even manage simple home economics due to mental illness, perhaps even the majority.

Clearly you've spent time as an undercover homeless person to reach this brilliant conclusion.

/Actually I couldn't agree with you more.
//Care not cash!

Good.

More and next?

You can bail out banks and cars, but not our own farking citizens?

Whatever, man. Our society's priorities are mixed up right now.

Unmix your mind and move.

Thank you.

;)

metamax: Yep another dip shiat politician trying to pretend he gives a flying fark.

Except that he's been pushing to help the homeless every chance he gets his whole political career.

Phony_Soldier: This person is exploiting a minority in order to manipulate the masses

If you read up on what he did he did it to show that for many of those in homeless shelters they're pretty much no help for them. Indeed he's trying to do the very opposite of exploiting them.

Felix_T_Cat: Saturday my church is gonna go look for some outdoor homeless & distribute clothes & food.

question.... where are they supposed to store the clothes?

kvinesknows: Felix_T_Cat: Saturday my church is gonna go look for some outdoor homeless & distribute clothes & food.

question.... where are they supposed to store the clothes?

Sunday the church is giving out armoires.

As someone who knows this guy (Gov. Codey) I'm getting a kick...

Codey is really that rarest of a rare breed: a politician interested in genuine public service. Dare I use the word, he's a statesman. He's smart, compassionate, and very popular because he cares about people. He also knows how to get things done; he's a master of the art of compromise at a time when that is a strangely dirty word.

He hasn't yet run for governor because he doesn't want to expose his family to the muckraking.

I understand the snark in some of these comments, but in his case it really doesn't apply. He's the real deal.

Lord Dimwit: kvinesknows: Felix_T_Cat: Saturday my church is gonna go look for some outdoor homeless & distribute clothes & food.

question.... where are they supposed to store the clothes?

Sunday the church is giving out armoires.

This is funny,

;)

Personally, I thought it was a good way to actually understand what it's like to be in someone else's shoes. Can we clone him and put him in other states too? Maybe some good will get accomplished.

/smitty
//First green ever!
///slashies

ltdanman44: Carlin got it right (new window)

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I've never seen that before. It precisely summarizes how I feel about golf. I would add, in addition to building low cost housing on golf courses, we could make better use of our six lane highways. Take two lanes, build a super efficient rail line. Reserve a lane for a buffer between the rail line and the remaining lanes. Dedicate the last three lanes two housing.

Some people are really attached to their cars. If the above is not acceptable, I'm willing to compromise: two lanes for the passenger rail line, two lanes for cars, one buffer lane, one strip of town homes or apartments in the remaining lane. I think that's reasonable.

If only a politician in Georgia could be persuaded to go undercover and learn what it's really like to be homeless, that would be encouraging.

TapDancingTamarin: Personally, I thought it was a good way to actually understand what it's like to be in someone else's shoes. Can we clone him and put him in other states too? Maybe some good will get accomplished.

/smitty
//First green ever!
///slashies

We can, but only if you agree to never use the word "personally" ever again, forever.

I mean it.

Forever.

If you agree to that, we will do what you require...

;)

Lord Dimwit: kvinesknows: Felix_T_Cat: Saturday my church is gonna go look for some outdoor homeless & distribute clothes & food.

question.... where are they supposed to store the clothes?

Sunday the church is giving out armoires.

on?

Hmmm got me thinking. The guy and his team are a bunch of bastards.

Why did they need make up to look homeless? Who is really guilty of stereotyping? Is he gonna use blackface to investigate racial discrimination?

MBooda: old news.
www.audiobooksonline.com

Even older than that.....



like Buddha old.

All the homeless will love him, except that one guy who got turned away from the Salvation Army that one time because some politician wanted to slum it.

I've been semi-homeless before. I crashed on friends couches and slept in my car sometimes. They wouldn't let me apply for benefits without an address. I went to a homeless shelter, but I've got pretty bad OCD and I freaked out and left. What was my solution? I was able to get student loans and live in the dorms instead. I got pretty lousy grades because I wasn't properly medicated yet, and I ran up a huge debt that I'll never be able to pay off, but it kept a roof over my head long enough for me to get on one of those 'Pharmaceutical Company X Gives a ****' programs. I got through college but never was able to make it in the work force. Eventually I ended up on disability with crushing loans that they won't forgive but that I'm below the minimum income for repayment on. It's a good thing too, because I had to give up my spacious 4-door for a 25 year old 2 door that gets me to doctors appointments but is harder to stretch out in... so I'm getting a kick out of this thread.

Indubitably: Good.

More and next?

You can bail out banks and cars, but not our own farking citizens?

Whatever, man. Our society's priorities are mixed up right now.

Unmix your mind and move.

Thank you.

;)

I was a business student during the financial collapse and bailouts of 07-08. I was also a drunkard and a pothead; but if I remember correctly, the bailouts for the "big banks" and autos were a bailout for the citizens. Many people stood to lose alot if these industries were to entirely collapse. It would have set off a chain of very bad events. People were going to lose alot of their retirement money in 401(k)s--way worse then what they already had lost. If the auto industry were to collapse, it would fark alot of people. Everyone down the supply chain would suffer-not just the factory workers who build the cars but also everyone that provides support services to the auto industry. For example: the the suppliers to the auto companies, the people that ship these parts, the human resources people that work throughout these industries, the janitors who clean the soon to be empty factories and offices, people that sell paper to these offices, the list goes on and on and on. I'm too stoned to keep thinking. Don't get me wrong, I think the goverment is a big dick, but in short I think the citizens did get a bailout. But what do I know? I'm just a coffee shop...

/ sorry for poor attempt to reference a pulp fiction line in that last sentence.

Felix_T_Cat: Lord Dimwit: kvinesknows: Felix_T_Cat: Saturday my church is gonna go look for some outdoor homeless & distribute clothes & food.

question.... where are they supposed to store the clothes?

Sunday the church is giving out armoires.

on?

you sick farks! I cant believe you are going to force the homeless to get naked in front of you... Can I watch?

"I hate the Homeless"

(flips card)

"ness problem that plagues our city."

Of course it was politically motivated, but that doesn't change the fact that it was a good thing to do. Multiple recent studies have shown that the "upper class" have a true problem feeling empathy, and it's not because they're all psychopaths (though I'm sure a good deal are, afterall that superficial glibness and manipulative quality really flies in that arena), but just because they have never known real hardship. It's hard to fathom something you have no concept of whatsoever. Hearing that man say to him he's "lucky" because he can sleep on a bus to stay warm is exactly what most politicians need - they're used to hearing people complaining, but something like that has a much more visceral impact.