This woman is stranded in Greece and looks into one deep abyss. Her baby looks well-fed and she looks like she wears nice things with the gold wedding band but where is her husband. She has been on the road for a while and you can see her dirty fingernails plus the importance of hanging tight to a roll of toilet paper.
Who knows what she has been through to get to this point or whatever has become of her clothes or possessions. Right now she holds tightest to her baby and a roll of toilet paper.
And people are afraid of her. She knows that but she doesn't understand it as she's just a kid trying to get along. Crazy people keep bombing her family so what is she supposed to do. Go back to that?
Do you want to tell her that? I don't.
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We see refugees is this country on the streets every day if we look. Who are they? Many lose their health. Then they lose their jobs. Then they lose their homes. Soon like this woman they are homeless. What they hold onto and try not to lose is their dignity. However, after a while they've been down so long that down looks like up to them. Can we say no or turn them away. We do every day. After working in the worst parts of cities throughout this country for 30 years, I did not see any improvement for them. Only an increase every year in their numbers.
I've been living it for five years of a steady plunge and there isn't any recovery from it. If anything whatsoever goes wrong then I'm on the street again with nothing. That's an unlikely play but it's not at all impossible.
A big part of life is finding any kind of dignity in it when you're not worth a pile of fresh road kill to most on the planet and, in the current climate, only a rare few will do anything whatsoever to help. That's probably not the same in Europe because America is, by far, the cheapest developed nation on the planet. It will give up benefits to some but it will make you grovel for them and will damn sure shame you for taking anything. References to 'welfare bums' are a dime a dozen in the popular press.
Thirty years goes back to the start of Reaganomics and I would not have expected to see an improvement all this time because we have had nothing but neo-Republicans and neo-Democrats ever since.
As an example of neo-Democrats, Bill Clinton, as Governor of Arkansas, ordered the execution of Ricky Rector, a brain-damaged murderer, for just before the New Hampshire primary in 1992 to show he was tough on crime.
Rector had killed two people, one a cop (I believe), and then had tried to kill himself by shooting himself in the head. He failed but his bullet wasted a significant chunk of his forebrain and he didn't even know he was being executed when they did it.
Bill Clinton, self-proclaimed Democrat. Pfft.
This isnt political as both parties ignore the down and out as they dont vote.
I have been moving people from homeless to jobs and housing most
of my life. I usually had at least one homeless person bathing in my stores at any one time.
I just finished taking 2 young ladies from rehab to housed and employed. Yeah
So it is political it is taking the TIME to be involved as it cost me almost nothing to do this
A little rent and groceries while until the first check. The administration said they cant help for at least 8 weeks by then they would be back where they were before rehab
So Silas readers take the time pick your subject of choice and lend a little help. Who really cares who runs the country. Change it yourself
There are probably only 750,000 homeless people in the US so if less than 0.2% of the population actually helped
problem nearly solved no political help needed because it isnt there anyway just a bunch of bureaucrats talking about it
Nothing I could or should add to that as it's an exceptional thing you do and it would be a disgrace to politicize it, not that I'm inclined to politicize it anyway.
Dude you politicize every thing.
But no worries my point is more that people solve problems not governments
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