That's certainly not true everywhere. Because it's that way in your experience in Canada, doesn't make it true anywhere else. My experience with the poor and

That's certainly not true everywhere. Because it's that way in your experience in Canada, doesn't make it true anywhere else. My experience with the poor and homeless happened with actual ghetto dwellers in Baltimore, MD, not the sweet and fuzzy California or Canadian homeless. I got stuck, through my school, volunteering at a soup kitchen every weekend for about eight weeks. In that time, I witnessed the exact same people showing up every single day. They referred to their welfare checks as their paychecks, openly purchased drugs, wore new Fubu clothes and new Nike shoes, and talked about the latest HBO shows. This was somewhat ironic as, at the time, I couldn't afford cable TV or HBO, new brand name clothes, or very much of anything else, but I was able to pay for my own food. I just couldn't go somewhere and have a person serve it to me though, as they were able to. I could also afford to give up my weekend and drive to Baltimore to serve people that can afford fifty bucks for an eight ball, but cannot spare fifteen dollars for twenty pounds of rice. In the entire eight weeks, I only met a single person that was actually down on their luck, everyone else was just lazy. The reason poor people have no money is that they are awful at fiscal management. Instead of food, they pay for cable, instead of rent, they buy drugs, expensive clothes, and shoes. That's not my problem, and continuing to take care of people that refuse to care for themselves does nothing but perpetuate the problem. These people won't work because they have no incentive to do so. They receive more from the government than they could make with the amount of effort they're willing to expend. If you want to solve homelessness and hunger, solve the problem of rich liberals feeling guilty and deciding to solve other peoples problems because they have too much time on their hands.