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I skimmed maybe two dozen of the comments on the story's website, and it's incredible how wildly hostile they are about trying to do anything to help the homele

I skimmed maybe two dozen of the comments on the story's website, and it's incredible how wildly hostile they are about trying to do anything to help the homeless. I know at the crux of this is the belief that people should work to have a place to stay. All I can say is I can't bring myself to do it. I have been sober almost 15 months now and I've taken and quit maybe a half dozen jobs in the last two year or so. Frankly I just feel real uncomfortable most of the time. Nothing is worth being miserable. I am on the housing first list here in Charlotte, where the homeless problem isn't as severe but prevalent nevertheless. I have been waiting since November. I've been often sleeping under a bridge, hoping somebody doesn't jump me in the middle of the night. Supposedly housing is cheaper than letting the homeless remain on the street, but I think it comes down to the fact that working conditions are so generally odious that it is assumed any entitlements of free housing would result in the masses balking at work. And of course everybody is so self-centered they can only think of getting the freebie themselves, mindless of how fortunate they are to have a tolerable job, a family and the like. By the way, I had this crazy idea that half of all income should be redistributed. I think it would make anyone making under $70,000 richer.

mkempe 8y ago
On the one hand you're doing well by remaining sober for a year and working irregularly to somewhat support your own life. On the other hand you announce you'd like to steal (aka "redistribute") half of the income of all people who work, and profess to not understand why these people are hostile to spending more money on people such as yourself -- or such as those who steal bikes (to the point that one cannot keep them outside homes), drop used needles in public parks, openly shoot up in the street, attack pedestrians and commit murder in the streets and in random home invasions, or commit rape in the middle of the day at a car dealership.

mkempe 8y ago

On the one hand you're doing well by remaining sober for a year and working irregularly to somewhat support your own life. On the other hand you announce you'd like to steal (aka "redistribute") half of the income of all people who work, and profess to not understand why these people are hostile to spending more money on people such as yourself -- or such as those who steal bikes (to the point that one cannot keep them outside homes), drop used needles in public parks, openly shoot up in the street, attack pedestrians and commit murder in the streets and in random home invasions, or commit rape in the middle of the day at a car dealership.