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Egalitarian Thug

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4. K&R This is among the Big Secrets we allow ourselves to ignore.

Mon Sep 24, 2012, 01:33 PM

Sep 2012

Relieving poverty in general would be so much less expensive than the systems and institutions we have created to deal with the fallout from it, but it would also mean that a lot of people that make a lot of money from those archaic, wasteful, and ineffective systems would lose their incomes.

And by no coincidence whatsoever, many of them are the same people that run the world.

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Housing homeless cheaper, more effective than status quo: study [View all] Lucy Goosey Sep 2012 OP

du rec. Nt xchrom Sep 2012 #1

+1 mike_c Sep 2012 #2

Homeless people need a dependable place to live. It's a no-brainer if you think about it. JDPriestly Sep 2012 #3

Just a room with a lock on the door Warpy Sep 2012 #6

K&R This is among the Big Secrets we allow ourselves to ignore. Egalitarian Thug Sep 2012 #4

"Big secrets we allow ourselves to ignore" Lucy Goosey Sep 2012 #9

Thank you & kick. n/t Egalitarian Thug Sep 2012 #13

K& MF'ing R!!! n/t theinquisitivechad Sep 2012 #5

K&R if it makes sense, the ptb will never allow it. jmho nt Mnemosyne Sep 2012 #7

Also, if you give the homeless a safe place to live, obxhead Sep 2012 #8

It's a shame we don't help people more, before they become homeless. justice1 Sep 2012 #10

So true...so true. There are many abandoned hotels and motels and government buildings cr8tvlde Sep 2012 #11

Not only cheaper RobertEarl Sep 2012 #12