Finally! Out come the torches and pitchforks!

[sabrina 1]

49. This country could take care of every homeless person and more, IF they wanted to.

But we spend trillions of dollars killing people in other countries. It IS expensive to destroy whole countries, like Iraq and to further destroy what was left of Afghanistan the last time we visited that nation and helped to destroy what was once a decent place to live for its citizens.

Decades of war with no end in sight, leaving wounded and emotionally traumatized veterans, many of the homeless ARE veterans, roaming the streets, committing suicide at the rate of 18 per day. Some of those homeless you are seeing, were the 'glorious warriors' we saw in photo ops with Bush et al and the subject of the phony, jingoistic 'support the troops' signs, and yellow ribbons, now dirty and tattered if there are any left. Yay for WAR!

I was in CA for two years, left a year ago, and I saw so many homeless people I was shocked. I didn't notice whether they 'smelled' or not to be honest. I was often approached by them asking for help and my heart went out to them.

They are a sign of the crumbling of this society. Of wrong priorities, of Predatory Capitalism, of a country obsessed with wars for profit and Wall St corruption.

Occupy Wall St is helping to build tiny houses with donations they receive, for the homeless. Other organizations are doing so also. If private citizens have the will to find the means to provide homes for the homeless, there is NO QUESTION that if this government just spent ONE FRACTION of what they spend on WMDs, on solving this problem, they could do it.

As Rep Grayson said about Republicans' solution to the sick poor, 'hurry up and die'. That is this Government's solution for the homeless, one third of which are veterans.

When Canada discovered they had a few homeless veterans on the streets they immediately set about finding them and providing homes for them.

Americans are so accustomed to being abused by their government they are at the stage of hopelessness and apathy, expecting nothing, feeling they deserve nothing, or on the other side, feeling OTHER PEOPLE deserve nothing.

But there are good people trying to help, and I am really glad to read this OP.

When OWS was occupying space in Portland, they were taking care of the homeless, but the mayor's Robo Cops brutally drove them out and left the homeless with nowhere to go, again.