The Alabama Starvation Diet

[zabet]

43. In the small southeastern NC town where I live....

there were 3 homeless men living in the woods in a park near a boat ramp on the river that runs along the edge of town. Several local people and a couple of the small Churches in the area were feeding and clothing these men, especially coats and blankets in cold weather.
The mayor of this town (a female Dem) chose to clear out the wooded area of all bushes and thinned the trees in order to run the homeless men out.
I personally would have rather seen our tax dollars spent on something that would help out these homeless instead of tens of thoudsnds of dollars spent destroying the only area they used (it was also easy for them to walk from the park to anywhere they needed).....the money was spent in an attempt to run them out of town.
Also, the city cops will escort any homeless they find to the city limits and tell them to keep moving on to the next town.
The city nor the county has any help for the homeless at all.
A homeless Veteran slept on a cot on our Church doorstep.....we fed him, gave him the cot, it wasn't long before the cops told us we couldn't do this and the veteran had to leave. After some checking we discovered this veteran had over $80,000 being held by an attorney because the veteran had no mailing address. The attorney had held this veteran's money for over 6 years.....we got him a mailing address and a place to live and finally got his money released from the attorney (who greedily drew interest and then charged a % of the $80,000 for 'taking care of' the money.
Why does it seem that those that have plenty are so callous and greedy? One woman I know that dropped food for these men once a week is a non-working mother with a child with spinal bifada....she barely has 2 nickles to rub together but she managed to feed these men. Why do all the wealthy hate the homeless? The mayor owns a huge oil company, the attorney is 4th generation legal beagle in his family, and these 2 people have plenty of money but they act like the great 'unwashed masses' are beneath them.