This Graffiti Artist Had An Interesting Idea You Probably Haven't Thought Of Before

[JDPriestly]

30. I carried a sign with a similar message in the Occupy portion of the Rose Bowl Parade

If you like the sign but don't want it on your house or some other house in your neighborhood, why don't you make a sign and go to a street corner and Occupy that corner with your sign?

Because, while I can't stand graffiti, I think it is pretty safe to predict that we are going to have that message spray-painted on the walls of a lot of houses across the country before long if we don't get together to do something about homelessness.

A lot of young people have moved in with their parents and vice-versa.

Most of them are getting along pretty well, but the honeymoon with that lifestyle will soon be over. Why? Because the average American cookie-cutter house is not built to provide privacy for a multi-generational family. It's going to get pretty tough for a lot of families to keep the "harmony" going.

And that is when, unless the economy turns around to the point that wages rise enough for Jr. (or Sr.) to pay his/her own rent and live on his/her own or with people of a similar age, we are going to have even more homelessness than we do now.

Instead of worrying about protecting our houses from graffiti, let's get a collective soul and do something positive about homelessness.

We should ask the banks to open up some of the foreclosed houses to the homeless.

I used to work on a project that housed homeless people and helped them get jobs. It's really hard to get a job if you can't take a bath or afford your meds.