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Warpy

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10. You can say that about most homeless people all over the country
Fri May 13, 2022, 10:53 PM
May 2022

Before Reagan got in, the only homeless people I ever saw were street alcoholics living rough Neighborhood winos had places to live, not fancy but a roof and a lock on the door. Once Reagan got in, it wasn't just the winos who got pitched out onto the street, but whole families because wages had dropped so far behind inflation in the late 70s and Congress hadn't done a fucking thing about it. They'd bought the rich man's horse shit that wages caused inflation, rather than being a lagging indicator of it.

So here we are, the problem of homeless families with children in tow getting worse every year and Congress still won't do a fucking thing about it.You bet your ass they're internally displaced people, displaced by cupidity, stupidity, and a lack of political will.

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