google took the original link down. Anyone got another link?
They did!!?? what a bunch of politically correct nonsense.
I'm a conservative but due to some poor decisions and a down economy I am familiar with what is considered poverty in the USA.
There are folks out there that live in SRO's ( single room occupancy ) I lived in one for a long time while working as a security guard.
They cost as much as an apt but you do not have to come up with a deposit because you pay by the week. No fridge, no cooking allowed ( due to regulations for fire codes ) People like me went out and bought little fridges and hot plates but its pretty difficult.
I really don't think its as big a drain on the economy as the EPA is or rebuilding Afghanistan & Iraq.
Before the big welfare state they had a tent city in Central Park where folks down on their luck could pitch a tent while they were looking for work or saving up for rent, there used to be gospel missions where a sober person down on his luck could retain some dignity and a church would give them a room and three meals until he could get back & usually they would gratefully donate back when they were on their feet.
If I had a place to pitch a tent in SF I could save up enough in a month to get a decent place to live & in a year I could have a pretty good savings account but thanks to the gov't taking over what churches used to do its fubar ... no homeless person would be allowed to bring his gun into a homeless shelter - even if he was obeying the letter of the law. Its hard to imagine how awful those places are, over run by institutionalized convicts and bureaucrats.
In most cases its easier to game the system then it is to go get a job at McDonald's, the day you get your job then all welfare/homeless benefits stop, plus you're working so you cant go to free food pantries. So there is a gap between your first paycheck which is usually only for a few days - you usually wait two weeks or more for your first paycheck but you still have to eat & sleep .
A guy I knew in AA went from prison to working for the city finding housing in SRO's for homeless people. For him to help me I had to quit the job I had! Here I was sleeping in a dam car ( not even my freaking car but a friends) while working full time but legally he couldn't help me get into one of those places unless I quit my job and got on welfare!!! If you're honestly looking for work or employed and wanting to stay that way yet your homeless, in most places in the USA you are totally fubar. You either get in the system or you leave.
Yet my tax dollar gives Palestinians 53 billion! Osama's best buddy Pakistan gets billions, Ireland has a great economy & they get millions, Germany gets the best defense the USA can provide, illegal aliens get tuition rates better then Americans plus the EBT etc, I say kick all the illegals off any benefit, spend the foreign aid on Americans & give working poor people the the benefits first THEN kick the leeches off.
Or better yet, only Americans that have a job get EBT / housing benefits ... The current system is built by public sector unions to keep them in charge of the poor and keep them in their jobs, the whole thing is broken and starving a few poor people while funding Hamas & the Palestinian Authority seems screwy to me