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RE: I see homeless people...
Thanks for your story. It's a shame that people turn their noses up at homeless people, it could happen to them! The homeless men that I recall seeing all the time in the toon actually had a fan base some of them. One homeless guy who was no bother at all, just went about reading the paper had a FaceBook page I believe. I heard he died. I was rather sad at hearing it. Be safe and prepared.
Yeah. The higher than thou mentality is poison. Dumbest way you could possibly be. The VAST majority of homeless people are not crooks, "crazy", etc
Yes it is a shame, these homeless people have so much to offer. One of the guys I remember had post traumatic stress syndrome from being in the war. What a great guy.
Another one was confined to a wheelchair. I guess to a large extent if you compare the situation in the USA to Europe, in the US there is a higher level of inequality. It does not seem like the government has been able to address the issue appropriately or effectively.
Not that it is the government's job necessarily to hand out money to people. But maybe they can create an environment in which homeless people or disadvantaged people are given realistic opportunities to break out of poverty. Maybe the political discourse gets too caught up in capitalism/socialism debate sometimes, as if there is no in between.
I remember when I was living in Germany, I felt like in their system they use capitalist policies to MAKE money (increase the size of the pie) and then socialist type of policies to DISTRIBUTE the pie. What is wrong with that?
Yes, the pie distribution is not a bad idea. All people should be given a solid chance to arise from situations of poverty. Whether they do or not is on them of course
Yes that would be ideal, free from discrimination on any grounds.
In many ways the governments hands are tied by the central bankers holding them and us to ransom. If governments created the money at zero percent interest (which is as it should be) it would be a lot easier to more fairly distribute the money because they wouldn't have to support all the central banks endeavors, such as all the wars.
I hear you man, sometimes I feel like whats the point of feeling like a victim all the time.
I just peacefully non-comply with their system as best I can. I only use cash, I don't pay for a TV licence, I pay the unlawful council tax under duress and pay it in bags of coins. I shop at independent local English traders, rather than large supermarkets. I buy things off Amazon but make sure the trader is based in England that I'm buying it from and obviously recently I buy this from the SBD I've sold that I've earned here on steemit :-) I'm also a Prepper, which is a middle finger to them anyways. Plenty of things can be done to make you more in control. They haven't got us yet, now is the time to fight back.
Interesting.... My voting power is low now, will upvote when it is up higher.