That person who writes the condemnatorybstatemenys as you have characterized it... is me, Dave. And in a seer to your question is...

...not too much, I'm afraid. Because my condemnatory statements eminate and have been fostered by experiences as a homeless man and have been cultivated by people in the parts of this system which were supposed to have helped, but where many of them haven't. I simy had.kt the maneuverability to have been able to have helped others, because I was simply not in the position to have been able to have helped others. You posed of a silly question to me about my condemnatory post Dave because I have stated that I was homeless a few times, so then that ought to had given some indication to you that I had not been in a good enough position to have been able to offer others the massive amounts of help needed to get others off the streets.
And now on to your other comment prior to your last question...
I liked your honest answer about your upbringing. That is the reason why I liked your post. Well done. And I'm glad you've done good for yourself.

Unfortunately Dave, it was necessary per this subject matter to suggest that people ought to be ashamed of themselves for the whole disaster of homelessness here in America of the homeless issue. How much time and how many decades have last and little has been done and accomplished to get the vast majority of our VFWs and destitute off American streets. So... let me start off with that foolishness.

> All of the politicians which people here in America keep voting into office who have walked through the worst neighborhoods in our land and promise change, which never comes.

The fact of the matter is that those new government officials who were in the positions to have instituted change in our system where they had the resources and the time to do it, simply chose not to. That to me is outrageous foolishness and shows a total lack of a will to improve people's situation, here.
We can complicate the homelessness issue here in America as Americans, and make whatever excuse possible to not help... to sit at a roundtable with other intellectuals after decades of little to no progress, and outline all kinds of projected business plans and structure the dynamics of this that and the other thing, but my question to you Dave is... Does it really need to be that complicated? My frustration stems as somebody who has been left out in the cold; where people here in the system in America, within the very same apparatus who were in a position to ease suffering, simy let the ball drop on many of us, and have chosen to pretend that there was no issue. I have been there and I have done that. And it was a very painful experience. It was hurtful, and damaging. I can't see or justify any further excuses from people in the aspects of our system here who are in positions where they are supposed to make real differences and who choose not to.
Suggestion: If you want to help with the homelessness problem, agree that the people whom I have mentioned in the above, should feel ashamed of themselves, and make an effort to share videos like this one with others that more people will become more aware of the problem. Because the fact of the matter is, that the whole problem of homelessness as massive as the issue is here is shameful. And in a nation which has plenty of resources and empty buildings but yet which chooses to conveniently do nothing to get families and VFWs and kids and others off our streets is foolishness, in itself. And it is wrong.

A "failure of Christian compassion in the system"?

In America, Christian compassion has been outlawed. We don't allow Christ in our schools (no bible studies or prayer meetings allowed on campus), in our government (too many and too diverse examples to enumerate a sampling), in our workplaces (talk about anything except Christ or christian anything), in our Christian owned businesses (look at Chic-Fil-A and others like them).

Look at who is in charge of the government in the cities and states you are seeing the majority of these problems. The Democrat National Convention voted to ban God from their platform. America is a Christian nation with a large contingent of Christians who care about the problems that plague all societies. Many of us work to help those around us. We don't have the responsibility to fix all the world's problems, we are called to help those around us as He leads us. When you expect a country, city, state, or county government to fix the problems they were never established to fix (and often the ones they cause while overstepping their bounds), you have set up a system that is doomed to failure.

Our city, Panama City (and much of our state, Florida) sustained great damage during Hurricane Michael (Cat 5 hurricane). During the time immediately after, most of us were trying to recover, band together with neighbors to help those around us to recover, and reach out through churches to help the homeless. We have done amazingly well in our recovery, not because of government support alone (they mostly cleared obstacles to our efforts), but because we all took responsibility for our own survival and the survival of those around us.

Even our unfettered support of the homeless led to abuse of the charity. We had homeless people coming from out of state to take advantage of the hand-outs and free help. Hard to believe they had the resources to get here, but not the resources to take care of themselves. That's why it works better on an individual basis. I helped those I knew couldn't help themselves and not those I saw were choosing to enjoy the labors of others at the expense of those with true needs. I also contributed to the effort by our church to do the same. I know many others did the same and that's why we were able to help so many without becoming a dump like you see in the video.

I suggest your assessment is ignorant and incorrect. Thank you for caring about those in need; what have you done to help them yourself?

@Daveclark5 yeah .. tough love is required ! Well done.

Yes, you do make a valid point. However, not everybody on the street is embroiled in chemical dependency issues, or chooses not to work. What about all of the people who do work, and lose their homes, anyway? What about all of the people who have chronic health problems, who are priced out, and lose their homes? Not everybody has a high-end job, and can maintain shelter. Are we to then punish those people as well, just because we feel they are "whiners" as you say? And besides, if you were out on her ass, who's to say you wouldn't begin whining yerself about yer situation? It is very, very demoralizing when a person is without shelter and they're stuck, and stinking out in the cold, and nobody helps. And I mean nobody. All of the empty, and abandoned buildings here in this selfish lan, all of the resources here, and yet for some reason, nobody seems to be able to come up with a solution to getting people off the streets and into Section 8 housing--like I have received thank God... after a year of waiting... And it is very, very easy when one is comfortable to call people whiners when they're stuck with nothing, out in the cold and elements. There are many people left out on the streets who don't want to be there. Who don't choose to be there. And no, not because they whine. There many people who, such as in my own situation were victims of domestic abuse and where I had been between jobs where I was forced to have left y place of residence three times in half a year, and where I was in some cases thrown out into the cold with nothing. That hurts. So don't be judging people as whiners, because they're homeless. Not smart.

@EAL_Flt1979 you can try all the poor me crap so let me make it simple for you...I was a single Mom of two boys...never got a dime of welfare, no child support and no food stamps. I worked two and three jobs, fed and clothed my boys and kept a solid roof over their heads and always made sure they got to their sports practices and games. Do I feel sorry for the homeless..nope I do not...if I can do it they can do it.

@Dmwils Do me a favor please...

Drop all of the "You can drop all of the poor me crap" bullsh., because that is utter bullsh. In fact it is typical goose-stepping nonsense. You were very fortunate and to have had the strength and were blessed to have been able to have raised your children as successfully as you had. This however leaves no room for you to criticize me for explaining my experiences as a homeless man--how dare you. How dare you spout that fascist far-right-wing horsecrap to me, when I have made a genuine effort to state what I had been through and noticed as a homeless man. And where I have made valid basic points on this issue. I'm not here either for one of two things:

> To be an ass-kisser
> To appease the willful ignorance of elected officials or those who're in a lofty position, about the poor whom they conveniently side-step

Don't forget it. I am here to tell people you, not what people like you want to read but what you need to read. And I greatly enjoy stomping all over people pride of every self-centered 'I-can-do-it-all by muhself' arrogant-O like you who is stuck in their mindset that they are immune from having what seems to be in total lack, here in our fascist country. A #HumanConscience.
Adolf Hitler once stated to a journalist that "A human conscience is a Jewish invention". It was people within his sphere of influenve--who thought similarly about not having a heart for the hurting and the destitute which drove him and his disgusting Pagan hell-hole down the sh***er. You remember that there, sweetcheeks.

@EAL_Flt1979 lol be careful you don't fall off your soapbox sweetchecks...if you were homeless it was a choice
and I can't say I have any interest in your failings...don't blame the rest of the world for you're own shortcomings. This is only a fascist state to you because you can't get it together to make a success of your life. You will not find sympathy falling from the skies, there are entitlements and social programs and honestly as a taxpayer..we've paid as much as we're going to.

@Dmwils Yer a moron. What do ewe possibly know about people unless they inform you? Too bad I'm right... again.

Well, somebody and someone here needs to find some ways of correcting the whole problem, because the more that people here pretend that they care and pay lip servix to our hurting and destitute the worse this issue will become. And the fact of the matter is that we cannot permit this to either go on like it has been, or to allow it to become any worse. It's just not a morally acceptable answer to today's homeless issue. People can all sit around and make excuses as to who not to blame, but it makes it not right or fair or just to broken VFWs or civilians including children on the streets of our country. Not good enough. And it's immoral. Any way ya cut it.

@EAL_Flt1979 it all begins at the polls..if your politicians won't fight for them No one else can

@EAL_Flt1979 Agreed, 100%. (with your first reply)
But it's not the government's job to help, it's our job to help.
You can only do whatever you can do. If you're not doing that, then yeah, most people would agree that you're shirking a moral responsibility to help your neighbor; especially the Christians among us.
But, if you're expecting the government to do that for you, then you're still just shirking; and this is the predictable outcome of that decision, for the people who need your help.

The government is not incentivized to eliminate suffering and/or poverty; quite the opposite.
The government feeds off of people that need them to survive, the more of them the better.
Sure, if everybody had prosperous jobs there would be more tax money coming in... but that's a long-term tradeoff that they're not incentivized to make when there's an election coming up... and there's always an election coming up.

The politicians' answer is: "Just give me more authority over you and I'll take care of everything..."
...which they ultimately neither will nor can do; so they just keep getting more power and the situation just keeps getting worse.

The right answer is: "Get a job and get your life together... here, let me help you out."
Then we, in the private sector, can focus on those who remain in our local communities who sincerely just can't function in a job or manage their own lives for whatever reason.
The Church was good for that, before the Church got run out of "enlightened" society. Now it's relatively far less influential, and again... this is nothing more than the predictable result.

@rway Yes, but by the same token, employers demand a person has a place of residence. They demand a person has an address. So, if a person obviously has no address then how is the person supposed to get that job to begin with? And to compound the issue for those out on the street, that individual is run ragged and stinking. I have a good friend here in Lancaster who is stuck out in the cold and stinking like crazy, because those people in our wealthy city don't want to help him.
Now about the whole Christian comment thingy...
One of the fallacies floating around is that just because one is a believer in Jesus Christ--as I happen to be... does not automatically enable that individual to be able to afford to house their neighbor. Yes there are believers who can help help minimally, but what about all of those people who aren't believers, such as the Jews or the Buddhists or the Hindus or the Islamists or the Shintoists or the Atheists who maintain high-end jobs who are in lofty positions here in America but yet who choose not to help? What about them? It boils down to that of a human conscience, and who has a sensitive one and who doesn't. Are we to say that everybody in the churches is obligated to help because they happen to be Christians? No of course not. I... am a proud believer who toiled out on the street in some very very difficult circumstances out in the freezing cold and in the heat, because of domestic abuse having been thrown out by some crazy bitchalingus three times in the space of half a year, and I was not in any kind of a position to be able to help myself.
The government has far too much of a stranglehold here jn the US over people because people keep re-electing the same criminals. By that same token, there are those in the gov who are well-aware of the homess crises--and who exacerbate it by sending our boys over-sees to come Bach here maimed and injured, and left in a position to not be able to maintain or find a home. So then the fact of the matter translates into the government is culpable and in a large part responsible for having put our boys into that position to begin with, and who yet chooses to do nothing--and I mean absolutely nothing. None of em'. And that to me is the extreme hypocrisy of our elected officials here. All of the trillions and billions they spend on military projects, and not a drop of that to get our boys and our kwmen--our VFWs off the streets. So... that just doesn't hold any water with me. They do share in the responsibility of leaving our people stuck and stranded, after having served overseas and yet who just flatly don't want to give our people any help, and assistance. I can't cometely justify the government not being responsible in some way because in some ways, they are to blame for the whole disaster.