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DC Metro Announces New Ridership Record for Stewart-Colbert Rally

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Wozza Matter?11/01/2010 6:09:32 pm PDT

re: #456 brookly red

no it has more to do with not being able to function within society… look I have sympathy with the homeless, I feel homelessness is worse than cancer, BUT with all the safety nets in place, you gotta think that to get to that point voting is not a high priority.

re: #469 WindUpBird

What? Wow, this is totally wrong

Homelessness comes primarly from mental illness dude, talk to any social worker

And if our mental health resources in America are staggeringly underfunded (which they are) then people who don’t have the mental stability to keep themselves hooked up in society, they wind up homeless

I LITERALLY friends’ former clients (they worked in mental health proper, I worked MR/DD with mentially ill MR/DD people) in mental health on the street, panhandling. off their meds, no shelter, no prospects, no nothing.

It has nothing to do with ‘social responsibility”. Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, all the usual republican cliches, they don’t make any sense, because you can’t will away schizophrenia or organic brain disorders with low taxes and conservative ideology

One can only pull themselves up by their bootstraps to the extent that they can afford bootstraps.