What are your feelings towards homeless?

Question

I'm talking about the beggars that constantly bother people. It gets me so frustrated. This article http://catbread.wordpress.com/2006/07/28/homeless-guy-moans/ rang true for me about the problem.
What do you think about it?

Answer 1

having been homeless, and being at a stage of life where I could be facing homelessness again I think I have a right to chip in herre with somecomments and observations.

bitching and whinging about how or why someone became homeless helps no one.

many people can not cope with the demands of a 'normal' life, the pressure experienced from the beauracratic garbage that a person has to endure in an ordinary lifestyle and demands of do this or that or else your life will change, when governement departments have your whole future in their hands can feel all too much for a person to endure where as living on the streets is a much less stressful situation.

homelessness can be a positive personal choice for a person who can not cope with so called 'normal' life stresses.

homelessness is not synonymous with stupid

begging is not an easy answer for any one as a matter of fact I found it impossible to bring myself to beg when I was a homeless teen and ended uphospitalised overnight for starvation when I passed out in the ED while helping afellow homeless teen get an injury attended to.

Not everyone has experienced life the way you have.

Not everyone has a family to go home to.

Answer 2

Being homeless does not mean that you are stupid or lazy. I have a college degree, but I was forced ( by our dear government) to become homeless, because I could no longer work, and hadn't yet been APPROVED to be on disability. I didn't beg, borrow, or steal, and I didn't stink either. I stayed in shelters at night, and toted all of my personal belongings with me during the day. (Shelters don't allow people hanging around their property during the day). I didn't look disabled, but I was.The first week I was homeless, I had blisters on my legs because I had fallen asleep in the sand. I went to the emergency room at the hospital for treatment, and the first thing the doctor said to me after discovering that I was homeless and had no insurance was "Don't think you're getting out of paying this bill!" People become homeless for many reasons, but are all treated like it's their own fault. Everyone looks down on us. Some turn to drugs and alcohol as a means to escape their problems, become addicted, and it only worsens thieir problems. A man will drink to forget his problems, then spend all of his money on his addiction. It's a sickness. He can't just stop because you want him to. It's not that simple. My daughter is a school teacher now. When she sees a homeless person, she automatically hands him money without him asking for it. She doesn't ask him what he needs the money for. Chances are, he would lie and say for food for his family, then turn around and head for the nearest liquer store anyway. If he didn't need the money for something, he wouldn't be there. Never assume that because a person looks capable of working but not, they must just be lazy. I have spinal stenosis, ruptured and bulging disks in my back, diabetis,high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. None of these things can be seen by the nakid eye. Now that I've had a stroke, and spend most of my time in a wheelchair, people can see my disability, the government sends me a check every month, I have a place to live, and I'm an upstanding citizen. Why is that?

Answer 3

There seems to be a lot of vile hate toward homeless people here in this answer.
I wish i could take a magic wand and make every one homeless then your eyes be opened and then hopefully your heart be opened as well.

People beg for money because the food store begs for money the Laundromat begs for money Money is an necessary thing in our society.

Things happen then you become homeless when you do how do you get money? if you don't have a phone or a home they wont hire you.Its as simple as that so you have to beg or steal. Would you rather have them steal?

There is so many illegals taking up jobs you can't find work.

The cafe i eat at all the cooks are illegal
the one of two cashiers is illegal.

Now tell me how can i get a job when they will work for less money?

When they become legal then they will take the other jobs from us many of them i know have college degrees from there country

so you think there is bums begging for money now wait till the rest of legal USA citizens can't get a job you'll be begging for money with the rest of us!!!

my life - see my blog
http://webmastersanta.blogspot.com

See Kevin's Blog
http://thehomelessguy.blogspot.com

Answer 4

On my way to work, I see homeless people everyday! They are close by where my work place is.
Now I could take the stance that most people take and say " Oh! these people are lazy! They're a blight on society! Their able to work like the rest of us but buck the system! They live off of our taxes and I'm sick of paying for them in this way! I wish I could just tell them to go and get a job! Plus a host of other things we wish we could do about the homeless. We wish that the state would take care of the problem so we wouldn't have to see them around so much!
My feeling about the homeless is that they will be around for ages to come. So why waste my breathe venting on the negative aspect of it? I actually go and talk to some of them! I find that not all of them are "mental" There are intelligent people among them that have fallen on hard times, have held jobs better than you and me, but some quirk happened and they found themselves on the streets.Some even have better vocabularies than me! Some because they have no permanent address, can't get a job(who will trust them?).
I use to be very bias about homeless people until I actually began to understand what some of them were dealing with.

I wish that the state would come up with programs that would work to allieviate the situations of the homeless, I really do.

Sometimes I ponder on the fact that many of us ourselves are one paycheck from the streets too! We could very well be in their shoes!

Answer 5

There are always those that take advantage, but there are real cases of people out there who are ruined by the "system". Having experienced a family member who became disabled by an accident that happened at work, I saw a 3 year wait before workers comp and disability helped him out. If his family hadn't been there for him, he would have been on the streets. Well, in reality, there are people in the world who don't have good families to help them, and when they suffer a disability, it causes them to become homeless. It's a sad thing in this country, but in actuality, it is a fact!

Answer 6

I think that some, if not most beggars, got themselves to the situation they're in now, and for that reason alone I don't feel sorry for them - and I think they have enough brains to choose not to lead the life they're leading and to actually get off their butts and do something about it. They should have enough motivation to get themselves out of a rut - but I'm sure most are too lazy to do this. But you're right, it is frustrating to see them peddling around.. it's more sad than anything really.

Answer 7

I think the homeless are a very sad symptom of our society. When they closed all the insane asylums, and made it no longer legal to lock people up when they were mentally ill, and/or destroyed themselves with drugs or alcohol... all those sick people were left homeless.

That's what most of them are. Sick.

It isn't about unemployment. It's about being unemployABLE.

They need to reopen the asylums so these people will have a place to go !!! The ones that aren't homeless are still living with their parents or other family members. That's very sad, too!!!

Answer 8

Society is prepared interior how that's - a tax gadget is in position to assemble public money that are directed to utilising workers to procedure re-housing applications and preserving social housing (council & housing association contained in the united kingdom). that's 'striking' to have a humanist, compassionate information AND 'I care about them as a lot as they care about me, a minimum of I pay my taxes and did not make a multitude of my existence' mutually. by technique of default, the detached tax payers - earnings tax, VAT etc -are 'worrying' in a token way. The homeless are regularly socially marginalized people, no matter if or not they're undesirable copers with a foul experience of duty. the genuine difficulty is at the same time as it is going to grow to be a progression of existence that repeats itself back and back because the homeless individual is unable to comprehend/act in accordance to the actual undeniable reality that they have got a sparkling freedom - to not make self-defeating options. The mentally ill are the most susceptible team, alongside with the psychologically damaged, who the state did not guard contained in the first position. The solutions are continuously a similar : self-safe practices & self-interest, and go away it to the businesses with the suitable educated crew to do the helping.

Answer 9

I believe that most of America is a check away from being homeless, please don't hate it could be you or me. I don't know the circumstances for many homeless people. Things happen that are beyond our control. Whenever I see homeless people that I do know I offer help, such as giving them clothes, steering them towards shelter,and other resources. I do not want to be judging the less fortunate and I think it is a godly thing to help those that cannot help themselves.

Answer 10

Homelessness is a very sad fact in our country. We are not a Third World Nation, and yet homelessness is a way of life for many people.

Some as you say, are by choice, but why is it by choice? Were they always homeless? If not why are they now, and how did they become homeless?

What ever happened to us. We used to say, "There but for the grace of God, go I".

What ever happened to our compassion for our fellow man or woman or child.

How many people "fall between the cracks" of our help systems.