are we a crueler, meaner America now?

Question

The city most efficient at creating homeless people now says they will arrest you if you feed them.
Homeless in America
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(SALEM) - The city council of Las Vegas, Nevada took down the town's typical facade this week, when they voted to make it illegal to feed homeless people in a park. No glitz, no neon, just the real heart of America's cruelest city laid open like a book.

http://salem-news.com/articles/july212006/vegas_homeless_72106.php

to add i cant get shelter disabled use cane walker no stairs allergies and chronic painand fatigue.to start
cruel institution or the mean streets.
inmany ciites this one told me ordinace against sleep incar on private property i sleep safer behind church! out side to be raped rained on colder ok?! better for them..to harrass.
no protect and serve for the poorest

why not arrest beligerent drunk and high in public and let organized feed programs help those who cant. i a vet still 4 states no shelter for too many medical conditions..
anyone would write to them news protest?

Answer 1

Yes, unfortunately...
Bush has abused the Constitution and has forced us to trade our freedoms for "security", even though the world is much more unstable these days with terrorists forming by the 100's on a daily basis. Not to mention the war is virtually unwinnable.

Answer 2

I don't think we became any meaner. America have always had a majority attitude of live and let be. But I do think we have become more callous over the last 3 decades. We are now so concerned that someone will do us wrong that we lash out before it can happen. And I'm not talking about our government I am talking about "us". We have been taught two separate ways of dealing with things. The "help those that help themselves" and the " oh my we can't sit by and not do anything" ideals. Problem with those are one is much easier to do. We are under the idea that if we don't acknowledge some wrong it will go away without us having to do a thing. Ostrich syndrome " If i do see it it doesn't exist." People be aware of the things around you.Have a heart but don't allow lazy. Oh and also for everyone that thinks it is a political choice that things have turned us callous, I have been a bitter angry man through more than 2 political parties. That is an ignorant answer for a question that requires real thought. But very good question.
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Answer 3

I think it is awful if feeding the homeless results in an arrest. Yes, I believe that we are a meaner America. People are more worried about "me" versus "us". I heard someone say once that it is all become such a "me society" -- this was not a compliment.

White Americans have been cruel from the very start of building the white United States by taking over land belonging to Native Americans , and the cruel acts of slavery. The whole aspect of it revolved around greed. But, not all American white Europeans were cruel. There were white Europeans that tried to speak out on behalf of the Native Americans, and assisted in the underground railroad in freeing slaves.

The cruelty of Americans cannot be totally blamed on President Bush. The KKK started way before President Bush. Big business being able to move their factories to Mexico, and such other foreign places, was started with the past President Clinton.
Homelessness started way before President Bush.
People need to look at all historical aspects of the making of this country before they start throwing blame ignorantly.

Answer 4

What do you mean now? America has always been cruel and mean lol. I suppose we are meaner than before.......but you must understand something. America is run by corporations, it's all about making money. By feeding the homeless the homeless begin to beg by buisnesses such as restaraunts thus driving away customers and losing money.

Answer 5

How does this make America meaner or crueler? This doesn't make it a crime to feed the homeless, it just makes it a crime to do it in a public park. A park is supposed to be a place where families can go to enjoy themselves. Alot of homeless people have mental problems or are drug abusers and can be dangerous. Would you want to take your children to a place where a lot of dangerous people hang out hoping to get some food?

Answer 6

Well, let's think back: George H.W. Bush proposed a "kinder, gentler nation" - and then went to war with Saddam Hussein.
Cigarette manufacturers finally admitted that their products were addictive killing machines and acquiesced to government insistence that they warn people about the dangers of smoking. Then we just found out that these companies have been secretly increasing the amount of nicotine in their products to get more people "hooked" - and they're producing candy-flavored cigarettes to appeal to the youth market!
Pharmaceutical companies claimed they had to charge high prices for prescription drugs to cover research and development costs. Yet, there have been several recent incidents where certain prescription drugs have been found to actually kill people. So much for investing in more research and development!
The government swore agent orange was not harmful to human beings. Only later did Vietnam veterans come back with serious health problems as a result of being exposed to agent orange.
A Vice-President of the United States actually spoke this sentence, as recorded in Congressional records: "Go f*ck yourself!"
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, when asked about the ramifications of innocent Iraqi civilians being killed as part of the U.S. war effort, actually said (on the record): "Stuff happens."!!
George Bush's illegal and unconstitutional war in Iraq has resulted in the deaths of 42,000 Iraqis and 3,000 American soldiers. Yet George W. Bush has YET to honor those dead soldiers by meeting a plane filled with flag-draped caskets at Dover Air Force Base. Bush's attitude is that these soldiers are nothing more than 'collateral damage' - something he, as a Commander-In-Chief, shouldn't have to concern himself with;
afterall, his job is to send more soldiers to their death while he stays home and flies around in Air Force One wearing a flack jacket and pretending to be a he-man warrior.
Most nations today recognize that their only defense against the world's new evil empire - the U.S.A. - is their own stockpile of nuclear weapons of mass destruction. They believe it's the only way to protect themselves from the bully Bush.
Are we a crueler, meaner American now? I'd say so! -RKO-

Answer 7

wow, that's awful!

i don't know about being a crueler, meaner america - but we certainly let a lot of schmucks make laws now. i think the problem is people not voting - maybe not you personally, but people have no right to complain about laws and such if they don't even bother to vote. i really think voters need to stop voting for the lesser of 2 evils and make the parties give us decent people to vote for. if we start at the bottom, we can fix the top too.

Answer 8

Actually, thanks to the internet awareness is rising all over the world. People just like yourself are paying attention to things they never thought of before. We're entering a new era where truth will prevail like the sun although most of the herd tend to ignore or deny it.

Answer 9

They consider people no better than pigeons. It's over controlling, too. There are ways to solve this problem other than punishment. This is a not good sign for our civilization.

Answer 10

I think so and I think it's in a LARGE part to the attitudes of the Bush administration. We've lost what it means to be Americans, we've lost respect from the majority of the rest of the world but I think we can gain that back if we stand up for what's right and people quit pledging "blind allegiance" to what's not working.