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The Oakland, California Homeless Problem is Beyond Belief (Original Post) YoshidaYui Sep 2022 OP
Looks like Soweto or the shanty towns outside of Capetown in the KPN Sep 2022 #1
It is a damn shame that in a nation of plenty that people have to live like that. Chainfire Sep 2022 #2
Personally, I think that ratio only has to exist if we allow billionaires to exist. LT Barclay Sep 2022 #4
You should see LA. onecaliberal Sep 2022 #3

KPN

(15,647 posts)
1. Looks like Soweto or the shanty towns outside of Capetown in the
Sat Sep 3, 2022, 05:10 PM
Sep 2022

70s. In a way, we are creating our own system of apartheid.

Chainfire

(17,587 posts)
2. It is a damn shame that in a nation of plenty that people have to live like that.
Sat Sep 3, 2022, 05:16 PM
Sep 2022

I guess their has to be some kind of ratio between billionaires and those that have nothing, so these folks are doing their parts. Our problem is that we do not have a bottom limit on how poor an American can be. There is no minimum standard of health availability. There is no limit to the loss of dignity that some of these people wake up with every day.

LT Barclay

(2,606 posts)
4. Personally, I think that ratio only has to exist if we allow billionaires to exist.
Sat Sep 3, 2022, 09:17 PM
Sep 2022

The creator of Monopoly tried to warn everyone, but instead it got turned into a family game.

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