Most People Ignored This Homeless Man...

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17. We used to have the welfare program to be the "gate keeper" for who deserved assistance...

With that program being gone, it is the wild, wild west for those who are homeless. We don't have a congress that will help us put in place other means for those who truly want to help the homeless do so, without feeling like they might be more apt to help scam artists than those who are really needy. That is a shame. So we really need to find some other way to locally build a model in some places on finding a way to truly assess who's needing assistance, and in providing them real assistance, and not just means to support some of their addictions that don't necessarily lead to better outcomes.

Automated systems would have to think on how to ensure that it isn't people that don't need handouts from scamming an automated system too. Need to provide some mechanism to help us guarantee that those getting it would be those who need it. But if we could find a solution that could work even through private non-profit organizations and not just through government, then perhaps we'll find a way to help us all help each other avoid such problems of extreme poverty. Then perhaps many will push government to help with such efforts to make them better too later, even if they have to appeal to Republicans. If a Republican congress turns their back on such efforts, that would be one more big issue we can hang over their heads in retaking congress in 2016.

Instead of weaponizing police forces with our government's money when defense contractors no longer have wars to sell their wares for, we need the government to put that money in helping those coming home from wars that they've neglected so much over the years.

If we could help these people get jobs and turn their lives around like Kucinich did early on, think of all of the newer voters we would have with real addresses that could help drive a progressive movement in retaking the presidency and our congress in 2016!