The Homeless Industrial Complex
(truthonthestreets.substack.com)
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Someone who lost everything from bacd luck but has a half-decent moral character, a brain, and dosen't do drugs, can apply for wellfare, go to a food bank, and have basic necessities covered.
Now if the instant the cash drops to the account, purshases of alchool, luxury junkfood, cigarettes and drugs start, yeah you'll be in trouble constantly. By your own actions.
I have little sympathy for wellfare crocodile tears. I've been lied-to way too much by the media and activists to believe them on the subject.
I'm poor, but not on wellfare. I carefully check for grocery rebates, don't waste a dime on alchool/smokes/drugs, haven't seen a dentist in a decade and my glasses will be old enough to vote soon.
Wellfare crybabies piss me off so much.
If I woke up tomorrow morning and my job and everything I owned except the clothes on my back were gone, I still wouldn't sleep on the street that night. I'd walk to a friends house where at the very least I'd be offered a couch to sleep, because they know I'd be doing everything I can to be gone as quickly as possible, that I wouldn't bring drugs into their house, that I wouldn't harm their children, and that I wouldn't escape one night with all of their things.
So I question the character of any allegedly good person living on the streets as to why they've made so little of a good impact to the people around them that they'd be allowed to live on the streets.
Thanks for reminding me what open borders did to the West social security net.
Where I live, you can register your adress at many social service points like homeless shelters to be eligible for wellfare or employment.