PressTV-Homeless people in US are ‘demonized’: Analyst

[Lady Freedom Returns]

Watch and read @ http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/04/02/356866/homeless-people-in-us-demonized/

Homeless Americans experienced a 23 percent surge in targeted attacks last year as compared to the number of assaults in 2012, according to preliminary figures released by the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH).

In 2013, there were a total of 108 reported attacks against the homeless. Nineteen of those assaults resulted in death

[Blue Owl]

1. So they're being kicked while they're down...

Yet expected to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps?

How does that work exactly, GOP?

[Bluenorthwest]

2. National Coalition for the Homeless should be the primary source of information about

the National Coalition for the Homeless. They are a great organization, but Prestv is an anti minority media outlet owned by a nation that executes people for being gay.
People who care should go to the source, not to the exploiters of that source.

http://nationalhomeless.org/

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. ""Cities continue to crack down on the homeless population by enforcing laws and creating a hostile

... attitude toward the homeless population," says Michael Stoops, the executive director of NCH."

Horrible and evil.

I blame this fully, 100% on the Republican war on the poor, and the Reaganist closing of mental institutions. Rather than improving mental facilities and care, Reaganist simply shut them down, and released people who were unable to care for themselves out on the streets, and it's been that way ever since because we've had a right wing extremist takeover since 1981 in this country.

There are throngs of homeless. I see them at turnpikes, at downtowns, everywhere. Many of these are mentally disturbed, and many are people who fell through the cracks during the full-on war on people by Repukes, a war at every level, and that continues to this day. I don't know why the U.S. "went right wing," but it did go fully right wing, for decades, and the changes made by the right wing are still in place here.

With so many homeless, the problem falls squarely on the laps of cities, and to be honest, it's not the cities' fault that they ended up with the problem of so many needy needing everything, yet cities are the ones having to deal with this problem alone.

The homeless gravitate toward cities because they can find more places to sleep and eat than rural areas have even less to offer them.

What the solution is, I don't know. I only know the problem - the right wingerizing of America, which took place in the 80s and is still with us today.

[Warpy]

4. Republicans have worked hard to criminalize poverty

and the poorest of the poor are living on the street. Once they see them as criminals and less than human, it's no surprise that some dirtbags think it's open season on them.

This is a poor state, so I'm mostly impressed by the ingenious things they do to survive. Dimwit survivalist types need to visit big cities and talk to the homeless. Those are the people with the skills that will allow them to survive a complete socioeconomic meltdown.

[alp227]

5. Sorry, Press TV is a kooky anti-Semitic source.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Press_TV

The channel has a heavily antisemitic stance, something which has even led its website to run an article by the white nationalist Mike Stathis. In it, he argues that a Jewish mafia has taken over America and is discouraging whites from feeling pride in their race.[1]

The channel also stated that Ofcom "is mostly made up of former Channel 4 and BBC executives, some of whom are well-linked to and influenced by powerful pro-Zionist politicians" and that Ofcom's chairperson Colette Bowe "enjoyed the exclusive support of Peter Mandelson, the main economic planner of the Labour party who is a Jewish politician with an obvious Zionist mindset." [2]

see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_TV#Controversies

Lots of other sites like The Nation and In These Times cover homelessness regularly, better than this crank webshite.