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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-11 08:42 AM
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Greed and Insanity on the "Streets": The Psychopaths Are Everywhere
In my state of Arizona, tens of thousands of people are homeless. Their numbers are growing after all of the home foreclosures and job losses. I suspect that there are many times more families who are now living with their grown children, with their parents, or with siblings or friends and are not counted as being homeless even though they have no home of their own and may be sleeping on a couch or floor in someone's basement.

Once upon a time, I found myself on the streets of Denver, Colorado. Out of work, out of luck, out of money and out of my apartment, I was homeless.

My first breakfast in that new-to-me world was black coffee and three stale donuts. Lunch was two boiled hot-dogs and some coffee at the Holy Ghost Church. Dinner at "Jesus Saves" was some not completely cooked beans and ditto for the rice. The corn was cooked. The coffee was hot.

The people on the street were a varied lot comprised of a handful of general types with many being a mixture of several:

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