How come murderers & rapists get easy death yet the homeless slowly rot?

[Deja Q]

You know? Vile insipid criminals who go out of their way to kill, maim, or violate innocent people get a quick and fairly painless way out of this wretched world... Never mind the alternative of life in prison. Which life in prison may be a pleasant alternative to the lives they had to live BEFORE doing what they did get there...

Yet more and more good people who lose their jobs get called lazy and stupid, and many of them have no place to go. So they end up starving or freezing to death. Last I recall, those aren't quick nor pleasant ways to die. Amongst all the others pertaining to having no money to live on.

Just something to ponder...

[havocmom]

1. Because in our culture, the greatest crime is poverty,

no matter what the reason for such a state. Mental illness is a close second.

Murder and rape, corruption of all kinds are not looked down on by the general society the way being poor is. Makes ya wonder just where Jesus would stand in today's America, doesn't it?

[Deja Q]

3. Jesus wouldn't be nailed to the cross...

But I suspect He would prefer to be...

[melody]

2. why is it we house and feed criminals, but leave the poor to starve?

Because the current incarnation of our society is all about keeping the rich safe.
They don't give a damn about the average person.

[mitchum]

6. Because the prison industry is far more profitable than the poverty...

industry

[melody]

7. And with more poor people, more people will have to steal to survive

Which makes more prisoners and lots of low paid labor. They won't even have to outsource outside
the country. We'll be Plantation Nation.

[XanaDUer]

10. Bingo.

Eom.

[SoCalDem]

4. A few years ago there was a story about a man who was jobless

had just been diagnosed with cancer..he held up a 7-11 and waited outside for the cops to come and arrest him so he could have a place to live and cancer treatments.. he had been turned down for aid because he had no dependent children.

[Deja Q]

5. I recently heard a guy killed himself because the loss of his job was...

too much to bear. :cry:

Single, no S.O. to love or to have love him... no children, but I think that one may have been a plus...

[Jed Dilligan]

8. A lot of homeless have been in prison

The system spills out onto the streets.

[Jamastiene]

9. HypnoToad

:yourock:

I would vote for you for President if you decided to run. You nailed it with your post here. Loving it.