Just a damn shame the way we treat people.

[commander bunnypants]

A client came to the center today with an electrical cord for a belt. So I gave him an old one of mine. I also have hit up the clothes closet for some socks, undies and a few t-shirts. The one he had on was brown

the wealthiest nation on earth and that is acceptable?

:grr:

CB

[tjwmason]

1. That's what makes Amurika great

Not that we're much better in England to be honest.

It's just to easy for most to be like Queen Victoria in her train and pull the blinds down in passing the slums.

[_TJ_]

2. What sort of a center is it?

eom

[commander bunnypants]

7. psychosociall rehab

MR/MH center

CB

[jswordy]

3. Well you can take heart that we won't always be....

...the wealthiest nation on earth, given our current path. The next one will be China. Then we will be a past superpower just like England is now.

I hear you about how people are treated. I am thankful there are compassionate people like you in the world.

[Willy Lee]

4. Good karma points for you, Bunnypants.

:yourock:

[terrya]

5. I still can't get over seeing so many homeless people in this country.

Like you said...this is the wealthiest nation on the planet. And yet, every morning on the way to work I'll see people sleeping in doorways on the street.

It's just...obscene.

[skygazer]

6. Don't you realize

that people like that are obviously lazy? You should have told him to get a job. <heavy sarcasm>

[bridgit]

8. seriously...

at least jethro bodine had the common grace to use a piece of rope...

:shrug:

[skygazer]

9. Ah, but he was rich

and therefore not lazy.

[bridgit]

14. rich by proximity however...

what with "gah-zinta" mathematics not smart enough to count it...

[datasuspect]

10. he needs to pick himself up by his bootstraps

scrap that, probably has no boots . . .

[redqueen]

11. I posted this in the other thread...

Yes, we're the wealthiest nation on earth... but it's the greedy bastards that have most of the extra cash.

[adwon]

12. OMG

THAT'S CLASS WARFARE, YOU DIRTY PINKO!

On a side note, that graphic really gives added meaning to 'trickle down' economics, eh?

[bertha katzenengel]

15. if only the greedy bastards felt a fraction of the guilt I feel

Much to my shock when I take polls which ask my combined household income I always mark the appropriate button while muttering, "mother of god, that can't be right." But it is. And I am ashamed. I'm ashamed because I make a very good living and STILL don't share enough of it with people who have greater needs than mine.

[_TJ_]

13. Things are bad everywhere

Here in Dublin we have a lot of teenage/twenty-something homeless
people these days. When I was growing up that was NEVER the case.
I think the fabric of society is coming apart :(