Muscatine

Yes there are homeless in our community but most are there because they choose to be by not wanting to work or seek any kind of employment.  Every community has that. 

Now before the libs in the group start yelling at me..."You think these people want to be homeless?"... I do know and acknowledge that not every homeless person wants to be.  But there are people out there who just plain don't want to work.  When we had the store downtown we would often get homeless people in the store (especially during the winter) who would come in to get out of the elements.  More than once I would offer some of these people some money for a couple of hours of work and they would refuse.  I had a conversation with one guy who came flat out and told me he just didn't want to work so he lived on the streets.  Yes there are people who don't want to be homeless, but there are many that choose to be.

Some studies have revealed that many homeless persons are mentally ill or addicted. Remember when john edwards was ranting about all the homeless vets and that whole flap? I believe that was before he fell from favor because of his cheating on his wife who was dying of cancer and had a child out-of-wedlock and now it seems he used campaign funds to try to cover up the affair/child. Anyway, whatever veterans organization  came after him and claimed that his statements were not true. When I was visiting in Florida, news articles claimed that the street-corner 'homeless' managed to get lots of money everyday and some were not homeless and the streetcorner gig IS their job. Many streetcorners have signs that instead of giving the beggars money to put money in a 'meter-like' box for churches and the like to provide food and shelter and whatever. The weather is more conducive to homeless beggars there than in Iowa, but I am certain that we do have them, just as opie says. It is sad to think that some choose that status, while others get there thru unfortunate circumstances. I almost wrote 'thru no fault of their own', but I doubt if that is true, probably all had at least a small part in being homeless, if not by actions at least by non-action.

ACLU Challenging Florida Drug Test Law For Welfare Recipients

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By Steve Elliott

Wednesday, September 7, 2011, at 10:52 am

 
??‹The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says it is filing a lawsuit challenging a Florida law that requires new welfare recipients to pass a drug test.

When you spend $5 to save $1 you ARE wasting tax dollars.