Are homeless people entitled?

[DreamLife7]

So, yesterday I was in the Starbucks and some homeless guy comes close my car tapping his cup while I was at the window getting my drink. I rolled my window up and then back down to pay the lady. The lady told the guy, "sir, she has nothing for you go please." To me that was very entitled walking up to the window close to my car as if I owe him something. Like dude , get a fucking job.

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When I say entitled I mean these people act as if they're entitled to what others have. I worked for the money I used to buy starbucks. He's crazy to think I'm going to willingly hand over money to a man roaming the streets all day

[Anonymous]

There are 6 categories that would solve this:

1. Willing and able to work - we should provide them basic food and housing and healthcare for a limited period of time one time in their life (6 mos. or a year) and help them get the employment they want or give them employment in some government program the way they did during The Depression. As long as they stay employed, we help them anywhere they are falling short

2. Able to work but not willing to work - give them nothing and put them in prison if they violate any laws such as panhandling, begging, living or sleeping on public or private property, harassing people, etc.

3. Physically or mentally unable to work - we should provide them all the care they need until they are able to work. If they are never able to work, then we care for them forever. Put a cap on the maximum age required to work such as 55 or 60. After that, just take care of them

4. Criminals - prison

5. Homeless illegal immigrants - deportation

6. Everyone else (which will be very few by now) - deal with them on a case-by-case basis

In the situations where we as a nation are going to take care of someone, take good care of them, good, safe housing, good food, transportation, healthcare, etc.

Neither Democrats or Republicans have ever proposed something even close to this to deal with the homeless

[DreamLife7]

Love this

[MikeTheBartender]

Agreed.

[PA19062024]

How about skipping numbers one through to five, and just dealing with everyone on a case-by-case basis? Isn't that how it should be done anyway? Or would that be "too hard"?

[Anonymous]

Circumstances in my life could soon go in some very possible particular directions, transforming my life-long fairly comfortable suburban lifestyle into my very abruptly having my residency on the street begin.

Is that my fault?

Well, I got married over thirty years ago.
That mistake is firmly, undeniably on me.

I'm old.
I'm sick.
I died and was brought back a few months ago, with my health quickly declining precipitously since.
I'm angry about having been resuscitated.
This, whatever THIS is, could have been over and done with.
My wife was diagnosed with incurable brain cancer a few weeks after my brush with death.
My wife has also been deliberately hiding the state of our finances from me for our entire marriage.
I'm now finally discovering that our finances are in shambles.
My fault?
My fault for not reporting Domestic Financial Abuse, sure, that's my fault.
I haven't been able to be employed at any type of work for which I was once highly qualified, for years now, due to illness.
Here's what I can put on my resume: Still breathing.
My fault?

I'm not on the street yet, but I imagine how it might be.
I'm terrified of the thought of being homeless.
So, entitled, merely desperate, or incredibly stupid for ever having gotten married.
I'll let you make the call.
It'll give me some idea of that which I might expect to encounter if and when I end up there.

[legalboxers]

Prayers brother

[NaultD]

In that life, give an inch and people will take miles. The best thing to do is create a society where we spend the same amount of money solving the problems of homelessness as we do on anti-homeless measures and punishing the homeless. More importantly, we should help everyday people never become homeless in the first place.

I understand that it takes a lot of patience to help the homeless. The reality is, the stress of being homeless actively makes you mentally ill. Homelessness will actively give people schizophrenia. So the best thing for society to do is help people avoid homelessness before it starts.

[NaultD]

I hate being "We need solve the leak damage before de deal with the mold and humidity damage" but that is the reality of the situation but with real people.

The leak is capitalism isn't fitting or fixing with our modem day life or issues anymore. I'm open for new solutions. My 2 cents.

How about our government actually help people where market fear to tread. Creating the point of government without being scared of it.

[MikeTheBartender]

I've thought about the same thing as one of the only viable solutions... Help the people that are almost homeless and shift the resources there. There's also a HUGE NEED for more financial education in the USA. It blows my mind how many even seemingly intelligent people lose money in high interest loans, shit investments, credit cards, etc

[NaultD]

Complete overhaul of our school system. USA school was created catering to farmers I agree with

3 month Summer vacation shift around. Majority into winter vacation adding a week the rest evenly spreading out.

Getting a basic understanding of intrest rate In middle school with algebra should help.

[NaultD]

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[Summeroflove]

Not all homeless individuals are the same. But absolutely there is a percentage of them who have became very entitled to do anything they want to do.

I am not very nice when someone follows me or someone else around as if we owe them anything. I’m not against helping someone out. I don’t know the reason why some people are homlesss so I don’t judge them as a whole.

But plenty of them are on drugs. They can’t hold down a job…. Well they aren’t entitled to a job number one and two like I said. They end up failing drug tests and stuff like that

[MikeTheBartender]

American homeless are very entitled. I have traveled extensively to a lot of third world countries, I can say without a doubt America is the only place in the world that you see obese homeless. Think about that obese homeless...

[DreamLife7]

🤣🤣

[MikeTheBartender]

I have unfortunately worked with the homeless for many years, a lot of them actually get disability, around $1,000 a month, I talked to them about going to cheaper towns or places where they could easily get by $1,000 a month, but it is like talking to a brick wall. I talked to the ones that are eligible for disability but they don't even want to go to the disability office. Unfortunately it feels like a hopeless battle. Something needs to change but I don't know what it is.

[DreamLife7]

I'm laughing because I agree. Homeless people in America are extremely entitled. Like who the hell does he a stranger think he is combining up to my window while I'm paying tapping his cup for me to buy him starbucks? He needs to be careful doing that because one day he's going to get shot going up to random peoples cars.

[MikeTheBartender]

Totally agree

[ohsheeT]

Anonymous I want you to run for president I will vote for you you want to think about politics as long as you cannot be bought from either party or the people who are going to try to want to hire you they have lots of money and every year they will donate lots of money but only if you do what they want them to do if you can stay true to yourself I would vote for you. I agree with everything you said

[Makeushiver]

Would you exchange places with him? Me neither. I think the biggest loss caused by the information age is that we have lost our sense of compassion. I understand, driving in Manhattan is always like being a pinball bouncing from one hand out to another & we all develop "compassion fatigue". The homeless guy probably didn't ask to be homeless. I mean. I;d have felt the same way & would probably write this response to myself for doing the exact same thing.

[OtterMan68]

most are not needy in the sense they're just trying to get back on their feet and be independent. Most are either trying to feed an addiction or panhandle for a living.

Truly homeless people go to shelters and seek assistance from agencies

[DreamLife7]

Exactly

[Dargil]

They are entitled to human and Constitutional rights. It is up to charitable people to help them out, not government redistribution.

[exitseven]

if they are illegal aliens they are. American Citizens, not so much.

[Theodoricus]

Young and healthy ones are not especially entitled. They should seek a job and work.

[jimmy2]

Well most on streets are dying off due to Fentanyl or they cranking that stuff that is flesh eaten skin

[DreamLife7]

🤣🤣

[PA19062024]

Well, they're entitled to a home at least.