Something that shocked me

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What does that have to do with anything?

he said it should be made easier for the government to beable to force-medicate people because a lot of people on the streets are crazy (i thought it was just the drugs).

We have to think of more long term solution instead of band aid solutions as I posted earlier.

Give a man a fish, feed him for a day.

Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.

Oh, so that's what you mean!

I think there were always be homeless people, since some people chose to be homeless, sometimes I have been tempted, if it didn't get to negative forty here. haha. But I think another reason is mental disablities and although with medication they would be able to get and maintain jobs. If you think about it, to get the job they need medication, and to get medication they need money and to get money you need a job. Also, if they got a job, with their history it wouldn't be much better than minimum wage. My mom works as a psych nurse and she says that medication is so expensive alot of her patients have to decided if they should by food or medication. And we all have that nasty habit of eating so they eat go without medication lose their job become homeless and they are at square one.

Also, didn't Reagan close down some mental hospitals when he was in office? I am not sure but my mom sure knows since she says she has encountered alot of them.

Here in St. Petersburg, Florida they have ways of dealing with homeless people ( some of you might have seen the tent-slashing videos on youtube recently). Most of the time they round them up and throw them in jail, especially before a baseball game when tourists might be present ( apparently homeless people look offensive to people from Michigan and Canada). It is against the law to sleep on a park bench or lay in a doorway at night (even in a storm), and so it is easy to incarcerate them on these charges (I guess if you're homeless you either sleep on the ground or you go to jail). Many of these guys are mentally ill or have alcohol issues, so if the police find an open beer it's off to jail again where they take up valuable jail space ( meanwhile the jail has to let other people out early due to overcrowding). The mentally ill or alcoholic homeless inmates don't stay in jail long enough to get any sort of treatment so they just toss them back out on the street where another cop can pick them up in a few days and complete his quota for the month. Floriduh............

ha...i lived in orlando. just an hour and a half east. yeah, florida is pretty dumb....but you gotta start somewhere...and getting them off the streets is a start. coming up with a productive solution after you've gotten them off the streets is the real challenge.

homeless people are alright, i do think the mentally ill ones need some help though