Homeless in Downtown Seattle...
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The problem is you and others need to open your homes and welcome these under privileged folks into a loving environment. People such as you and I are very blessed and once you open your home and heart to these people they will see the light of God. When God is in the lives of these people they will continue to better themselves and spread the word. God is good.
Peace and blessings.
Peace and blessings.
I drive by there a lot when I'm driving around dropping shit off when i'm at work....just one of the many thing i have to do...
i got a copy of real change last week, and read some of it, there were actually a couple good articles...and the dude i got it from actually knew about it cause i asked him some questions.
you never know though, one of those homeless people might really be filthy rich and just doin that shit to do it cause they can.
i got a copy of real change last week, and read some of it, there were actually a couple good articles...and the dude i got it from actually knew about it cause i asked him some questions.
you never know though, one of those homeless people might really be filthy rich and just doin that shit to do it cause they can.
Them dudes are tricky...I see the same 4-5 kats on Spokane St. all the time.One of'em was chippin his teeth on a CELL PHONE,and another time a lady who is always askin for change was drivin a BRAND NEW FORD ESCORT that still had the paper license plate in the window.Some of'em are eatin...just lookin for your hard earned money for free.
I've lived/worked in downtown for years now and the second it starts getting a little nicer out and closer to spring/summer the bum population seems to triple. It happens every year. I guess compared to a lot of big cities Seattle is pretty lenient on pan handling, etc. That's probably the reason why.
Approx 1 in 4 homeless are veterans.
approx 1 in 4 homeless are products of foster care
approx 1 in 4 homeless suffer from moderate to severe mental illness
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/publications/facts/Mental_Illness.pdf
not sure the percentage if we were to intersect the two on a ven diagram.
Here's a fun little story, we go into a war against terror all over the middle east and spend 12 billion a month, at the same time, our dickhead asshole president cuts taxes and in turn cuts funding to programs that can provide services to our homeless, we create more homeless by shipping them to the desert to witness some ill shit, then the average american calls all homeless shiftless leaches, and lets the perception of a few 'nickle & dime' hustlers who exploit peoples kindness represent the entire homeless population, b/c it makes it validates their excuse to say fuck them, they ain't gettin' none of my chips....
remember folks, the more you give the more you get....
approx 1 in 4 homeless are products of foster care
approx 1 in 4 homeless suffer from moderate to severe mental illness
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/publications/facts/Mental_Illness.pdf
not sure the percentage if we were to intersect the two on a ven diagram.
Here's a fun little story, we go into a war against terror all over the middle east and spend 12 billion a month, at the same time, our dickhead asshole president cuts taxes and in turn cuts funding to programs that can provide services to our homeless, we create more homeless by shipping them to the desert to witness some ill shit, then the average american calls all homeless shiftless leaches, and lets the perception of a few 'nickle & dime' hustlers who exploit peoples kindness represent the entire homeless population, b/c it makes it validates their excuse to say fuck them, they ain't gettin' none of my chips....
remember folks, the more you give the more you get....
and these cats are angry too....i was at king street station saturday touchin down and watched one of these cats flash on a jar head lookin cat....i mean the homeless dude was screamin at the top of his lungs about what the jar head said to him....when he took his jacket off and squared off with dude i almost lost it laughin....i was like damn...wtf this guy say to make this dude flash like that...man you had to be there...it was like bum fights meets the marine core....hahaha
my friend's Dad was homeless in Seattle for a couple weeks when he was making his way up to Alaska back in the early 90s. I guess he was saying they got cut a check every friday or thursday so they could get booze...
which I guess is a good thing to have when you're homeless.
But just so ya'll are aware, I remember in 2005 Detroit was the most homeless city in the U.S.
and I honestly doubt if that's changed at all.
which I guess is a good thing to have when you're homeless.
But just so ya'll are aware, I remember in 2005 Detroit was the most homeless city in the U.S.
and I honestly doubt if that's changed at all.