War on Homeless - Many Questions

I am sick to my stomach to see all these headlines in the news about the homeless people in so many cities and towns being arrested for being who they are.

Like it or not, most people are one or two paychecks from being in the same situation.  Ask yourself this, how long before you would be out on the street if you were fired from your job?

How long would your savings last?

It good and heartwarming to see the people of Portland taking a stand for those less fortunate.

http://intellihub.com/portland-residents-protect-homeless-police-pitchforks-torches/

When will this madness end?  When will those in power realize that we all have rights?

Why is it so easy to pick on the homeless?

What crime have these poor people committed?  What have they done wrong?  Did they negotioate the trade deals like NAFTA that shipped millions of jobs to Mexico?

Did they choose to have the call centers for mega corporations like Comcast/Kabletown located in the Phillipines?

Did they choose to make all the clothing in Pakistan or Vietnam?

No they did not, that is called capitalism?  or should I say GREED of the 1%

Did they choose to have all their manufactured goods in China?

Where are the picket lines to protest all these corporations to force them to get their products in made in the USA?

I never say always or never, but I could probably guess that most homeless do not like to be in the situation they are in.  Is this the case for all of them?

Probably not.

Take a look around, is food getting cheaper?

Is gas getting less expensive?

How is that unemployment number doing?  If you like real statistics, then the real number is about 24%.  That is almost a quarter of the population who wants a job, cannot get one.  That number does not include the vast amount of people who have plain given up on finding a job.  There is nothing out there, unless you count being in "sales", which is always a possibility, except that many people do not have the money for discretionary spending.

Unless we start making things again in this country we are screwed.  We need to make things again.  How do we make that happen?  I am sure the 1% have the answers to that.

I went on a cross country drive a couple of years ago, as I was traveling, I would go from town to town, and see the same sadness, the same desperation, the same small towns hanging on by the slimmest of threads, and I would also see the abandoned factories, farms, small business, that cried for help, and no one is listening.

Our leaders in Washington are so caught up in their own shenanigans, that they literally cannot see the forest through the trees.  They are so busy lining their pockets with corruptible cash, they are blind to the despair this country is facing.  It is so sad, we were great, once.