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   From: rsweeney1@comcast.net   
      
   "basilod"  wrote in message news:EHuFb.8802   
      
   > > No one starves in the United States.  No one.   
   > >   
   > Have you ever walked around Manhattan, or have you ever been in its   
   subway?   
   > Can you also say that "No one is homeless in the United States.  No one."?   
      
   He didn't say that there were no homeless, only that there was no starvation   
   as one can find in the third world.   
      
   But... let's talk about WHY the majority of homeless ARE homeless:   
   alcoholism, drug abuse, mental illness.   
      
   The first two are problems with a lack of personal responsibility and no   
   amount of socialism will fix it.   
   The latter is due to our desire to pretend that everyone is fine.   
      
   So, the majority of homeless will remain, regardless of economic   
   opportunity, unless we are willing as a society to re-open the mental   
   patient warehouses and place drunks and addicts into coercive rehab and/or   
   prison.   
      
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