"What a joke we are paying $115,000 per year to keep a criminal alive yet our elderly are left to die in homes and families live on the street."
Good post misty, exactly right. If we looked at the amount of money spent on housing and "rehabilitating" criminals who have no intention of changing their life it is disgusting.
But on the flip side, there are those that actually like to live the life of a hobo with no possessions, but there are many more that are living that life through circumstances they fell into and could see no way out.
I read some time ago of a family man who lost his job, but was too afraid to tell his family, so for as long as he could hold out he would still get up in the morning, leave for work, but instead he go to the job agency and wait for any chance of a job. If nothing came up he would go to the local park and sit there until it would be the time he would normally go home to his family which he would do, but never let on he had lost his job to anybody he knew. It was just too humiliating for him.
Sometimes people need space to gather their thoughts, pride is an emotion that can be very destructive as well and can put up mental walls that are hard to penetrate.
The best we can do for some homeless people is to let them know that there is a way out...but the fact is they have to help themselves before anybody can help them. As the saying goes; "You can take a horse to water but you cannot make him drink"...the want or desire has to come from within, though encouragement goes a long long way...
