Re: Homeless solutions
Worked up about what, your snarky-prone replys, or the homeless problem? You, I can easily combat with humor, the latter does affect me personally (like everybody that doesn't have an ultra-pampered life), and is impossible to win singlehandedly, seeing people suffer needlessly at high costs to the community and smelling human waste so often is pathetic and unacceptable. This can mostly be resolved with little problem. Yes, that get's me worked up. I appreciate your reply concerning the tenements/flops, I remember many of those and they were a stopgap for many, but there were always those few that fell thru the cracks and onto the streets. There's not much to catch people on their way down now or to help them back up, that equals a weak community and ultimately a weak nation, of which we certainly are at this point.
Now, if you're asking if I'm homeless, in my current line of work I am bound to be between residences on occassion as it's usually impossible to know when the end of a term is approaching since people can die or things can and do change unexpectantly, just as when I've been boat/housesitting. I like to live rent-free, and have gloriously for 80% of my nearly 40 years here, Oahu is a goldmine for that. But you never know what's around the next corner when you live like that, or even as a renter, so I quickly learned to do homeless exceedingly well and it's no problem for me, especially since I'll probably be unhomeless again in short order. I consider myself homeless since leaving home at 16, usually with a roof of varying quailties over my head (sometimes I really score, like now and with my previous sitch), but other times I'm lazy and go wild if that's where life's road winds. It's way better for me than considering the available disgusting shelters, and the same attitude prevails amongst many whom I talk to and otherwise hear from. I'm familiar with the good, bad, and ugly, I know intimately what will work in solving these issues and what won't. In a few years I'll be retirement age and applicable for the bennies that comes with that, but meanwhile I want things to be better for those worse off which means bettering things for those well off too, they (like most, it seems) all too often don't see the benefits of helping those under them.
Originally posted by Frankie's Market
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Now, if you're asking if I'm homeless, in my current line of work I am bound to be between residences on occassion as it's usually impossible to know when the end of a term is approaching since people can die or things can and do change unexpectantly, just as when I've been boat/housesitting. I like to live rent-free, and have gloriously for 80% of my nearly 40 years here, Oahu is a goldmine for that. But you never know what's around the next corner when you live like that, or even as a renter, so I quickly learned to do homeless exceedingly well and it's no problem for me, especially since I'll probably be unhomeless again in short order. I consider myself homeless since leaving home at 16, usually with a roof of varying quailties over my head (sometimes I really score, like now and with my previous sitch), but other times I'm lazy and go wild if that's where life's road winds. It's way better for me than considering the available disgusting shelters, and the same attitude prevails amongst many whom I talk to and otherwise hear from. I'm familiar with the good, bad, and ugly, I know intimately what will work in solving these issues and what won't. In a few years I'll be retirement age and applicable for the bennies that comes with that, but meanwhile I want things to be better for those worse off which means bettering things for those well off too, they (like most, it seems) all too often don't see the benefits of helping those under them.
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