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In article ,
(Blind Joni) wrote:

I'm in the same boat. We played a little gig Sunday at which a now-homeless
woman was assaulted somewhere in the vicinity and came in for help. She was
recently laid off from the college where she worked as a groundskeeper due
to

budget cuts and now has nowhere to live and no support system. There's just
too
much of this kind of crap going on.

Hold on a minute....can you elaborate a little. A women gets laid off....she
is
instantly homeless..then assaulted. I agree this sounds like a tragedy but to
think this is commonplace is a little hysterical. And what exactly is to be
done? What was the rest of the story? For the record ..I believe that every
poiltician is dishonest at best.

Well, it's commonplace enough. The rest of the story... she's probably an
alcoholic on the fringe of society. So does that entitle her to a life on the
street? Life can be very hard for those people with marginal social skills and
self-control. Before Reagan emptied the institutions in California, this kind
of thing was much less common. There are inadequate safety nets provided and
the rest of us just have to deal with the fallout.

-Jay
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