You can't pick your self up by your boot straps if you don't have boots. Something that is conveniently overlooked by those who advocate letting everyone fend for themselves in the supposedly greatest and richest nation in history.
Los Angeles' homelessness crisis is a national disgrace - Los Angeles Times - Discussion on Topix
There are few sights in the world like nighttime in skid row, the teeming Dickensian dystopia in downtown Los Angeles where homeless and destitute people have been concentrated for more than a century. Here, men and women sleep in rows, lined up one after another for block after block in makeshift tents or on cardboard mats on the sidewalks - the mad, the afflicted and the disabled alongside those who are merely down on their luck.
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