i've been working just southeast of downtown all week. hundreds of homeless folk, most of whom are obviously "mental". i'm too broke to give them much -and most of the time i'm just driving by - but it's certainly sad to see so many wasted lives and so much misery. i understand their desire to get high on something, anything, because there's nothing else but misery for them to contemplate. most of them belong in a mental hospital, and i don't think any of them are getting rich. in fact, i don't believe any of them are. however, if some here use that as a defense mechanism to avoid thinking about the issue, well,... so be it.

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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."