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Originally Posted by JustRalph
I have a ton of experience in both areas.
Homeless:
75% refuse to get out, accept real help because it's too easy to live on the street and take advantage of the system and they don't have to get sober.
[B]Because who wouldn't want to sleep in a cardboard box and live on restaurant scraps instead of having a job and living in a home.
20% mentally ill and a little bit of the above.
And 38% are alcohol dependent and 26% abused drugs. All of them are out there with little or no chance of recovery because Republicans starting with Reagan declared them evil and defunded programs that would help them.
5% newly homeless working the game because they made terrible mistakes. They will soon be saved by family etc or fall into one of the other categories.
Welfare: Culturally accepted and normalized in 75% of the cases. Mom did it, I will to. Why should I work? Work is for suckers. White, black everything in between.
That 75% figure is almost meaningless. It means 75% of those currently on welfare have been on for five or more years. Since half the people on welfare leave within a year and an additional 20% leave within two years and a further 20% leave within five years that means the 75% figure is actually much smaller than it seems. You need to compare the number of people on welfare more than five years with the total of all people on welfare over the course of those five years, not just those currently on welfare.
The important and true statistics are: 50% of welfare recipients leave in less than a year; 70% leave in less than two years; 90% leave in less than three years. Since those statistics are true, it is impossible that 75% of all welfare recipients are on welfare for more than five years.
20% Illegal immigrants et al
5% Newly on welfare, will be temp participants. Deserved poor for a short time. Layoffs etc. will go back to work.
This is strictly welfare. Not disability etc. but it's a mess too.
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What would you know about it? You were a cop; probably not a very good one at that. Someone is going to get all bent out of shape because I said that with no evidence to back it up. Yet, that is exactly what you are doing. Making judgements with no evidence.
However many homeless you encountered on your job is not one tenth of one tenth of one tenth of one tenth of one percent.
