BadComrade wrote:"Anyone willing to work hard can be rich"

There were nearly 4,000 homeless people on Long Island and more than 48,000 in New York City in 2005 -- the vast majority of them families with children, according to a federal government report released Wednesday.

The numbers were the result of a Department of Housing and Urban Development project that crunched numbers from shelters and thousands of volunteers who fanned out across the country to count the homeless, one by one.

Overall, the department found that there were 754,000 homeless in the United States on one night in January 2005, a "snapshot" of the population that officials said would prevent people from being counted twice over time. About 338,000 of the homeless were living outside.

In Suffolk, there were 2,728 homeless people, the vast majority in shelters. Dozens of volunteers walked through woods, over train tracks and into abandoned buildings to find 196 of them living on the streets. In Nassau there were 1,215 homeless, 91 of them outside.

In New York City, there were 43,759 people in municipal shelters and 4,395 on the streets, the report said.

However, even those who helped compile the numbers said they missed many homeless people, especially those living outside in scattered forest encampments on Long Island.

BadComrade wrote:

you wrote:And the way up is: ambition, hard work and sacrifice, meaning self-sacrifice in the end. It's as simple as that, bob.

Hard work: How can you work hard at a job you can't attain?

dipshit jigaboo wrote:

There were nearly 4,000 homeless people on Long Island and more than 48,000 in New York City in 2005 -- the vast majority of them families with children, according to a federal government report released Wednesday.

The numbers were the result of a Department of Housing and Urban Development project that crunched numbers from shelters and thousands of volunteers who fanned out across the country to count the homeless, one by one.

Overall, the department found that there were 754,000 homeless in the United States on one night in January 2005, a "snapshot" of the population that officials said would prevent people from being counted twice over time. About 338,000 of the homeless were living outside.

In Suffolk, there were 2,728 homeless people, the vast majority in shelters. Dozens of volunteers walked through woods, over train tracks and into abandoned buildings to find 196 of them living on the streets. In Nassau there were 1,215 homeless, 91 of them outside.

In New York City, there were 43,759 people in municipal shelters and 4,395 on the streets, the report said.

However, even those who helped compile the numbers said they missed many homeless people, especially those living outside in scattered forest encampments on Long Island.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longi ... 8424.story

Maybe someone should loan them some Ayn Rand, or teach them the values of self-sacrifice and hard work. Lazy bums need to get a job.

Boombats wrote:

matthew wrote:you ever had a conversation with a "poor" or homeless man? I have.....many times actually, and in several parts of the country.

Buying meth and handjobs from a man named Rufus doesn't count as "conversation."


Sorry everyone I know I said we should stop with this crap but I couldn't resist.

Hey, how about that Rush Limbaugh? What a doofus eh?

steve wrote:

matthew wrote: Genuine poverty is virtually nonexistent in this country.

You are out of your fucking mind.