Things That Don't Suck

“…one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times… is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice.”

having been homeless, I can say with certainty that very, very few people are homeless by choice. I don’t think I have ever met anyone who said they wanted to be homeless. The homeless by choice BS is just another conservative attack on the “unwillingness” of lazy people to do what is necessary to make their lives better. To them everything that happens to people is their own fault and often down to personal faults in character. If you weren’t so lazy, you’d have money. If you worked harder you could afford this or that. If you spent wisely, instead of buying that phone, tv, computer, etc., you’d be able to afford the necessities. 

Oh, how uncertain everything is. And yet part of the order. Clarice Lispector