I use Bottom Line Accounting and Tax Services in Republic. She works out of her home, but she is awesome, knows her shit, and has super reasonable prices.

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Could you explain what's going on here for me please? I might be out of the loop.

You do realize that I have a job, work full time, have very low expenses, and am still left with very little savings? Good luck getting a job without a mailing address as well. Many homeless people do not have ID, theft/loss of items is a very common problem. This is a barrier to employment. Getting clean clothes? Barrier to employment. Showering regularly? Barrier to employment. The incredibly high likelihood of being arrested simply for being homeless? Well you tend to get fired for a no call/no show, so barrier to employment.

And I guess fuck the mentally ill ones? There are shelters, but there's not nearly enough resources to deal with the homeless problem in large cities that way. They simply are not well funded enough, lack volunteers, and are a band aid fix for a systemic issue.

How does arresting people for sleeping on the sidewalk do anything to combat the core reasons for homelessness? It doesn't. They go and do convict labor for a little bit, make money for the jail system and the cycle repeats.

Talk to homeless people if you can, and figure out their story. Yeah, a lot of them are addicts, but sleeping on the street for a few years will do that to you. Don't judge them so harshly, you are far closer to that end of the spectrum than the other.

So, he isn't one affected by this law. Why are you even commenting?

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This isn't the way to do that though. We're at a point right now where people are living on a thinner margin than ever, and we don't have much of a safety net as a society. Once you get behind financially (through bad decisions or through no fault of your own) it has a way of snowballing. No matter how you find yourself in bad shape financially, I think you're at bare fucking minimum entitled to not being criminalized.

Right now the average American has little to no savings, and no assets to quickly sell. No options for a cash infusion to stay afloat, they fall homeless.

Making it illegal to be homeless is addressing the wrong part of that process.

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What lmafo

They figured out they are communist.

The state parks allow you to camp on there land but now you have to register and they have gates on park camping grounds as well.

Awesome thank you so much for the recommendation

I always had assumed it was a spoof on the Power Rangers phrase “It’s Morphin’ time!” Since that’s so much closer sounding to morbin. But I could be wrong.

I hope you never experience these misfortunes. You have clearly displayed your lack of compassion so I hope you are never in a place where that compassion might be the only thing saving your life.

I’m not homeless now because I had a support network, a surfeit of interpersonal charisma, and smarts. None of these were the product of my own efforts. Not everyone has those advantages, and very few indeed possess all three.

Mark 10:21-22 Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, ‘You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.’ When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving, for he had many possessions.

What color would red signify? There were a lot of shots as well.

I’m thinking it was some hillbilly celebration or some kind of raid involving a signal flare.

Written by a Filipino

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I am sure...

See, I believe in not judging a person by their residential status. I’ve never stolen a thing in my life—not even as a kid. And yet I’ve been homeless. It sucks. I’m grateful that not everyone was stingy with their charitableness. I always refused it because I’m too proud for my own good, but just being offered was enough to put a smile on my face for the day.

You don’t know what wars someone is fighting that you can’t even see. We can show kindness and solidarity to people who may be ready to give up, or we can hold our possessions ever-tighter and close ourselves off to the world.

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And you demonstrate wretchedness so very well...