You obviously have no experience with homeless people.
They are almost never homeless for lack of a home.
I do and Matthew's right.
Matthew is a clueless idiot because most of the homeless in America have mental, drug or alcohol problems which led to their being on the streets in the first place. You naive buffoons think they're going to sober up and go to college?
Agreed on all counts...particularly Mattieboy being an idiot.
There are those down on their luck, who become homeless not due to mental, drug, or alcohol problems...but these people are likely a very small percentage of the homeless.
Happen to me and ended up in Oregon after the Military. Went into a shelter and the next day got a job and a few weeks later my own place.
Matt has never been homeless and has no clue what the life is like and furthmore I have hiked across this country working fron town to town for a few years by choice...
Given that I did live in Portland and worked on the Shoreline Project as a young man, I do know that there were programs particular to that city that still are not in many others. I also know that in Portland you can get housing when you have zero income by going to the housing authority of Portland. This also does not happen in other places. So then you just can't make the claims you make without saying that you did not get help because of the fact you could have applied to get into the project, you could have had zero income and a place to stay, and as part of the shoreline program you would have gotten connected for a job. And if you had not done that, still the fact you were given a job then you were indeed handed a chance.
Now what you did by choice doesn't apply to anyone but you, therefore to make claims about everybody because YOU chose to hike is just not right.
I've worked with homeless and formerly homeless people, and if we are going to talk about Matt in this way, then there are others here who have never been homeless either and their opinions should be considered by you to be just as silly and lacking clues who happen to be coservative.