A Man on A Planet

I am assuming safety by saying that most people who live in or near a metropolitan area have seen either a homeless person or a beggar at some point in the span of their past. However, I cannot safely suggest a generalized reason for how they arrive in said situation.

I am troubled by the many possibilities that I am aware of for how they have come to their current condition as I have yet to arrive at a single pleasant notion that would bring about such an end [state].

I know that many people feel that homeless people should not be afforded housing and food because they believe that the homeless should get jobs like everyone else. What happens when they can’t run off to get a job or when they do get an interview, they can’t get hired due to their lack of access to clothing and hygenic necessities? There are probably some people who are looking for a free ride. However, logically a person will not subject themselves to begging for scraps of income for the sake of not doing work; begging is not an easy job and it doesn’t produce the volume of earnings that our legends often proclaim.

If we change our view from looking at this situation like we are giving handouts and therefore cosigning this state of being to offering assistance to people who need help, we can potentially do these people and ourselves a favor by getting them off of the street and giving them tools to be more self-sufficient (few of us are actually 100% self-sufficient).

It is my belief that a person should not have to work to the point of bad knees and bloody knuckles to afford shelter and nourishment.