There really is no reason, for any healthy society, to have people sleeping out on the street. A country as wealthy and powerful as the United States (and for how much we like to tout our wealth and power) should not let its citizens rest on a park bench, under a dirty blanket, or on the concrete. And if such a gross display of negligence were to happen, the government should definitely not spend millions of dollars irritating, demonizing, and using every bit of their force to trash the scraps of their settlements and push them forward to oblivion, danger, and another unstable place to be. Good thing that’s not happening here, right?
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