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Message: <blockquote data-quote="husker77" data-source="post: 7930589" data-attributes="member: 641116">We have a homeless shelter here(as I'm sure everyone does), I have to deal with it several times a week for work, and a member of our church used to work there. The place is a run down dump, the residents are in charge of maintaining it, since they don't have jobs they have plenty of time. They do everything half assed if they put any effort at all into it. There is trash everywhere, things broken from them not taking care of things. They spent quite a bit of money on some renovations, and it is all ruined, and it's been less than a year. With the church member working there lots of us other members used to volunteer a lot, but that has pretty much stopped, they wont do anything for themselves or take any responsibility. You walk around the place they just loiter around smoking and bsing. Many of the local businesses used to hire them on a daily or short term basis to do odd jobs and such, but the people did such horrible jobs that most have stopped. My dad has donated some really nice older furniture to them lately and within 3 weeks I see it completely destroyed out in the trash. They seem to do a piece on the local news about once a week about a resident, they always talk about how they had a good job, then the economy tanked and they lost it. DUH, you were a piece of **** worker, so who is the first one to be let go when it is time to cutback? I feel most(I didn't say all) people in this situation have only themselves to blame.And your right Proximity people don't need millions of dollars, but you can not regulate compassion and charity. And I would be willing to bet most of the people you vilify as greedy donate a lot of money and time to charity.Let us say you had every dime over $100,000 that every US citizen made, what would you do with it? How would you make the system better?</blockquote>

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