The cartoon on today’s editorial page of the Wall Street Journal shows two homeless people sitting on a sidewalk, covering themselves with cardboard. One says to the other, “That’s the thing with crypto currency investing. It’s all about the long haul.”
What do the homeless really say? Do most of us even care? The Opinion section of last Sunday’s New York Times shared what some homeless people really are saying. When the reporter asked, “What would you do to stop homelessness?” 52-year-old Clyde Hone said, “I would take people and have them experience what it is like being homeless.”
Kayla, 32-years-old, described her biggest stress: “Coming up with a way to make money and find a warm, dry place to sleep for the night.”
A 52-year-old woman in Los Angeles lives out of a car. “I feel the government don’t want to help the homeless. Our system is a joke.”
The reporter asked, “What’s the hardest part about being doubled up at other people’s homes?” A 33-year-old woman with five children has been living on friends’ couches. She answered, “It feels like we can’t have our own opinions. None of us have any privacy or alone time.”
“What would you do if you were in charge?” A 9-year-old said, “Tell people what to do, and help homeless, and help people.”
One final quotation, and this one really haunts me. “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head” (Matthew 8:20).
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