Re: [GBlist] houses old, new, borrowed recycled blue

["Beverly A. Weiter" <environs.com@juno.com>]

Steve,  

I agree with you.  Housing has become way too expensive.  What's worse,
we have as a nation lost perspective on our priorities.

Here in Central Florida a number of communities, in an effort to save
money, are closing homeless shelters or banning the homeless from a
number of public facilities.  Meanwhile our government is spending
hundreds of millions on homeless and displaced persons in other
countries.

It may be an unpopular sentiment, but I think our own people should come
first.  If we continue to expend our resources on others by draining the
well here, we will increasingly find those is this country unable to
sustain the drain.  What we need to do is make more of our people
productive so there is a larger base from which to funnel aid elsewhere. 
That can only be done by helping homeless people to find a place to live
so they can concentrate on finding work.  While it's true some are
unemployable, an increasing number of them are laid off workers and
families.

Sorry for the rant.  Hope I didn't offend anyone.

Beverly Weiter
Environs Interiors
Deland, FL
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