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<blockquote data-quote="gcvmom" data-source="post: 156376" data-attributes="member: 3444"><p>JoG -- I totally agree with your post. </p><p> </p><p>I understand that for many homeless folks, the circumstances truly are beyond their control. And as a society, we all must share in the welfare of those people until they are able to be <em><u>sef-sufficient and mainstreamed back into society.</u></em></p><p> </p><p>But I also know there are many, especially in my Southern California community, who live up to their eyeballs in debt just so they can have the biggest, or flashiest, or [insert adjective]-est car, house, clothes, vacations, whatever. The signs of affluence are everywhere in my town, but I cannot believe that there are THAT many people making the kind of money needed to afford a mortgage on a multi-million dollar home, not to mention the property tax, plus luxury cars, designer clothing, expensive vacations, etc. Surely, many of them must be living far beyond their means, and that, I believe is the root of many evils. There's a generation of people in our country who have an overblown sense of entitlement. And meanwhile, they drive past the homeless family on the street corner in their BMW without batting an eye... Shameful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gcvmom, post: 156376, member: 3444"] JoG -- I totally agree with your post. I understand that for many homeless folks, the circumstances truly are beyond their control. And as a society, we all must share in the welfare of those people until they are able to be [I][U]sef-sufficient and mainstreamed back into society.[/U][/I] But I also know there are many, especially in my Southern California community, who live up to their eyeballs in debt just so they can have the biggest, or flashiest, or [insert adjective]-est car, house, clothes, vacations, whatever. The signs of affluence are everywhere in my town, but I cannot believe that there are THAT many people making the kind of money needed to afford a mortgage on a multi-million dollar home, not to mention the property tax, plus luxury cars, designer clothing, expensive vacations, etc. Surely, many of them must be living far beyond their means, and that, I believe is the root of many evils. There's a generation of people in our country who have an overblown sense of entitlement. And meanwhile, they drive past the homeless family on the street corner in their BMW without batting an eye... Shameful. [/QUOTE]
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