A real topic of discussion: Our Nations Most Major Crisis

A child is a wonderful thing. There is an innocent quality to children, just as long as they do not have to live in poverty, in fear, or under mental or physical abuse. (I should note that Religious Fanactisim(sp?) should be labled as abuse. Only because brainwashing is considered abuse as well.) But a growing number of children are being raised on one or more of these conditions. You may ask yourself who cares about kids in third world countries? I am going to tell you I am not talking about third world country kids. There are more homless families now then there was eight years ago. For many reasons not dealing with drugs or alchohol. I was once homeless, I had no drug or alchohol problem. I didn’t do drugs and I didn’t drink. But I was homeless. The exact details do not matter so I am not going to list them. But while I stayed at flop houses, shelters, and abandoned buildings. I made some friends, families, a sad fact is that most shelters do not admit you if you do not have some kind of drug or alchohol problem. Family shelters are even lower still. People are losing thier jobs, getting laid off and are having trouble finding work. Even day labor is scarce. The one thing I learned while I was homeless about our society is that no one cares. Everyone only cares about themselves no one really cares for other people. How many times have you seen a homeless person with a sign that said will work for food? How many times have you offered to feed him at your house or let him stay with you? Try to help that person get a job. The major thing that stops the homeless from getting jobs is lack of showers. These shelters do not care, to stay one night at the salvation army it costs 10 dollars. You get kicked out in the morning at 3:30 Am. 99% of all shelters have a charge that most of the homeless cannot pay every day. So what you are probably thinking right now what is the topic? I will tell you our nations Most Major Crisis. The lack of community. Not too long ago, if someone asked someone else for help a neighbor or friend for example, we helped. We saw a homeless person we took him to dinner and fed him and gave him some left overs. We used to talk to our nieghbors. Now we are lucky if we know our nieghbors first names. No one cares about the fellow man anymore. No one cares about anything but themselves and thier own. The things people care about is stuff that they can do nothing about. Let’s get into our SUV’s and go picket an Abortion Clinic. Meanwhile a family that has no where to go because the house insurance does not cover any “Act of God” is now waiting in line at a shelter they are unsure they will get into. And after your tiring day of holding a picket sign you look down at the homeless family and laugh. These are things that happen every day. I see hypocracy every where, I see the sad state America is in right now. The worst thing is no one cares, the caring in this nation is gone. So called Christians do not invite the downtrodden and desperate into thier homes. They do not try to help them. Some churches do but most do not. Homeless shelters are becoming more like homes than they need to be. I know times are hard, that is why we must stick together. But do we? No we do not. I see demonstrations on different things, on the news everywhere I look. Stop immigration, Stop Abortion, Stop this, Stop that. I see infomercials about a christian children’s fund trying to make you feel guilty and pay money to children in Africa. When children in our country are going hungry, without medical care, without education. It is fine for us to care about African children but not our own? I remember what it was like to share a delapedated garage with a family because of reasons out of my control. I saw the desperation, the mother and father cleaning thier kids up with someone else’s hose. Sending them to school then going to day labor hoping there is work so they can eat and maybe get a bed and a shower later. I saw the way people looked at them because they carried everything they owned on thier back. Yet Angelina Jolee is a saint. She helps children in “less fortunate countries” but not here. We need to fix our system our problems before we try to save the world. Many people are unaware of what is going on in this nation. Most people do not care just as long as it does not effect them. This is our Nations Most Major Crisis, not homelessness, but the lack of community values in this nation. The lack of caring about other citizens. This Crisis must be addressed, it must be fixed. The government cannot fix this Crisis. But we the citizens can.