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socialist_n_TN

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23. Well, there's a few on this thread that see the answer.........
Mon Jun 13, 2016, 01:10 PM
Jun 2016

Liberals support capitalism and capitalism needs homelessness.

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Why can't liberals solve homelessness? [View all] Cheese Sandwich Jun 2016 OP
One word - money. It takes money and most cities are struggling. tonyt53 Jun 2016 #1
You are right. I just retired from county government in CA where I worked on homeless grants. upaloopa Jun 2016 #2
How would a change in attitude solve the problems you mention, elleng Jun 2016 #27
It would take more taxes to solve the homeless problem upaloopa Jun 2016 #29
Extremely difficult to change that attitude, imo. elleng Jun 2016 #30
That's weird because right next to the homelessness there are enormous piles of concentrated wealth Cheese Sandwich Jun 2016 #7
Because EdwardBernays Jun 2016 #3
We have zipplewrath Jun 2016 #4
Great now that the solution is known, how long until homelessness is solved in all these cities Cheese Sandwich Jun 2016 #13
Or they don't "run the show". zipplewrath Jun 2016 #14
In some cities liberals do run the show, controlling the whole government. Cheese Sandwich Jun 2016 #16
Doesn't mean they can access it. zipplewrath Jun 2016 #17
I don't buy any of this story. I think any major city has more that enough resources to open a Cheese Sandwich Jun 2016 #18
Evidence? zipplewrath Jun 2016 #19
I thought that was the evidence. Cities run by liberals for decades but still have a lot Cheese Sandwich Jun 2016 #20
SS created the (retired) middle class zipplewrath Jun 2016 #21
The money goes to the wrong things ghostsinthemachine Jun 2016 #5
Good point, there seems to be a hell of a lot of money sloshing through some of these privately run Cheese Sandwich Jun 2016 #12
Homelessness is a by-product of the cutthroat capitalist system we use. Maedhros Jun 2016 #6
THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^^ socialist_n_TN Jun 2016 #22
What makes you think that the 1% who own the liberal politicians guillaumeb Jun 2016 #8
The capitalist solution to homelessness is probably to build more prisons. Cheese Sandwich Jun 2016 #9
Agreed, but they should be private prisons to maximize profit opportunities. eom guillaumeb Jun 2016 #10
It isn't allowed to be solved, the current housing market absolutely requires TheKentuckian Jun 2016 #11
Because the Democratic party has been under the control of the Thirdway Phlem Jun 2016 #15
Well, there's a few on this thread that see the answer......... socialist_n_TN Jun 2016 #23
Yep. nt LWolf Jun 2016 #25
This message was self-deleted by its author tralala Jun 2016 #24
You folks are missing a major contributor to the problem. ChairmanAgnostic Jun 2016 #26
It might helpful to understand who they are... jonno99 Jun 2016 #28
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