I'm tired of bums with cardboard signs

QuickSilver said:
I would think you would be happy to do it for the sheer joy of it... and Ya know... keep your skills sharp...
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Well, going after anyone who looks like a gang banger keeps our skills plenty sharp already.

The sheer joy of it, yes, we agree - but bullets and knife sharpening still cost money. As do our nifty uniforms.
 
I'm against enabling people not to get on their, own, two feet, if they are able. As far as back-peddling, or changing my mind, my mind is open to other folks helping me if I have a wrong attitude, or idea.

I learned a lot from this thread, thank you all for you comments:)
 
I believe there are countless reasons for homelessness. I wonder what the answer is. I certainly do not know. Years ago people could go to Social Services and get a room/ food voucher. The room was a fleabag hotel for a night or more. i see broken lives in the homeless...but people who aren't homeless have all the same problems. Go figure. Alcohol, drugs tear up the fabric of people's lives...but so do countless other things. I just think we are all frail human beings.

It's great some people are financially secure but even that is no guarantee of happiness. Some people live miserly, paranoid lives while stacking up their money and feeling all smug and superior. I only know everything is fleeting and if you think it's not...think again. I think my years of typing reports and taking calls at a sheriffs dept. opened a window into the lives of ordinary people I never imagined. It humbled me in many ways. People make some terrible decisions in a moment of weakness that forever changes them and people who love them.

I worked for what I have, but I always knew even then..things can blow up. Companies go broke or bankrupt. I don't focus on all the misery in the world 24/7 or I'd go crazy (crazier? Lol)...but I have a healthy respect for being lucky to have come this far.

i think of my husband's cousin. She was a brilliant, beautiful girl. She worked hard to become an attorney and found a great guy to marry. She was pregnant with her first child when she layed down to take a nap and never woke...brain aneurism. Her devastated husband (also an attorney) just kind of dropped out...quit a good job and moved away. I always wondered if he was able to pick up the pieces. Anyway, I know we all know of stories like this. I just feel fortunate to be here and to have what I do. I don't know if there is a final answer. Denise, I'm sorry you feel unsafe where you like to walk...but I'm also glad you have a home.
 
SifuPhil said:
Only because the U.S. soldiers had more government money behind them.

And we vigilantes don't mind ending up in second place, as long as innocent civilians do not.
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Of course you would have absolute certainty who was innocent and who wasn't.... but if not... what's a little "collateral damage" in the greater scheme of things.... By the way.. I can get you a deal on some nice BROWN fabric for your "nifty uniforms"..
 
QuickSilver said:
Of course you would have absolute certainty who was innocent and who wasn't.... but if not... what's a little "collateral damage" in the greater scheme of things.... By the way.. I can get you a deal on some nice BROWN fabric for your "nifty uniforms"..
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Actually, we were discussing changing over to hot pink with taupe accents ... :D
 
Shalimar said:
Personally I find the idea of it being your rabbit hole, judgemental. Has anyone read R.D. Laing's book Knots? It is awesome.
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Jill can see Jack can't see ...

Yep.

It IS my rabbit hole, because I sweep it out once in a while, and have a nifty little wood plaque with my name on it up top.

 
Shalimar said:
Philly, did you find Alice down that rabbit hole? Perhaps a caterpillar? Go ask Alice when she's ten feet tall! Gimme that mushroom.
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Actually I ran into the Caterpillar first, we toked up and I forgot about anything else.
 

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