Start Seeing Homeless People...

This is happening in 21st Century America.  Don't avert your eyes.  Choose LIFE.  

SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — Their bodies were found on public benches, lying next to bike paths, crumpled under freeway overpasses and stranded on the sun-drenched beach. Across Los Angeles County last year, the unsheltered died in record numbers, an average of five homeless deaths a day, most in plain view of the world around them.

Two hundred eighty-seven homeless people took their last breath on the sidewalk, 24 died in alleys and 72 were found on the pavement, according to data from the county coroner. They were a small fraction of the thousands of homeless people across the country who die each year.

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These people are part of a community, part of our country.  And more workers are coming... but we lack the will to process them in legally.  Just want to use up more workers to make our own lives easier.  It lessens us as a people if we simply look away from these dead bodies adding up, as if they are from another caste, and we are too busy to notice their deaths on our streets, or work together to help the neighbors who live alongside us...

Be Better, America!  We need to start addressing our issues here at home, so that we are not hardened and calloused to those in need who are dying daily in plain sight, it seems...

Got multiple homes? More money than you could ever spend or leave to you heirs? What are you doing to enrich the quality of life of other people around you?  It's not just a midwestern thing to be aware of what is happening in your community.  These are people, just like you and yours.  I wouldn't want to live somewhere where this was happening with no end in sight.  I'd work to help.  How about you?

Treat the underlying illness, not just the symptoms... We could do this, if the will was there and enough people cared about all lives, not just their own.

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“It’s like a wartime death toll in places where there is no war,” said Maria Raven, an emergency room doctor in San Francisco who co-wrote a study about homeless deaths.