"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:lC2nd.422928$D%.59195@attbi_s51...
You're either lying, or just plain ignorant of what is available in
America.

I defy you to produce even ONE person in this country that fits your
description.

I'm a little confused by your reply. What is it about all of the poor
people (many of them homeless) who die every year because they didn't have
the necessary resources to survive that you just don't get?

Do various social welfare programs exist to try to minimize the problem?
Sure. But are those programs sufficient to protect every single poor
person? Not even close. After all of the publicly available resources are
used up, there still remain a large number of people for whom the only
recourse is steal or die.

Find me ONE person who had no government program to avail themselves of,
no homeless shelter to live in, no church to feed them, and no
Medicaid-paid drug, alcohol, or mental health services to assuage their
ills.

They are everywhere. Even in your little college town, and especially in
every major city across the country. They die every day as a result of
their poverty and unwillingness to steal.

Find me ONE, and you've got a free night in the Pan Am Clipper suite.

Please. If you are too set in your determined ignorance to simply look
around you, or to look up the mortality statistics yourself and think I
ought to do your homework for you, you ought to at least offer something
that is of value to me.

Pete