Homeless people in our cities

Posted by: CAT17

3rd May 2011 12:11am

WHY isn't there a charity set up to support the homeless in our cities> We all seem to be able to donate to "popular/well known" charities and yet dont think of the people who are sleeping in our parklands amd streets. Governments are always sending millions to foreign countries and yet spend nothing on our own people. Asylum seekers are housed, even in exspensive private hotels, why can't the same be done to ease the hardship that our own people are facing every day often through no fault of their own? Why has no government done something about this shameful situation. Winter will soon be here and things are going to be tougher. I wish I could organise a group to help, but unfortunately health issues prevent my involment. What do others feel about this situation.

PGS

21st Nov 2011 07:52pm

Sorry, Chicken - some are by choice. Kids that leave home citing 'irreconcilable differences' because they didn't want to clean thier room, do their homework or wash the dishes. On top of that, Centrelink (read: we, the lovely taxpayers) give them more than enough to live on for doing it.

Cat17, if you look around the world at the supposed 1st world countries, they all do the same - millions get sent OS to corrupt gov'ts that has no chance at all of getting to the intended, whilst ignoring what happens in their own countries. Most charities are over funded - which is why their CEOs get such big pays & bonuses. The ones in AU have more than enough to cover the 'homeless'.

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