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	Responsibility to Homeless

EnvoyPV

2-3-2009 12:24 PM

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government, welfare, economy

EnvoyPV says:

Clipmarks lost my first comment attempt, and I don't have time to recreate it all, so exec summary for now.

Writer of post uses this man to illicit pity and/or prompt action, but does not address the role of his own life-choices in his predicament.

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not," Thomas Jefferson

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