I was reading Natalie's blog tonight and saw something about a tent city in Sacramento.
Huh?
Sounds a little like the shantytown that once stood in NYC's Central Park. Are we moving in that direction again? They were saying that foreclosures and job losses are resulting in more people moving to the tent city and I had to shake my head. Not because the government should be protecting these people (although they should), not because employers should be doing more to protect workers (um, like not going on vacation instead of paying people), no, what I'm shaking my head at is these people's friends, family and neighbours. Do you have someone that loves you? Would they take you in if you were thrown out of your home? Chances are you do and they would. Or would they? I can't imagine that there was no one to take them in. What are we coming to here? Money is lovely and all but if you can't help your friends with it then what is the point? I'm baffled.
You get into trouble, you give me a call. My door is open.
1 comment:
It is really sad, isn't it? All I can think is that those people don't have others in their lives, whether it is their own fault or not. Either way it is sad.
I really like that commercial by Allstate that has been on lately talking about how when things get bad that is when people start enjoying the little things again. There is always good that comes out of bad situations.
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