This winter, twice as many homeless families sought emergency shelterPeople, get your shit together! Save your goddamn money instead of living beyond your means! Each one of these "reasons" for homelessness could be avoided if the people saved their money.
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority says 620 families sought shelter in the last 3 months, compared with 330 last winter. Individual shelter-seekers increased about 4% across L.A. County.
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"I think the economy has been really hard on families," said Rebecca Isaacs, executive director of the Homeless Services Authority. "There are many triggers for homelessness: an eviction, an increase in rent, the loss of a job, a health tragedy, domestic violence. A lot of people are living very close to the edge."
If you save your money, you can dip into your bank account to afford an increase in rent and avoid eviction. Move into a cheaper place while you're at it. If you lose your job or fall into bad health, you can live off of your savings for a while until you get a new job or your health improves. If you're a victim of domestic violence, you should have your own savings account so you can leave the person that beat you. Furthermore, during prosperous times, you can learn new profitable skills, go to school, acquire licenses or certifications, etc., so that you can make more money and be more marketable. Then, if you lose your job, you can bounce back faster.
The short sightedness of these people amazes me....apparently no one read them the fable "The Ant and the Grasshopper" when they were young.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_GrasshopperThe Rev. Andy Bales, the mission's chief executive, speculated that foreclosures were probably throwing more families onto the street than individuals. And recently laid-off individuals were probably more likely to find a friend or family member to take them in, he added.As it should.
"When you bring the whole family into a house, the welcome wears out sooner," he said.
While neighbors had many concerns about the shelter -- including worries about sex offenders, which the shelter has tried to resolve -- they were also upset that more people than anticipated were walking through residential and commercial neighborhoods into the shelter at night, he said.Call them crazy, but Burbank residents don't want dangerous, insane, homeless sex offenders and criminals with nothing to lose roaming their neighborhoods!
The photo caption from the LA Times: Alitha Chism, 28, reads a bedtime story to her children Friday at the Union Rescue Mission in downtown L.A. The family was evicted after Alitha’s husband Amos, in back, lost his job and their apartment went into foreclosure.Damn, four kids at 28? Haven't you guys heard of the many different kinds of birth control? To name a few: condoms, the pill, the morning after pill, foams, vasectomies, even abortions and the pull out method...USE THEM. Either that or keep your fucking legs shut you whore Alitha and your dick in your pants you deadbeat Amos. Now you're all homeless and giving your kids a shitty life because you didn't like the way condoms felt. What the fuck were you thinking? Oh wait, like my mom would say, you weren't thinking. Stupid trashy assholes, you belong on http://whythefuckdoyouhaveakid.com. I hope you get back on your feet and that one day you google your names, find this post, and realize how much you fucked up and how much I hate you.
