This subject has really become an issue with me this week that I would like to share. Although, I do not have a story about someone personally who is homeless, another issue about the homeless really disturbed me. I work in Cleveland, Ohio.
This past week, John McCain and Sarah Palin happened to be here campaigning for the President and Vice President of the United States. There is no mystery that the Cleveland job market is in a ruins. I work in downtown Cleveland and I happened to see this happen more than on a few occasions.
Our homeless rate is astronomical and everyday, I step over homeless people sleeping on the sidewalks walking from the parking lot to my building every morning. Now, when President Bush or McCain and Palin are here, the police remove them all off the streets and sidewalks and they are hidden from plain sight.
I wonder why? The reality is that the Country is in turmoil and there needs to be a major change and jobs need to be available. I say, let them be seen and maybe there would be a difference. Stop letting these businesses receive tax breaks for shipping jobs overseas. How fulfilling would it be to call a large corporation and talk to an American on the other side of the line instead of some foreign country? It would appear that the homeless rate is so high that Americans need an intervention.
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This subject has really become an issue with me this week that I would like to share. Although, I do not have a story about someone personally who is homeless, another issue about the homeless really disturbed me. I work in Cleveland, Ohio.
This past week, John McCain and Sarah Palin happened to be here campaigning for the President and Vice President of the United States. There is no mystery that the Cleveland job market is in a ruins. I work in downtown Cleveland and I happened to see this happen more than on a few occasions.
Our homeless rate is astronomical and everyday, I step over homeless people sleeping on the sidewalks walking from the parking lot to my building every morning. Now, when President Bush or McCain and Palin are here, the police remove them all off the streets and sidewalks and they are hidden from plain sight.
I wonder why? The reality is that the Country is in turmoil and there needs to be a major change and jobs need to be available. I say, let them be seen and maybe there would be a difference. Stop letting these businesses receive tax breaks for shipping jobs overseas. How fulfilling would it be to call a large corporation and talk to an American on the other side of the line instead of some foreign country? It would appear that the homeless rate is so high that Americans need an intervention.
October 11, 2008 - 9:18amThis Comment
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