I don't want to make light of folks who have run into misfortune, and given the vagaries of our government, misfortune is an ever growing part of daily life. But homelessness has been growing in its rampancy since I was a teenager, and yet I don't see folks camped out in our parks and on our sidewalks. I think the growth is not in homelessness, but in those who make big business of shaking down the government using this as an excuse.
er... shaking down the taxpayers to be accurate.
“yet I don’t see folks camped out in our parks and on our sidewalks. “
you’ll see that out on the west coast and here in Florida. Most of them are career panhandlers with drug and booze problems.