Reply #68: k&r - Thanks for helping! There are so many young (and old) homeless people in warm sunny places...

[polichick]

...like Florida and California. In Santa Monica's Palisades Park, I stumbled upon rows and rows of sleeping homeless people very early one morning. Often the young ones end up wanting to go back home, regardless of the weather - recently on a beach in Florida I met some great, and very sunburned, kids who were trying to get enough money to go home by selling handmade beaded jewelry. They slept on the beach and ate whatever they could find.

For forty years I've wondered how "the greatest nation in the world" could allow so many people to be hungry and homeless - what we've come to now is beyond shame.