Reply #532: Not surprising

[Hannah Bell]

you portray the difference here in those terms. Too bad -

1. No one has said the Google initiative won't help "some" people.
2. No one has said that's not a "good" thing, so far as it goes.

What people have said, & what you & others choose not to hear, is that it doesn't go very far, it won't reduce homelessness, it costs Google very little, homelessness was created by a political choice made by our leaders & is maintained by continuing choice.

All the talk of small steps, being grateful for the resources people are willing to give, how difficult & infinitely complicated the problem is, how wonderful it is we have such caring people, working tirelessly for long years, working their fingers to the very bone -

just serves to mystify the situation & convince the public that homelessness is a fact of nature.

IT'S NOT. IT'S A DELIBERATE CHOICE.

If I kick someone to the gutter with one hand & attempt to bind their wounds with the other, am I a "good" person? OR am I a big fat hypocrite & worse?