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<blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">InnerSpace</strong> said:</div><div>the homeless</div></blockquote>
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	ie: the people who <em>choose</em>* to live on the street, refuse to work (unless you consider panhandling "work") and generally make themselves a nuisance to the rest of society.<br />
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	(*excluding minors who have been kicked out of their homes by their parents or who have had to flee parental abuse and excluding people who suffer from advanced and extreme, clinically recognized forms of mental illness, who are not responsible for their condition and should be taken off the street and placed into state funded institutional care facilities... a worthwhile use of taxpayer funds that you will find virtually no self-identified conservatives objecting to.)<br />
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	There is a world of difference between providing subsidy and assistance (both privately donated and via state collected taxation) to those who, generally speaking, can not help themselves (the mentally ill and the extremely physically crippled) vs. providing subsidies (ie: "free money" taken from myself and others who work for a living <em>and</em> pay state and federal taxes) to able bodied deadbeats who most certainly are capable of advancing their station in life if they choose to make the effort to do so.

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