Homeless

Brandon Buzzeo

Mr. Brown

College Composition

12/17/2007

Beds for Everybody

One of the major issues nationally is people who are becoming homeless and the fact that one third of the homeless population have served this country, which is around 195,000 veterans. Thats more than the death count of the Vietnam war. Most homeless people are male about three percent are women, most are single and come from disadvantaged backgrounds. It’s a major issue, this is America there should not be thousands of people across this nation that are homeless especially our veterans. They gave their life to this country; I think in return we could at least keep them in a home somewhere. It wouldn’t be so bad if their was actually enough shelters to occupy all of the people that are homeless but the ratio to shelter places to people is far from even coming close to what is needed. Everybody deserves a place to sleep no matter what their background is; drug addiction, criminal, sex offender, whatever the background everybody needs a place to sleep off the streets. To do that we need the government to make more shelters to get people off the streets.

Homeless people have always been a problem in the United States, there will always be people on the street sleeping but we can lower the number if we actually try. Every time I go downtown I see some man or woman just sleeping on the side of the road its depressing these people are crying out for help and we ignore them. How are we any better than them? Who are we to turn our back on those who have no place to stay?

This issue needs to be addressed and sometime in the near future. This is supposed to be the land of opportunity, so let’s give these people an opportunity to have a place to get off the streets. I mean you never know what could happen tomorrow and you could end up on the streets. Wouldn’t you want to know that you still have a place you can stay till you got back on your feet? I know I would, hopefully America can figure out some creative solution to this problem. If people in America stopped being so self-centered this country would be a lot better off than it is now. I guarantee that there wouldn’t be this many people out on the streets cause people would actually have a concern about it instead of just looking at them like their some sort of animal tossed to the side of the road.

America wake up and see the real world outside your fantasies. People need us in their time of need, learn to love your neighbor and lend a helping hand. Get over yourselves