Re: Comment on where-I-live: Homeless couple give birth to ‘miracle baby’ — and found a new apartment (fwd)

[Noelle <noelle>]

cranky old white people on Mercury News Disqus?

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 > Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 08:16:29 -0000
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 > John Cavaquinho wrote, in response to Noelle:
 > 
 > Yes, yes I agree that the banksters and corporate criminals need to have 
 > their assets seized, and then be drawn and quartered and turned into 
 > fertilizer.  I really do.  But that has nothing to do with the present 
 > problem.  The father's troubles began BEFORE the recession.  We aren't 
 > allowed to know what caused him to "leave" his job or whether he is cured of 
 > whatever afflicted him.  What lessons from the street has the mother learned 
 > since she became estranged from her children?  The baby's future is very dim 
 > with too many disadvantages.  The sensible thing to do is to place her with 
 > a better class of foster parents who can help her realize her potential.
 > 
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 > Noelle wrote:
 > 
 > The problem is our economic and political systems which create these 
 > conditions. Instead of attacking homeless people (who are easy to look down 
 > on), why do we have this system where the banksters did not go to jail for 
 > the Great Recession, politicians who allowed this, politicians and 
 > corporations which let our manufacturing jobs go overseas?