| llewdebkram said: The UK from what I have seen visiting the USA is also a lot more civilized and compassionate towards its citizens. When visiting Boston I had never so many homeless people from teens to elderly in temperatres as low as 10F / -12C and right outside Harvard University in the worlds richest country. In the same city I also saw a very scruffily dressed man and woman in their 60s collecting plastic bottles from trash cans in a grocery trolley, presumably to sell for a few $ I'm used to seeing all this in 3rd world countries I've visited such as Mexico, India, Thailand etc. but I was really shocked to see this in the USA. Your country should be truly ashamed!! |
Have you been to a big city in your country? Because the homeless rates really aren't that different... and that's using data that is the UK BEFORE the financil crisis, and the US AFTER It.
The US has so many unseheltered homeless people, pretty much largely because people refuse to use the shelters and tools avaliable to them... because many homeless people are mentally ill.
The US has something called the "US Pateints Bill of Rights". Which essentially means if a patient wants to leave, they can, and you can't stop them or force medication on them.
As such, said mental patients usually end up homeless on the streets refusing to use shelters.
