It is always advisable regardless of your financial condition to have a project that will leave this world a better place for yourself and at least one other person. My project is advocacy... giving a voice to the voiceless. Standing up for those who cannot stand up for themselves. Many of these people cannot pull themselves up by their bootstraps. For one many don't have the skillset necessary, and if they do have the skills they have other "handicaps" that disallow functioning in the normal working world.
Policies don't work because they are blanket solutions to individual case by case problems. Many on the streets because of MH issues either cannot afford to go to the doctor, or cannot afford the Co-Pay on their meds. Then if they can afford the previous two cases they have to deal with often distressing side effects. If they can muscle their way past these three minefields, there is a problem with having proper clothes and a place to clean themselves up to be ready for work. The problem that then arises is the McJob that they do have will not cover the basic needs and expenses of moving into a place of their own.
If they have tackled all these problems then they may be on the slow long climb to normalcy. But, they are still one sick day from houselessness, and the slow decent that feels like freefall. Well this is enough of this rant.
Remember peace is the journey, not the destination.
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