New law would criminalize homeless dumping

This a step in the right direction, but what also needs to be addressed is mandating hospitals to provide free health care, the cost should be transferred to the state. As we export billions in foreign aid I see that as secondary to the call to provide for those who are helpless and sick right here in our country. It just a choice of what kind of people we want to be, one that we can be proud of, with some form of human altruism and compassion, or one that kicks sick people out onto street corners into mud puddles dragging busted colostomy bags behind them. It strikes me as odd that many will lament for a sick stray dog or the animal abuse five O'clock news story but never look twice at at some poor sap in the gutter of society usually there from mental illness, drug abuse[mental illness], alcoholism[mental illness], sickness or just very bad luck. Society, government and corporations have made it a point to make sure the average American does not see the unfortunates, the dregs of society are there because they are "sinners", or by "choice", its classic, some poor sap crapping his pants in an alley, frazzled by sickness, kicked out of a VA hospital weeks earlier, no food, maybe a cardboard box, and the smug prick in the BMW drives by and actually thinks someone would choose that for themselves, its the ultimate in ridiculousness. Its a failure of society that this thing exists, their is no material profit for materialistic consumption addicted shallow Americans to give a damn. Health care is not a "right" as some say, but it is a societal obligation in my view, rooted in our own human altruistic tendencies, it's not that we have to take care of those who fall down, but that we want to, or that we should want to, its about who we are as a people, and what we see when we look into the mirror, something as a whole society rarely does, if ever. Our corrupt politicians drop the ball daily, because we let them, if these bureaucrats are the best we can do, then I would say we are a crappy people, is this really the best we can do in the creation of a sane society?, no its not, probably because a "sane" society is not the goal, a hedonistic self centered materialistic consumer crazy self indulgent one is, why because most people simply don't give a damn, their heads are somewhere else, I run across very few who are actually "here" on earth right now, maybe they are planning for an eternity in bliss, I don't know. -Citizen
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