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> However, no one is forced to be homeless by hatred or anything else - a
> bunch of Kool bullshit. With all of the welfare, government sponsored
> rehabilitation programs, unemployment benefits, homeless shelters, church
> programs, salvation army, and good ole food stamps there is no reason be
> homeless or hungry. Millions of illegal aliens sneak in to this country

Actually I would disagree with the "there is no reason".  I've known of some
unfortunate folks who slipped through the cracks; welfare is limited and you
have to be savvy to manipulate it.  If you don't know how, you can in fact
end up homeless.  Once homeless, you find out that very few government
programs will help you at all, they mostly require an address.  Yes there
are homeless shelters and all sorts of private charities, but in some areas
they are overwhelmed.  And it is dangerous for a person to travel from
overwhelmed areas to places where they might get help, because they have to
rely on their wits not to get into trouble yet to find food on their
travels.  And if they get someplace or remain tenacious until they can get
consistent help, it's very very difficult to take the next step as it is
quite difficult to get a job.  Without a job it's always a simple quick step
into oblivion.

Add to this that some 60% of the homeless are mentally ill, well that's 60%
that can't do a thing for themselves.

It is not a systematic, deliberate thing except for the unwillingness by
both liberals, who think that institutionalization is cruel (or at least did
in the '70s when they started "liberating" the mentally ill), and
conservatives, who don't want to pay for the mentally ill to be treated
because they see those treatments as ineffectual and doing no good.  I don't
see how it's created by hate.  But it is real and even for quite capable
people who fall into these circumstances sometimes impossible to escape.