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"You are probably not a Christian, but you have a large Christian population and that they allow this to happen just highlights the hypocrisy of the entire idea of the United States."

I'm interested... what is the entire idea of the US?


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How exactly do you propose we fix it? What exactly is "it"?

The US sends more foriegn aid money than any other country, around $30 billion (excluding the loans China tries to pass off as aid). That's just the amount from the government. There is a lot of charitable donations and work that come from nongovernment groups too. The party issues you speak of can be tricky. Some of that divide can be a difference in views on how something should be done. Some people oppose government charity and want private charity to take a bigger role, and they donate accordingly. Of course that's not the case for everyone.

Many of the issues in today's society will not simply disappear by throwing money at them. That said, I do think the homeless issue could be handled better. I think Norway or a neighboring country has a good program that focuses on getting people back into the workforce.


The parts of the US with the highest rates of homelessness tend to be the least Christian, and vice versa. Make of that what you will. https://i.ibb.co/KVpHXPF/datamap.png


> Yes let's leave these people in horrific environments and situations because we can.

Yes, let's make sure that we keep the limits on government, because we've seen bad examples of what happens when the government isn't limited.

There's more than one problem that deserves compassion...


Judges aren't kings. In the United States there is a separation of powers for a reason. Skid Row is a failure of the executive and legislative branches in California. California voters have perpetuated this failure by continually re-electing them.


> Judges aren't kings.

Neither are executives and legislators at any level.

> In the United States there is a separation of powers for a reason.

Yes, and the reason is to mitigate failure in any one branch.

> Skid Row is a failure of the executive and legislative branches in California.

More particularly, it's a failure of the executive and legislative branches in LA. But it's, among other things, a failure of them to obey the equal protection and due process clauses of the 14th Amendment to the federal Constitution, which is remediable by federal judicial intervention.


The actual meaning of the US is "what you can get away with" and "well I got mine." Compassion is what people do when they wanna get elected.




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