2.8 million homeless

During * 's trip to Pakistan did he and Musharoof discuss help for his people. The article in Sunday Parade is devastating/ 9400 schools are gone,areas in Kashmir that have NOTHING, not even a nail to start re-building! I'd sure would much prefer our money to help people not blow up countries

Sorry, you can't read until Wednesday online
http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2006/edition_03-05-2006/Mortenson_lede

From the headline alone, I thought it was the U.S. I wonder how many people are homeless here.

that there are up to 2,000 homeless KIDS in the Old Market area. Those are kids. One city, just kids. Think about it.

where the shelters have been overflowing since Reagan institutionalized heartlessness as he deinstitutionalized the mentally handicapped.

This is sickening and an indictment of both parties. Both parties allowed it to happen by allowing offshoring of industry and now technology and office work, by their silly free trade ideology, by their resistance to raising the minimum wage to support an earner, by their neglect of the true reason for the health care crisis (insurance companies), by their corporatism and antiunionism, by their utter callousness toward the American people.

To hell with conservatives in both parties. May they experience fully the hell they have created for most of us.

but they can get food, a bed at night and there is SOME help.Try a Himalayan winter with NOTHING to cover yourself.* just raped the US Treasury to invade 2 countries and kill thousands. Think we have enough money to help these people? I will always support humanitarian aid in times like this.

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3 million men, women, and children were homeless over the past year – about 30% of them chronically and the others temporarily. In many cases people are in and out of the homeless system, which includes shelters, hospitals, the streets, and prisons. It is these chronic users of the system that utilize up to 90% of the nations resources devoted to the problem.
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http://homeless.org/do/Home

For the most part, they are removed from view here.

I don't disagree with feeding &/or housing any homeless people. I believe it could be done if our budget priorities were different.

I suppose we'll help homeless people in Pakistan because we may get something in return. "Improving society" is not on Bush's agenda.

Karachi in the late 80's the estimates were 2 million homeless in Karachi alone.

...from the website of the National Coalition for the Homeless (emphasis added):

I guess 10% is the average estimate.

in this country homeless. i don't know the statistics but i'm sure it's high.