Why not use the money to build affordable housings first? The libraries are in need of improvements, true, but if it were up to the masses, would the masses choose improved libraries or freeing the homeless/ almost homeless people from homelessness? Hope people are putting up sign-up sheets at libraries asking library-goers to choose between Affordable Housings and Improved Libraries. Off course, we could also find other projects to delay in order to save the improvements for the libraries.
This article appears in Feb 7-13, 2008.
What planet are you on?Anyway, libraries provide the homeless with free internet service and a warm place to hang out all day when its cold out.
The libraries are in the state that they in because they have been looked over in budgets so that other programs could be financed…yet there are still homeless and there always will be in our fucked society. It’s the libraries turn this time to get some budget love. Think of it this way…you (the library) are sitting at a merge sign trying to get into traffic but people keep cutting you off…eventually you have to be let out into traffic right or you pull out in front of someone forcing you to pay forward some rudeness (not intended) just to get somewhere. Shitty deals right? Think how the Librarians feel at this point…no wage increases in like 10 years, yet $$ gets tossed towards addicts and the whole bag of people types “in the system” (that includes the truly needy AND the system abusers).
money for homeless? part of the reason why we become homeless is we forgot about the basic fundamentals such as knowledge.if we give money to the homeless, which homeless get the money and which don’t?it’s one thing to feed and clothes the homeless, it’s another thing to educate them to get out there to earn a living. even if it’s not much money, you’re not the only one who’s working and not having enough money. lay off the library, burning the books is not going to keep the homeless warm for anymore than a few months at most.
well for myself i just took a bunch of coats to the turning point shelter on barrington street and will be doing so again along with hats and mitts. we can all do our part to help the poor!