Should You Give Money to Homeless People? Absolutely.

It seems that someone has read the part where Orwell describes how political language, Newspeak, with its grammar and limited vocabulary, has been made to distort the way people think and control public attitudes. Posters that were placed on Gloucester showing one by wearing a jacket, under description “are you really homeless people? ”, meaning that people who had no shelter were not homeless, but “people who were accommodated, who were receiving help and various benefits from”. This malicious use of Newspeak shows us the tendency to stop feeling bad about people in need, under the claim that they were educating and informing us. They even gave a subtle reason to wonder that helping them was really no help at all. This isn't Newspeak. That's double speech. Orwell wrote about a totalitarian state we should all be concerned about.

So this is propaganda. But what do the facts say?

While I spent it with homeless people in London collecting data on my book “Four feet underground” I met one called Benji who told me, “Why are we homeless, for God's sake? Yeah, you think I'd give up everything, empty the bank account and give it to people to sleep on the street. Yes, indeed! ”

No one with their minds on their heads thinks it's smart to sit on a sidewalk freezing and suffering people's humiliation until you ask for a few cents. And there's actually a lot of people out there who are seriously mentally ill and that they have to fight for survival. But if there are among them some who are deceitful, then what is wrong with them? These make up a percentage so small that they are of no interest or relevant to the broad appearance: Why are they starting to look like William Hogarth's sketches?

I've never met anyone who likes to pray. Most felt offended. Some fled refusing to do so. It's a terrible part of a terrible life, living under the open sky, being watched and prejudiced. Hunger, loneliness, physical illness, being beaten, and sometimes violated are some of the consequences of being homeless. But you cannot see all of this on the poster mentioned.

Intrespectivity is not a choice of the criminal class, despite attempts to convince you it is different. It can hardly be called life.

People are homeless for many different reasons because of domestic violence or sexual abuse, job loss, and a mate at the same time, the cause of poor money, or the cause of serious mental illness - just a few mentioned.

Some people simply cannot escape when it collapses.

Without exception, those many people with whom I had the pleasure of spending time suffered terrible pains. No one was enjoying a life like her, and all had the desperate hope that one day, perhaps, they would be able to live better.

Poster used a cartoon of a homeless man feeding him the notion that a person who is insolent is no person at all. I can't tell you how many homeless people I've met who said the worst of all was when people treated them as if they were invisible or that you didn't even exist.

Now it's not enough to blame us for their plight, but we have to criminalize.

Should they give them money? Absolutely.

They need it, and that's the least you can do, despite not solving the homeless problem with that money. Sleep bags, hot food, and soothing drugs are also welcome. The idea that homeless people cannot be trusted with the money you give them is too bad. They're not kids. They're not fools. They are homeless and sad. Many need medical and psychiatric help. If all of this were allowed, as the devilish poster implies, then there would be no problem with the pstreh. Your money would be spent on food, newspapers, cafes and toilet items. Many try to persuade others to be able to have a night in a hostel somewhere. Some people spend it on alcohol and drugs.

It's the last one that seems to upset some people. Drug use is not a sign of a moral failure or a cowardly attitude. The people I met who used first-class drugs had very little choice. Without a daily dose [that costs too much] they will get very sick, within hours: vomiting, diarrhea, and muscle torture. And believe me, after a few days in the cold standing with those people while I was doing my research, I could very hard find the door without a large amount of gender drinking. I did it every night while I went home. For people living on the street, drinking can help to remove the shame and embarrassment of begging for money.

But leaving drugs and booze. That's a pretty valuable deviation for Orwell's invented government. If our government really thinks it would have provided services for all these needy people... it would create a society that would produce fewer people in a state of despair and total collapse. And obviously, it wouldn't produce anyone to tell us that it's okay not to help those in need.

Gloucester's poster alerts the breakdown of the inner sense of goodness that most of us share. Don't let it happen.

* The author of this scripture has published a book [Four Legs Under Earth] made up of thirty different accounts of homeless people with their own words

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