In good times, you're probably right, Jesus said the poor would always be with us, partly because some people won't work, I'm sure. But I think of things seen during the Great Depression, like signs erected at the outskirts of many towns advising the jobless and homeless to keep moving because the townspeople couldn't even provide for themselves. And I think of the Three Stooges shorts, the boys looking in on a man in a diner, wanting his lunch.
There are people on the bubble now, people who have jobs who won't later. Many, hopefully most, have family they can depend on. Some won't. I've read articles about this, how society was more stable back then. More people lived on farms or rural areas and could grow their own food. That's not the case now. So those on the bubble may fall allllll the way down the ladder onto the street.
Methinks it's going to get ugly. The recovery is a sham, and a temporary one.
I have seen my share of "bums" up in Canada. They move up there in summer, then down south in the winter. They follow the sun, warm weathers, tourists and government handouts.
