[news] How People Become Homeless

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"It is clear that the middle class do not understand what is going on when it comes to the struggles of people in poverty, because they are not being presented with those struggles. As a matter of fact, part of the job of the mainstream media, our government, and the police, is to HIDE homelessness and poverty struggles from the middle class and elite sectors of society. Part of the 'freedom' America is fighting for in Iraq, is the freedom to benefit from a wide capitalist class chasm WITHOUT GUILT. Without guilt is huge. It is no fun to have a mansion if everyone stands outside your gates calling you a pig and you are shamed and scorned as a glutton always. Mansions are only fun if everyone envies you and treats you as superior for such acquisitions. Having expensive trendy clothing is not fun if you are called a jerk, rather than cool, for having them. It is pretty easy to take the 'joy' out of exclusive perks for the privileged, by just pointing out how elitist they are. That is why they try to keep poor people out of sight, and out of mind, of the privileged classes. So part of class insulation is not having to be called out for gluttony, and to be gated and protected from seeing or hearing about the plights of the poor."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/28/12424/6229