http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/blognroll/5775 Happy Valentines Day!&nbsp; I don't mean to bring you down.&nbsp; Rather, with this song, and with these words, I'd like to bring somebody up.&nbsp; I'm talking about the homeless.&nbsp; I'm talking about posting this&nbsp; blog thread as a forum for raising all kinds of create ideas concerning meeting the needs of homeless people. What are your ideas concerning how to address the problem of homelessness, in this land, and throughout the world?&nbsp; What are some long-term solutions?&nbsp; Let's offer a few, and put them out there.&nbsp; And in the meantime, make your heart a home for the homeless.&nbsp; Happy Valentines Day!&nbsp; I don't mean to bring you down.&nbsp; Rather, with this song, and with these words, I'd like to bring somebody up.&nbsp; I'm talking about the homeless.&nbsp; I'm talking about posting this&nbsp; blog thread as a forum for raising all kinds of create ideas concerning meeting the needs of homeless people. What are your ideas concerning how to address the problem of homelessness, in this land, and throughout the world?&nbsp; What are some long-term solutions?&nbsp; Let's offer a few, and put them out there.&nbsp; And in the meantime, make your heart a home for the homeless.&nbsp; en-us Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:35:08 PST I dunno thats a hard question.. you can only help people if they want help.. and it seems like the homeless shelter does a good job.. my heart definitely goes out to them with the extreme weather here and the suffering they endure. http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/blognroll/5775/#c_58332 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/blognroll/5775/#c_58332 I dunno thats a hard question.. you can only help people if they want help.. and it seems like the homeless shelter does a good job.. my heart definitely goes out to them with the extreme weather here and the suffering they endure. <div>The paper ran reports from the shelters set up&nbsp; during the cold (warming stations?). and it seems they had a very low turnout.&nbsp; People who live on the street just don't want to be penned in.&nbsp; We think we know what they want and wahts best for them but not a person here can say they walked in those folks shoes and know what they want.&nbsp;&nbsp; It's pretty obvious that, for the most part, they want you to give them a few bucks, they want to know where they can get a hot meal when they want it, and they want us to let them live the way they want to live.&nbsp; Not everyone wants to be &quot;saved&quot; from themselves.</div> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/blognroll/5775/#c_58349 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/blognroll/5775/#c_58349 <div>The paper ran reports from the shelters set up&nbsp; during the cold (warming stations?). and it seems they had a very low turnout.&nbsp; People who live on the street just don't want to be penned in.&nbsp; We think we know what they want and wahts best for them but not a person here can say they walked in those folks shoes and know what they want.&nbsp;&nbsp; It's pretty obvious that, for the most part, they want you to give them a few bucks, they want to know where they can get a hot meal when they want it, and they want us to let them live the way they want to live.&nbsp; Not everyone wants to be &quot;saved&quot; from themselves.</div> Whew..that was a whole lot of &quot;wants&quot; huh? http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/blognroll/5775/#c_58350 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/blognroll/5775/#c_58350 Whew..that was a whole lot of &quot;wants&quot; huh?