It's Time to Boycott Arizona

[Corkey]

Originally Posted by DomnNC

Homeless people can most certainly vote! They use the address of the homeless shelter they are staying at or where they collect their checks!

Real homeless have no access to shelters, and what checks are you talking about, welfare? In most states men don't qualify for welfare. Shelters that I know of have a first come first served and no one stays more than over night. They don't have access to a post office box, and the voters registrars office will not accept a po box as an address. Here we have homeless who in the cold weather have access to a warming shelter that only opens up during extreme cold snaps. The US government will not send ssoc checks to a shelter, no matter who's in it.

[DomnNC]

Originally Posted by Corkey

Real homeless have no access to shelters, and what checks are you talking about, welfare? In most states men don't qualify for welfare. Shelters that I know of have a first come first served and no one stays more than over night. They don't have access to a post office box, and the voters registrars office will not accept a po box as an address. Here we have homeless who in the cold weather have access to a warming shelter that only opens up during extreme cold snaps. The US government will not send ssoc checks to a shelter, no matter who's in it.

That may be true for your state Corkey but in NC one can most certainly use a homeless shelter as an address, maintain their right to vote and to receive correspondance from companies that may be interested in hiring them. Not all states declare the homeless cannot vote, I'm pretty sure there are no laws stipulating as such as because they are still citizens of the USA and have a constitutional right to vote.

Oh, and there are homeless who do receive a state stipend, it just isn't enough to put a roof over their head.

[Corkey]

Originally Posted by DomnNC

That may be true for your state Corkey but in NC one can most certainly use a homeless shelter as an address, maintain their right to vote and to receive correspondance from companies that may be interested in hiring them. Not all states declare the homeless cannot vote, I'm pretty sure there are no laws stipulating as such as because they are still citizens of the USA and have a constitutional right to vote.

Oh, and there are homeless who do receive a state stipend, it just isn't enough to put a roof over their head.

That isn't a shelter it is a halfway house. A shelter is just that a roof over your head for a night, they will not accept correspondance from anyone. Not saying they don't have the right to vote, but in most states one MUST have a address to sign up TO vote. Your state is doing something MOST states don't do. A stipend isn't going to put food in their bellies either. It's just enough to by cigarettes and booze, to keep people homeless.
I also don't appreciate your statements about AJ, I find it rude and you could learn something if you'd read her posts.

[DomnNC]

Originally Posted by Corkey

That isn't a shelter it is a halfway house. A shelter is just that a roof over your head for a night, they will not accept correspondance from anyone. Not saying they don't have the right to vote, but in most states one MUST have a address to sign up TO vote. Your state is doing something MOST states don't do. A stipend isn't going to put food in their bellies either. It's just enough to by cigarettes and booze, to keep people homeless.
I also don't appreciate your statements about AJ, I find it rude and you could learn something if you'd read her posts.

Wow, that was some assumption to make! Just enough to put booze in their belly and buy cigs. That was just downright awful.

[Corkey]

Originally Posted by DomnNC

Wow, that was some assumption to make! Just enough to put booze in their belly and buy cigs. That was just downright awful.

Truth often hurts.

[BullDog]

DomnNC can I ask you a simple question, what is your point? No one needs to have any advanced degree or certain level of income to understand that racial profiling is wrong.

There are more opportunities than any time in the history of the world for people to be informed of what is going on around them. Even so, I still don't understand what needs to be studied or kept up on to know that racial profiling is wrong. We're talking about how human beings should be treated here.

The state of our economy and the fact that so many people are homeless and suffering is completely unacceptable. I think we all agree on that.

[DomnNC]

Originally Posted by BullDog

DomnNC can I ask you a simple question, what is your point? No one needs to have any advanced degree or certain level of income to understand that racial profiling is wrong.

There are more opportunities than any time in the history of the world for people to be informed of what is going on around them. Even so, I still don't understand what needs to be studied or kept up on to know that racial profiling is wrong. We're talking about how human beings should be treated here.

The state of our economy and the fact that so many people are homeless and suffering is completely unacceptable. I think we all agree on that.

Excuse me bulldog, I've said time and time again that I'm against racial profiling and that it's wrong. This isn't what I've been talking about, how about going back and reading what I've said. I've been talking about lumping an entire state of people together and treating those who voted against the current administration in Arizona together and taking them to task or holding their feet to the fire blaming them or making them feel less than simply because they live in Arizona. It was offerred up that people have "bent over backwards" to make them see they weren't doing than and then adding a however blah blah blah. That simply wasn't the case. That's my point.