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Old 07-28-2006, 01:38 PM   #14
Kitsune
still eats dirt
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Tampa, FL
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Originally Posted by Spexxvet
"they don't help themselves, they're lazy, unsightly, inconvenient, criminal"
It always upsets me to hear these arguments since a big reason why many people are homeless is because they're mentally ill and can't help themselves.

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Approximately 200,000 individuals with schizophrenia or manic-depressive illness are homeless, constituting one-third of the approximately 600,000 homeless population (total homeless population statistic based on data from Department of Health and Human Services).
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