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The United Nations has now condemned the United States for punishing homelessness and criminalizing it, as no action has been taken to avert the illegal laws being put into place mostly by politicians who are ignorant and blame the homeless for their own condition. Making being homeless a crime or supporting it (or it's process) is a Fascist point of view. Most of the homelessness in this country was caused by the actions on the part of people who put their own profit motive ahead of humanity, mainly large corporations who have avoided paying taxes and regulation. This in turn created an undue tax burden on the middle class, which then created a large scale poverty problem, as social programs were cut as well by their political representatives who supported them. The policies put into place under Reagan made a large recession, creating poverty and homelessness. However homelessness wasn't criminalized as it is being today.The Bush years made an almost elimination of regulation of companies and gave them huge tax breaks that pushed the country into a recession. Jobs became scarce, mediocre pay if anything. At the same time, the near elimination of welfare under Clinton pushed by a Republican Congress made it difficult to stay above water for many with children, and at the present time, basic needs are threatened further. The recovery under Obama has been slow if any because the Republicans and Tea Party have been concerned with eliminating women's rights, civil rights, and pushing religion further into government, not creating jobs. Even as far as wanting to rewrite history books to not include slavery or the holocaust. Destruction of our Constitution and it's amendments have been their priority, which has been evident by their track record in government and what they have pushed and passed into law: federally, at state levels, all the way down to city ordinances. To believe otherwise is foolish. Their propaganda has led many to vote for their platform that they could create a better country, for those who did not do their research or failed to understand. They have demanded laws that have been eliminating food for the poor, eliminating money for education, housing for the poor, etc. Now they have decided to criminalize homelessness, and police brutality has been commonplace in states such as Florida. It is a human right to be free from this kind of oppression from their government.
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