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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1685982" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>Sad to say but I'm not surprised by that. Apparently it isn't always a result of a particular political party in power of a state. Here all or certainly a high percentage of our politicians are conservative, the current governor is a liberal, but over the last several gubernatorial terms that has went back and forth. Our city and county has a combined population of around 36,429 per the most recent figure I could find. There is a significant size homeless population here too, In an effort to help the situation a church started a homeless shelter, From what I understand there is still quite a few folks not staying there. Nearly every trip to town we see folks that the assumption is that they are homeless. A fellow that used to work for us on the farm is among those. He is a sad story in that he grew up poor but was raised to work and he would work hard. He had some obvious mental disabilities and had become an alcoholic at an early age. When sober he was a good person to have around working on simple tasks, he had a reputation of stealing, but we never saw any evidence of that here. He finally got too bad off with his drinking to be even remotely dependable to work so we had to stop working him. His brothers that he worked for too had to stop as well. We all tried to help him over the years and he finally was able to get a disability check but that was what caused him to get worse with his drinking. He would go to the liquor store instead of paying his rent. We helped him get an apartment back and my mother actually went to the liquor store with him and asked them not to cash his check. Now from what his brother told me he has since lost his apartment again and is homeless. </p><p>Drugs and alcohol have ruined a lot of people,</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1685982, member: 24816"] Sad to say but I’m not surprised by that. Apparently it isn’t always a result of a particular political party in power of a state. Here all or certainly a high percentage of our politicians are conservative, the current governor is a liberal, but over the last several gubernatorial terms that has went back and forth. Our city and county has a combined population of around 36,429 per the most recent figure I could find. There is a significant size homeless population here too, In an effort to help the situation a church started a homeless shelter, From what I understand there is still quite a few folks not staying there. Nearly every trip to town we see folks that the assumption is that they are homeless. A fellow that used to work for us on the farm is among those. He is a sad story in that he grew up poor but was raised to work and he would work hard. He had some obvious mental disabilities and had become an alcoholic at an early age. When sober he was a good person to have around working on simple tasks, he had a reputation of stealing, but we never saw any evidence of that here. He finally got too bad off with his drinking to be even remotely dependable to work so we had to stop working him. His brothers that he worked for too had to stop as well. We all tried to help him over the years and he finally was able to get a disability check but that was what caused him to get worse with his drinking. He would go to the liquor store instead of paying his rent. We helped him get an apartment back and my mother actually went to the liquor store with him and asked them not to cash his check. Now from what his brother told me he has since lost his apartment again and is homeless. Drugs and alcohol have ruined a lot of people, [/QUOTE]
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