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Re:Maybe buses should be free by Andrew_Quentin on Thursday June 20, 2013 @01:26AM (#5910347)
The next question is, why is it so much higher in America?

Homelessness is a moral as well as practical problem. How can more than half a million people have no home in the richest country on earth?

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Re:Maybe buses should be free by brazzy on Thursday June 20, 2013 @08:56AM (#5911741)
Because (most of) the people of the richest country on earth believe that any form of tax-financed welfare is "socialism", which is evil, and the only reason they're the richest country on earth is diligent avoidance of "socialism".
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Re:Maybe buses should be free by unwind on Thursday June 20, 2013 @08:50AM (#5911709)
Wasn't the point of the grand parent's post that, per capita, it isn't higher in the US as compared to the UK?
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Re:Maybe buses should be free by arethuza on Thursday June 20, 2013 @10:43AM (#5912353)
UK: 10K USA: 650k - US has 6 times the population of the UK so it look like the problems is ~10 times worse in the US.
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