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This treatment of continuous eviction is not uniformly forced
upon the entire American population, but selectively forced upon
its weakest, false members; the least equipped of the population
to survive (in spite of citizenship in the wealthiest nation
ever known).
The combined population of American Homeless people can be thought of as a homeless state. As of right now, they are a small, nomadic tribe living within the territorial borders of the United States. The homeless population has the potential to triple quickly within the 21st Century. It is very likely that this will occur. When a man is homeless, he has lost his right to land. The American Homeless shelter system does not serve the homeless so much as it serves the beaurocrats and slum lords who administrate and profit by it. The need for this costly system can be reduced, but not eliminated, when the American homeless are emancipated and land rights are restored to them by Federal Law. This strange relationship that exists between man and the land in Western Society, where social managers control the common lands forbidding them as natural places of abode and survival, forces tenants to seek "wage labor jobs that they don't want and never did" (Piven). Most homeless people will never be re-machined into profits. [PREVIOUS] [NEXT] |