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R.E. Prindle
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I’ve just understood what to call the so-called homeless. After the war was over in Europe there were millions of displaced persons. They were all gathered up and placed in concentration or DP camps. In the US today the homeless are actually displaced persons.
Early in the Sixties the CIA made drugs easily available and the drugs destroyed the minds or incentive of millions. By the late sixties discombobbled teenagers left their homes to wander, ending up in Hippie enclaves across the country especially in SF. Then in ’65 Congress opened the doors to the world by eliminating immigration restrictions. Floods of people around the world answered the call.
In the American tradition immigrants were given preferential treatment displacing more Americans. The immigrants took jobs that ‘Americans’ wouldn’t do’ which quickly morphed into all labor jobs. At the same time in an effort to build up China millions of jobs were shipped overseas displacing more millions.
Also at the same time the electronic revolution gained full steam creating jobs but jobs that required education and a high level of intelligence. By that point low intelligence people were squeezed out of the job market completely. They became Displaced Persons no different than the survivors of WWII. Unlike the survivors of WWlI there is no place for them.
There’s the problem.
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