Homeless man makes a mockery of the war on terror

[opebo]

This is something else that's the Republicans' fault.

If they didn't close the shelters, this guy wouldn't have had to start a fire to keep warm.

Bandit?

Hah, for a minute I thought you were saying that the homeless guy who started the fire might be Bandit.  Not such a stretch, as Bandid seemed to come from the working poor class - a type of person who is very likely to be homeless at times in the US.

[opebo]

This is something else that's the Republicans' fault.

If they didn't close the shelters, this guy wouldn't have had to start a fire to keep warm.

Ah, wasn't this part of the great liberal causes of late 1970's that we shouldn't "warehouse" the mentally ill?

Homelessness isn't necessarily just a problem of mental illness.  When the basic wage is $6.50 or $7.00 an hour, and apartments are at least $500 a month, any working poor person is very apt to become homeless at a moment's notice, even if his brain is functioning in a normal fashion.