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Psycho Dave

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Dec 19, 2006, 12:53:41 PM12/19/06
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>Uh...prove it. There's a twice ammount of homeless problem in Sweden,
>Finland, Iceland and the other countries you included,
>

You are totally wrong. Do the math yourself.

POpulation of the USA = 300,000,000 (300 million)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States#Demographics

POpulation of Sweden = 9,060,430

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden#Demographics

Homeless in USA = 3.5 million (3,500,000)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4305.htm

Homeless in Sweden = 8,440

http://www.creativeresistance.ca/communitas/2003-mar01-homelessness-there-is-a-better-way-in-sweden-mike-martin-ccpa.htm

3.5 million is 8.5% of 300,000,000 (USA)

8,440 is 1.07% of 9.06 million (SWEDEN)

So basically, you're tryng to tell me that 1.07% is twice as much as
8.5%?

>and countries
>like Canada (liberal) also have that problem. Where do you get this
>idea they have lower unemployment?

Here's the real rub, though. IN all of those countries -- Canada,
Sweden, and the rest -- homeless does not translate into "living on the
street or shanty-towns and begging for handouts from strangers". In all
of those countries, government programs exist to provide help to all of
the homeless people, including free housing, medical care, job-search,
and more. You can't tell who the homeless people are in Sweden if you
visit, because they are cleaner, healthier, and usually very short-term
homeless.

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