How could we do this to our unfortunates?

The answer is that it is on purpose.

We had leaders that led us to today’s terrible circumstances about crazy people. Some small part of our population are born or developed crazy, and in the old days we locked them away in order to protect us mostly. Now many are on the streets, and living in the most pitiful circumstances given the vagaries of weather, mostly cold and wet. Most of these present circumstances began about 50 years ago, and seems to be forgotten by too many people today, if even taught. I am old enough to have observed the whole evolution at the time. The bottom line then was society vs. the inmates rights, and the inmates won. There were mitigating things like community mental centers, but they were eventually defunded because of poor results and pressure to save money. Bottom line is that everytime I see a homeless person on a grate in D.C., or another unfortunate in Monterey Tennessee I know it is on purpose. Where is the old idea of providing for our unfortunates with a warm bed and three square meals a day. Where is the golden rule? And where is our protection from our crazy humans?