Good Morning,

Donald Trump recently stated "homelessness is hurting real estate prestige; will destroy cities."

He went on to state that the homeless are living on "our best highways, our best streets, our best entrances to building".

His solution is even more disturbing than his out of touch comment.?

His solution is to send in the police to gather (arrest) the homeless, for doing nothing more than being homeless and moving them into a federally run "camp".

The federally run "camps" along our nation's southern border for those seeking a better way of life for themselves and their families, is more than sufficient evidence of what these "camps" would look like.

A normal person, like you or I, would propose solutions to mitigate the causes of homelessness.

Let me be clear. I've been homeless in my past. I've lived in poverty.

I've lived on the streets and in shelters. I've had to rely upon food benefits to survive. I've stood in long lines, being prodded like sheep just to get a meal.

When I was homeless, I met former professional baseball players, business owners, attorneys and others that had fallen upon the misfortune, just as I had, of losing everything.

Homelessness can happen to anyone. ANYONE!!!

Here are just a few of the more well-known Americans who, at some point in their lives, fell on hard times and ended up homeless.

• Margot Kidder, Lois Lane in Superman
• Martin Lawrence, Actor
• Tyler Perry, Producer and Actor
• Bobby Driscoll, Disney Child Star
• Danny Bonaduce, The Partridge Family
• Sly Stone, Sly & The Family Stone
• Jimmy Butler, NBA Player
• John Drew Barrymore
• Randy Quaid, Actor
• Ray Williams, NBA Player

That's a very, very short list of those people, who for various reasons ended up homeless. They're still people and they're still Americans.

According to a report released last year, nearly 51 million households don't earn enough to afford a monthly budget that includes housing, food, child care, health care, transportation and a cell phone. The study was released by the United Way ALICE Project.

That's 43% of households in the United States.

So, this president clearly does not have a well thought out plan to mitigate the issue of poverty and the subsequent effect of homelessness in America.

He reminds me of the Pharisees and Sadducees of the Bible whose piety would never allow them to identify with common folks, like you and I.

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