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Sometimes my expectations get in the way of my objectivity. Tomorrow morning, I go back to work, and will deal with all of these issues I’ve attempted to bring to your attention over the week-end. I’m not grandiose to the point that I’d would expect a lot of you to understand the horrors we see daily, and that is a way of life unfortunately for so many. In a week before Christmas, Chanuka, when many of us are with our loved-ones, I ask you to say a prayer, “"There [but] for the sake of God go I.” Because it could be any one of us out there, in the wilderness. I was for many years and, I dare guess, a few of you out there in cyber-space as well. We have a lot to be grateful for. I know I do, many don’t. I challenge your conscience to ask the question.  The
public policy issues I’ve raised are not only
problems here in LA.
Last year, over a dozen people froze to death in the
city of Boston.
Surely there
is something we can do, besides paying lip service and passing out band-aids.A local Medical Director described to me the system of care, in relationship to someone hemorrhaging, bleeding to death. Perhaps at the next Network meeting, some of these issues can be addressed. It appears the Network’s public policy agenda is somewhat out of balance, in relationship to the priorities of the people who need the most help. That still remains the mentally ill homeless. With all the AB 34 money being contracted, just to remind everyone, it’s a drop in the bucket, and only 13 counties got any money at all. The reality is awhile we sleep in our warm safe homes tonight, a lot of our brothers and sisters are not. Since the system still appears to be slow to move on these matters, why are we also. Why can’t we rise to the occasion, and make this an issue, demanding more money, more services? I pray we do. Gerald MinskL.A. | ||||||||
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