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.It was a controversial position but SimonLawrence was adept at advancing an argument without seeming argumentative, and he pretty muchcarried the day.By now he was being referred to regularly as the Wizard of Oz.a name that had been coined early onby People magazine when is ran a fluff piece on the miracles he had performed in getting Fresh Start upand running.Wren knew Simon Lawrence wasn't overly fond of the tag, but he also knew the Wizunderstood the value of advertising, and a catchy name didn't hurt when it came to raising dollars.Helived in the Emerald City, after all, so he couldn't very well complain if the media decided to label him theWizard of Oz.Or the Wiz, more usually, for these days everyone seemed to think they were on afirst-name basis with him.Simon Lawrence was hot stuff, which made him news, which made Andrewsiren's purpose in taming to see him all the more intriguing.An accomplishment; Simon said softly, repeating Wren's words.He shook his head.Andrew, I'm likethe Dutch boy with his finger in the hole in the dike and the sea rising on the other side.Let me give yousame statistics to think about.Use them or not when you write your next story, I don't care.Butremember them.'There are two hundred beds in this facility.With the new building, we should be able to double that.That will give us four hundred.Four hundred to service harmless women and children.There are twelve Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlhundred school-age homeless children, Andrew.That's children, not women.Twenty-four percent of allour homeless are under the age of eighteen.And that number is growing every day.`Ours is a specific focus.We provide help to homeless women and children.Eighty percent of thosewomen and children are homeless because of domestic violence.The problem of domestic violence isgrowing worldwide, but especially here, in the United States.The statistics regarding children who dieviolently are all out of proportion with the rest of the world.An American child is five times mare likely tobe killed before the age of eighteen than a child living in another industrialized nation.The rate of gundeaths and suicides among our children is more than twice that o$ other countries.We like to think ofourselves as progressive and enlightened, but you have to wonder.Homelessness is an alternative todying, but not an especially attractive one.So it is difficult far me to dwell on accomplishments when theproblem remains so acute.'Wren nodded.'I've seen the statistics''Good.Then let me give you an overview of our response as a nation to the problem of being homeless:Simon Lawrence leaned back again in his chair.`In a time in which the homeless problem is growing byleaps and bounds worldwide- due, to varying extents, to increases in the population, job elimination,technological advances, disintegration of the family structure, violence, and the rising cult of housing--ourresponse state by star? and city by city has been an a11-out effort to look the other way.Or, as analternative, to try to relocate the problem to some other part of the country."We are engaged in anationwide effort to crack down on the homeless b}^ passing new ordinances designed to move thesepeople to where we cant see them.Stop them from panhandling, chat let them sleep in our parks andpublic places, conduct police sweeps to round them up, and get them the hell out of town that's oursolution.Is them a concerted effort to get at the root problems of homelessness, to find ways torehabilitate and reform, to address the differences between types of homelessness so that those whoneed one kind of treatment versus another can get it? How many tax dollars are being spent to buildshelters and provide showers and hot meals? What efforts are being made to explore the ways in whichdomestic violence contributes to the problem, especially where women and children are concerned?He folded his arms across his chest.`We have thousands and thousands of people living homeless on thestreets of our cities at the same time that we have men and women earning millions of dollars a yearrunning companies that make products whose continued usage will ruin our health, our environment, andour values.The irony is incredible.It's obscene.'Wren nodded.`But you can't change that, Simon, The problem is too indigenous to who we are, toomuch a part of how we live our lives'`Tell me about it.I feel like Dan Quixote, tilting at windmills' Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlSimon shrugged.`It's obviously hopeless, isn't it? But you know something, Andrew? I refuse to giveup.I really do [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.It was a controversial position but SimonLawrence was adept at advancing an argument without seeming argumentative, and he pretty muchcarried the day.By now he was being referred to regularly as the Wizard of Oz.a name that had been coined early onby People magazine when is ran a fluff piece on the miracles he had performed in getting Fresh Start upand running.Wren knew Simon Lawrence wasn't overly fond of the tag, but he also knew the Wizunderstood the value of advertising, and a catchy name didn't hurt when it came to raising dollars.Helived in the Emerald City, after all, so he couldn't very well complain if the media decided to label him theWizard of Oz.Or the Wiz, more usually, for these days everyone seemed to think they were on afirst-name basis with him.Simon Lawrence was hot stuff, which made him news, which made Andrewsiren's purpose in taming to see him all the more intriguing.An accomplishment; Simon said softly, repeating Wren's words.He shook his head.Andrew, I'm likethe Dutch boy with his finger in the hole in the dike and the sea rising on the other side.Let me give yousame statistics to think about.Use them or not when you write your next story, I don't care.Butremember them.'There are two hundred beds in this facility.With the new building, we should be able to double that.That will give us four hundred.Four hundred to service harmless women and children.There are twelve Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlhundred school-age homeless children, Andrew.That's children, not women.Twenty-four percent of allour homeless are under the age of eighteen.And that number is growing every day.`Ours is a specific focus.We provide help to homeless women and children.Eighty percent of thosewomen and children are homeless because of domestic violence.The problem of domestic violence isgrowing worldwide, but especially here, in the United States.The statistics regarding children who dieviolently are all out of proportion with the rest of the world.An American child is five times mare likely tobe killed before the age of eighteen than a child living in another industrialized nation.The rate of gundeaths and suicides among our children is more than twice that o$ other countries.We like to think ofourselves as progressive and enlightened, but you have to wonder.Homelessness is an alternative todying, but not an especially attractive one.So it is difficult far me to dwell on accomplishments when theproblem remains so acute.'Wren nodded.'I've seen the statistics''Good.Then let me give you an overview of our response as a nation to the problem of being homeless:Simon Lawrence leaned back again in his chair.`In a time in which the homeless problem is growing byleaps and bounds worldwide- due, to varying extents, to increases in the population, job elimination,technological advances, disintegration of the family structure, violence, and the rising cult of housing--ourresponse state by star? and city by city has been an a11-out effort to look the other way.Or, as analternative, to try to relocate the problem to some other part of the country."We are engaged in anationwide effort to crack down on the homeless b}^ passing new ordinances designed to move thesepeople to where we cant see them.Stop them from panhandling, chat let them sleep in our parks andpublic places, conduct police sweeps to round them up, and get them the hell out of town that's oursolution.Is them a concerted effort to get at the root problems of homelessness, to find ways torehabilitate and reform, to address the differences between types of homelessness so that those whoneed one kind of treatment versus another can get it? How many tax dollars are being spent to buildshelters and provide showers and hot meals? What efforts are being made to explore the ways in whichdomestic violence contributes to the problem, especially where women and children are concerned?He folded his arms across his chest.`We have thousands and thousands of people living homeless on thestreets of our cities at the same time that we have men and women earning millions of dollars a yearrunning companies that make products whose continued usage will ruin our health, our environment, andour values.The irony is incredible.It's obscene.'Wren nodded.`But you can't change that, Simon, The problem is too indigenous to who we are, toomuch a part of how we live our lives'`Tell me about it.I feel like Dan Quixote, tilting at windmills' Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlSimon shrugged.`It's obviously hopeless, isn't it? But you know something, Andrew? I refuse to giveup.I really do [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]