Some of it is true but not all of it. Some might be willing to work, but not all of them.
Bottom line is they are responsible for the situation they are in because they made poor choices in life and no I don't feel sorry for them at all!
As far as their drug addition they should have dealt with it a long time ago. Get a life!
Sorry Afterbuners, but it ain't so simple. Its easy to preach almighty and "know" they should have done better.. A very myopic view..
Go tell that to the girl who's been physically abused since she was .. young .. by Dad, and a mum who turned a blind eye. Heck, let's talk certain churches, ministers, Jr. hockey coaches, and residential schools of the 40's, 50's and 60's, and not talk about abuse / abusive power..
The verbal abuse she suffered all thru school made her feel low, and she resorted to a chemical escape, to lessen the pain & try to deal with it..
She got kicked out of the house at 16, now on her own, needing to live. and is now trying to live, and knows only one way to make $$$..
How is this abusive childhood her fault? How did she make poor choices, with what she was given as role models & a support system?!
Her addiction was her escape, and now she wants to change, but she's been a smack head or junkie for the past decade.. it's very physical, she 'needs' it like we need food & oxygen.
How is the abuse suffered by a woman who did once meet a nice man, but he has since come down with his own troubles and takes it out on her.. How is that her fault for trying to stay and 'keep it together'? (or once did 'escape' only to be severely reprimanded!)
How is it that the 56yr old engineer who moved across the country to get a 'good job' gets laid off, only to soon find he keeps loosing out to the 30 yr old crowd coming out of school.. soon, he's on death's door, and no means to support himself or..
Before you make a statement like that, go sit in at an AA or DA meeting, go spend an hour / volunteer at the local "safe injection site"..
Sorry, having been close to this "lifestyle" and seen people go thru it, it's hard to take the notion that it's "their fault". You don't know their story..