Gray wall, gray hair, a poor man.
A Dublin vagrant with a fresh orange. I gave him 4 Euro for the photo. A gentle man that was somehow misfortunate. Wish I knew his life story. It seems that no matter what the political or social system, there are always some folks that fall through the cracks. Apropos that there's cracks in the wall behind him. Apropos that his hair blends into the wall....
The fact that he picked a wall the same color as his hair seems an awfully lot like he's trying to disappear...
Some of the Irish have criticized my country (USA) for having 40-something million "uninsured" which works out to about 10%, a number I really don't believe especially if you include the 12 million illegal immigrants and the x million young people they opted out of coverage because "I'm healthy." It's disingenuous of the Irish to point fingers with their large number of migrants and beggars despite their socialized medicine and other programs. What I learned: don't believe things that defy personal observation. I grant that there's plenty broken with the American system but I will not accept that the European solution (mostly socialized) is the answer. After living in Sweden for over a year and many visits to other European countries, I am not dazzled by their systems. There are just as many, if not more, crippled people on the streets, bad teeth, and other visible health problems as in the US. More beggars than I've ever seen, too.
Gray wall, gray hair, a poor man.
A Dublin vagrant with a fresh orange. I gave him 4 Euro for the photo. A gentle man that was somehow misfortunate. Wish I knew his life story. It seems that no matter what the political or social system, there are always some folks that fall through the cracks. Apropos that there's cracks in the wall behind him. Apropos that his hair blends into the wall....
The fact that he picked a wall the same color as his hair seems an awfully lot like he's trying to disappear...
Some of the Irish have criticized my country (USA) for having 40-something million "uninsured" which works out to about 10%, a number I really don't believe especially if you include the 12 million illegal immigrants and the x million young people they opted out of coverage because "I'm healthy." It's disingenuous of the Irish to point fingers with their large number of migrants and beggars despite their socialized medicine and other programs. What I learned: don't believe things that defy personal observation. I grant that there's plenty broken with the American system but I will not accept that the European solution (mostly socialized) is the answer. After living in Sweden for over a year and many visits to other European countries, I am not dazzled by their systems. There are just as many, if not more, crippled people on the streets, bad teeth, and other visible health problems as in the US. More beggars than I've ever seen, too.