Maybe we should just combine them and vote on favorite homeless guy on tv?

...just saw this ...yes, it was a superfluous observation ..no question, homelessness is, by far, a complex issue to address via this platform esp. when compared to voting on favorite tv shows ...

I disagree; it's not that people don't care about social issues; it's just that they aren't simple things to address. It is fun to talk about the trivial things like television, but it's not quite so easy to address complex, many-sided issues such as homelessness.

I do agree, however, that it would be nice to see more discussion on this topic though. :-)

This is the sad reality of what holds people's interest. I suspect that once the impoverished countries start to receive their OLPC's (One Laptop per Child) in mass, those numbers will finally begin to change!

Great observation!