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of program inconvenient to shelters, and not enough widespread reach to homeless" (Burt and Cohen 8). The many programs these states provided were blocked by an onslaught of inefficiency.

There is a Healthcare Houston service that provides medical care for homeless. The much needed program is very important to the prevention of homelessness but it is not in direct connection with HUD ("Homeless" 1). Wouldn't it just be better and easier to combine the services?

"The government has actually done more where a state's volunteers have done more for themselves. 'Government action is needed both short term, to fund emergency and transitional services for homeless people, and long term, to prevent homelessness'" (Burt and Cohen 7). We each need to do our part to prevent homelessness but with federal control.

The government suggests we need a bigger, more efficient system to finally resolve the homelessness crisis but obviously don't know how to get it. "Homelessness is a temporary condition, if we all do our part" ("Homeless" 1).

Because of our disregard for the homeless in Houston and around the nation, limited programs, and lack of state funding, we now require a Federal Welfare Homeless Restoration program that promises permanent federal support to our less fortunate citizens.

I'm proposing a Federal Welfare Homeless Restoration (FWHR) program to reach out and end homelessness at its roots. The program is designed to not only help the homeless but intensely aid them in returning back into society. Particulars concerning my program are: registration-based aid, food stamps/housing/and job distribution, progress incentives, psychiatric referrals (based on a 6-month evaluation), and a clause requiring routine visits/pursuit of GED equivalent if not already obtained. My program is federally paid by the citizens through a graduated income tax based on salary. It will not require grants or business-based support. The motives for this program are to end homelessness for the people by the people. So support the initiative.

We need to come together financially, emotionally, and morally to make sure we extend our hearts to those who need our help. "There's no safe place to which to flee. There's no hiding place. You can't shrug it off. It's you. It's your situation. It's the situation of the nation as a whole" (Lyndon LaRouche PAC 4).

References:

Burt, Martha R. and Barbara E. Cohen, "America's Homeless - Numbers Characteristics and Programs that Serve Them." Washington, D.C.: The

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