Hanes, Mark Horvath and The Salvation Army Bring Warmth and Comfort To LA's Skid Row

Hanes and The Salvation Army brought the their third annual Virtual Sock Drive on Facebook to life by distributing Hanes socks and food to LA's homeless on Skid Row from a pop-up 'food cart'.

Joining these efforts is homeless advocate and founder of InvisiblePeople.TV, Mark Horvath. Horvath, who travels the country distributing socks to the homeless, marking the end of his 2011 cross-country tour with Hanes and The Salvation Army on Friday, November 4, in Gladys Park.




To learn more about Hanes visit www.Hanes.com and www.Facebook.com/Hanes
The Salvation Army visit www.salvationarmyusa.org and www.facebook.com/salvationarmyusa
Mark Horvath visit www.invisiblepeople.tv.

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• Mark Horvath
• Sock Drive
• Holiday giving
• Skid Row
• LA homeless
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[mrfilmnoir68]

@invisiblepeopletv If they dont want to change, that is thier choice. If they arent ready to change, that too is thier choice. The bleeding heart liberals play right into thier "world owes me something" and "woe is me" mentality to the point of contributing TO THE PROBLEM THEMSELVES BY ENABLEING them to continue this existence of infintile irresponsibility! Have you heard of tough love? Put them in a position of "swim or sink" and see what happens. If nothing changes, let them perish.

[mrfilmnoir68]

@invisiblepeopletv I am very qualified to speak on this issue based on the fact that i too was homeless(down on LA's skid row just like in this video) and i can tell you with complete honesty that 90% of these people are in that position because they PUT THEMSELVES in that position. They harbor a great attitude of entitlement and general lack of personal responsibility. Its everyone's fault but thier own; the goverment, the white race, jobs wont pay them enough, ect. They dont want to change.

[invisiblepeopletv]

@mrfilmnoir68 I am sorry you feel that way. I have worked in homeless services for many years, and I was homeless myself. I can honestly tell you that we can NEVER give up on people. Even the worst of the worst can change for the better. I have seen people change who I thought they never would change, but they did. WE must take care of our hurting neighbors until they are able to take care of themselves.

[mrfilmnoir68]

@invisiblepeopletv When they are ready to change?! Uh........sorry, the real world doesent operate that way. Life will go marching on......with or WITHOUT you! It is not the responsibility of functioning society to "be there" for anyone; to cuddle and hold thier hand like one would an infant, coaxing them on to do what responsible people simply do! "Get busy living or get busy dying". I feel that the majority of these bleeding-heart agencys are mearly enabling these "people" to continue existing

[invisiblepeopletv]

@mrfilmnoir68 thanks for the comment. Glad you got out of homelessness. It's a complex issue, and some people like you, and like me, got out of homelessness by changing our thinking. It's not that easy for everyone to do that. Take a look at invisiblepeopletv Youtube channel and meet some of our friends. We need to be there when they are ready to change

[mrfilmnoir68]

I heard that woman in the background say, "The haves and the have nots." If these homeless people would put in the effort to aspire to "have", maybe they would not be "have nots!" I too was at one point homeless based on negative choices that i was making at the time. I made a decision to change my life by first changing my THINKING and thus, now have a very good life FAR AWAY from homelessness and the "victim" mentality that is ever present in many of these people.