most of these people are suffering from mental illness and/or serious lifelong drug or alchohol abuse. At one time they were institutionalized...now they are on the streets. They are helped to a degree but ultimately are helpless and can't be cured...most have been abandoned by families who cannot or don't want to care for them..this is a tragedy of the human condition everywhere in the world...but wrapping this image in the flag of the country receiving you as a guest has terribly dishonest and bitter implications...and is about as tacky as is possible for an educated person to get....
