ON THE STREET AGAIN

Using her own brother as an example, Leslie Earnest (“On the Street Again,” Nov. 24) drives home the point that street people are predestined for the streets and that they actually prefer to live the way they do.

I thoroughly detest Earnest’s implication that people living on the streets are in search of some sort of freedom. Give me a break. The freedom to live in poverty is no freedom at all.

COLIN P. CURRAN

Santa Barbara