Sleep-in for French Homeless

It's things like this that should make Americans realize how truly selfish we've become...

PARIS: Hundreds of people emerged from tents beside this city's Canal Saint Martin to greet the chilly New Year on Monday with a hot lunch from a nearby soup kitchen. But not all of them were homeless.
Dozens of otherwise well-housed, middle-class French people have been spending nights in tents along the canal in solidarity with the country's growing number of "sans domicile fixes," the French euphemism for people living on the street.
The bleak yet determinedly cheerful sleep-in is meant to embarrass the French government into doing something about the problem.

And to think that the French's issue of homelessness isn't nearly as bad as that which we endure in most American cities: "The French government statistics bureau estimated the number of people living without a fixed address at 86,000 for all of France in 2004, about equal to the number of homeless in Los Angeles alone."