Posted on 12/16/2016 5:22:41 PM PST by Morgana
What is “Step 13”? Is it like a “welfare to work” program? Why won’t the Denver Gov have anything to do with them?
Denver is also going to double down on it’s re-homing the homeless with taxpayer money (I can’t remember the name of the program and google brings up many, many programs that don’t seem to do adamn thing). Step 13 works, but only if the people in it really want to change.
There is heat over at the jailhouse.
I have family in Denver, and I know they’ve been very upset by the “homeless” problem there, because it’s negatively impacting the lives of the very people who are paying for the “homeless” to be there.
This is not a random action by DPD, but obviously the situation has gotten so bad (and the weather is getting so severe) that it’s time to get these people off the streets.
The cops have been trying to do this for years but the city government has been opposed, but maybe now things have gotten so bad that even the city government knows something has got to be done.
Step 13 is an organization that is independent from the government. They get funding from non-governmental sources. They require strict adherence to sobriety and work. They do work training(especially for remodeling houses) and they accept donated cars to be fixed up and sold in like new shape. Step 13 does not tolerate relapses into alcohol. The local Denver government does not want to cure the problems of substance abuse. They only want to make money off of it for their own financial enrichment. They are democrats. There are Mexican heroin drug dealers all over Denver with needles all over the Speer Blvd. bike path and Denver is a sanctuary city for illegals. Like I said, Denver is a democrat city.
The founder:
"Bob Coté would became a fixture on Larimer Street. A towering presence of tough love, American Enterprise magazine described him as “a one-man alternative to the welfare state. Take one part Florence Nightingale, add three parts John Wayne, and one part cowboy poet…running a shelter that turns homeless drunks and junkies into productive citizens….”
Step 13 is kind of like the Doe Fund in NYC, except that Step 13 has a residential component, which to my knowledge, the Doe Fund doesn’t provide.
However, the Doe Fund has gotten got thousands of “homeless” men off the streets with a program where the participants begin by picking up trash or being attendants in parks and commercial spaces in a Doe Fund area. The men get their acts together, take pride in what they are doing, and go on to have real lives. I’m about to make them a Christmas donation...
I lived in Denver, there are many shelters for the Homeless, so for anyone to be out in that weather is hard to imagine...
People that work for these shelters go out and pick up people and take them back for hot food, blankets and a cot to sleep on...
I bet this was ‘staged’ for that to happened...Denver is one of the biggest ‘homeless shelter’ cities around...
During the Utah Olympics, Mitt Romney had the homeless taken to Denver to get them off the streets here in Utah...
lemme guess- they only took blankets away from black homeless folks and not the white ones?
Yes, yes. America’s homeless problem will explode exponentially on January 21, 2017.
“so for anyone to be out in that weather is hard to imagine...”
The mayor was on local TV. He said that some of the reasons that the homeless won’t go is that they’ve “coupled up” and don’t want to be separated, and that they don’t want to be told that they can’t smoke and drink.
I’m an adult. I wouldn’t want to check in to some place that was going to tell me I couldn’t have a beer.
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