Posted on 01/21/2011 4:57:57 PM PST by Menehune56
Cities have tried many ways to move panhandlers and vagrants out of prime shopping districts, but Santa Barbara believes it has a new angle — 90 degrees. Using $50,000 in redevelopment funds, the city is planning to turn 14 benches perpendicular to the State Street storefronts they now face. The idea is to make it more difficult for beggars to establish contact with passersby, officials said.
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Priceless
Theres the change we were lookin fer
Liberals help to create many poor then they turn them away unless they can Robin Hood more taxpayer funds.
$3,571.43 to rotate a bench 90 degrees.
Don’t they have any guys doing “community service” that know how to use simple hand tools?
$timulus.
I spent 4 years at U.C. Sandy Beaches. I haven't been back in over three decades and see no reason ever to return.
Don’t be so hard on the place, fellow Gaucho.
Something about deck chairs and the Titanic comes to mind.
Why waste $50 grand? Give it to me.
The left insisted the metaly disturbed be turned loose if they were not a threat to themselves or others. Many went to living on the streets, so the left said we have a ‘’homeless’’ problem. I saw an interview of a woman who was using public sidewalks for a toilet. SHE HAD A COLLEGE DEGREE!!! but was clearly mentally challenged.
Find out where they came from. Send them back to their families to provide prefessional intervention. Poverty pimps (advocates) do not want to SOLVE homelessness—they want to perpetuate and grow it. The more homeless, the more grants they get. The majority of homeless are mental illness or substance abuse related or both. Moving benches or giving more grant money to “advocates” does absolutely nothing—othe than create magnets for the homeless. The love warm resorts—or gaming destinations that give free booze. Send them back to people that really care about them—that wold begin to solve the problem.
In Texas, the panhandlers have enough initiative to stand up to beg. Sounds like California has some lazy bums.
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