Posted on 08/17/2019 10:19:14 AM PDT by JeepersFreepers
Hah! Even if Austinites tell the city officials to stop the madness, they won't listen.
per year? Some people on disability only get about $13,000 per year-
Buy them a bus ticket to some Democrat city at least 1000 miles away and wire them $100 to that city to make sure they go there.
150k on each person in five years!?!
Wow.
Why not just buy them a cheap house in a cheap state and be rid of them if you’re gonna spend that much?
Homelessness is as much about drug addiction and mental illness as it is about a “housing shortage.”
Its called root cause analysis...government idiots should try it some time.
I’ll bet that if the money could be tracked a lot of it winds up in the Austin politicians pockets and the pockets of their cronies
$28,000 , when the word gets out they’ll be flooded with Homeless
Who is getting the money that is being spent?
Bus ticket from Austin to San Fran, where welcome all homeless, is just $250, one-way. Moves them from where they are not wanted to where they are.
because much of the money doesn’t go to the end user/needy person. The money goes to the people providing “services” and people holding meetings about the issue.
Seriously, most homeless have mental problems that need to be treated.
I wonder how much of that $28,000 actually goes to help the homeless person and how much goes into the pocket of a crony.
The amount spent on a homeless person in SF is mind boggling. If that person had a job and earned as much, they would be busy collecting taxes from them. In California, the public employee unions love homeless people, along with illegals, etc., because they are the ones that actually get the bulk of the money.
I blame the voters for this crap. Anybody with 2 brain cells to rub together knows full well that you don’t let children play with matches any more than you should put a democRAT in charge of anything.
It’s not nearly enough, bump it up....
So graft, basically :)
It might start off as the desire to do good, but money has a way of changing the results.
One guesses that a lot of hands take a cut - from the salaries of social services worker to the sticky fingers of contractors hire to provide services - and the money is not actually given in any way shape or form to the homeless directly.
And those receiving the money have no incentive to do anything except make sure that the crisis worsens.
The US has become a thoroughly corrupt country.
The people are tent dwellers, not homeless.
They are not ill, they are squatters on public lands.
The people of which you speak are in the past
It isn’t supposed to work. It is intended to funnel money into Leftist bureaucracies and well connected anti-American pockets.
Yes they do, but they just get civil service salaries. The real payola is to run a private for profit entity that is contracted to provide services, and you will find the principal officers and owners are strong supporters of the continued candidacy of incumbent politicians who have some say over the whole monkey business.
Its what we do for business when real manufacturing jobs are done by cheap labor oversees.
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