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Austin [TX] Crisis: Is Spending $28,000 per Homeless Person the Answer?
Texas Scorecard ^ | 8/15/2019 | Jacob Asmussen

Posted on 08/17/2019 10:19:14 AM PDT by JeepersFreepers

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To: Moonman62

Indeed, and fattens themselves as long as they can


41 posted on 08/17/2019 12:04:02 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: JeepersFreepers; All
Please watch Dr. Drew talk about this issue in Los Angles with Scott Adams.

Dr. Drew Pinsky said that Los Angeles faces an imminent outbreak of bubonic plague because of the growth of the homeless population and the failure of state and local authorities to deal with rodent problems.

Dr. Drew told Adams that he had predicted the recent typhus outbreak in Los Angeles, which was carried by rats, transferred by fleas to pets, and from pets to humans.

periscope video

42 posted on 08/17/2019 12:32:55 PM PDT by Lockbox
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To: JeepersFreepers

Bus ticket to San Fransisco is only $99 one way

hmmm, I see a really inexpensive solution to this problem


43 posted on 08/17/2019 12:32:57 PM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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To: fella

ALL the money goes to the social welfare warriors!

Anybody care to guess the salaries these dingbats get paid to “solve” the problem?


44 posted on 08/17/2019 12:40:38 PM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: Texas Eagle

See my post #44!


45 posted on 08/17/2019 12:41:31 PM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: wildcard_redneck; All

“Philanthropy using public tax money is a very lucrative business. Pitt of that $28 million spent I bet only $1 to 2 million reachs the intended beneficiaries while the rest is vacumed up by politicians and the well-connected.”

The Law

Law and Charity Are Not the Same

The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect persons and property.

Furthermore, it must not be said that the law may be philanthropic if, in the process, it refrains from oppressing persons and plundering them of their property; this would be a contradiction. The law cannot avoid having an effect upon persons and property; and if the law acts in any manner except to protect them, its actions then necessarily violate the liberty of persons and their right to own property.

The law is justice — simple and clear, precise and bounded. Every eye can see it, and every mind can grasp it; for justice is measurable, immutable, and unchangeable. Justice is neither more than this nor less than this. If you exceed this proper limit — if you attempt to make the law religious, fraternal, equalizing, philanthropic, industrial, literary, or artistic — you will then be lost in an uncharted territory, in vagueness and uncertainty, in a forced utopia or, even worse, in a multitude of utopias, each striving to seize the law and impose it upon you. This is true because fraternity and philanthropy, unlike justice, do not have precise limits. Once started, where will you stop? And where will the law stop itself?

Frederic Bastiat


46 posted on 08/17/2019 12:43:19 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: dp0622

“Why not just buy them a cheap house in a cheap state and be rid of them if you’re gonna spend that much?”

because “homeless” drug addicts and illegal aliens would flock by the hundreds of thousands to any city that would buy them a free house ...


47 posted on 08/17/2019 12:47:59 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: JeepersFreepers
The Democrat led Austin City Council is turning Austin into the San Francisco of Texas.

Not happening. San Francisco is prosperous and has a lot going for it, despite the liberal crap going on there. Austin is a cesspool and a "nothing there" town. I've been to Austin many times, and it reminds me of Berkeley. A bunch of liberal freaks with a few trendy restaurants and bars but not much else to look at or do. About the only thing okay are the lakes and waterways (except for all the bats living under the bridges). Austin sucks.

48 posted on 08/17/2019 12:49:16 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: JeepersFreepers
No wonder it's called the People's antiChristian, antiAmerican, Socialist Kakistocracy of Austin.
49 posted on 08/17/2019 12:51:31 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Vermont Lt

It’s about what you subsidize you get more of.


50 posted on 08/17/2019 12:54:14 PM PDT by ichabod1 (He's a vindictive SOB but he's *our* vindictive SOB.)
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To: rigelkentaurus

Who says they’re not wanted. I think Austin just passed an outdoor camping ordinance that says they can basically sleep anywhere they want to, even on your sidewalk. They love their dragworms there, always have, at least since the first time I saw Austin.

If Austin weren’t the state capital, it would be just like Portland.


51 posted on 08/17/2019 12:56:54 PM PDT by ichabod1 (He's a vindictive SOB but he's *our* vindictive SOB.)
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To: ichabod1

Truly. Just how much worthless could LIBs be? Really.


52 posted on 08/17/2019 1:01:32 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: rktman

muh values


53 posted on 08/17/2019 1:08:10 PM PDT by ichabod1 (He's a vindictive SOB but he's *our* vindictive SOB.)
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To: hal ogen

Somebody up thread said it well - don’t let children play with matches. Don’t vote democrat for anything.


54 posted on 08/17/2019 1:15:33 PM PDT by ichabod1 (He's a vindictive SOB but he's *our* vindictive SOB.)
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To: JeepersFreepers

The Austin city council is infested with idiots.


55 posted on 08/17/2019 2:09:58 PM PDT by Kolb (Compone Accomoda Supera)
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To: JeepersFreepers

San Antonio isn’t far behind.


56 posted on 08/17/2019 2:11:15 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: JeepersFreepers

“...a path Austinites should be wary not to travel.”

Would be more successful preaching to fence posts!


57 posted on 08/17/2019 2:11:39 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet
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To: JeepersFreepers

I have attend the TCEA Conference in Austin many times. Either 3 or 4 years ago, I noticed a huge increase in the homeless. One popped on the sidewalk at 8 am right by the Convention Center. Another one stepped out of an alcove toward me when I was leaving a night time reception. Luckily, I had a big man with me. The convention has been moved to San Antonio.


58 posted on 08/17/2019 3:41:10 PM PDT by FoundinTexas
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To: AndyJackson; Texas Eagle; Truth29
 
And those receiving the money have no incentive to do anything except make sure that the crisis worsens.
 
This is the criminal left's vision of "industry" and "employment" - all the dems running for president have telegraphed such intent. The establishment of permanent underclass misery, the letting of contracts, the creation or expansion of bureaucracies staffed with armies of government hires to administrate that misery. It's the future that awaits us all if we stay on this trajectory. This was what Obammy was doing during his 8 year reign and if the left regains and consolidates power they'll make it permanent. "Fundamental transformation" indeed.
 
 

59 posted on 08/17/2019 4:03:08 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: rigelkentaurus
"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."

No, don't do that. They'll just come back. Put them on a plane to Hawaii.

60 posted on 08/17/2019 5:10:57 PM PDT by fini
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