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It’s Not ‘Compassionate’ to Allow Addicts and the Mentally Ill to Live on the Streets
National Review ^ | 08/17/2015 | John Fund

Posted on 08/17/2015 7:23:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 08/17/2015 7:23:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course it isn’t.

But 0bama would probable like to put them in group homes in uppity white neighborhoods.


2 posted on 08/17/2015 7:24:59 AM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
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To: SeekAndFind

Homelessness in the US—Courtesy of JFK’s Community Mental Health Act (1963).

The mentally ill are living under bridges and eating out of dumpsters but, by gad, they have their dignity.


3 posted on 08/17/2015 7:25:29 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Also, friends don’t let friends vote democrat.


4 posted on 08/17/2015 7:27:15 AM PDT by Perseverando (For Progressives, Islamonazis & Totalitarians: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is happening more and more in NYC. It started as soon as Guiliani left office and has really increased under DeBlasio.


5 posted on 08/17/2015 7:30:00 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Liberal policies are biting us in the butt.

When did anyone start to suggest that there is some constitutional right to sleep and P**S and S$$^ anyplace in public?

We could discuss what we are doing to get homeless off the street, but, can’t we all agree that it’s not good for them or good for society for the homeless to be in the streets??

I recall a recent article, in which someone wrote that San Francisco reeks of urine in many parts of the city.

Do liberals really think it’s compassionate to allow people to live in the streets????


6 posted on 08/17/2015 7:30:52 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SeekAndFind

It is building 500 new single-room-occupancy residences with full services for street people
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they don’t need single rooms...put them in dormitories..


7 posted on 08/17/2015 7:31:57 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: SeekAndFind

Ponder this. Obama is only mentioned in the article twice. One might say innocuously matter-of-fact. So how does this “compassion” thing fit into the political horizon?

Maybe, just maybe, bleeding heart liberals are beginning to think the Hildebeast will fall and someone not Democrat will win in 2016. Egad! Possibly even Trump?

If so, even if Trump doesn’t win, they need to prep the PC bleeding heart PC battlefield with words familiar to RINOS (i.e., “compassion” or “have a heart” and the like) in case the Dark Side (GOP establishment) wins out.

In short, they’re telegraphing that they’re gonna get back on that Crazy assed mental / Homeless bandwagon the minute their guy doesn’t win.


8 posted on 08/17/2015 7:32:52 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: SeekAndFind

But San Francisco is a Liberal city. Liberals have the answers to homelessness!


9 posted on 08/17/2015 7:36:41 AM PDT by olepap (Your old Pappy)
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To: SeekAndFind
It has been said 1000’s of times. Most of these folks are there due to drugs and psychiatric problems.

States should be responsible for rounding them up and placing them in “state run” (not private), clean safe rehab institutions. Problem solved.

10 posted on 08/17/2015 7:37:47 AM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Homeless shelters essentially ARE dormitories, which is why a lot of homeless won’t go there, due to privacy and safety issues. It’s safer and more private (and easier to shoot dope, or stab whoever tries to steal one’s dope) on the street, doncha know.


11 posted on 08/17/2015 7:45:55 AM PDT by mumblypeg (I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
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To: Tennessee Nana
they don’t need single rooms...put them in dormitories..

Sounds logical enough. After all, they don't live alone under bridges or in park encampments.

But I'm sure our libtard masters will come up with dozens of reasons as to why they need single rooms starting with they might share needles or harm or assault each other.

12 posted on 08/17/2015 7:46:16 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I thought John Kasich wrote this article.


13 posted on 08/17/2015 7:53:45 AM PDT by Catsrus (M)
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To: SeekAndFind

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14 posted on 08/17/2015 7:56:26 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: Gamecock

Actually in Lawrence Kansas there was a push to build a homeless shelter in just such an area but I think that the lack of public transportation in that area made it fail. The homeless prefer to live downtown close to the Salvation Army and good places to pan-handle. Because of lax laws on buskering, a homeless person only needs to stand on a corner and sing with a tip jar to beat any loitering charge.


15 posted on 08/17/2015 8:01:00 AM PDT by Mercat (The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him and delivers them.)
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To: olepap

But San Francisco is a Liberal city. Liberals have the answers to homelessness!


I never understand why so many cities run by liberals/Democrats for generations are in such sad shape.

Reason being, if liberal policies and Democrat party positions were the answers to solving various social problems, these problems should have been solved where Democrats are in charge. There is no meaningful Republican or other political opposition in many cities run by Democrats. So they have been able to implement their agendas unfettered.

Considering this, why are so many Democrat run cities such basket cases, if liberal policies were the answers to our problems?????

And why have I never heard anyone in the media ever ask such questions??? Why have I never heard any Democrat politician address and defend the results of their policies???


16 posted on 08/17/2015 8:05:08 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Vigilanteman

They wouldn’t get a single room in a jail..


17 posted on 08/17/2015 8:06:41 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: SeekAndFind

Nothing like paying obscene prices due to rent control just to get that genuine urine smell waft through your windows.


18 posted on 08/17/2015 8:19:15 AM PDT by Read Write Repeat
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Do liberals really think it’s compassionate to allow people to live in the streets????

Sanctuary cities aren't very compassionate, are they?

19 posted on 08/17/2015 8:19:15 AM PDT by Read Write Repeat
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To: SeekAndFind

The hobos peed on a metal lamppost and rusted it and it fell over on a car?

Put those guys to work!

“It will cost us $500,000 to drop this bridge or we can have Willy The Wino come over and pee on it for a joint.”


20 posted on 08/17/2015 10:02:38 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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