like HE has to deal with these bums, let alone on a daily basis... feh
Posted on 07/09/2017 7:49:10 AM PDT by rktman
The very folk that put him into office are now feeling his scorn?
Liberals love bums. As long as they’re their bums.
He hates, and wants to ban, panhandlers, but what he hates even more cops on the street actively trying to prevent petty crime
Oh, the hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance of the Left.
Hey, Bill, I know how you could solve the panhandler problem - just call them ‘protestors’ making them an instant protected class.
Begging and destitution go hand in hand with socialism. Productive capitalism and the creation of real wealth correlates best with social justice and personal happiness. Socialist like de Blasio bring misery to mankind.
Atlanta’s Clintonista mayor Kaseem is demolishing the warehouse where 1,000 of Atlanta’s 4,000 “panhandlers” live. No plans for where they will go. I predict that 100 of the 1,000 on any given day will end up living in the Grady County Hospital with Medicaid paying. The cost of that 100 per day will be the hidden cost... hidden to people unaware of unintended consequences.
But far left private Emory MidTown will be happy that their tony patients won’t have to park near those eyesores.
Emory U & HealthCare bills itself as the most leftwing institution in the South.
The mayor hates the poor liberals now?
Once he has the names, they’re added to the voter roles, and vote Dem till the end of the world. Or country. or state.
Democrats truly love the poor, the stricken, the destitute and the homeless. - That’s why they make so many of them.
They just don’t want the smelly bastards intruding into their safe spaces.
If he could figure out a way to tax them he would be OK with it.
I completely agree. Homelessness (camping on our streets) and panhandling should be illegal. Cops should sweep them up and there should be three different ways to handle people on the streets.
1) mentally ill: we should have really nice, charity based “locked villages” for our mentally ill brothers and sisters. Their freedom within the village would depend on ability to live without harming others, and their Med compliance. Competency tests to determine if ever released. Panels of family members and health experts determine when to commit them. It should be a pleasant, comfortable village run by employees who feel compassion as the conditions are not the fault of the people.
2) Substance abuse: Different, more hospital like, places where the person would be committed until either weaned or dried out, or kept there and given a substance. Not allowed out until clean; at that point option 1 or 3 would be the destination. It should not be pleasant in there.
3) This is the smallest group on the streets. People who actually fell into innocent “hard times” without the first two problems. We should pay for hotel like buildings in each city where these people could live under requirements such as hygiene, decent behavior, zero substance use, and job search. There should be a form of monitor in every room with free / paid by us online classes for job readiness. There could be recruiters or speakers every night to give examples of different jobs available. Goal being to get each person / family OUT with a job and apartment asap. Problems with behavior should be dealt with by sending them either to option 1) or to jail.
If we don’t do this, we have become Calcutta India. When I was a teen and was in Calcutta, and drove around town in a taxi and saw all the people and animals sleeping on city sidewalks, it blew my mind. It was culture shock. It wouldn’t be culture shock for my little kids. They see this right now in suburban Los Angeles. No cows in the road, but people camping under the freeways and alongside them is UBIQUITOUS. It’s total third world here and the cops are not allowed to do much.
He knows not of what he speaks.
There used to be vagrancy laws in the USA till the libs had them thrown out. Now the beggars are everywhere, even in small towns.
In the 1990’s and probably for a long time before, the downtown of St. Petersburg, Fl. was downtrodden and full of homeless panhandlers. The difference between a mall and a store downtown is there is an asphalt moat around the mall where private security can run off panhandlers and a patron can be relatively certain they are safer than on the street in front of individual downtown shops. One day, while visiting a client with a store downtown, I witnessed one of his customers park her new BMW convertible in front of his door. A horrible-smelling bum approached her and demanded money. She politely said something like, “not today. Thank you.” He rocked his head back, jabbed a finger firmly against a nostril and blasted her with snot. She got in her car and left. She hadn’t even bothered wiping it off as getting away was much more important.
I discussed this with the shop owner and he said the homeless would hit him up for money to go away, but if he paid one he had to pay them all and it just got to be more and more. And, yes, he figured he’d lost that woman forever.
The last time I was in St. Petersburg it was like a miracle had happened. Business, including sidewalk cafes, where booming. I stepped into an ice cream shop and, while getting a cone, asked about the homeless problem. The shop owner said the police were extremely vigilant, present and aggressive. If somebody even approached his sidewalk clients the cops made themselves very obvious and handed out a meaningful look. Most of the time the homeless went away immediately.
You simply can’t have businesses that depend on walk-in trade if the walk-in trade feels threatened or there is an easier, less-in-your face alternative like a mall. The street has to have the same privilege as a mall. Now, there have been several lawsuits over St. Pete’s policies and I don’t know how they came out, but the police alone are enabling the sense of safety that keeps those businesses flourishing. If the police policies that enable the businesses stop, then the city will rapidly revert to that inner city jungle look so common in cities like Detroit.
like HE has to deal with these bums, let alone on a daily basis... feh
Same thing in Reno NV. Now, if I were in their shoes, or lack of, I’d sure move someplace (somehow) where it didn’t snow on me and get well below freezing come winter time. We’ve seen a lot of “usual folks” probably getting most of their donations from tourists since the locals know who they are. But, I think we fall in to the sanctuary city column now and our erstwhile “mare” has signed on to the “mares” conference climate deal.
Much more cost-efficient to give them a bus ticket to the most distant sanctuary city and be sure they get aboard.
We have them planted here at the exit ramps. I want to put signs by the beginning of the ramps that say “Please don’t feed the Crack o dile ahead”.
Just wait until the urban campers in Colorado figure out the weather is better in California and the weed is now legal.
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