A HOMELESS CRISIS

New York Post ^ | December 2, 2002 | WILLIAM TUCKER

[sarcasm]

NEW York City spent $583 million on the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) in 2002. That's half this year's budget gap and more than the federal government spends on the homeless.

If the city government hadn't been ruining the housing market for 50 years and rolling over to homeless activists for the last 15 years, it could well spend nothing.

[3catsanadog]

DHS must provide homeless mothers with baby formula.

Tell them to use their own breasts - it's free.

[Dick Vomer]

I think that New York should spend more.... a lot more on homeless shelters and give them lots of food and money... that way Florida doesn't get any of these losers to scam us. Keep them up north where they belong.... I think I'll post this article on the bulletin board in the ER and highlight the benefits and dollars that people get just to be homeless in New York.....

thank you New York... what would we do without you... I hope that Santa Monica and San Francisco get into a "bidding" war with the New Yorkers ... that would be beautiful....

[CatoRenasci]

Tell them to use their own breasts - it's free.

What? And have the babies get all the mother's drugs and alcolhol? Better to give the kids formula and get them away from these parents.... but taking the kids away isn't PC.

[Destructor]

Funny how the homeless disappeared during the 8 years of the Clinton-Gore administration, then reappeared right after George Bush was declared the winner of the 2000 Presidential election. Go figure it!

[wita]

A point you were probably making, the homeless did not disappear, but the issue of the homeless did fall off the radar. How could homeless hope to compete with the blue dress as a political issue?

[wita]

...taking the kids away is not PC.

...and taking kids away is not the purpose of government. Parents good and bad exist the world over. children benefit and children suffer. The answer is for parents to do better, not for the state to become their savior.

[Destructor]

A very good point! Thanks.

[BlkConserv]

Blame NYC's absurd rent control policy - and all the city and building code regulations that has driven most NYC landlords out of business.

No landlord is going to rent an apartment below market cost.

[mewzilla]

And what if the parents have absolutely no intention of doing any better?

[zarf]

This is not a homeless issue. This is a "Wack job" "achoholic / drug addiction" issue.

I defy anyone to show me an actual "homeless" person not addicted to substances or simply out of their minds. I would think a "homeless" person would be defined as one simply down on their economic luck.

[dano1]

Bump.

[Axenolith]

You have lucked out, In San Francisco they passed a measure to end cash "assistance" and switch to vouchers for food and shelter but as of the weekend I hear its held up in court now under the arguement, now get this, that its not within the power of the voters to decide to end cash assistance...

[cincinnati65]

N.Y. Times reporter Rolodex:

Democratic President - improving school test scores, lower crime, cleaner environment

Republican President - Bad economy, tax cuts for the rich, homeless problem

Flip to the appropriate card and insert statistics here. In the event no corroborating statistics are available from reliable sources, feel free to complete the article inserting your own data from your own experiences (much more accurate than the skewed data gotten from our sources).

[wita]

Agreed, and not to forget absolute candidacy for the no longer available mental institution, and those just crazy enough to want to live on the street. The cause of the "homeless" is a financial sink hole worse than a pleasure boat in northern climes. Unless you fish.

[wita]

The answer should be obvious. Life is tough, how far are you willing to let govt go in it's quest to make everything right.

[Ole Okie]

How could homeless hope to compete with the blue dress as a political issue?

Good point. But the fact is that the following equations:

REPUBLICANS = HOMELESS

DEMONCRATS = NO HOMELESS

are formulae that far predate the semen-stained Gap dress.

They are simply a part of the Dumbocrap/Media symbiosis.

Like unto Republicans starve children, kill old people, etc.

[Dad was my hero]

let me put on my liberal emotion cap. Let's see, more homeless means more need for public housing. Also, means that the gap between rich and poor is growing. Also, means that more and more of us are only one paycheck away from homelessness. Also, means that Republican policies create more homeless.

Now put on my conservative thinking cap and I come up with the immutable fact that, like economics 101 says, what you reward, you generally get more of. That fact pretty much counters every other fact noted above.

BTW, my sister was homeless for awhile, she is retarded (for the PC among us, mentally handicapped) and she became so because she was seduced by a scum sucking pig that found out she had some SSDI money and he hoped he could get his hands on it. She didn't become homeless until her early 40's and could have moved back in with my mother at any time she wanted, but she didn't want to live there while nobody wanted to have contact with the bottom feeder she was seeing. She is now back off the streets again. So the observation that someone made to see one that wasn't drug or alcohol addicted or mentally retarded was accurate, all that I come across are one or the other.

[Dick Vomer]

BTW, my sister was homeless for awhile, she is retarded (for the PC among us, mentally handicapped) and she became so because she was seduced by a scum sucking pig that found out she had some SSDI money and he hoped he could get his hands on it.

This is in no way a criticism but... if somebody did that to my sister, I think a Louisville Slugger across both thighs repeated until the predator understood that maybe there is an easier way to make money..... or until he could "earn" his own disability check and a wheelchair... nuff said.

[Always Right]

Funny how the homeless disappeared during the 8 years of the Clinton-Gore administration, then reappeared right after George Bush was declared the winner of the 2000 Presidential election. Go figure it!

I remember almost nightly stories on the homeless issue when Reagan/Bush were in office. It just warms my heart to see the media cares about this issue again.