[martin gibson]

So is the hospital supposed to provide a free change of clothes, a paid hotel room, and a free wheelchair? Anyone stopped to wonder why so many hospitals in California are shutting their doors?

Good point! He CHOSE to be homeless, he CHOSE to be a paraplegic, he CHOSE to be mentally ill and he CHOSE to be sick.

I think you have him properly pegged as some kind of clever welfare "scammer". We have absolutely no responsibility for him whatsoever. The slightest consideration for him would peg us as some kind of COMMUNIST HIPPY LEFTIST!!!!

I think we and other conservatives agree that JESUS wants him dumped into the gutter in the middle of a ghetto too!

[bshomoic]

Poor attempt at satire.

Look, it is very simple. Everyone but a sociopath agrees that it isn’t nice to dump a mentally ill paraplegic into a gutter with soiled pants.

The issue is, who is responsible for this person? You obviously want it to be the hospital’s responsibility. On what moral basis do you assign responsibility for this human being’s welfare to the hospital? There are people suffering on the streets of Skid Row every single day, in soiled pants, many handicapped and mentally. Should we (the gubment) save them all? Or just hospitals?

[La Enchiladita]

I don’t know when ‘conservative’ came to mean ‘heartless’ but I don’t like it or accept it.