Posted on 07/09/2009 7:26:18 AM PDT by Patriot1259
Homelessness is an epidemic. As Americans, it is our right and privilege to help reach the needy. As Christians, it is our duty. What are the real problems and real solutions?
"How do we reclaim our park benches back from the homeless?" I listened to a city official ask a group of business men and women last Tuesday.
Sound heartless?
(Excerpt) Read more at thecypresstimes.com ...
Almost all of the homeless have alcohol or drug problems, or have refused treatment for a mental problem.
It is lucky for all of us, that at the ACLU allowed libraries to be turned into day care centers, for the homeless, we now have the Internet and other ways of finding information.
Soylent Green...
What do ya do with a drunken vagrant
What do ya do with a drunken vagrant
What do ya do with a drunken vagrant
Early in the mornin’?
Have him scream at Barack Obama
Have him scream at Barack Obama
Have him scream at Barack Obama
Early in the mornin’!
Some time ‘round noon he rises
Some time ‘round noon he rises
Some time ‘round noon he rises
Hours past the mornin’!
Preach some hope/change garbage at ‘im
Preach some hope/change garbage at ‘im
Preach some hope/change garbage at ‘im
Early in the mornin’.
Some time ‘round noon he rises
Some time ‘round noon he rises
Some time ‘round noon he rises
Hours past the mornin’!
They should light out for the territories. The frontier calls . . . hunting, trapping, clearing the wilderness, homesteading . . . westward the march of empire.
That would require work.
Feed them to the “hungry”.
The only exception may be the ones who need meds, but have no real way of getting them, or refuse to take them as a result of the imbalance to begin with. They, more than any of the others who have chosen the lifestyle, may truly want to change, but are unable to do so because of their current mental state.
“How do we reclaim our park benches back from the homeless?”
Re-open mental Hospitals we closed all over the country as if these people no longer existed. Collaborate with religious institutions who will help provide staff to care for them. We chose to “mainstream” a lot of the very, very sick people that are now sleeping in the streets...we didn’t want to “stigmatize” them...there really are people in need of psychiatric care and relief from people who prey on them and we have dumped many of the sickest of them onto the sidewalk.
Or, we could just try to identify them before they are born and kill them, along with all of the pesky old folks. Eventually they and the elderly will be no burden at all. (Pathetic scary semi-sarcasm).
This idea sounds lofty and nice but only works only when the homeless actually want to be cured of substance abuse and integrated into the community rather than enabled to continue their destructive lifestyles indefinitely.
Until this prevailing philosphy is discredited, government help will continue to enable rather than cure the largest source of the problem. In fact, the only suceesses have been through non-government organizations such as AA and the Salvation Army who integrate a philosophy of changing behaviors with treating the symptoms.
Some are homeless because they choose to be. Some who appear to be homeless actually aren't. They just know they can earn easy money begging.
But there are those who are homeless through no real fault of their own, and they can use a hand up. There are already organizations in place to help them, and those of us who wish to do something about the homeless will support those organizations.
Urban planning, do gooders, zoning, urban renewal...in a phrase, government got rid of flop houses, rooming houses, boarding houses all of which provided low cost, tax paying, no government staff hiring..housing.
So, naturally we have a worse problem, needing yet more government, more staff and more taxes.
That’s what government does. It never lets an opportunity go to waste and not make things worse and require more taxes, more govey jobs, more pensions, buildings, administrators, ...bla,bla, bla.
We should respect the houseless. If it is noble, and environmentally in tune with nature for Africans to live in mud huts, why not the noble houseless Therou of our times in a van down by the river?
> Homelessness is an epidemic. As Americans, it is our right and privilege to help reach the needy. As Christians, it is our duty. What are the real problems and real solutions?
I encounter bucketloads of homeless all the time as a byproduct of my vocation. If your homeless are anything like the homeless here in New Zealand, for a large proportion of them it is a chosen lifestyle and preference. Many are “that way” because they like it “that way”. Few will voluntarily “change”.
Few of them are involved in criminal activity, and those who are are only involved in petty, opportunistic crime: such as shoplifting. At worst they are a minor urban nuisance. At best they are valuable sources of community intel and can be good company. I’d rather hang around with a homeless than with a Madoff-type any day of the week.
“Many are “that way” because they like it “that way”. Few will voluntarily “change”.
Yep. Many are living outside because of a paranoid schizophrenic character or delusional. And they aren’t gonna change that...many believe that if they do not have the ability to run away at a moments notice, not to be “trapped” inside, they will die or be killed. Not all...but many...are so desperately mentally ill and physically sick...watch how much fun some are having, talking to themselves, scratching at the fleas and the lice, sweating under the wool coats in the middle of summer (it protects them from a LOT of imagined harmful rays and things, you know, gives them the “extra skin” they need) and they are just living large, laughing and joking. They just LOVE the life they have...well, except for many of them who are crawling with spiders and the snakes inside them and the grotesque visons and struggles with demons...yep they are having a ball out there...I can see how that would be a good hang...
You can make videos of them for fun and profit:
Social problems that will NEVER go away:
1) Homeless
2) Crime
3) Prostitution
4) Drug addicts
5) politicians
Social problems that will NEVER go away:
1) Homeless
2) Crime
3) Prostitution
4) Drug addicts
5) politicians
Ironically, a list that keeps getting worse and more dangerous every year as we march bravely into the socialist new world...
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