Posted on 12/09/2013 10:43:39 AM PST by GodAndCountryFirst
I keep getting hit up this time of year for money to "fight homelessness." I give sometimes, but let's face it, at least half the time, being "homeless" is a lifestyle choice.
When it isn't a choice, it's the consequence of "well-meaning" liberal control of all of us. Regulations and building codes are the leading cause of involuntary homelessness because it makes housing too expensive. Maybe I don't need a sink in my apartment. Maybe I wouldn't mind choosing to share a bathroom with a couple other flats. It wouldn't be optimal, but why wouldn't I have the FREEDOM to make that choice? It's simple. Liberal scum want to make low-income people dependent on housing hand-outs paid for by - you guessed it - everybody else. It's all about control. Take the handout or live on the street, those are your options.
We need to free up the market to provide housing people can afford and get the government out of it.
Why is it that the more the government fights homelessness, poverty, drugs and racism the more they thrive?
When I was in college, I rented a room in an old building, had to use a bathroom down the hallway and a shared kitchen.
Welcome aboard.
Is anything going to change without some kind of apocalypse? Probably not.
Why can’t we just send all homeless people to Berkeley?
I can’t understand it all all.
After 5 years of Baraqqi economic recovery, we have homeless?
Impossible.
LBJ's "Great Society" is a good example. The 2013 BUDGET of HHS (the Department of Health and Human Services) is close to ONE TRILLION DOLLARS. This isn't rocket science. Money that should be going into investment, growth, and the pockets of the people, rich and poor alike, are being siphoned uselessly into the cavernous black hole called the "Administrative State." creating more and more poverty (you don't get what you worked for - the Communist ideal).
“Regulations and building codes are the leading cause of involuntary homelessness because it makes housing too expensive.”
Much of this is done at the local level, and with that intent in mind. While inexpensive housing is well and good for those who live there, it is a serious problem for those who live nearby, who don’t want to live anywhere near inexpensive housing, because it hurts the value of their property.
The alternative is to zone an inexpensive housing area, like an industrial park. But that depends on who you want to live there.
If it’s college students, the university will object, because it wants students to live on campus, which profits the university. If it is for lower middle class working people, the business they work for has to be right next door, or there has to be inexpensive public transport to their work.
If it is for less productive people, close to nobody wants them around.
How about raising our taxes to give them homes for free?
Could that backfire?
Mandatory home ownership, problem solved. Just like Obamacare.
Stop dumping people on the streets who are unable to take care of themselves. Stop slashing job opportunities for men who are willing to work. Help the vets who have had big problems getting back into society. Stop providing shiny new shopping carts and making videos on how to survive in a dumpster. Stop feeding hippies in food pantries. Kick hippies out of shelters.
Then you’ll have fewer homeless.
I can tell ya, after living in Portland, Or., and being an ‘office rat’ for a few years, when it comes to 4:30 in the afternoon. We, the office workers anonymous, leave our buildings and head to Pioneer Square, to get on the light rail to go home. There exists a true ‘shift change’, as evident of the afternoon and evening life that comes to inhabit the square. These are all the Americans that do not wish to be found, identified, categorized, and so, are, by choice, “homeless”, and, off the grid.
The ‘homeless community’ has by self-definition, told the rest of us, to go (you read that).
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