I think a lot of them are beyond help. There was a homeless man that I passed often at a certain corner. I had given him a few dollars over several months. Then one day he was standing there with a huge new facial tattoo. I thought about all the money I had given him going to pay for that tattoo and I got furious.
A few weeks later he has a bandaged foot. A few more weeks go by and the foot has been removed above his ankle and he is in a brand new wheel chair.
One day he was gone. As dirty as the bandage became over a few days it is not surprising that he died of a massive infection.What should we do with people like that?
I think a large percentage of the homeless are mentally impaired. What should we do with people like that?.....In the 70’s and 80’s, there was a hell of a push by lefties to shut down the Mental Institutions, all for the profit of Trial Lawyers. I worked at Philadelphia State Hospital in 1988 and was appalled at the people they threw out on the street in order to adhere to Court orders. I saw a doctor at the end of the timeline handing out glassine bags of drugs to patients and saying “You are cured.” They kicked them out door. A couple jumped into KOO-Koo river, many got run over and the people who gave them substandard living spaces called us and said “He’s shiiting on the sidewalk.” I told them “He/she is not a CLIENT here” (You could NOT refer to them as patients). Deal with it.