Posted on 09/14/2014 5:31:39 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The city of Pasadena is letting homeless people keep the change.
The Los Angeles suburb is turning 14 parking meters into repositories for donations made to nonprofits that serve the homeless, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday.
Pasadena’s housing director, Bill Huang, says the hope is that people who might be reluctant to hand spare change to a panhandler will be more open to putting it in a meter. […]
Some homeless advocates complain the meters aren’t a serious enough effort to help the homeless. They also say that in some cities meters have been used to push panhandlers out of town. …
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An automated pigeon feeder should help keep the streets filthy.
Now WHAT are they going to do with all that money???? That wouldn't even give them a cup of coffee a day - actually, that would give just ONE person about $13 a week. Yeah, that'll solve their problem. sq/
Our American homeless should just go down to the border - change their name to Gomez, turn around and come back - They'd be homeless no more.
A family/country that does not take of it's own first is doomed
We are all going to need spare change in an Obama bottom up economy. Where’s my meter?
My guess is the meters cost more than the money raised, so this is a perfect liberal solution.
More recycled “road to hell” pavement, eh.
Pak elsewhere.
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