Posted on 07/01/2017 9:00:10 AM PDT by sodpoodle
The first pains came before 8 a.m. The woman who lived in the tunnel had been out gathering blankets and pillows all night. But then, the contractions started.
It was 92 degrees out, and she was 8½ months along. She’d never seen a doctor. When a group in neon shirts offering homeless services came through the tunnels, she was whimpering for help. The neon team called an ambulance.
Nearly a year to the day after the tunnels claimed one life in the flash floods of an early monsoon season, another tunnel under the Strip began ushering in a new life. As many as 1,000 people still reside in the tunnels — and they are the most vulnerable during monsoon season, which starts July 1 and lasts through September.
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Another story about homeless and issues befalling the homeless.
Now that Obama is no longer president, it’s time for the media to shine more light on this problem. This will be blamed on Trump because the Trump budget calls for trimming back spending in various social service areas.
And they can even blame global warming, for intensifying the monsoonal flooding. Which then can be blamed on Trump, because of pulling out of the Paris global warming deal.
In one way or another, these stories will cast blame on Trump. If only we spent more money, the homeless would be safe. If only we were still in the Paris climate thing, then mother earth would temper her monsoons and not cause such flooding.. That’s how it goes.
We need to bring back mental institutions. That really is the only solution. These people need to be committed for their own good.
Mental illness, alcohol and drugs.
Adjudication of who gets involuntarily committed is problematic at best. Nevertheless, you are likely right.
****We need to bring back mental institutions****
Just use another name: “Reclaim your Life” centers. There are millions of abandoned buildings which could be modified using the labor of the homeless in lieu of a residence.
They need to be screened by LE and helped/counseled by charitable orgs. Locate any family members too, to rescue any children.
We should declare the “homeless” to be refugees and ship them off to Germany. End of problem.
I believe gov’t should supply everybody with a base income, especially me./s
The liberals call them ‘homesteaders’.
Why were there no “homeless” articles sobbing about their plight under the Clown Dunce nobama administration? Maybe these homeless are merely DIMocRATs down on their luck. These people belong committed to mental insititutions. They are mentally ill, drug-addled, alcohol-addled (or a combination of such). Unfortunately, the LIB idiots closed the mental institutions in the 60’s and 70’s because they were concerned that the residents had their “freedom” taken away. What fools.
And bummery.
That too.
We have some folks living under bridges in S. MS. When the tropical storm dropped a lot of rain and moved the Gulf a bit higher, one was “marooned” (water around the piling base was 2 feet deep) and the authorities picked him up and took him to a shelter. A few days later, he was back and had another homeless guy sharing the piling base. Many are not mentally ill enough to lock up and don’t want the help. Tragic bit of reality that some will die vs. accepting help.
Ya and they come out and panhandle. Dam do I hate that when I go to the store and they are walking around with a two gallon gas can asking for money for gas to get from here to there.
First words out of their mouth is “God Bless you” and then the usual BS.
I watched when people hand them a twenty and they promptly go in the store and buy a jumbo or smokes.
Got them aplenty around here around Kingman AZ since I 40 runs through.
Escalades and rimz............
The lack of mental institutions is also partially to blame for our large prison population. They cannot function by society’s rules and requirements, so they tend to end up in jail.
You will get more of whatever you subsidize. Funny how that works.
What happened is addiction. Not on the part of the homeless and poor, but addiction to money on the part of the government employees, social service contractors, so-called non-profits who pay their top managers and directors great salaries, all to "help" the homeless and poor.
Very little of the money actually winds up in the hands of the people it is supposed to help. Structural solutions that could mitigate the problem are shunned like the plague as it would eliminate their gravy train. You're looking at 4-6% of the economy that would go down to 1-3% if we implemented real solutions. Understandably, those involved in that sector are going to fight real solutions big time.
These people have been down there for over a decade. And some have died as a result. There are many that actually like it down there. its like Americas answer to the cardboard box homes in Bombay. Or the Mexican tin roof shanties south of the boarder.
Say what you will, but if climate change is to be blamed for the drought out west. Then climate change can be rewarded for saving these people from drowning.
the dirty little secret to all of this is that these are not homeless people who are simply temporarily down on their luck: 99% of the people who reside in places like this are methamphetamine addicts who chose to live like this; the other 1% are alcoholics.
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