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The Progressive Approach To Homelessness Comes To Madison, Wisconsin
Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 23 Dec, 2023 | Francis Menton

Posted on 12/24/2023 5:30:39 AM PST by MtnClimber

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To: MtnClimber

This is akin to putting out food for the three starving squirrels in your yard and wondering why there are eight squirrels out there the next morning.


21 posted on 12/24/2023 6:28:35 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Redleg Duke
I lived in Madison through the 60s when the “progressives” elbowed into the city council and imported poor families with loads of Fatherless children from the deep south to seed the town to justify their instant welfare programs.

Madison went from a wonderful place to live to the shit hole it has become, aided and abetted by the radicalization of the University of Wisconsin.

Madison was apparently the blueprint used for Dubuque, IA ("Madison on the Mississippi"), but DBQ opted for families with loads of Illinois drug dealers.

22 posted on 12/24/2023 6:40:04 AM PST by niteowl77
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To: Redleg Duke

Part of my father’s family lived in Madison for many years.
My cousin, after a divorce, became a single mom with four young children. She received AFC money (American Families with Children) and other benefits. She also worked off the books and had a lower middle class lifestyle. In the 1960’s Wisconsin had some of the largest AFC payments in the country. People from Minnesota moved there.


23 posted on 12/24/2023 6:41:25 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: Redleg Duke

Part of my father’s family lived in Madison for many years.
My cousin, after a divorce, became a single mom with four young children. She received AFC money (American Families with Children) and other benefits. She also worked off the books and had a lower middle class lifestyle. In the 1960’s Wisconsin had some of the largest AFC payments in the country. People from Minnesota moved there.


24 posted on 12/24/2023 6:41:27 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: MtnClimber

Send 40 million illegals home & there will be plenty of housing, now at affordable prices.


25 posted on 12/24/2023 6:42:19 AM PST by Twotone (I used to worry there'd be a civil war. Now I worry there won't be. - Mark Steyn)
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To: cgbg
Perhaps the model of building brand new housing, and then handing it out with no demands or expectation of responsible
behavior (let alone rent) in return, has some kind of fundamental problem?

This..

26 posted on 12/24/2023 7:07:42 AM PST by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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To: MtnClimber

It seems humane, to have the government care for the homeless.

Like a surgeon with filth on his fingers.


27 posted on 12/24/2023 7:17:37 AM PST by lurk (u)
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To: MtnClimber

The answer is FDR-style CCC camps.

Arrest them for vagrancy, sentence them to 6 months in remote work camps, where they can be treated for addiction, kept away from pushers, will have basic medical care, and be kept off the streets.


28 posted on 12/24/2023 7:18:28 AM PST by PGR88
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To: MtnClimber

A 2000 year old solution was to teach a man to fish.


29 posted on 12/24/2023 7:29:05 AM PST by bgill
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To: DeplorablePaul

A mouse has a machine in front of them.

When they press the black button they get an electric shock.

When they press the white button they get food.

The mouse then keeps pushing the white button.

That is racism.


30 posted on 12/24/2023 7:38:46 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: cgbg
It turns out the construction required payments to developers, architects, lawyers, general contractors and subcontractors etc.

Good point, but you left out the unions.

31 posted on 12/24/2023 7:46:14 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: MtnClimber

They have to give the homeless people an address so they can register and vote for more funding down the rat hole.


32 posted on 12/24/2023 8:25:49 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: MtnClimber

Once more, name anything the gooberment has done that makes things better or cost less. Just one. Anyone?


33 posted on 12/24/2023 9:11:19 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: MtnClimber

Homeless programs are nothing more than handouts to democrat politicians and their cronies. The programs are designed to fail and perpetuate the problem. Pro business capitalism followed with a support for Christianity is the cure for homelessness. But then bureaucrats would have to admit they are failures at everything they do so it will never happen.


34 posted on 12/24/2023 9:57:57 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eye)
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To: MtnClimber

Being homeless is not a cause it’s a symptom - mostly of drug abuse enabled, and even funded, by government.


35 posted on 12/24/2023 10:08:19 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: MtnClimber

It seems simple no tents no sleeping in parks or sidewalks no shitting in public. But rewarding bad behavior is the essence of being a dem


36 posted on 12/24/2023 12:59:16 PM PST by genghis (Cathinkngact only re check ason go after e puthatn 5nu0 inbbiedComlpln)
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To: V_TWIN

They need to quit housing them, they should be rounded up and put into treatment centers until they are cured. Rinse and repeat. For those who are healthy and lazy, put them in camps near apple orchards, or farms where they can work so they deserve to eat.


37 posted on 12/24/2023 4:10:35 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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