Posted on 03/17/2008 9:07:39 PM PDT by Orange1998
I am having a hard time believing this is true. On second thought it is California.
City officials remain shocked that offering the homeless a place to park their decrepit motor homes and tents and giving them services tends to attract every bum within 3000 miles.
Okay, now it makes sense. Thanks for the information.
Once people stop believing they have a shot, then the game’s over. Their time horizon shrinks to hours, which doesn’t make for a lot of happy campers.
Can't say for sure! ... but due west of the airport I don't see anything - solid industrial.
Do the tents have chickens roaming about outside? Goats?
You wanna get cussed out? Offer a “homeless” person a meal!
The schizophrenics should be in an institution, where they can at least be looked after, if not cured. But I think most of us know who put paid to that notion.
But as for drunks and druggies, a former druggie and bum who now runs a legendary shelter/self-help program in—I think—Denver, said that “helping them out” is just enabling their slow-motion suicide.
Unfortunately you are actually correct there. There are whole African countries who have learned to neglect developing their own human and physical infrastructure in lieu of gaming the international aid/charity system to do for them.
If I read one more depressing editorial by a former peace corps worker who went back to have a look at the old haunts and found them worse than ever...
There are huge encampments of illegals in the vallies all around LA. Pretty amazing sights.
They seem to have forgotten the “$250 billion deficits as far as the eye can see” prior to the election of the Republican majorities.
It’s already built. It’s called New Orleans.
For the most part, I agree. I have a nephew who isn’t worth the spit God granted a lizard in August. I wish he would hop a train.
On the other hand, I do have a sister-in-law who, along with her new husband (my brother passed) will probably be faced with the prospect of homelessness due to two recent plant closings in our area and I don’t think they have more than a years savings built up, they are young.
It’s bad out there, and where I live, it’s getting pretty close to home.
I recall a news show on that shelter - I think you’re right - it is in Denver. Tough love and all of that.
As an example of the difference between liberals and concervatives to my children, I’ve likened giving handouts to the street people as something a liberal might do to make them FEEL better about themselves (and FEEL less guilty perhaps)- but not really helping, and perhaps even making the problem worse as the guy goes down to the local store to buy a beer. (As well as wasting their money). A conservative thinks about it a bit more, and gives their assistance to an organization such as the shelter in Denver that actually does some good, gives the people some educations, job skills and some faith and hope - and helps them get OFF the street.
Sitting around our campfire, hunting as a family group, a couple of gutted out deer hanging in the trees, the Old Man said to my brothers and me: “I raised you boys rough. We’ve lived poor but we always made it. Your friends at school always had more than you did, you felt that and I felt it too. But boys, it takes guts and know how to live rough. You’ve got to be thinking and moving all the time. It’s easy to live soft. You can learn that in a minute without even trying. Anyone can live soft. Going from tough living to soft living is easy. You’ll see I’m right because some day you’ll all live soft lives. But going from soft to tough, that’s hard, real hard. Lots of folks, when they have to do that, they just curl up and try to die.” We sat there staring into the fire and listening to the ATSF locos sounding their horns miles and miles from our camp.
Apply to John McCain
People can be down on their luck, I understand that. However, I have no idea what this piece by BBC is trying to accomplish. We still have jobs here.
The unemployment rate is 4.8%. In related news, 80% of the public thinks we're in a recession.
Look -- economic growth stalled to 0.6% in the fourth quarter of '07, not technically a recessionary level but close. We may or may not go negative this quarter; I don't know. I hope we don't, for all the obvious reasons plus one: it would keep perfect the MSM's record of reporting a continuous recession through the Bush years in the face of a stubbornly non-recessionary economy.
Something like 60% of the public thought the economy was doing poorly in 2004, with a plurality thinking we were in a recession then. The wrong track/recession figures were even higher in 2006, when the expansion was in full stride. I am not a Pollyana, but doom and gloom now with a 4.8% unemployment rate is nothing short of surrealistic, gas prices notwithstanding. Sheesh.
The gummint already does this for hurricane victims who soon discover that the new 'free' furnished home is a pretty good deal -- so they never leave. In NC, we've got people still living in gummint trailers following 1999's Hurricane Floyd.
The thing about charity most people fail to realize is that when applied properly it is a tool of compassion and mercy, when applied without judgment and forethought it is a weapon of mass destruction.
But in today's PC climate we are not allowed to judge, because to do so might uncover a truth about a given situation.
One of the underlying truths about a goodly majority of people is that they are akin to water, they flow to the least resistance. And thus if you continue to "hand-out" to people of such a nature the lose all need to "flow" cuz you have removed all "resistance"
But in today’s PC climate we are not allowed to judge, because to do so might uncover a truth about a given situation.
You have this exactly backwards. First you uncover the truth, then you judge.
Propaganda by the Liberals. Many of these people are professional homeless.
Travel anywhere in Cali and you will find them tucked away in the hills or especially in the southern end.
I spent three months as a youth roaming America and bumming, it was great because so many people in this great country will help you.
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