Posted on 10/29/2016 11:06:05 AM PDT by bgill
We called First Amarillo Church, the pastor confirmed they purchased an $85 one-way bus ticket for Quinonez back in August. Just one of two tickets to Austin purchased that month.
He told us buying one-way tickets for the homeless is a common practice for churches. Last fiscal year, First Amarillo bought 1,200 one-way bus tickets.
The money mostly spent to send homeless people to bigger cities that provide more resources for the homeless, like Austin.
“I know Austin is pretty open and friendly and accepting"
(Excerpt) Read more at keyetv.com ...
That said, uber lib Austin deserves whatever it gets.
ROTFL!
I love it!
Send them you tired, your poor, your huddled masses.
Every town and city in America should send their homeless to Austin, and Berkeley, and Ithaca, and...
Just google mapped it. 500 mile bus ride. Lubbock on the way. I bet the cops there are making sure they continue on.
How very Christian of them.
Mayor “Bleeding Heart” Adler said in an interview he was glad that Austin is a good place for the homeless to flock to. Someone should explain to him that these are not tourists who bring money to spend. The homeless are a money pit, soaking up tax money that could be used much more productively.
I’d venture to say that healthcare is one of the major industries in Amarillo. To say Austin has better medical facilities is ridiculous.
Is First Amarillo Church another name for First Baptist?
If so, I’m surprised they’re doing this.
Amarillo can get really cold in the winter. Generous of them to send their homeless south.
I was in Austin all last week for a class. There were homeless beggars on every street corner, intersection, and overpass.
In the 1970’s when a mental patient was released in NYC they were offered a one way ticket to California.
I googled (searched, not the ethnic group) and couldn't find a First Amarillo Church. The web site for First Baptist, however, is http://www.firstamarillo.org/
Austin’s homeless population increased nearly 20% but the pajama boys are loving it and want more.
http://keyetv.com/news/local/austins-homeless-population-increases-by-nearly-20-percent
If these are the truly needy, the churches should not ship these out. If these are the homeless who won’t work or don’t have any initiative to improve their lot in life, who are druggies who are content with their addiction, let them go to where the bottomless pit of social services are. Churches don’t typically have unlimited resources for those who refuse to take responsibility for themselves.
Some would like to say so but that isn't the case...
2Th 3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
Jesus rebuked freeloaders.
“That said, uber lib Austin deserves whatever it gets.”
Easy to say when you don’t live here. Some of us are hanging around this town trying our best to vote out the liberal cult members who are drunk on their own power. The thing that has made that such a losing proposition is the massive influx of Californians who are trying to turn Austin into what they left.
IIRC, one of the SP guys has a home in Venice, CA, and wanted to put up a higher privacy fence to block out the bums hassling him and his in his yard. Some aging hippie selectman with a ponytail (named Matt something - the selectman, not the ponytail) blocked the "renovation".
Near the end of the epi, in the rewritten song, the lyrics go something like "...are nice to the homeless/you can hang at Matt's house..."
So I guess people are just blowing smoke when they say you can cut social programs and the churches will take up the slack through charity.
I was there in February for a conference. A homeless man defecated on the sidewalk one block from the convention center at 8 am. I was scared to death. Homeless men were everywhere.
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