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"
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A good number of homeless are homeless by choice.
You are correct. Idiots in the cities that pushed for comprehensive and extensive homeless services are being overrun with the homeless from other cities. They are handed a one-way bus ticket and then become the problem of other cities. Just ask anyone in Dallas once the brain-dead DemocRATS pushed through the homeless center.
Are they bussing them before or after they have voted in Amarillo?
Sumthin Smells.
And the churches in Austin should give them one-way bus tickets to Washington! I see a trend here.
In New York City there used to be a one year residency requirement for welfare. (New York at the time had relatively generous benefits and very few recipients compared to today.) You know where this is going. A judge ruled that the residency requirement was un-const-TIT-tooo-shun-al, and they started arriving by the busload from Alabama and Mississippi. A Federal judge later ruled that they couldn’t deny benefits to folks just cause they were in the country illegally.
The taxpayers were never consulted.
“If you build it, they will come.”
The bus.
Most of these people are homeless because they chose a lifestyle that got them there. Drugs, alcohol, crime, and laziness will do that.
To make matters worse, Austin is a sanctuary city that attracts ILLEGALS and drug dealers by the thousands. They asked for it, and now they got it.
Yes, and it makes navigating through the south side of downtown Dallas an ‘adventure’...and not the good kind.
Reforming Austin? Proud of you for trying, but that’s just pissing into the wind. The seat of government is there and UT is there, and elements of the tech industry.
Amarillo is less friendly to bums than Austin. And you find this surprising? lol
I was raised in Amarillo, and we didn’t export our problems back then.
I live within commuting distance. The Californuts are the reason property taxes are so ridiculously high. Exactly, they come here to get out of CA but immediately turn us into what they left. They don’t know a tax they don’t want.
The church did take up the slack. The bought the bums a bus ticket to a better place for them. Better climate, the local government enjoys them, and they get outta their box, see a little bit of Texas out the bus window.
But you sound nice, send me an address and I bet we could send a few your way.
And they didn’t cultivate bums either. Support them and you get more of them. There are 4 good highways and two rail lines leading out of Amarillo.
And buses.
“In the 1970’s when a mental patient was released in NYC they were offered a one way ticket to California.”
Well, they are the land of fruits and nuts.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dragworm
In Austin, they’re referred to as drag worms and it’s about the friendliest city in Texas for derelicts.
The church DID pick up the slack. They used ministry money, not taxpayer funds, to buy the bus tickets. The guy is happy, both cities are happy. It was a win-win-win all the way around.
Austin is the San Francisco of Texas, or as I like to call it Hanoi in the Hill Country.
Hey, they’re just helping Keep Ausin Weird!
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