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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This should be a rule at FR. If you’re going to site a South Park episode, you must specify the season and episode number so the rest of us can watch it. I don’t watch SP often and almost always on recommendation from someone. I watch it more as I would watch other social commentaries.
They should be given a ticket to where their family is. Let families help their own & stop making the rest of us support them.
If the family has written them off as a deadbeat, put them in county jail overnight for vagrancy & then have a deputy escort them to the county border.
Very few of these are homeless, & those are the ones the church should help get back on their feet.
Amen.
We be having more serious problems than homeless Americans here in Amarillo....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?sns=em&v=PXXx5ElPk6w
Going to get worse before it gets better.
ANY HOMELESS WHO CAN'T FIND WORK AND WANTS TO SHOULD BE GIVEN THAT OPPORTUNITY!
Its done by a church best of all!
A population transfer of Unemployed homeless who want to be responsible working people vs those who are lazy dopeheads and psychos is the best solution.
Send the poor unemployed homeless who want to work and be responsible citizens to the middle America, send the bums who want to drink, toke, smoke and be lazy to California and Massachusetts! The red states will receive hardy hands to replace the illegals and immigrants, the blue states can have their liberal fascism and eat it too along with thousands of unemployable losers.
Now that Mass is going to legalize recreational Weed, we can use this opportunity to dump all the lazy bums there and give the left that taste of liberalism they always wanted!
Aiding an illegal to move about the USA——Is that criminal activity???
They should be given a ticket to where their family is.
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That doesn’t work.
I knew a ‘girl’ that had 3 brothers and sisters and their mother needed help and she ended up with the ‘girl’.
She started taking off work and in a few weeks had her mother signed up for every program the state and county had AND the mother had never stepped foot in VA till that point.
When challenged she said she would just drop her mother off on the courthouse steps and let the county worry about her.
(I am sure she was probably getting ‘assistance’ for having her mother live with her).
It wasn’t out of generosity. They spent over $100k last year alone for bus tickets. That would build a very nice large shelter for them that would last for decades.
Just “keepin’ Austin weird.”
A population transfer of Unemployed homeless who want to be responsible working people vs those who are lazy dopeheads and psychos is the best solution.
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We kind of had that solution back in the ‘day’.
Those that needed it were institutionalized, the working ‘bums’ lived in flop houses in cities and did the menial jobs, then the ‘Yuppies’ and Urban renewers came along, closed the Institutions (using the theory that dumpster diving and sleeping on grates was less demeaning than being institutionalized), tore down the flop house - now those ‘residents’ were on the street and it went downhill from there.
Winter is coming on and they ARE helping the homeless to go to a warmer climate. You will understand if you have ever spent a winter in Amarillo. Nothing between Amarillo and the North Pole except a barb wire fence.
Seems to me the church is taking up the slack.
Although I’d have sent them to Martha’s Vineyard or Chapaqua myself.
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“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.”
Texas has been more than generous in trying to welcome Californians who want to move to Texas for the better business environment. Unfortunately, 99 times out of 100, libtards that move from the regulatory hell holes they created freak out with all the freedom they encounter and do exactly as you said: try to turn the place they moved to (Texas) into California.
A bit out of touch on construction costs?
http://www.buildingjournal.com/construction-estimating.html
It might get you a 2500 sq foot open warehouse with industrial lighting. Climate control and more than a single restroom might push it out of budget. Probably ought to aim for a 2000 sq foot warehouse. If you want day care or dormitory quality amenities (sinks, toilets, maybe even a shower) you might aim for 1200 square feet. You'd need to pack them in standing up to house all the folks that got bus tickets. Each one gets a single square foot of living space.
Maybe Amarillo is trying to negate some of the damage done them by Catholic Charities.
Amarillo had had to take in more than their fair share of refugees, so they have to spend their resources on them.
A lot being spent on refugees there.
I just don’t remember reading in the constitution that welfare is a right.
Yep, I’ve read about Amarillo refugee problems in the Refugee Resettlement Watch site.
You obviously don’t have a 17 jewel Ivy League legal mind then. It’s hidden in penumbrae and illuminated by the emanations. It done gots itself emanated!
I recall the demonstrations in the 1970’s down at New York’s City Hall, demonstrators carrying signs proclaiming WELFARE IS A RIGHT NOT A PRIVILEGE. So go check your white privilege.
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