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Homeless Residents Got One-Way Tickets Out of Town. Many Returned to the Streets.
The New York Times ^ | 14 September 2019 | Mile Baker

Posted on 09/14/2019 4:19:16 PM PDT by Vigilanteman

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To: cgbg

maybe for Seattle
but do we know what happened to the others?
Did they stay out on the streets but in another city?
Likely


21 posted on 09/14/2019 5:52:07 PM PDT by RWGinger (Does anyone else really)
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To: Vigilanteman
Is it just me or does this sound elitist, busing the homeless out of town?

Where are the taxes going to help the cities help their residents?

22 posted on 09/14/2019 6:30:27 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: kaehurowing
That made my eyebrows pop up. I thought physician-assisted suicide (a.k.a. pro homicide) was only legal in a couple of states, and in those states you have to have the patient's own request in writing in advance, signed when they were mentally competent, terminal diagnosis for some underlying disease condition, there has to be a named medical proxy, it has to be self-administered, etc. etc. In theory.

Maybe the "2 physicians, no strings attached" thing is the way they do it in Belgium, but --- USA?

Can you explain?

23 posted on 09/14/2019 6:31:08 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (A kind of idiot arithmetic, consising solely of subtraction.)
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To: lgjhn23
normal people simply do not understand the drugged, the drunk, the mentally abnormal......they have rights and we regular people can not tell them what to do.....they can disrupt every facet of your life and they will not change......

after Seattle literally and figuratively invited these people to hole up on the Seattle streets, how ironic that their solution is to ship them to normal towns....

24 posted on 09/14/2019 6:37:00 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Vigilanteman; 2A Patriot; 2nd amendment mama; 4everontheRight; 77Jimmy; A Strict Constructionist; ..
South Carolina Ping   

If you'd like to be on or off the South Carolina ping list, just click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail.

SC FReepers are encouraged to read carefully the second paragraph.

25 posted on 09/14/2019 7:20:02 PM PDT by upchuck (If democrats would stop shooting people gun violence would drop by 90% ~ h/t Mr K.)
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To: Vigilanteman

“” “” Seven out of eight of them do not return to San Fransicko and the program is a failure?”” “”

My thought exactly. I’d say it is a fantastic result especially by standard of any government-run program. And cost-effective considering a homeless do more damage a day than a ticket cost.

Although it is not all that easy. That about towns and cities on the receiving end? It is obvious that 90% of that people won’t socialize.

If I were that cities I’d send retaliate by sending SF a homeless, a released felon, an illegal alien, an Islamist and a rabid racoon per every homeless they send to me.


26 posted on 09/14/2019 7:54:57 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“” “” As much as I hate seeing bums ruin the public square all over the country and watching the make cities completely unlivable, “Euthansia” is rather harsh.”” “”

Vagrancy is not legal naturally. Increase terms and build special low security prisons for them to deprive them of drugs and alcohol and provide mental aid if needed. And make them to simple jobs to pay for it.


27 posted on 09/14/2019 7:59:35 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking

You wrote “build special low security prisons for them to deprive them of drugs and alcohol and provide mental aid if needed.”

We used to have thousands of these facilities. They were called “Mental Institutions” and “Asylums” where these crazies were housed. The libs in the 60s “deinstitutionalized” the crazies who had been involuntarily committed because it was going to be much more humane to have them become functioning members of society. Like almost every lib project, it was a miserable failure.

The real solution is to rebuild and reopen all the asylums and mental institutions and get the crazies and druggies into them. Of course, the drug problem in the 60s was probably 1/10 as bad as it is today.


28 posted on 09/14/2019 8:35:42 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Vigilanteman

So some of the western states are dumping even more of their drug addicted criminals on other states. Reminds one of Fidel Castro doing to same.


29 posted on 09/14/2019 8:39:18 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Vigilanteman

These geniuses would never consider all the other cities would come up with the same idea and give them bus tickets to SF, Seattle, etc..... Duh!


30 posted on 09/14/2019 8:57:30 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet
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To: RetiredTexasVet

That’s it. In current form it reminds an act of war. The trash belongs to a dumpster and for that reason it makes sense to send them all to SF instead. My solution is at post #26.


31 posted on 09/14/2019 9:00:26 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That would be outside of legal framework because asylums were effectively outlawed. My solution is within legal framework.


32 posted on 09/14/2019 9:02:04 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: Vigilanteman
Why can’t we just say it? Most homeless need to be institutionalized because they can’t care for themselves in civilization!

If we are dismantling the constitution over amendment 2, why can’t we out of sheer kindness take care of those who cannot function, who have no ability to give consent, without their consent??

33 posted on 09/14/2019 9:06:48 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: NorseViking

The law is a human construct. Involuntary commitment used to be legal. Just make it legal again. Or, make it easier to obtain the orders. If humans changed the legal framework once, we can certainly change it back to what is proven to work.

The supposedly “inhumane” treatment in asylums was nowhere near as bad as the treatment the crazies get on the street.


34 posted on 09/15/2019 5:04:47 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: NorseViking
Singapore has small islands off the coast of their small city state to exile these drug addled misfits when they fail rehab for the third time. A couple of times per month, a supply boat backs in and unloads canned goods, fruits and sometimes rudimentary building tools.

The crazies are expected to fend for themselves the rest of the time. The climate is mild. Shelter can be constructed. Best of all, there is no access to drugs or booze and a few of them even get clean and apply for readmission to normal society.

The rest live the same brutish short live they would have in the streets. We may not have an abundance of tropical islands, but we do have large stretches of deserts, tents and the ability to pipe in potable water.

35 posted on 09/15/2019 5:31:28 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Vigilanteman

Liberals are the cockroaches of the human race their plans prove it.


36 posted on 09/15/2019 7:11:51 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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