Posted on 10/03/2019 8:16:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“The company opened five Panera Cares stores in St. Louis; Portland; Chicago; Dearborn, Michigan; and Boston. All had closed by February of this year.”
Every virtue taken to its extreme is either stupid or evil.
Common logical error: "Failed to do X...despite Y", where X and Y are unrelated.
The problem of containment of the adverse social and biological effects of crazy people was solved in the 1910s or before.
The alternative, "treatment in the community", does not work, and has never been demonstrated to work (except by "researchers" standing in line for those "federal funds").
The wretched schools in Newark and Camden NJ have the highest per-pupil spending on the planet. And people scratch their heads and conclude that what's needed is more money.
Money cannot erase category errors.
And worse still by doubling down every time somebody pointed this simple fact out.
The idea of this form of voluntary redistribution isn't new. At my undergraduate university there sat, in the food court, a box ensconced in a papier mache open hand into which those who had spare cash were exhorted to place it for the benefit of those who did not. The student government seeded it with student funds (naturally) every so often when it ran dry, at first every couple of days and then daily and then soon it was empty no matter often they charged it. That empty box stood there for weeks as, I suppose, an intended reproach to the wealthy but in fact it was an open reproach to the stupid who thought it would work. When they finally took it down nobody missed it. That was 1971. The point I'm making is that it was public virtue signalling on the part of people who worked their way into a position of trust and used it instead to bloat their own egos, learning nothing in the process.
Hollis's point is that a private company learning this hard lesson hasn't seemed to be taken up by those in California who are using public money for exactly the same hopeless program and who feel that they have an unlimited supply of public money to reseed the box. She is correct.
A fine old military curse.
It was my late husband’s favorite phrase.
Look at the pictures. In every city now. Block after block of people living in tents. Sure many of them are mentally ill, sure many of them are addicts but we've never had hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of people living in tents on the streets before.
This is crazy. The fact that we are just accpeting it as the "new normal" or excusing it away as just crazy people is even more disturbing.
The country is in collapse. Nothing illustrates that more that giant, permanent tent communities forming in every city of the county.
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