Posted on 01/08/2020 11:30:39 AM PST by RightGeek
They just wanted to do the right thing. The small town of Middletown, Ohio, a town of 49,000 people, has opened all manner of homeless services. There is everything from soup kitchens and shelters that allow you to be high and drunk to rehab facilities to sober up.
And that's the problem. You can come to Middletown to stay drunk and high and get three hots and a cot without having to do much.
Now the homeless are swamping the town. Residents who call Middletown home are shocked that "about 75%" of the homeless are from someplace else, according to the former police chief.
Of course they are.
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A couple of years ago I checked out the tent city on the grounds of the Orange County, Calif., courthouse. I approached a woman wearing an official-looking neon-colored vest and asked her what her job was. She was paid by the county to connect homeless people with services. Then I asked her what the homeless were doing there. To my shock, she honestly answered the question. She told me that most of the people there got government checks and would rather spend them on drugs than rent.
That encampment is now gone. The courthouse grounds look like an abandoned prison yard with chain-linked fences erected in an effort to keep the homeless from re-establishing the tent city.
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next up, they’ll invite in 5000 Somalis.
I remember that South Park episode :) LOL
spare any change
It’s well known that New York City pays the homeless to leave. They ship them to places like this.
Collectivism: the inability to connect cause and effect.
They are shocked 75% of homeless there are from somewhere else?
Reminds me a few years ago, mayor of Washington DC said her city could only accommodate actual Washington residents, and complained about homeless from other places entering Washington.
Sadly these cities with big homeless problems don’t have the political will, or knowledge of what to do about homeless people.
At least "hoboes" had the decency to crap off the side of the train boxcar. Yeah, I know there are some with mental illness and Vets with PTSD from war. They are the minority.
you can’t fix stupid
Hard reality never follows the liberals script.
“Ohio Town stunned by instances of predictable human nature and obvious outcomes.”
How I ended up a conservative? One reason is that I interned for a homeless shelter here in L.A for my Stanford grad studies. Probably the 2nd biggest with endowments and budgets that was almost endless.
In 7 months, I learned the hard way these assholes are NOT homeless but 80% of them are just effing LAZY and DONT WANT TO WORK. I got a lot of heat for my results but I made my argument in a factual manner.
And they get FREE DENTAL AND MEDICAL. I still remember the USC Dentistry students were giving them FREE teeth cleaning which would have cost you close to $500 in the private sector. I saw it all.
Note tagline.
“If you build it, they will come...”
Note tagline.
Change?!?!?
Positive reinforcement works great.
Ping
LOL - good one!
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