I often wonder how it is, that we didn’t see mobs of homeless people in 1960 or 1970. But today every big city has big numbers of homeless, and some neighborhoods have big numbers.
And I wonder how it is, that apparently decisions have been made to tolerate the mobs in certain neighborhoods, but not other neighborhoods.
But mostly I wonder, why are we as a society, unwilling or unable to handle this, when it seems that we had a handle on these issues decades ago.
Or did we not have a handle on these issues decades ago, but were able to incarcerate people for vagrancy and other offenses years ago?
Anyway, it is out of control, and government officials and political leaders in city after city seemingly have no control over this.
We closed the mental institutions. Also, drugs were not as prevalent in the 60s and 70s. Drug addiction has skyrocketted. Even if we had never closed the mental institutions, the high rates of drug addiction would probably mean we would have more homeless today than back then because there simply could not be enough institutions to house them all. Not by a long shot.
Why is drug addiction so widespread? That, I don’t know. Has something to do with modern culture, lower morals over all, break up of the nuclear family, etc. I don’t know for sure.
Not only over this, but over just about everything.
I sent an email earlier to friends in Christ, in response to another FR post this morning, The Capitol Cover Up,
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3976846/posts, with what is the root problem:
Why isn’t SOMEONE in the leadership of our country doing anything about this evil?
Everyone who knows what’s going on wants to know why most of our country’s leadership, from cities to states to the feds, are letting it go on, without acknowledgment or comment to the people.
The answer is that if there is no God in our lives, there is no Truth and no Way and no Life in our lives; we are dead in our trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2:1-10).
Evil has permeated our “leadership” and our country’s people beyond our wildest imaginations. Remember the Lord Jesus’ words to His disciples in Luke 18:1-8.
And in v. 8, the word translated faith is literally is the faith.
The people in question are not homeless. Rather, they are tent dwelling squatters
They make big money off of "out of control," between federal funding and desperate citizens who'll vote for anything on the ballot promising to fix the problem.
That money winds up in the pockets of homeless nonprofits, advocacy groups, contractors who build overpriced housing, and later, politicians' campaign funds. Homelessness and vagrancy gets worse, more money is shoveled at the same people, wash, rinse and repeat.
The LAST thing the government and its parasites want is their out of control problem to go away.
The cows have come home to roost. Liberals created their ‘utopian socialist society’, and citizens voted for it over and over and over. Citizens opposed arresting homeless, or running them out of town, by voting for liberals they knew would oppose it. Now they want taxpayers to throw tons of money at the problem to fix it without doing what is necessary, arresting and moving homeless put of the areas.
Repub,icons saw the writing on the wall and tried to warn liberals, but liberals were just too wise, to accept that advice, and now we have a break down of society that will only get worse and worse unless ,I erals fi nilly pull their heads out of thr sand and get real about the problems.
We also used to have people with mental problems institutionalized, but liberals In All their wisdom opposed this too. Now mentally ill people ca run around claiming to be the opposite sex, or any one of 1000 different made up genders, and Noone can do anything to help these poor mentally ill people. Liberals in their infinite wisdom tell us we must accept whatever anyone e claims as long as their claim is deviant and perverted ant anti-science
“ Or did we not have a handle on these issues decades ago, but were able to incarcerate people for vagrancy and other offenses years ago?”
We, as a society, put people in jail for vagrancy. Usually just for a night with a kick in the pants to go to the next town down the road. Sometimes more than a kick in the pants.
We, as a society, used to put people with mental disorders into facilities to keep them off of the streets. Sometimes drugs were involved to keep them docile while in the facilities…sometimes lobotomies were used.
Books and movies (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) changed public opinion toward these practices. The argument was that it was not nice to treat people this way. The opposing argument was that these people would have nowhere to go other than the streets, and it would be bad for them as well as others.
And here we are.
Even my small city has homeless everywhere. A few reason... Generous welfare from the government and charity from the churches that keep them hanging around but do nothing to get them off the streets and out of the forest. Corporations, Californians and Washingtonians have bought every scrap of land and cheap house and turned them to airbnb rentals, vacation homes, or rebuilt huge houses on the property for themselves driving out the long term rental market. Importation of illegal aliens and “refugees” have been placed in what was left of the rental housing and they don’t work. The van and car dwelling lifestyle is fully established which brought with it people who had no reason to ever live in my neck of the woods but it is a nice place and they know they will get the free stuff from the charity groups and food bank. Transients are the worst of the worst. They completely trash an area then just drive off. And our local town government won’t do anything to confront them.
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