Posted on 09/14/2022 9:44:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Where have all the homeless came from?
There were always few bums on the streets, but there has been an explosion of them lately!
Anybody knows?
The current administration is helping provide “affordable housing” to many folks!
What passes for a flop house in New York City now costs $60 per night, up from 25¢ per night back in the day. Additionally crime in homeless shelters keep potential "customers" away. Many say they feel safer sleeping on the street than in homeless shelters.
Government money for green energy gets more green energy.
Government money for homeless folks gets more homeless folks.
My wife and I do support Christian ministries for homeless men and youth. They need to stay sober and clean. They need to take classes and/or work. They provide on the job training (paid) for those without experience.
Stop calling them homeless, they’re druggies.
1. Round them up, put them in a camp, dry them out and try to rehab those you can and keep the rest who can’t be rehabbed in the camp.
2. To keep this from happening again do what Singapore does - come down really hard on both users and pushers, especially pushers.
3. Close the border, or at a minimum know who and what the hell you’re letting in.
4. Replace destructive, pathological compassion with tough love.
Problem solved.
Round them up, put them in a camp, dry them out and try to rehab those you can and keep the rest who can’t be rehabbed in the camp.
Well, there's druggies, alkies and whackjobs. They indeed need to be "rounded up" and evaluated. The mentally ill need to be institutionalized, leaving them loose on the streets is inhumane.
Up here in Maine, you'll often see a street sign in many towns..."Town Farm Road". It was about what you described. They worked on the farm and raised their own food.
They had it figured out long ago, back when normal people ran governments.
Bingo. You nailed it.
I worked in NYC in the ‘80’s and homelessness was bad then.
Absolutely
Drug addict campers and some crazies
I deal with this daily
It’s an epidemic is addicts who camp illegally we treat like folks who can’t pay rent
Predators
You’re uninformed
It’s drug addicts
Uncomplicated
Deport every illegal found.
Then you’re Enabling drug addicts
Who prey on me
Thanks a lot
Me the old fart
Maggie is a peach she has tried to help us
Some good media exists
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Drugs. Booze. Mental illness. And the end of flop houses and rooming houses
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Drugs, Booze and Mental Illness were around for a long while.
Some homeless were around for a while too.
They showed up in media during Republican administrations (Reagan was especially chastised as heartless.)
They reliably disappeared during Democratic administrations.
But there is an explosion of homeless right now!
The are everywhere!
I am puzzled. Maybe the flop houses?
“They had it figured out long ago, back when normal people ran governments.”
All it is is common sense - something that it’s in very short supply.
The cause of all this dysfunction is a depraved, pathological pervasive sense of compassion that leads to tolerating very bad behavior, destructive to both the individual and society. All in the name of “compassion”.
It’s the old, “spare the rod, spoil the child”. - One of the gods of the copybook headings.
I read the stories about men who were in a rest room when a “homeless” man in shabby and dirty clothes came in, took out a bag and got out nice clothes and put them on, put the old ones in the bag and left.
Some have told they made hundreds in one day from kind people giving cash to them in their scam.
While I was at work all day and fighting traffic to go home at night.
“Deport every illegal found.”
The illegals are the least of the problem, they’re just a symptom. The actual disease are the disgusting politicians, bureaucrats and the people who put them in power - the voters.
If YOU were one of those miserable, downtrodden illegal, and you knew the door to the land of milk and honey was wide open with a red carpet waiting for you, would you walk in?
Or put another way, if you leave your front door whire open with a sign that says “you’re welcome to come in and help yourself to what we have” and people walking by accepted the “invitation”, whom do you then blame. when your place gets trashed?
I don’t blame then at all for wanting to live here.
It is the fault of the politicians who created this mess.
Nevertheless, they still all need to be deported as they are found out. They KNOW they are entering illegally.
Out immigration policies rot. I know of cases of good, well educated, law abiding, tax paying, hard working foreign nationals whose green cards were revoked for no good reason while criminals and terrorists are given a pass on everything and handed all kinds of free stuff.
That needs to change.
Illegals need to be sent back to where they came from and apply for LEGAL immigration and meet criteria like my grandparents had to. Must have a sponsor, a job, and a place to stay, all lined up. Must be healthy and not a criminal. And I would add, these days, no terror connections at all allowed.
IOW, help be a productive member of society instead of a drag on it.
The ministries we give to have dorms where they need to stay clean and follow the rules.
Agreed though - even the people that now stay there say that 100% of the homeless on the streets are addicts. But I’m glad there is a place that will help those that want help to get (and stay) clean and to get some job skills and get on a productive path.
This is in the Seattle area - it is just crazy how they have allowed the drugged-out homeless to take over the sidewalks, city parks, streets, etc.
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