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Houston ranked 'mean' to homeless
Houston Chronicle ^ | Jan. 12, 2006 | MIKE SNYDER

Posted on 01/12/2006 3:45:47 AM PST by Ninian Dryhope

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To: toomanygrasshoppers

That is pretty much the way Kansas City downtown library is. Just a bunch of bums sleeping on nice chairs...


21 posted on 01/12/2006 5:06:42 AM PST by jmq (Islam=Religion of Peace)
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I had a friend who worked in a "people's law office". They had so many homeless clients, they instituted a rule that clients had to be cold sober when they came to see a lawyer. The homeless clients all drifted away.

If you REALLY want to help the homeless, set up a shelter where they can drink and smoke. That's a realistic solution that the liberals will not allow. They believe if the shelter says "no drinking", the homeless will see the error of their ways and turn into productive members of society.


23 posted on 01/12/2006 5:16:57 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Ninian Dryhope
cities with particularly harsh measures that criminalize sleeping in public, begging or other behavior associated with homeless people bums.
24 posted on 01/12/2006 5:18:18 AM PST by csvset
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To: Ninian Dryhope
In Broward County, Fla., a nonprofit agency has partnered with police to create outreach teams that, in five years, have placed more than 11,000 people in shelters while arrests of homeless people have declined.

This is not the reputation we want here in Florida. I doubt that it's true, either.

25 posted on 01/12/2006 5:35:04 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: wolfcreek

That's exactly why I have never given any money to any panhandler.


26 posted on 01/12/2006 5:41:03 AM PST by libstripper
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To: Ninian Dryhope

Round them up and send them to Berzerkley.


27 posted on 01/12/2006 5:50:11 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Ninian Dryhope
Apparently, these people have forgotten the acts of Houstons citizens as a result of hurricane Katrina.

Houston will forever be remembered by me (and those with a grip on reality) as the city that opened its hearts,homes & wallets to sacrifice for those who became truly homeless.

Thank you Houston

28 posted on 01/12/2006 6:02:10 AM PST by Kakaze (I'm now a single issue voter.....exterminate Al Quaida)
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To: martin_fierro
San Francisco isn't nearly as mean. (They've fallen to 11 on the list)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1556708/posts

29 posted on 01/12/2006 7:41:11 AM PST by SmithL (Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Lift up your gates and sing, Hosana in the highest! Hosana to your King!)
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To: sure_fine

If the Kennedy's didn't have the wealth that built that compound, they would ALL be homeless.


30 posted on 01/12/2006 7:47:00 AM PST by 308MBR (After over 20 years of GOP only, I'm voting a split ticket in 'O6 and hoping for gridlock.)
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To: AppyPappy

I totally agree with you. Our downtown is full of drunk/drugged ums looking for handouts or worse. All the do-gooders feed them in the middle of Downtown,(that incidently is trying to be revived.) I would run them out of downtown by giving them a basic cinderblock room and shower, Bus line, two meals a day and FAR AWAY FROM EVERYONE ELSE!


31 posted on 01/12/2006 2:46:52 PM PST by jmq (Islam=Religion of Peace)
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To: EricT.
"Ken Hamlin suggests that we feed the homeless to the hungry and solve 2 problems simultaneously."

A modest proposal indeed. I like the way that guy thinks.
32 posted on 01/12/2006 4:34:00 PM PST by Ninian Dryhope ("Bush lied, people dyed. Their fingers." The inestimable Mark Steyn)
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