Posted on 01/24/2015 12:41:53 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Evicted four months ago from their Highland Park apartment, Louis Morales and his 18-year-old stepson, Arthur Valenzuela, live half-hidden by brush along the nearby Arroyo Seco riverbed. Morales, 49, keeps a framed bible verse and a stuffed monkey in his tent. Water hauled by bike from a park heats up on the camp stove. Next door, their friend Johnny Salazar fixes bikes and shattered computer screens on the cheap for people who live in the neighborhood. A brother and sister Morales has known for years live up the river, and three couples stay down by the bridge.
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I guess they are getting ready for President Cruz to take office.
Agree! There is NEVER any homelessness during dhimicrat administrations.
Santa Monica beach and Venice had them all over.
More homeless camps are appearing... in the media.
I was thinking to myself, these homeless people have made it to the top of the homeless food chain. To be homeless in such a tropical paradise! I was so proud of their achievement. I almost wanted to join them - but that would be cheating. I'd have to start out in some cardboard box in chilly New Jersey and pay my dues like the rest of them.
Hawaii has the worst homeless problem in the U.S. In Honolulu, they have doubled in the past year (up to 12,000 now).
People actually plan homelessness in Hawaii, getting there is half the battle. I’ve overheard younger leftists discussing the benefits.
I’d imagine a city in any climate with four season warmth that offers very generous benefits to homeless is inundated.
The fault of the Tea Party, Bush and the rich!/s
It used to be that Christian and Jewish organizations looked after the poor. Throughout the 17th, 18th, 19th, and first half of the 20th centuries in the America, this was the case.
Today, big government has acted as a handout organization of other people's money. This has had horrible consequences. The poor feel entitled instead of displaying gratitude to human kindness. The government gives out plastic EBT cards, Section 8 housing, and a plethora of money and cash - but no Christian guidance or display of God's love. Instead of feeling blessed by generosity, many poor feel contempt and display covetousness towards others.
Today, many government organizations forbid Christians and religious groups from feeding and taking care of the poor. This has happened in Philadelphia and other cities.
Didn't I see these guys over there?
as I walked out on the streets of Laredo
as I walked out in Laredo one day
I spied a young man on the sidewalk
sleeping in a cardboard box
Well said.
Monkeying with private charity is only an invitation to trouble.
Christ said the poor would always be with us.
Christ did not say Caesar should feed them.
The good news is, Barry’s economy is kicking butt up on Wall Street! It B Boomin’! LOL!
Tampa & St Pete FL actually give homeless free bus tickets to Lakeland because a couple of the flop houses, I mean homeless shelters, have publicly invited the homeless. It’s causing real problems. There are a lot of regulars that come down every winter. Snow birds of a sort. LOL
Munn Park in downtown Lakeland has them hanging around there at night, hurting the restaurants that border the park. Pestering people and openly urinating wherever they feel the urge.
#roaringeconomy
Sustainable energy use. It’s what ManBearPig and the IPCC want.
Maybe we are seeing the beginning of Obama-media-fatigue?
I was last in Hawaii in 1988-89, walked that same street and had the same thought, except I wondered how they could have become homeless in Hawaii, as the ones I saw appeared to be haoles, not natives. (How'd they get the money for a 1-way ticket to Hawaii?)
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