I’m an engineer and solved many tough technical problems in my career.
All I know about social issues is we have spent $25 trillion to eradicate poverty and we have more homeless than ever before. Every time we spend more on “homeless,” guess what we get? More homeless.
OK, Mr. Positivity, name just one solution that has worked. Just one.
Singapore and the Vigilance Committees of San Francisco in the 1850s figured it out.
“name just one solution that has worked”
Sure.
In a nearby wealthy suburb I used to use the commuter bus. We had a homeless person who used to sleep on the bench at the bus stop.
A few of us met with local officials to see if we could come up with a solution.
Everyone agreed that removing the bench was worth a try.
The bench was removed and we never saw the homeless guy again.
Keep it local, work with others, keep it positive, stay positive and good things start to happen.
Don’t wait for DC to solve your problems—that is your job.
100 years ago, +/-, we had solutions that worked. They could be implemented again:
Incarcerate the druggies.
Put the mentally ill in mental hospitals
For the indigent open poor farms.