[ProtectOurFreedom]

I said I “guess” his problem is drugs. As you no doubt know, the homeless often have drug problems and that is the most frequent reason they are homeless. Hardly slander or libel and certainly not dishonest.

[familyop]

Have fun repeatedly and publicly posting your "guess" that a specific homeless man is on drugs. You wouldn't like it, if people publicly "guessed" the same to you.

"...64,000 drug overdose deaths estimated in 2016,..." (CDC, NIDA).

It's a good and just plan, really. Let it run its course.

Soon enough, a nation will be guessing the same about people in upscale neighborhoods. It's a wonder that it hasn't happened already, with the higher income levels of the families of the infamous mass murderers of recent years.

[familyop]

You wouldn’t like it, if people publicly “guessed” the same about you.

[Little correction there.]

[Phil DiBasquette]

I pass through NY Penn Station several times a week and it’s obvious
many of the street folks are not just down on their luck but mentally ill and/or abusing drugs or alcohol. Some are life’s dropouts, willfully active scammers taking their show on the road in the subway or up & down 8th Ave with wheelchairs as props.
There are also slovenly everyday salt of the earth working slobs that could learn to use rollon or a toothbrush or to say no to 3rds but to be sure no one in their right mind or with a scrap of pride would sleep on the curb, fish through trash for slobbered-on crusts of food, wear ragged clothes while befouled for days on end, beg or ask for $ when there are in liberal NY there are many organized social services who can provide sustenance a place to sleep/live and a bridge to a job however menial.