Rough start to a new life (See San Antonio's New $100 Million Homeless Shelter)

San Antonio Express-News ^ | 05/03/2010 | By Brian Chasnoff - Express-News

[Responsibility2nd]

100 Million Dollars.

1,400 residents.

Total waste of money. That $100 Million could have bought 2 million bus tickets out of town for 2 million homeless folks.

[Kansas58]

How does a homeless person go camping?

I thought “urban camping” was kind of the whole point of being homeless!

[Responsibility2nd]

Meant to type....

... $100 Million could have bought 2 million bus tickets out of town at 50 bucks each.

[Bernard]

Well, the best thing you could say about this is that hopefully the people who work at the center will work themselves out of a job. and pay off the investment.

[JennysCool]

They could also have built 2,000 $50,000 houses.

[wolfcreek]

A Leftist in the paper today wrote,

“The Tea partiers just can’t let go of the past and adjust to the rapidly changing world around them.”

[Zakeet]

In San Antonio, you can bet that at least 1,200 of the 1,400 homeless residents are illegals.

And if you ever need to, you can empty the entire joint in under 30 seconds by walking in the front door and shouting "IMMIGRATION."

[ridesthemiles]

100 Million Dollars.
1,400 residents. “

No amount of money will cure those who are mentally gone.

Drugs—immaturity from constantly being enabled by family—lots of reasons.

A total state of entitlement, also.

[avacado]

"100 Million Dollars. 1,400 residents. Total waste of money. That $100 Million could have bought 2 million bus tickets out of town for 2 million homeless folks."

Chill dude!

[MEGoody]

I’d love to ask Brad if anyone is holding a gun to his head forcing him to stay at this shelter. If he doesn’t like the rules, then leave.

[WOBBLY BOB]

In a two-hour course called “Coping with Change,” Yolanda Edwards, an instructor, asked why the attendees had chosen Haven for Hope. “I didn't choose it,” Cain said. “It was forced on me.”

I can identify with having "Change" forced on me.

[GeronL]

100 Million???

Must have been a government project.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

I thought every day was camping day for the homeless?

[MediaMole]

$71,000 per bed? That’s government for you.

It’s like a local bus line that carried 30 people a day at a cost of $250,000 per year. Over two years, it would have been cheaper to buy the 30 people new cars.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

La Migra! La Migra!

[MCF]

100 million is just the cost of the center. It will cost millions every year to staff and maintain the place. But that is the whole point to these socialistic programs. G-jobs for those that can’t function in the free market.

[stars & stripes forever]

The Rockford Rescue Mission is an in-house treatment center with many success stories of rehabilitation. The Mission is totally run on contributions by individuals and churches.

The reason for its success? The life changing power of Jesus Christ.

[Zakeet]

Mucho Grasso

[MrEdd]

The state has closed most of its large institutional mental institutions.

Somehow, all those broken people didn't just miraculously disappear.Some of them can be functional on a regimen of medications, but the $8 to $12 an hour jobs available are insufficient to buy those meds.

C'est la vie

[Psycho_Bunny]

I love when people talk like that: when you press them they can never explain what they’re talking about.