Posted on 09/20/2022 6:48:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The plans libtards come up with are payback schemes for friends and business partners. They are also never created to ever be successful and fix the problems.
Government has no incentive to solve problems, only create them.
Lock up drug dealers and buyers. Institutionalize the mentally ill who are self-medicating.
Truly. It’s drugs and mental illness. Focus on those problems (as you indicate) and the amount of homeless people will be negligible — and they will all be temporary homeless who have fallen on a bit of hard times and can be easily helped by a church or other community group.
Mental institutions and prisons should do the bulk of the work — and we’re not locking people up for the “crime of being homeless”. We’re locking people up because they are truly “a danger to themselves and others”. It is inhumane not to lock them up.
When you encourage certain behavior by encouraging and monetizing it, you get more of the same, not less. Most people learn that lesson very early in life.
California has an entire tax-payer funded work-force devoted to making sure that homeless people stay homeless. Their budget grows each year for them to “address the problem”. Those departments’ goal is to have more people on the street, not less.
They wanted to solve homelessness by giving the drug addicts free housing and word got around. Which promoted more drug addicts to move to San Francisco.
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Housing will fix homelessness? No it won’t.
People are homeless because they’re strung out on drugs and alcohol and don’t pay their bills. Trying to put them in govt paid housing just makes the problem worse and solves nothing.
Does govt never learn anything from experience?
Think about this for 2 seconds. They could give each of the 2,700 “chronically homeless” people a check for $481,000.
Homeless shelters get just as much money if no one stays overnight... and it's easier. Switch the incentives by giving vouchers to the homeless. Shelters don't get a dime unless 'the homeless' give them a chit for the night's stay.
I have a friend living in his car and a month ago he decided to stay in a shelter. He didn’t even make it until midnight.
The Soviets were infamous for their vaunted 5 Year Plan. During the final year of the Plan, they would edit, correct the record to prove the original Plan was perfect, and all the results coincided with the original (edited) Plan. Right out of 1984.
Anyone challenging the ‘facts on the ground’ were deemed incorrect comrades, and with a little, or a lot, of re-education, their minds were righted.
You might think so, but it hasn't. "Housing", after all, is a tent on the street so long as the weather cooperates. It may be time to stop focusing on the box and start focusing on the contents. "Too many rules" means simply "I can't get high there"...or worse. It astonishes me that people who constantly rant about "root causes" are the very last actually to face them. The challenge is to separate the people who have genuinely encountered impossible economic circumstances and will rebuild their lives given a chance from those who are fine with squalor and don't want the boat rocked. There are sadly a lot of the latter.
I went to my office on the edge of the Tenderloin today. Lots of druggies as usual but these days also lots of “community volunteers” (they can be as loud as the screaming homeless around my building, oddly) and more police cars around at least. Thankfully the needle exchange open air drug market in un plaza (the linkage center) that made worldwide news and scorn will not be funded anymore soon. What a disastrous expensive wasteful idea THAT was.
The math is very simple:
Every Five Year Plan to cut the number of bums and druggies by half doubles it.
Pay more for something and get more of it.
No. SHOOT drug dealers.
Your friend’s NOT the exception. I’m sorry this has happened to him. The homelessness industry is dreadful.
Free housing, free food, free drugs, free needles, free healthcare.
Truly sad.
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