[ArmstedFragg]

My town has a lovely park that used to be full of local families playing, picnicking, and enjoying nature. It's now full to the brim with “homeless” doing drugs, drinking, getting in fights, and they've run out the families who are actually paying the taxes to maintain the park. We did some research and discovered that many of our new “outdoor residents” are arriving daily from other towns for the free food being provided by a local “social services” agency. That organization has a budget that increases in proportion to the “population it serves”, in other words, its budget and the salaries of the staff increases as they inflict more and more bums on us.

We tried to get some common sense restrictions on their activities, only to be met by this well organized mob of professional do-gooders. The problem with attacking poverty is that you're dealing with a triple self-interest group: the “clients”, the people “serving” the clients, and the politicians pandering to the first two, all of them full of self-righteousness and spewing pseudo-morality, and none of them remotely concerned about the damage they're doing to the quality of life of the majority of the community.

[QBFimi]

>> well organized mob of professional do-gooders ... triple self-interest group: ... full of self-righteousness and spewing pseudo-morality, and none of them remotely concerned about the damage they’re doing to the quality of life of the majority of the community.

Well said, sir, well said.

[QBFimi]

>> well organized mob of professional do-gooders ... triple self-interest group: ... full of self-righteousness and spewing pseudo-morality, and none of them remotely concerned about the damage they’re doing to the quality of life of the majority of the community.

Well said, sir, well said.