Posted on 06/23/2019 8:57:09 AM PDT by Hojczyk
“..The homeless count is] down 6 percent county-wide..”
How do they know? Do they send out stooges with clicker counters to visually count them?
Compassion would be to institutionalize them behind locked gates unless and until they are no longer a public nuisance or threat.
I heard they do a count periodically. Yes I think they do a click count sort of tally, as they tour the homeless areas and count to the best of their ability.
It’s better than nothing, as far as getting some estimate of how many people are out there.
Total BS
SAN DIEGO’S Mayor lies.
I know. I live here.
Showing compassion on homeless and addicts NOT done by enabling them.
Their problems need to be addressed, yes, but simply providing for their addictions does no good.
“Although I have had referrals from judges and lots of wealthy people, I can’t arrange help for this person. It is so sad.”
See, this is the problem. Society can’t possibly “fix” all the human ills. It’s not a problem that even America can fix. as can be seen by what’s happening in our major cities. Its indeed unfortunate that you have a relative that falls into this category. So I guess the answer for you is to do what YOU can, because there isn’t enough money in the world to pay for all of people’s relative’s problems. It has to be long past time where this sort of problem is the government’s to handle. It’s time for people to start caring for their own relatives as I see it.
Besides, the vast majority of our “homeless” are “homeless” by choice. Either because of their addiction to drugs, or simply because they want to $hit on society!
IOW, it *can* be done.
6%? They ‘migrated’ North to San Francicko is one theory.
Any displaced homeless druggies can move to Austin, TX now that they’ve nixed the laws banning them from camping out on the sidewalks in front of businesses and UT.
Not exactly; they count the piles of crap on the sidewalks.
He’s a “Republican”
Well, my own words come back to haunt me; I have advised many that some problems have no solutions. I am providing over 50 percent of this person’s support, and no end in sight. But I can’t imagine he is happy with his life so screwed up.
You certainly have addressed the PROBLEM. It took WWII to fix the hobo jungle of the thirties. Unfortunately the Democrat ideals of Compassion designed only to appear compassionet while ignoring the root causes of drug addiction and mental illness have since the sixties only gotten worse. Allowing so called compassion to overrule common sense, has brought us to the point that we now find ourselves.
Dinky little cities like Rapid City are engaged in budget busting tax increases on the general public to provide for the bottomless money pit the situation has become. I don’t necessarily have the answer but throwing tax money at the problem has proven just how bottomless the pit really is if you are offering “ccompassion” as the solution.
My wife likes to remind me of the statement in a movie of so many years ago, and relates it to what communities filled with compassion are finding when they build shelters and facilities that do not really address the behind the scenes issues of “homelessness”. Build it and they will come.
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