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I would love it if everyone in this thread who thinks this law is a good idea to find a local homeless person and pay for a hotel room for them for a couple of nights. Because they are people after all and are down on their luck, put your money where your mouth is.
So the homeless should be treated differently from the rest of us...why?? This could happen to any of us. To think there are people like you that judge those down on their luck is pretty deplorable.
Some people can't help being shallow. They look down on anyone who isn't a carbon copy of themself.
I would love it if everyone in this thread who thinks this law is a good idea to find a local homeless person and pay for a hotel room for them for a couple of nights. Because they are people after all and are down on their luck, put your money where your mouth is.
There is a significant difference between housing someone in a hotel and choosing to not arrest someone for minor offenses. So far as I can tell the people supporting the law aren't the ones complaining about homeless people.
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Originally Posted by J746NEW
What would Jesus have to say about your characterizations of him?
He wandered from place to place, doing his sermons and feeding his fellow poor?
He was a public nuisance to the status quo.
He had to relieve himself along the way I am sure.
Homeless or the fakers? We have so many fakers out here it's hard to tell who is really homeless and who is just "working" a corner with a sympathy sign. I've seen people working the same corner for years that have an apt across the street.
The 'fakers' have been known in some cases to bring in over six figures while pretending to be disabled and homeless....all in cash, too.
There was an article about a couple that did this as their job. They would park their van around the corner and carry wheel chairs over to 'their' corner. Then panhandle for a few hours. They had a busy intersection, and given approximately a 2 minute light cycle, getting a couple bucks for each light cycle..the husband/wife team would make about $120K a year. I was so shocked when I first read that article. But then when I go to a place like busy downtown and see maybe 1 out of 100 people passing by kick out a dollar (roughly one a minute), not difficult to see how it can add up.
Actually, I'm a vagrant and a Veteran. My dad was in the Navy so we moved around a lot. By your definition (and this isn't an attack on your argument, just so you know) all military personnel are vagrants.
I lived in Virginia Beach, then Norfolk, back to Virginia Beach, then back to Norfolk before moving to Tampa, Florida. I then moved out here to Los Angeles and have been having the time of my life paying cheap, cheap rent (for California standards anyway) and attending college.
I am a vagrant, a human being, a military Veteran, and most of all I am an American.
What would Jesus have to say about your characterizations of him?
He wandered from place to place, doing his sermons and feeding his fellow poor?
He was a public nuisance to the status quo.
He had to relieve himself along the way I am sure.
I'll ask him when I see him. He would most likely agree after checking the definition that is put out in the english dictionary.
I would love it if everyone in this thread who thinks this law is a good idea to find a local homeless person and pay for a hotel room for them for a couple of nights. Because they are people after all and are down on their luck, put your money where your mouth is.
Then they need to rethink such a law and rewrite it with excempotion not ingore enforcing the law on some and not others.No new rights bill is needed and I think perhaps other legislators will see this in the end.
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