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Im not sure there are many homeless people doing heroin! unless they are committing crimes or attractive females (selling their bodies), heroin is more expensive than gold right now (Around $160-180 per gram in the midwest, more in larger cities). Meth is probably the most abused drug for this group of people.
They aren't trashing the whole city, they are only trashing working-class neighborhoods. They are actually cleaning-up the rich and tourist areas.
YEP - and how do those "working class neighborhoods" really feel about be a dumping ground?
Nothing shows distain more for Tax Paying worker citizens more than dumping the homeless into their parks and neighborhoods.
The thread is about the homeless. Why is it done in the open? There is nowhere to keep simply homeless users. Go ahead and promote the idea of higher taxes to pay for more prisons. See how far you get.
Solutions that are never going to happen are not solutions.
Looks like Denver wants to turn their residential family neighborhoods into homeless camps just so that tourists don't have to see the results of the Democratic policies that Denver has for all it's problems.
Denver should maybe house them and give the homeless sheds to live with build inexpensive shower facilities and have coordinate volunteers to serve cheap healthy meals in the many underutilized parks in Southwest Denver.
Oh, yeah -- that is a GREAT solution . . . NOT!!
People move out of the city to escape city problems which, unfortunately, include homelessness and crime. We pay taxes to live in a pleasant community and do what is necessary to keep our neighborhoods looking nice.
Why should we be punished just because Denver has not adequately solved its problems?
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YEP - and how do those "working class neighborhoods" really feel about be a dumping ground?
Nothing shows distain more for Tax Paying worker citizens more than dumping the homeless into their parks and neighborhoods.
The working-class have no power, so who cares what they think?
More than likely imo. Heroin is just too expensive for someone that is homeless. Its most common to smoke meth from a pipe, but it can also be injected, its MUCH more intense and much more dangerous this way, but that is relative here.
Your statement is very true...BUT!! Let's be honest, within many of those Red States, most, not all, but a good percentage of the larger cities within these States are controlled by Democrats and it's been that way for decades.
I live in the metro Seattle area and the homeless have basically destroyed the entire city where I was born and raised. Our useless mayor and equally useless city council, which proudly proclaim that they're Progressive Democrats, with one odd-ball Socailist have failed the tax payers for years and years even after raising most every tax possible, like adding an extra tax/surcharge on the sales of firearms of all types, as well as on ammunition regardless of caliber AND taxing sodas and most types of fruit juices. No matter how much the tax us, nothing ever changes and the homeless issue simply gets worse as each year goes by.
Seattle has gotten so bad, that the people, both liberals and conservatives are no longer buying the standard BS propaganda the city elected leadership have been pushing. The mayor was basically elected a year ago, but many on the city council are in trouble, with several not running again since they know that they're done. They have laughed in the faces of concerned citizens, which was caught on video and wouldn't even stop texting on they're smart phones long enough to even look at another citizen at a different event when he attempted to voice his concerns about the direction the city is heading in.
If you're interested, please visit YouTube and watch video "Seattle is dying." It's an eye opening documentary on Seattle and how bad the homeless, drug and crime has gotten here.
Denver, like many large cities, are facing the same challenges that we're facing here in Seattle. Let's be honest, the politicians WANT to make this into Left verse Right issue, so we, the people, will move to our Left or Right sides of the argument lines AND get side tracked in our own beliefs, which allows our elected officials to get off the hook for being responsible for anything.
If we, the people care about our cities, towns and other communities, we need to stop this stupid a** fighting amongst ourselves and starting holding our elected officials responsible for their failures. If we can simply unite on this one cause, I think there is a strong chance that we can take on this problem and put a big dent in it. Which is better than doing nothing. It took us years to get to this point and it will take years to get it back under control again. Also, we need to accept that their will always be a number of individuals who simply want to stay homeless. In this case, hold them responsible for their crimes and civil violations and be very firm on were they can and can't camp. And if they fail to clean up after themselves, which is another violation, lock them up AND hold them responsible for their poor actions
Again, it's not a Left verse Right, Black/Brown verse White, Trump verse Pelosi, etc...
Btw, Seattle was always a democrat stronghold, but this progressive liberalism has gone way too far. It's no longer the democrat party that looked after the working man and woman.
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