"You can't just round people up and drive them into the middle of nowhere, you can't arrest them for no reason, or throw them in jail, or anything else that will just make the problem disappear."

I think at some point, it's going to have to come to that. The current situation is untenable. Throwing tens of millions of dollars EVERY YEAR at this problem has only tripled our vagrant population. And no one can come up with a 'solution' because to actually fix things, you'd...

"...we are also expected to believe these people would be completely cured and contributing members of society if only they were given free apartments."

I am now feeling similarly. I went from compassionate, to feeling used by these addicts who move here looking for free rides, free food, free housing, while defecating and shooting up in broad daylight, on the busiest sidewalks in town. Yet we increase the tens of millions in spending on them. They will not work, they will...

I'll need to Blog this reply, it's really burning my biscuit. See original thread for full story.

This is indeed a conundrum.

When I encounter...