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The liberal answer is not to create jobs and booste wages but give em tents to live in!
Oh feel the love!
So wheres the conservative jobs bill? Ahhh right, somehow that will come from cutting taxes, just like every other time it didnts work....by golly this time it will right?
Boosting wages? You mean like with a minimum wage increase to keep up with inflation? That almost all of the conservatives have opposed?
Send all the muzzie refugees there. Let them get a taste of where it rains 8 months out of the year.
There are already Muslims living in places where it rains the majority of the year. UK, Norway, Vancouver, last I checked, Indonesia gets alot of rain.
Sorry, homelessness is a logical result of growing inequality, not to mention NIMBY local policies.
Private sector new construction is booming in Portland and none of it is affordable at low incomes.
That link that I had provided stated that half of the new housing is going to the poor and half to the rich. The poor get subsidized with the tax dollars that the middle-class do not have to by their next house.
The U.S. government tallied more than half a million people living on the streets on a one-night count this year, a quarter of them children.
That's a choice made by parents of the children. What of it?
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Seattle has voted to permit three tent cities, with Mayor Ed Murray declaring homelessness a "full-blown crisis" following the death this year of 66 homeless people on the streets or in illegal campsites, and a 21 percent jump in the King County homeless population since 2014.
66 deaths due to what, exactly?
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The conservatives of the board are just thinking there is no real problem, because by gosh, if only those homeless people had been properly motivated maybe they would not have died.
I mean..apparently death was not sufficient motivation.
Apparently not, so there's little point in wasting money on them.
There's no reason not to give the homeless a parachute, $10, a bag lunch and kick their goat-smelling asses out the back of a C-130 over Somalia, or Afghanistan or Libya or some other other paradise.
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If we cared for the homeless they would not be homeless.
That's absolutely silly.
Homelessness is a way of life for some people.
Those people used to be called "hobos."
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Has anyone considered that a percentage of the homeless are that way by design?
No, of course they haven't. That's beyond their comprehension.
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Originally Posted by freemkt
Sorry, homelessness is a logical result of growing inequality,...
No, it's the logical result of stupidity in action.
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You mean like with a minimum wage increase to keep up with inflation?
Inflation serves a valuable function in Economics by protecting scarce resources.
Too bad the concept is too difficult for many to understand.
If wages cannot keep pace with Inflation, then people need to alter their life-styles and lower their Standard of Living.
There is nothing barring any of those homeless people from WWHHD?
WWHHD?
What would Homo Habilis do?
Homo Habilis would search for greener pastures, including an affordable place to live and work.
That makes Homo Habilis infinitely more intelligent than your average homeless person.
That's a choice made by parents of the children. What of it?
66 deaths due to what, exactly?
Apparently not, so there's little point in wasting money on them.
There's no reason not to give the homeless a parachute, $10, a bag lunch and kick their goat-smelling asses out the back of a C-130 over Somalia, or Afghanistan or Libya or some other other paradise.
That's absolutely silly.
Homelessness is a way of life for some people.
Those people used to be called "hobos."
No, of course they haven't. That's beyond their comprehension.
No, it's the logical result of stupidity in action.
Inflation serves a valuable function in Economics by protecting scarce resources.
Too bad the concept is too difficult for many to understand.
If wages cannot keep pace with Inflation, then people need to alter their life-styles and lower their Standard of Living.
There is nothing barring any of those homeless people from WWHHD?
WWHHD?
What would Homo Habilis do?
Homo Habilis would search for greener pastures, including an affordable place to live and work.
That makes Homo Habilis infinitely more intelligent than your average homeless person.
You forgot Homo Politicus.
Homo Politicus (aka Rentseeker) resolves housing unaffordability with government action, e.g. Prop 13.
That link that I had provided stated that half of the new housing is going to the poor and half to the rich. The poor get subsidized with the tax dollars that the middle-class do not have to by their next house.
Where is this? I see new $3,995 apartments for the rich and no new housing for the poor in Portland.
Waiting lists for subsidized rental housing are ten years long and are usually closed
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