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Until you get the people with the issue out of the environment they're in nothing will change. We can cry and wrong our hands all we want, throw ship loads of money at it but unless you have the common sense to actually carry out the solution then the problem will not go away.
Like it or not we need to take these people's freedom away for the sake of all concerned.
The courts won’t allow it and there is no room in jails for all the unsheltered homeless.
There is a reason why say, Fargo does not have much of a challenge with unsheltered homeless people and it has nothing to do with politics.
The temperature in Fargo right now is -6. The forecast for LA is lower 70’s.
Unless the homeless are forced to live in clean surroundings, what good will it do to spend many millions (if not billions) on facilities for them? And if they are not forced to live in a healthier way, I think that the only "cure"will be some kind of rapidly spreading and almost always fatal disease, such as a severe virus or plague of some kind.
And if and when that kind of outbreak happens, I wonder how many liberals will still think that is still better than forcing the homeless to live in a way that they don't want?
The solution to the homeless crisis? There really is none or I'm sure someone would have come up with something by now. $millions are thrown at the issue and the only result is an increased homeless population.
The solution to the homeless crisis? There really is none or I'm sure someone would have come up with something by now. $millions are thrown at the issue and the only result is an increased homeless population.
At least there are people trying to help the homeless. Better to try to help vs. not doing anything at all, right?
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The solution to the homeless crisis? There really is none or I'm sure someone would have come up with something by now. $millions are thrown at the issue and the only result is an increased homeless population.
There is one, but it's not palatable mainly for moral reasons. And that would be to imprison and execute them all....
Too many overlook the expensiveness of homelessness. My sister, out on Cloud 9, doesn't think it costs taxpayers anything.
Ding-ding! $42,500 a year, national average, to have one homeless person on our streets, and I'm sure it's close to $50-60k a year in San Francisco.
A homeless man falls down, hits his head, and off to the Emergency Room he goes (he can't be denied admission) and then? How many days in the hospital, how much for the medication, how much for rehab?
There is one, but it's not palatable mainly for moral reasons. And that would be to imprison and execute them all....
I agree. Sad to say this is what is referred to as "human refuse". They are going to bankrupt the 911 system downtown. I watched SoCal Connected "Fire Station 9" tonight which makes about 60 runs a day/night, mostly taking care of OD's and mentally deranged derelicts on bad trips. Here, if you want a wake up call on how bad it is down there FF to 7:31 to see the man on the ground in the pic:
The Homeless problem is driven by Mental Illness, and Drug and Alcohol addiction. Often there are shelters the homeless can go to for food and shelter. They REFUSE as they want to be on the street to freely use drugs and alcohol. Shelters do not allow their inhabitants to use drugs and alcohol. They require they be clean and sober. Most homeless don't want that.
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