Trump Hints Feds May Have to Clean Up LA & San Fran Homelessness (government, programs)
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the fact this has reached 4 pages is curious. The Olympic Games are in 2028. This is not a front-burner issue at all.
Of course, any non-liberals that think the current laissez faire attitude towards homelessness a disgrace might find it a point of consideration in their vote. Still, he won't win CA and the Electoral votes.
Oooh, a person who gets off on other people suffering so that he can say "I told you so"
I mean no disrespect to you ma'am or sir, and I totally understand that not everyone is a Christian, but the USA is supposed to be a Christian nation, and as such most of us don't want to sit back and watch mentally disturbed people starve in the streets just to feed our own egos.
Funny thing though, most americans have been doing just that for decades.
Let's jump back on the next trolly that leaves the land of make believe, and then we can get back to reality and talk about how most homeless people aren't choosing to be that. Most need help. So what we can do is that we can pull up our big boy pants and create a system to where they can get help and shelter. Then, we'll see where we are at that point.
If at that point there is still a huge issue with "crazy, addicted people living on the streets who refuse to live by society's rules" then we can figure out what the next step should be, if there needs to be one.
Remember kids, just because you can't solve the entire complex issue doesn't mean you can't take steps to resolves huge portions of it.
you purport that homeless people are routinely turned away from soup kitchens and shelters because they are overcapacity?
I think Pelosi and the House would love to pass a bill like that. McConnell and the Senate? I doubt it.
well, how many mentally ill people need to be housed? How many of these centers will we have? Will they be voluntary, or we'll be allowed to easily - on well-justified reasoning - commit people? Can they walk out, or must be approved by a panel of consulting psych doctors that they're treated/cured?
Actually, Trump hinted he is going to have to fix it because the incompetent democrats cant. I am jsut trying to get someone to explain to me how. What is the plan the conservatives are keeping away from those silly democrats?
Me too. I'm all ears.
So far, what I've heard is -
1) round them up and send them somewhere else (who does the rounding up and under what authority? exactly where is this somewhere else?)
2) Congress passes a law (re)establishing some kind of enhanced national mental health care system (great idea, why will it happen now when it hasn't happened for the past three decades - do you see a giant groundswell of bipartisan support for a massive new federal social safety net program?)
3) government should get out of it, the private sector will take care of it (who's gonna pay the private sector to do it?)
According to the OP’s link, Ben Carson has the solution. He intends to ask religious institutions all over the country to each “ adopt an LA homeless person”.
Well it can’t hurt and there may even be some takers. But we are taking about 44,000+ mostly male homeless with a boat load of physical and mental health issues and addictions/ alcoholism- people who have thus far expressed no interest in relocation or changing Anything, let alone everything about their lives.
How does anyone know what these people have expressed since becoming homeless? Has someone interviewed them all to find out?
well, how many mentally ill people need to be housed? How many of these centers will we have? Will they be voluntary, or we'll be allowed to easily - on well-justified reasoning - commit people? Can they walk out, or must be approved by a panel of consulting psych doctors that they're treated/cured?
Good questions.
If this c-d discussion is at all typical of the larger public discussion, we won't get far.
Advocates for the homeless and the mentally ill have lots of numbers, and lots of ideas for what they'd like to see the government do.
Then there are the SCOTUS decisions, going back decades, that limit the government's ability to just round people up and keep them indefinitely.
It is neither easy nor straightforward.
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