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I have a hunger/homeless solution: provide a $60 Costco membership, with a Visa card that only accepts Costco foodcourt purchases.
A Costco membership grants you access to their food courts. If we spend $1702.50 per homeless person, per year we could feed homeless people with 3 meals per day.
Here's the math:
$1.50 for an all beef hot dog, bun, condiments and beverage cup. That's enough calories to survive on, until the "homeless" bum decides to get a job.
$60 membership fee * $1.50 hotdog/drink * 3 times per day * 365 days/year =$1702.50
If you eat enough hotdogs per day, you'll be incentivized to get a job in able to afford better food.
You are assuming all hungry people and all homeless people are unemployed bums who refuse to work and you assume every community, town, city, metropolis has a Cosco.
How about the funding for the medical expenses that will be caused by only eating three hotdogs a day.
You are assuming all hungry people and all homeless people are unemployed bums who refuse to work and you assume every community, town, city, metropolis has a Cosco.
How about the funding for the medical expenses that will be caused by only eating three hotdogs a day.
Once you eat 3 hotdogs per day for a month, as a bum, you'll say screw it, I want a job to buy a hamburger.
Boom! Incentive for bums to not bum around all day and night has been created.
Once you eat 3 hotdogs per day for a month, as a bum, you'll say screw it, I want a job to buy a hamburger.
Boom! Incentive for bums to not bum around all day and night has been created.
You think living on the streets in filth isn't enough incentive?
Guess what? You would be right about many of them. Some do work, some do try to get out of their homelessness situation (some are lucky enough to have cars to sleep in), and some out there don't want to be ordered around or follow rules.
How do I know this? Because I will actually talk to homeless people.
For those who don't care about being homeless, don't want to follow rules, don't want to give up their drugs, giving them hot dogs and a drink 3 times a day is not going to incentivize them. It's going to reward them. They don't give a damn what they get to eat as long as they get something to eat.
Besides, you can feed them for less than that. Top Ramen. Three packs a day is about 75 cents. Just allow Starbucks to give them hot water, since liberals care so much about the homeless, they won't mind if they come in to their coffee shop to get some free hot water for their noodles. They are fed and watered for 75 cents a day.
That still won't make those types get up and do something to change their situation.
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Originally Posted by 2mares
You are assuming all hungry people and all homeless people are unemployed bums who refuse to work and you assume every community, town, city, metropolis has a Cosco.
How about the funding for the medical expenses that will be caused by only eating three hotdogs a day.
Maybe we could discuss that when politicians decide that handing out needles is probably not a great way to get people to stop using drugs, and instead, get those people into treatment.
soup kitchens are run well mostly off donations. bean soup, chicken soup, etc all cheap and healthy meals
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