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I and my fellow residents of Wood Street Commons, an unhoused community in Oakland, believe politicians pushing sweeps of homeless encampments are only making things worse.
One thing that would dramatically improve the lives of unhoused people in California could be done today, wouldn’t cost taxpayers any money and would require no effort by politicians or city workers. It’s as simple as a governor or mayor uttering three words: Stop sweeps now.
That solves nothing. He would still be homeless. Calling themselves "unhoused" does nothing, either.
I'm about to go pickup my 68yo good friend from High School this morning and take him to the homeless shelter. He's an Alcoholic and had rather buy booze than buy food or shelter. You can't help the guy, we've all tried.
This is about the best I can do for him now. Plus buy him a decent meal on the way.
He's homeless because he's chosen this path over the last 50 years. Surprising he's still alive.
He's an Alcoholic and had rather buy booze than buy food or shelter. You can't help the guy, we've all tried.
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He's homeless because he's chosen this path
Add "/drug addict" to the word alcoholic, and add "/drugs" to the word booze, and the above quote describes like 90% of the homeless in this country.
Pro tip - if you do provide the one/few good meals, maybe a comfy night's sleep, etc...the only person you help is yourself, if doing these things makes you feel good about yourself. At no point, as Rakin points out, do you do anything helpful or meaningful for a degenerate who every single day chooses the degenerate lifestyle.
Example - my wife one time gave $20 to one of those sign carrying beggars at an intersection near our closest shopping center. When she came home, I said " you realize had you just gone to the liquor store and bought as much cheap booze as that $20 could buy, you would have not only given him what he really wanted, but also saved him a trip?" She then lamented being a sucker and I said "did it make you feel good to feel charitable? If yes, then money well spent, regardless of outcomes you cannot control."
Always keep that in mind when helping degenerates. You are never going to cure the degeneracy, all you're doing is making yourself feel good about you.
If bums had any capacity to be responsible, they wouldn't be homeless.
At this point, we should treat them like cattle. Herd them into compounds and feed them and take care of them as cheaply and humanely as possible.
That is a horrible take on human beings who were once someone's baby, but I don't see any other practical way out.
It is impossible of course, as the courts and Democrats won't allow it.
Wake me up when rents aren't $1500-3000/month while pay is higher than $14/hour...but you are right some would rather be homeless than choose wage slavery and they will if you let them. With the right government programs a single mother doesn't ever have to work as an example.
Wake me up when rents aren't $1500-3000/month while pay is higher than $14/hour...but you are right some would rather be homeless than choose wage slavery and they will if you let them. With the right government programs a single mother doesn't ever have to work as an example.
The streets are full of homeless who were well paid before their drug addictions or went off their medications.
You see immigrants living 6 to a room to avoid being homeless despite earning next to nothing under the table. If pay = homelessness, the immigrants would all be living on the streets.
I have yet to see a story about a permanent homeless person who said they immigrated to the USA and just couldn't find a job and were forced to live on the street.
The cost of living is soaring, the middle class is shrinking, and it is becoming harder to get buy. At the same time, how many $14/hour workers in $1,500 apartments still demand to own a cell phone, internet service, cable TV and other "luxuries" they could cut expenses on if they chose to do so? They could rent close to work, forego car ownership, and use transit or car pool.
Too many low earners struggling to get buy still want all of the goods and services of people making more money. If you can't afford it, then you can't have it all.
I am not saying it isn't much harder today. It is much harder today. Much.
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