Homeless situation....

crosswatt said

I never said that though. I'm not absolving the decisions that led them to the situation they're in, well, for the most part. Homeless people are as much of a monolith as any other cross section of a population. And the work farm idea isn't terrible, except I'm not sure how to get enough homeless folks onboard with the idea short of forced busing, and I think we can all appreciate the negative connotations contained therein.

They have issues. They have real issues that led them there. How best to treat those issues consistently to the hopeful lessening of the actual homelessness problem and an eventual savings to the government is where I think we'd all like this to go. And I just think that the program working in the article I posted would be worth a shot at getting there.

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The reality is the issues they have are the bad choices they made in education, the bad choices they made in substance abuse, the bad choices they made in destroying their ability to be employed, the bad choices they made to alienate their friends and families who can't allow them to tear the rest of their families apart.

Most of them are there because of situations of their own making. And its not like this problem just sprang out of nowhere, it has been growing for years, and all along the solution was help them more, tolerate them more, don't make them responsible form themselves, and by god don't blame them for their situation.

All its done is make the problem worse. Also, the number of 20 something white tent squatters in Oregon took a dramatic increase when pot was legalized. they are more then happen to stand on corners and beg because they make enough money to get fast food and pot, the turn down work when offered and show no interest in anything then living in their own trash.