Seth

The largest obstacle would be that homeless people are a cash cow for a lot of non-profits as well as an employment guarantee for government social services agencies, and in the latter case, their part of the swamp would undoubtedly do all they can to gum up the works.

That's probably why the undomiciled population continues to grow rather than shrink: everybody whose livelihoods revolve around "helping" the homeless has an interest in maintaining the status quo.

Ferrous Loc: Pacific North Coast, CA

Just like how the I*****l A***ns keeping those that use them for their own personal gains while proudly echoing the Humanitarian Good they are doing.

A whole second and third class group of non-citizens dependent on their dolling out the aid and keeping the status quo, safe.

Our Immigration System could be fixed if the politicians really wanted to fix it.

"The Insanity that has Befallen Us"

Big Kahuna

I hear that Yang (One of the crew of 20 running for pres.) wants to give every homeless vagrant a monthly stipend of $1,000. He also is insinuating that anyone who v**es demonrat should also get a monthly $1,000. That is illegal unless Streisand, Cher, Fonda, Madonna, Midler, Milano, DiNero, Jolie, Damon, Clooney, DeCaprio and the dem party offer to sell their homes and worldly possessions and live on skid row (will never happen of course)

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Lets get them jobs!

waltmoreno

Spot on Ferrous! My son used to bike that same trail when he was in the Boy Scouts, along with the entire troop. Sadly, that's another era, likely never to be seen again.

Time to bring Sheriff Joe's innovations into the picture. He's the infamous Joe Arpaio in Phoenix AZ, best known for his tent cities for housing local prisoners.
If the Boise federal court said they have to be offered alternative housing, then communities should emulate Sheriff Joe's solutions.
Sheriff Joe housed inmates in sweltering tents in Phoenix included serving inmates Nutraloaf and edibles recovered from food rescue and limiting meals to twice daily. He also banned his wards from possessing "sexually explicit material" including Playboy magazine. The ban was challenged on First Amendment grounds, but was upheld by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In February 2007, Arpaio instituted an in-house radio station he called KJOE,[36] broadcasting classical music, opera, Frank Sinatra hits, patriotic music, and educational programming five days a week, four hours each day.

And as long as we have to house the homeless, besides learning from Sheriff Joe, we could also take a lesson about dealing with the homeless from the 21 year old girl from Texas who wrote,

"Put me in charge . . . "

Put me in charge of food stamps. I’d get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho’s, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza…


…then get a job.

Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I’d do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we’ll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get tats and piercings, then get a job.

Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks?
You will maintain our property (tents) in a clean and good state of repair. Your "home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place.

In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a "government" job. It may be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing, wh**ever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the "common good."

Before you write that I’ve violated someone’s rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our money (and housing), accept our rules. Before you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self-esteem," consider that it wasn’t that long ago that taking someone else’s money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self-esteem.

If we are expected to pay for other people’s mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.

AND, while you are on Gov’t subsistence, you no longer can V**E! Yes that is correct. For you to v**e would be a conflict of interest. You will voluntarily remove yourself from v****g while you are receiving a government welfare check. If you want to v**e, then get a job."

We need the SCOTUS to sign onto these homelessness solutions. I think we'd all be surprised at how quickly the homelessness problem would disappear.

Seth

SoCal is full of homeless people in their twenties who seem to believe it's okay to live off the government, spend the day smoking pot or using meth and panhandling.

If I were in charge of welfare or food stamps distribution, the requirement for any young person like that to qualify would be a DD-214 with the word "Honorable" on it. Unfortunately, the socialist system in California throws the taxpayer's hard-earned money around like confetti, and hands out social security, which is on the federal taxpayer's dime, to any lazy young person that comes along.

Take a walk along the Venice boardwalk any day of the week and you get a panoramic view of hundreds of meth heads and stoners, most in their 20s and early 30s, who wouldn't know a W-2 or a DD-214 from a rent receipt or utility bill, and even with the strong seabreeze, there is the added attraction of air that smells like stale urine.

This is a product of Democrat politicians in their finest hour.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Totally!

bggamers Loc: georgia

How about they make them clean up their act and get a job instead of giving them welfare checks and food stamps and free needles which to me is aiding and encouraging their habits I do not feel sorry for them but for the communities that have to deal with them and their bull***t

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

jwrevagent

"could care less" actually means they care at least somewhat. "Couldn't care less" is probably the more accurate term. Sorry, just that I hear that misstatement a lot, and along with "continuing on" is irritating. You either "continue", or "go on", but to say "continue on" is simply either lazy or ignorant or perhaps both, In any case, it is redundant. There! Whew! Got that off my chest! But I agree with the sentiment.

waltmoreno

It’s elementary that when you subsidize something, you get more of it. I don’t know how many millions of dollars SF has thrown at the homeless but their problem is getting worse.
Hmmmmm.

Lt. Rob Polans ret.

I thought it was, but when I saw you using it... Wetback, these days it isn't derogatory back when Eisenhower was president he had a project wetback.

debeda

debeda

Well said 👏👏👏

debeda