I literally laughed out loud when I read this article.
Perhaps, next election, their vote will reflect their experience, and they will join the mindset of the other millions of people who have to deal with homeless camps/shelters in their low to middle-class neighborhoods.
Remember when the Portland city gov't decided it would be a fine idea to erect shacks in people's back yards to house the homeless? How many of Portland's wealthy raised their hands? *crickets* That's right; the women with pussy hats and the "antifa" agitators and the city council loud mouths are all for "helping the homeless" as long as it doesn't involve them doing anything more than verbal virtue signalling. They can't have homeless in their gated communities. That's what the gate is for; to keep out the riff raff. It's a free country. They can do that.
Just don't tell me how virtuous you are, or try to tell me you're for "social justice". You're a LARPer. And a liar. And a fraud. Scurry back to your walled compound and STFU.
That is all.
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I think that the only way we will make a dent in the homeless population is to address that low IQ is a factor (*gasp*), mental health is a factor, and because of these two issues, joblessness results in homelessness.
ReplyDeleteLow IQ must be recognized and accommodated. There are many jobs that these folks could fill. Pretending that all people are equally smart is not working. Imagine that?
We also have a few decent medications available for some mental health problems. We need resources to find more. We need top-notch facilities to study and humanely house the people who cannot function in society. The brain is chemicals. Mental disease or deficiency CAN be treated. As a nation, we just need the will and the funding. Surely, long term, it would cost less than the burgeoning drain these people impose on our public dollars over the course of their lifetimes. If we can get them functioning and back to work, we all win.
lady red - I like the idea of treating homelessness as a symptom of cognitive deficiency.
DeleteThen, while you are treating the root cause (the cognitive deficiency), you can in good faith and conscience offer palliative care as well: housing, in other words. Temporary, but adequate and respectable housing.
This is no more "free shit culture" than pain medication to a trauma victim is "drug culture".
To be sure: "free shit culture" and "drug culture" exist and are (bad) things.
It's just that for a pretty broad swath of the homeless population, these concepts don't really apply, and I think lady red is on to something.
I don't look away: I've lived in the pdx urbanscape-proper for a decade now and I keep a keen eye on the condition of the local camps. The truth is there are dozens, mostly small, all over the city; the underpasses in particular make nice basilicas. I guess.
People are in bad f***ing shape and I am aghast.
Thanks to civil liberties types, people with mental disorders cannot be taken to care facilities, including shelters, without thei concent unless they are an immediate danger to themselves ore someone else. Maybe freezing to death in several hours is not considered an immediate danger.
ReplyDeleteAbout twelve years ago or so, a homeless man died on the streets of Vancouver on Christmas Eve. Of course the homeless advocates were demanding that more money be spent on the homeless. They were ignoring the fact that emergency personnel had talked with the man several times that evening and he refused to be taken to a shelter.
The current mayor O's Vancouver was elected in 2008 saying that he would end homelessness in the city by 2015. Guess what. It didn't happen. The old adage, "Offer free shit and they will come" was proven true once again.
I saw emergency personnel in Seattle be assaulted by homeless people they were trying to help. If people are capable of taking care of themselves then they should do it. If they are not capable of taken care of themselves then they should not be the final arbiter of what is good for them.
I doubt many homeless "advocates" really care about the homeless. I think they care more about turning western countries into shit holes as a mean of tormenting revolt.
I think they care more about turning western countries into shit holes as a mean of tormenting revolt.
DeleteRight on with the sentiment.
BTW it is us who they're tormenting, not revolution. :p
Fomenting is what they're doing to revolution. :|
To which I say: mo' fomenters gonna be fomenting... ;)
And of course billionaires don't want homeless shelters near them. That's what middle-class neighborhood share for.
ReplyDeleteThese are also the people who are fighting Trump's wall on the border while building walls around their own property, arguing for gun control while being protected by armed guards, etc.