h/t WRSA
Touché.
And given a choice between "laundered" and "cleansed", just as with chocolate and vanilla, steak and lobster, or blondes and brunettes, most people would answer "Both, please."
h/t WRSA
Touché.
And given a choice between "laundered" and "cleansed", just as with chocolate and vanilla, steak and lobster, or blondes and brunettes, most people would answer "Both, please."
...Bofe, Coach....
ReplyDeletepeople seem to assume a sudden injection of cash would solve the problem areas of this country.
ReplyDeletedoes anyone think dropping a few mil on baltimore would really solve the problem?
really?
Aesop, it is not a good look on the national or world stage. We are literally spending money we do not have.
ReplyDeleteIn the future, I suspect this will another "regrettable photo".
I'd prefer none of choice A, and lots of choice B.
ReplyDeleteEvery year I've got to deal with bums wrings every ounce of compassion out of me. I'm enjoying my new method of dealing with panhandlers who approach me.
"Can you spare some money?"
"I'll give you dollar if you tell me a joke and I laugh."
Only had one winner.
The rural town we moved to last year doesn't have a homeless problem despite being a stop on a major interstate...
DeleteI don't know why, but it's nice.
P.S. major cities spend billions a year on "the homeless" and it doesn't help - money isn't the issue!
Who told you it doesn't snow in Frisco? I was there more than one Winter during my Naval career, and saw plenty of snow & ice there,
ReplyDeletePerhaps the Ukes could use our tax dollars to buy what they need from the Taliban. That way we can pay for it twice.
ReplyDelete@Duke of URL,
ReplyDeleteWhen snow drifts freeze homeless people there on the reg, give a holler.
I have pictures of my SUV covered in six inches of snow in L.A. from Christmas '88, and Frisco had a snow day in 1976, and a time or two since then (for about five minutes) but once or twice a century does not a pattern make.
If Frisco snowed like Buffalo, it would be prettier year around, and largely homeless-free. Sadly, such is not the case.
The old jargon for homeless is C.A. T. o. (Crazy, addict, tramp, other). The "other" (down on their luck) are a tiny proportion of the total. Money or housing will not help the rest. Longterm (expensive) custodial care is needed and that isn't what Blue cities are providing. A room, food, and a new set of rags just postpones the issue in the hopes that they will go away. The severe cases have driven family and friends away and are probably beyond the benefits of some "help". Some people just ain't right and custodial care (hospital or "prison") are the only options. It is not "fun" but it might save some addicts. I don't think that most people are aware of how many "homeless" are incapable of caring for themselves in an open environment. It has nothing to do with "jobs" or the cost of "housing". Many of those are incapable of fending for themselves in a "normal" environment. Nothing ( job, mundane existence, etc.) is within their capability. Despite the fantasy, a "kind word" and a "helping hand" will not accomplish anything for that population.
ReplyDeleteSpot on. Only 1 in 100 is worth any effort, the other 99 are a waste of skin and oxygen. Find them a relatively benign environment, and let them deal with Nature on its own terms, away from society.
ReplyDeleteI saw a homeless man eating grass in the park. I asked him "Why are you eating grass?"
ReplyDeleteHe said "I am very hungry"
I replied "Oh, okay then. Come with me."
You should've seen his face when I showed him my backyard.
People aren't homeless because they lost their homes. At the end of the day, my home was always right where I left it. Being rather largish, homes are rather hard to lose track of that way.
ReplyDeleteThey're homeless because they're drunks, dopers, or whackjobs, and the latter and former swap places in terms of chicken and egg throughout the lifespan until they become a Gordian knot.
This country doesn't have a "homelessness" problem, it has a psycho and addict problem. The psychos we turned loose in the '60s, and the addicts from the '70s and '80s that we didn't throw in prison, are the roots of the homeless problem to the current minute. Not requiring monthly sobriety and drug testing for all government benefits is the cherry on the cake. Institutionalization or banishment are the only permanent cures for the incurable. We should apply both, and reinforce all successes.
And any proposed halfway houses should be installed next door to the non-profit HQs for every branch of Liberal Idiot Dogooderism that can be found, and the private homes of their boards of directors, by statute, to include taking the mansions next door over by eminent domain, including in Beverly Hills, Newport, Georgetown, and the Hamptons.
Any Hollywood celbridiots who piped up in complaint would have one assigned as their live-in housekeeper or butler annually. Lippy congressweasels would have them assigned by law as in-office help in the US Capitol, with each public complaint followed by assignment of another one.
The problem would then sort itself out in about a week.
And then there is this troubling question: what do we do with the millions of Americans who are low IQ?
ReplyDeleteI would assume that many of the homeless are people with IQs to the lower left side of the Bell Curve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Ur71ZnNVk