Axeman wrote:
Misslizard wrote:
Everyone should have a clean safe bed to sleep in and a full belly.
There’s money to do it ,if only people with $$$ would turn loose of some of it.
There has to be a way to separate the homeless with behavior issues from the general population.Some people need more supervision and mental health services, for their own safety and others.
Nobody wants to be spit or have poop flung on with a pandemic going on.Or at any other time for that matter.
I feel no obligation to them, and I live in a state with Castle and Stand Your Ground laws, meaning I can legally shoot trespassers.
I'd ask you the same question I asked DW namely since many of these people are unemployable what do you think should be done with them?
I live in the Ozarks.You can guess what we do with trespassers.
Some are unemployable.Some are disabled and have disability income but need supervision with their funds.Some are veterans with VA benefits.Some are seriously mentally ill.Then there are just deadbeats who wouldn’t work but prefer to steal and live on the streets.That’s the ones you can’t help, they don’t want it.You can’t just lump them all together.
The VA should do more for homeless vets, they served and should be cared for,the mentally ill should have a place to stay with supervision, temporary housing for those who lost their job and were evicted.
That leaves the ones that don’t want help.They will most likely wind up in jail.Now they have a roof over their heads.
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