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Here’s how one fixes homelessness:
1) an economy with enough jobs for everyone
2) don’t give people free stuff like housing and food
3) when people get hungry enough or cold/hot/wet enough, they will get jobs and buy their own shelter
I am sure this will be a sore subject with lots of folks.
Here’s one of the best signs I have ever seen:
Quoted from Wolfmarsh:We can't even agree as a society that healthcare is a basic human right.
Mental illness and addictions are diseases same as cancer or autism, yet have completely different stigmas attached.
I agree. We used to. But in the 1990s, our government decided that “institutionalizing people” and keeping them in mental hospitals or addiction centers was cruel and inhumane. So instead, we let them all loose on the streets. How that is more humane has been a puzzle for me for years.
The other part of the complicated equation....when the federal gov went into business to compete against traditional society safety nets, like churches and civic groups, that’s where things really went astray. Now, the federal government and our taxes have to foot the bill for it all.
And as a footnote....why does Oprah Winfrey worry so much about good schools in Africa, and Bill Gates focuses his philanthropy mostly overseas? In the old days, we took care of each other. Now, we expect the gov to solve all of our ills....but they can’t get out of their own way.
Quoted from o-din:Everybody here should probably sell all their pinball machines and other worldly goods and set up a booth with all their cash in the local parks or wherever the homeless live and say "take a number!"
Haha!!
Quoted from fosaisu:You’re off by a decade or two — deinstitutionalization was a 70s/80s
thing. And you have the rationale a little muddled — it was a Regan-era “shrink the federal govt” movement as much as a “let my people go” thing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalization
Every administration no matter the party is accountable to it. They are two sides to the same coin. It’s an oligopoly. It there were only two airlines price fixing, the government would put the hammer down. But it’s quite “ legal “ for the feds to do it.
Quoted from o-din:Survival of the fittest? Quest for fire type living?
Heck, I don't have the answer but the world sure seems to be breeding at an alarming rate these days. Population is three times or more what it was when I was a kid. In So Cal it's at least 10 times what it was.
Population grows exponentially....and exponential growth always leads to disaster.
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