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Thinking About Homelessness

I was thinking about the problem of the homeless.  I began to think, how did it happen and how to solve it.

As I began to investigate the issue I made some startling discoveries.  That the problem was not due to the free market system.  That these are not people who are simply down on their luck and all we have to do is to build “affordable housing”.

No the problem has to do with the fact that the vast majority of the homeless either have deep mental or drug problems or both.  Andrew Cuomo did a study here in NY back in the 90s and this was his conclusion.  So before you rail please note that I am quoting a Liberal Democrat.

How did these people fall through the cracks?  What happened was that there was a movement to lower the population of mental health ficilities. 

And then came the “homeless advocates”.  These people would not rest until all the “rights” of the homeless were guaranteed.  Including the right to live, sleep, urinate, defecate, beg, etc., on the street.  That society had no right to defend itself against such activities.

Now rather than treat these people and their problems in the way that it should be met, basically get them into ficilities that can help them, either to kick the drug or alchohol problem, or to medicate them and have someone actually checking on them to make sure that they are taking their meds, the “homeless advocates” are running around letting us know that the solution is to take money from people who have earned it and give it to the homeless.

And when we ask the simple question, when has your policy worked we are called all sorts of names and do not get an answer. 

Well that’s my opinion.

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