Skans » Today, 7:44 am » wrote: ↑ This mirrors my sentiment on this topic. It is a huge mistake for cities to allow Bums to squat and live in public spaces. 1) It completely defeats the purpose of those places paid for by tax dollars when the cities were "selling" it to its citizens; and 2) its a cheap, hands-off, do-nothing approach to the problem of dealing with Bums.
I hate public housing. Like Deezer said, the Bums quickly tear it up and destroy it. But, I do think some form of Bum-housing needs to exist. And, the drug-addicted Bums need to be separated from the Bums who are mentally inferior or just down on their luck. The latter group can be made to "work" to keep the housing complex tidy, maintained and clean. That can be their "job" if they are going to live there. Sort of like a commune with a dictator who enforces the rules.
The former group, the addicts - well, they just need to be given a place where they can go to get high and die. Within this space, they would be provided with a place to live, some basic non-nutritious food and water......and drugs. "Welcome to Bum Acres - where you can get high and die".
If people have turned their lives into a hell they can't get out of without help, then give them help . . . until it is rebuked. Chronic relapsing is a very sure sign this will not end well. Why delay the inevitable? Why torture the tortured? Get the poor **** onto the moving sidewalk toward the light.
Any so-called re-hab is fruitless.
Nobody needs "studying" to learn how to fix trash.
A better example than cattle cars full of addicts for ScaredStraight kids would be a catalog of pictures of dead people. Lower maintenance and about as effective.
The so-called War on Drugs has been corrupted from the onset.
Good intentions get that way. Look at almost every liberal feel-good program.
"People are no damn good."
Lex Luthor's father.
Please seat yourself.
I like the very things you hate.
I like the very things you hate.