re: The homeless encampment under the expressway in NOLA is out of control.

These frickers are full is shite. I know, I see them. There are some reallly mentally fricked up homeless people that need serious mental help.

That’s the number 1 issue with the homeless. The mental health of this nation is an epidemic and is going to be a major war that will cost US tax payers billions forever unless we do something about it.

The second issue with the homeless is allowing the fricking panhandling at every fricking corner.

I pass down Earhart by the bus station every morning at 0630 am and the homeless camps are out of control.

Then on my way back home at 0745 I see the bus station full of homeless getting off buses and trains.

Then pass by the Superdome, underneath the overpass they are all sitting around these homeless camps sitting on laptops, cell phones, iPads, etc.

It’s a bullshite and frick them.

Get your shite together and get a job.

Get off drugs.

If you’re fricked up in the head, seek help.

I’m tired of giving you fricking bums my money.

Go find a church and ask God for guidance

Every city has always had "urban outdoorsmen" who prefer that separated-from-society lifestyle. They used to be called hoboes.

With the decline of funding for mental health treatment and the advent of the drug culture, urban outdoorsmen have competition. They don't like it.

I was once part of a survey team in metro Atlanta that sought out and interviewed thousands of homeless people. The vast majority were men and their biggest complaint was that so many people wanted to "help them out of their misery." They just wanted to be left alone.

Those were the urban outdoorsmen, of course. The druggies and the mentally ill were different stories altogether. The druggies made me mad but the mentally ill made me sad.

The druggies weren't homeless at all. They were posers who played upon the sympathies of good people to give them money that they then used to buy drugs.

The mentally ill were so pitiful. Most of them had been abandoned by relatives or turned out by government agencies after funding was cut. They seemed lost and lonely. It's sad to see so many people thrown to the curb.

Is Malcolm Scott still living there?

I carry a stack of Dick Nixon's $20 bills and pass those out.

Homeless shanty, shitting on sidewalks, masterbating in public, open drug use...

seems like a good trade for some statues.

Have you seen HW 59 overpasses in Houston? Not sure why a city allows these people to run off the tax paying citizens. There has to be a solution. Maybe more concentrated emcampments on the outskirts.

Yeah they’re ridiculous in downtown houston too. The normal folk walk through the tunnels.

Sounds like you and your Republican neighbors should vote more often

I saw my first homeless person in Nola. Years ago by what use to be the World Trade Center. Freaked me out.