re: Baton Rouge clears six homeless encampments

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This isn't meant as an attack but the administrative overhead and impossibility of this solution is ludicrous.

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The majority of reform that the public wants imposed on social programs would require massive amounts of tax dollars to actually carry out.

You see it with food stamps. Sure, it would be nice if people on food stamps weren't loading up on junk food, but actually making those changes would require a lot of work and funding. Short of being like WIC where recipients can only receive very specific items, it is hard to restrict the groceries people buy with a food stamp card. Then you have these days people who claim they cannot cook, maybe they claim they don't have a stove/oven, you see special dietary restrictions on every corner, etc.

You see it with the National School Lunch Program. A metric ton of the families receiving free/reduced meals at school slapped a $0 income on their application, and there is no process to make them prove it. Reforming the program to where all parents are audited would be impossible to do.

Sometimes, sadly, it is the best option for the taxpayers to pay for fraud vs. trying to reform the programs.

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Baton Rouge

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We're paying millions of dollars in baton rouge for the bridge center, we need to make the most of it. Let them go there, get medicated, get clean, and then work with several of the other non-profits to find them a job and transitional housing.

If they don't want to go that route, give them the option of a bus ticket or a jail sentence

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Neither the Bridge Center nor the jail have the room needed to house a fraction of the homeless addicts that populate Baton Rouge. You basically have to ship them to California and make it their problem.

This thread shows the OT doesn’t know shite about homelessness

It’s basically just a band aid solution to this.

It’s doing something but it’s just using a band aid.

Now let’s talk about the shootings and how being forceful actually has to happen and being mean actually has to happen in order to fix the problem

I guess the biggest impediment I can think of to these solutions is the reality that most of these people are unwilling or mentally incapable of being governed or held to any kind of standard.

You see it all the time-- either they've convinced themselves the transient life is for them, they're so drug addicted that it's impossible to change, or sometimes their minds are so addled it's a miracle they survive day to day.

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Locating that clinic there really fricked up the area nicely. They are spreading too

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That and the plasma donation centers.

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Give them all bus tickets to California.

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Send them all to DC. The richer the ZIP code, the better.