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Posted on 3/16/23 at 11:09 am to Cheese Grits
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That is the bulk of the homeless today
Nope. Overwhelmingly its addicts living closer to facilities and supplies.
The severely mentally ill are a fraction of the homeless. Its mostly drugs.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 11:09 am to bobBoxer
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there has to be a prison we can put these people in, or mental asylum
Take one of the abandoned strip malls and make it a giant homeless center... Or you can put thousands of she sheds in parking lot as well.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 11:10 am to HouseMom
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Nobody has to own a home. Rent an apartment. Stay with friends/family. Go to a shelter.
Lol
Imagine a bum. Imagine he/she as poor and/or on drugs. Now debate each of your points in your head.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 11:11 am to WWII Collector
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Take one of the abandoned strip malls and make it a giant homeless center..
They'll fill it up and overflow quickly.
The more services you provide, the more homeless show up. Drugs and housing prices are a rough combo, and these people will take the drugs over housing every day.
Provide housing, you'll have more show up.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 11:13 am to Cheese Grits
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Taught the ones who could learn a trade and kept those unable to do skilled things with jobs cleaning the street an beeping things clean.
All parts of our college educated homeless population now.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 11:15 am to bobBoxer
I say we feed the homeless...to the hungry .
2 birds slain with one stone there.
2 birds slain with one stone there.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 11:15 am to Sam Quint
Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!
Posted on 3/16/23 at 11:15 am to SlimTigerSlap
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Imagine a bum. Imagine he/she as poor and/or on drugs. Now debate each of your points in your head.
Most homeless who are on the streets are there because of behavioral issues that prevent them from living with others or around others.
The solution is tough love. Let If people die, it just has to occur. Bu subsidizing poverty we increase poverty
Posted on 3/16/23 at 11:16 am to St Augustine
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A LOT of them don’t want help. They want to live in tents and do drugs.
This is 100% spot on. And the left will never agree. You can’t help who doesn’t want help. Wben we closed our mental facilities decades ago thats when it exploded.
Show me one city who has solved the problem after decades and billions of dollars have been thrown at it. Every city has tons of places to help them. Churches have as well.
But they’d rather stand on corners asking for money. I never ever give anything to the panhamdlers but people do which is why they keep coming back. If people stopped giving money directly (which is used for drugs/booze) they would go to those places who can help.
There will never be an answer to fix this because some choose this way of life. The best thing I can think of is cities building a fenced in area on an big plot of land and let them all live there and have at it. But no one would want to be neighbors. Any solution os met with resistance from some group as well.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 11:16 am to bobBoxer
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Homeless people are a plight on our society
Homelessness is a problem because democrats are enabling it by coddling them and giving them government handouts.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 11:16 am to SlimTigerSlap
What's your point? I didn't say specifically addicts. There are many people just camping out and begging for money. Stopping traffic and being generally annoying.
There are absolutely services available for these people to have shelter.
There are absolutely services available for these people to have shelter.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 11:18 am to OU Guy
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This is 100% spot on. And the left will never agree. You can’t help who doesn’t want help
Yep, those on the street could have a place to stay, at least temporarily but most places don't allow drug use or drinking, which is why they choose to stay on the street.
Most homelessness is a choice.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 11:19 am to Lawyered
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I went to Denver last year to see my friend and I never see homeless people here in Ms, maybe because it’s too hot or out state governments wouldn’t put up with homelessness
Really? I see plenty of homeless people on the coast. A lot of homeless people in MS
Posted on 3/16/23 at 11:21 am to Colonel Angus
Reagan was a great man. He set Oldmanbeasley free.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 11:22 am to SlimTigerSlap
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Lol
Imagine a bum. Imagine he/she as poor and/or on drugs. Now debate each of your points in your head.
Dumbass.
Its the drugs. Its where all available $$$$ goes.
Economics always deals in tradeoffs. This person has made their choice.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 11:22 am to SlimTigerSlap
sounds good to me
Posted on 3/16/23 at 11:22 am to OU Guy
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The best thing I can think of is cities building a fenced in area on an big plot of land and let them all live there
That’s what the University of Washington did to LSU fans for the 2009 game in Seattle. Karma is a bitch.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 11:23 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Dumbass. Its the drugs. Its where all available $$$$ goes. Economics always deals in tradeoffs. This person has made their choice.
Again. Aren’t you an alcoholic?
I’m not judging you. We all have our journeys. But maybe tone the hypocrisy down a bit.
This post was edited on 3/16/23 at 11:24 am
Posted on 3/16/23 at 11:25 am to bobBoxer
I don’t think can simply arrest/incarcerate our way out of the problem. We certainly need more quantity and quality of mental illness substance abuse facilities.
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