re: New Orleans paying 16 million to “re home” homeless for 90 days for Super Bowl

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A better idea would be to have famous New Orleans chefs cook them up and feed them to the tourist in town for the game. Problem solved! Might even make a few bucks at the same time.

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No expensive chefs are needed. We already have recipes from the make nutria rat the next blackened redfish era. The taste and texture is probably similar.

No need to even get tourists involved. Over 90 days, some “attrition” of the 200 campers is probably expected and will go unnoticed.

The yield from a deer is probably a good baseline to estimate that roughly half of a deer’s weight is usable meat. The average weight of a homeless person is about 150 pounds by my estimate. If the average homeless person consumes 8 oz of meat per day, 100 pounds of meat per day will be needed for those 200 resident days.

I’m starting to think it needs to be heavily supplemented with Sysco meat at first. But maybe Sysco will see how popular this potential new product becomes. Who is going to notice the difference in chili meat, especially if the protein is supplemented with beans like what poor people use in their chili when they don’t give a shite about the end product.

Sysco might even find an interest in constructing homeless farms so that it can become an even more profitable industry than it already is.

Opportunity knocks. It would be a violation of my parole if I get caught up in this, but New Orleans has no shortage of highly polished evil minds to capitalize on this opportunity. Things that are better for civilization in the long term should not be taken off the table (see what I did there?).

How much are they paying the teenage car jackers to stay at home ?

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Certainly not Landry fleecing taxpayers again. Color me shocked.

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If your homeless you fall under 4 big categories…
1. Unemployed lost your home.
2. Drugs or alcohol addiction
3. Mental illness
4. I’ll add runaway.

When they round them up will the city help any of these problems? No.
Take the 16 million sit down with each one and figure which category they fall under.
If its work, get them showered and a clean suit see what skills they have (anyone can be a laborer) .
Addiction, rehab 90 days with the ability to get a job once they are done.
Mental illness, open a hospital to get them help and the illness under control. This would solve a lot of the homeless population. I get some don’t want help but some need a chance.

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The issue is that it is way more than "some" that don't want the help. There are already plenty of resources available to those that both need and want the help to get them off the street and back on their feet. The rest you may as well light money on fire trying to do anything for them.

Nothing eye-popping in that rate structure, competitive for the industry and in line on all labor categories. The article quotes the comparable pay rates for full-time employees, but does not consider the difficulty in hastily staffing such a thing on a temporary basis and the costs associated with that. It is highly undesirable work.

Also, standing up a shelter this large that is not particularly suited and doing it at an accelerated pace is a big and expensive ask.

The awarded firm will have to front all of the cash for G&A, setup, and wages inevitably incurring them a massive amount of interest expense. It will take GOHSEP months to approve and for the state to pay these invoices, if not more than a year.

My educated guess is that the rates likely yield a 30-35% gross margin, and end-of-the-day profit margin for the firm will be in the 10% range once all overheads are absorbed.

So partial information at best. The writer linking this award to the Lemoine's higher involvement with the GOP is also a massive stretch and of course politically motivated.

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They only want to not look like a total shithole for a very short period of time.

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Agree. Taxpayers should not be on the hook for this. We shouldn’t have to prop up a society who chose this lifestyle. Bleeding hearts who become infuriated at the word homeless vs unhoused should feel free to take some in. This goes for all of society.

Build a shelter that's mostly cover for them and leave it because that's no different or dangerous than camping under a damn interstate