re: Louisiana pioneering a legitimate solution to the homeless addict problem

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I would much rather see money spent on real mental help and disease treatment than simply sending it to the city or county jails for incarceration

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Honestly, both are pissing away money

You can't help an addict who doesn't want help, and drugs are rampant in jails anyway.

It's sad to say, but IDC about addicts. I only care about functioning members of society and if this gets some addicts off the street for those members to feel safer, then I am all for it.

I have long said we should give addicts all of the drugs they want in hopes they wash themselves out but they understand there will be no hospital assistance for them. Not even Narcan, and when they die, if no one claims their remains, we spend $500 cremating them and move on.

Sounds cruel so people think it's soulless, but a ton of addicts are beyond help so much so that their own families gave up on them.

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Who cares as long as you don’t have to look at them, amirite?

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You are always so dishonest and liken this to only be disgusted by looking at them.

The shopping area I referenced constantly has issues with the vagrants harassing people. I had one come up on me at the ATM there once and I told him to back up and I had a gun in my truck. He started shouting how much he hates white people. It was a whole scene.

If that church never created a situation where they all stay close for the free handouts, then innocent people aren't getting harassed just trying to go about their day.

The National Homelessness Law Center


Is there ANY doubt that it’s just some type of money laundering organization?

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Yeah, this is my fear,

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I know, it's weird to us normal people, some homeless would rather live that lifestyle than function in a responsible society. I'll never get it...

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Omg did they ask someone for money!

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You're such a dishonest twat

You should invite them to camp out on your front lawn when this bill passes and tell us how it goes.

Sounds like you enjoy being harassed for money by homeless addicts.

Most homeless people are homeless by choice, addiction or mental illness but statistically the vast majority of them unfortunately do not want and will not accept help, only whatever they can get to facilitate their life on the streets or supplement their addictions.

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It's sad to say, but IDC about addicts. I only care about functioning members of society and if this gets some addicts off the street for those members to feel safer, then I am all for it.

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You sound like me a few years ago, then I married one. I have not had more joy in my life since we met. Was and is it challenging, well, of course it is. But she is beautiful, inside and out, and she had simply fell victim to the Power of the Dog!!

I even learned how, though I can drink socially, she can not. Yes, I do drink a lot less as a result of protecting her and my heart.

But believe me, I felt exactly the same regarding seeing or thinking "addiction" was a choice.

It is not!! It is a disease much like cancer but fuels an economy run by lawyers and incarceration instead of hospitals.

"Forced unpaid labor"????

Whatever labor performed would be to pay for thier "treatment "!
If they refuse treatment or care, why should my tax dollars pay for them?
And why should tax paying folks have to deal with them in public?

Paul, who wrote 2/3rds of the New Testament dealt with this issue.....

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2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you: that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

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But believe me, I felt exactly the same regarding seeing or thinking "addiction" was a choice.

It is not!! It is a disease much like cancer but fuels an economy run by lawyers and incarceration instead of hospitals.

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Look, I have been around more addicts than most here.

When I need extra laborers, I always hire from a nearby sober living facility vs calling a day labor place, because I want to help those people trying to better their lives. I have hired probably close to 200 people from there over the past 15 years.

I have dealt with good ones who were ready and I also had a few steal from me because they fell back off the wagon. One came back years later and apologized and tried to repay me. I understand they struggle.

Those people are closer to your wife than the ones on the street who are too far gone. I had one tell me that when he finally became homeless was his rock bottom and what made him seek recovery.

Many who have been on the streets for years don't see it as a bottom or motivation. Also, many of them are so drug-burnt that they are now full-on mental cases. Both of the latter instances have a 0% chance of becoming functioning members of society, unlike your wife.