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Friday, September 26, 2008
7:54 AM
Some cities have incurred such high incidental costs from dealing with homeless drunks and the mentally ill that they have reduced their costs by providing free housing, which keeps them in one place, so they can be more easily monitored and given access to drug abuse therapy and lower-cost preventative care.
Los Angeles county has a homeless population of some 80,000 people, wandering the streets, out of their minds, many unable to work even if jobs were available, which are not. If you haven't lived there, it's inconceivable what this means. I stumbled upon an old lady, incontinent, so hurt and distrustful that she wouldn't even talk to me, and I tried to help her how I could, but what could I do? I was broke. And if I could have helped her get off the streets somehow, there were thousands more like her, used up and thrown out into the cold. This was just a few blocks between the Screen Actor's Guild and the headquarters of E Television and Spelling Entertainment. So for all their claims of progressive politics, I happen to agree that Hollywood is full of crap, because they don't do anything to help people like her.
So the next time you count your thirty pieces of silver, tossed to you by the power politics system that you fight to protect, ask yourself, if you lived forever, could you live with your decisions to ignore women like her, and walk on by?
save money - and your soul - by providing free housing
Here is an interesting analysis from UC Davis to suggest that traditional conceptions about "the welfare state" are wrong, that is to say, mistruths about how the economics work out.Some cities have incurred such high incidental costs from dealing with homeless drunks and the mentally ill that they have reduced their costs by providing free housing, which keeps them in one place, so they can be more easily monitored and given access to drug abuse therapy and lower-cost preventative care.
Los Angeles county has a homeless population of some 80,000 people, wandering the streets, out of their minds, many unable to work even if jobs were available, which are not. If you haven't lived there, it's inconceivable what this means. I stumbled upon an old lady, incontinent, so hurt and distrustful that she wouldn't even talk to me, and I tried to help her how I could, but what could I do? I was broke. And if I could have helped her get off the streets somehow, there were thousands more like her, used up and thrown out into the cold. This was just a few blocks between the Screen Actor's Guild and the headquarters of E Television and Spelling Entertainment. So for all their claims of progressive politics, I happen to agree that Hollywood is full of crap, because they don't do anything to help people like her.
So the next time you count your thirty pieces of silver, tossed to you by the power politics system that you fight to protect, ask yourself, if you lived forever, could you live with your decisions to ignore women like her, and walk on by?
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