- 20 Nov 2019 03:16
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This is a very simplistic view.
How do you help a mentally ill person that ones to live in the street rather than in a home or shelter? These homeless people live in the most left wing liberal cities in America. And the local government works on the problem 24/7. And the problems gets worse! The ones that are not mentally ill are drug addicts. Do you think that gets fixed by providing an apartment and a meals. Who is going to clean the apartment? Before long the apartment would be inhabitable.
Do you think the local residents of these cities enjoy walking the sidewalks with these people around? Public defecation in San Francisco is a massive problem. Do you think the locals like to step on human feces as they walk to work?
OTOH, helping a truly poor person that is willing to work and help himself is rather easy. The poverty rate is plummeting in India and China because they want to get better and the help means a lot. However, you cannot help most of these homeless in LA.
Red Rackham wrote:That's sad. I'm not an outraged lefty, but I guess some things need shouting about. People shouldn't be allowed to live, or exist like that. I'm guessing those pics were from the US, the richest country on the planet! But there's worse poverty out there. Street kids living in sewers in Brazil, and the poverty in India should be an embarrassment to a government who spend $billions on nuclear weapons and a space programme. Somewhere, priorities have become very confused.
This is a very simplistic view.
How do you help a mentally ill person that ones to live in the street rather than in a home or shelter? These homeless people live in the most left wing liberal cities in America. And the local government works on the problem 24/7. And the problems gets worse! The ones that are not mentally ill are drug addicts. Do you think that gets fixed by providing an apartment and a meals. Who is going to clean the apartment? Before long the apartment would be inhabitable.
Do you think the local residents of these cities enjoy walking the sidewalks with these people around? Public defecation in San Francisco is a massive problem. Do you think the locals like to step on human feces as they walk to work?
OTOH, helping a truly poor person that is willing to work and help himself is rather easy. The poverty rate is plummeting in India and China because they want to get better and the help means a lot. However, you cannot help most of these homeless in LA.