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Re: Railroads, Cities, Counties and Vagrants
Author: Whiskey Tango
Date: 12-12-2019 - 09:29
Eddie Wrote:
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> The real question is what do we actually do about
> this problem?
>
> Arresting the homeless and putting them in jail is
> not going to work; there is no money to pay for it
> and even if there was you can't incarcerate
> someone forever for vagrancy, so it would just be
> a revolving door.
>
> You can't kill them
>
> You can escort them to the boundary of whatever
> jurisdiction they are in, but then it becomes
> someone else's problem
>
> I don't know if anyone has studied the
> demographics of homelessness, but from what I see
> these are predominately white folks that are
> probably US citizens. Obviously a lot of drug
> abuse and a lot of mental illness
>
> You can blame the parents or the individual for
> the drug abuse, and yes, the individual holds
> primary responsibility. But again.... what does
> anyone propose DOING?
Send them to Mexico. I’ll be like a lend/lease program. Mexico gives us their poor on a daily basis why not ship them our poor over there.
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> The real question is what do we actually do about
> this problem?
>
> Arresting the homeless and putting them in jail is
> not going to work; there is no money to pay for it
> and even if there was you can't incarcerate
> someone forever for vagrancy, so it would just be
> a revolving door.
>
> You can't kill them
>
> You can escort them to the boundary of whatever
> jurisdiction they are in, but then it becomes
> someone else's problem
>
> I don't know if anyone has studied the
> demographics of homelessness, but from what I see
> these are predominately white folks that are
> probably US citizens. Obviously a lot of drug
> abuse and a lot of mental illness
>
> You can blame the parents or the individual for
> the drug abuse, and yes, the individual holds
> primary responsibility. But again.... what does
> anyone propose DOING?
Send them to Mexico. I’ll be like a lend/lease program. Mexico gives us their poor on a daily basis why not ship them our poor over there.
