The Homeless

[TeenageRepublican]

I just got a great idea on how we could deal with the homeless. I'm tired of this "sensitive" bullcrap. These guys can work but they refuse to.

So, here's the idea: A draft for the homeless.

Now before you guys start saying "That's Unconstitutional" and "That's mean," just hear me out on this. I think this would be good for them. It would teach them how to work in the real world, get rid of possible addictions, and it provides them a shelter that they have to work for. I don't want them to engage in actual combat though, just like a Boot Camp type program.

Is this a bad idea?

[PrezLeefun]

Yes. Its a bad idea. Lots of homeless people do suffer from plain old lazy and/or drug addiction. There is already help for that.

But for those who are mentally ill.... and alot of homeless people are, would have to be diagnosed, treated, and given a way to stick with the treatment they'd need to for the rest of their lives.

And who pays for all that? It wouldn't be them. No matter what you do we pay the way, and they will either be forever in our care or forever begging.

[Taylor1]

Yes. Its a bad idea. Lots of homeless people do suffer from plain old lazy and/or drug addiction. There is already help for that.

But for those who are mentally ill.... and alot of homeless people are, would have to be diagnosed, treated, and given a way to stick with the treatment they'd need to for the rest of their lives.

And who pays for all that? It wouldn't be them. No matter what you do we pay the way, and they will either be forever in our care or forever begging.

Hey, you took my words away. I was gonna say stuff like that.

[gnome]

Bear in mind, there's a cost associated with doing nothing as well. I wonder if something along these lines would actually cost more than we're already (indirectly) paying.

[TeenageRepublican]

Well the ones that are mentally ill can get treated by the doctors but the guys who have nothing wrong with them and are free-loaders. I know a man that was homeless for one month because his wife kicked him out and he had to work at a Fast Food Joint until he could afford an apartment. This guy is now a security guard.
I know this idea is far-fetched, but I don't believe in pampering lazy people.

[gnome]

What if it doesn't involve pampering, just something more practical than them being on the streets?

[Taylor1]

Well the ones that are mentally ill can get treated by the doctors but the guys who have nothing wrong with them and are free-loaders. I know a man that was homeless for one month because his wife kicked him out and he had to work at a Fast Food Joint until he could afford an apartment. This guy is now a security guard.
I know this idea is far-fetched, but I don't believe in pampering lazy people.

Sidenote: Obama does.

[TeenageRepublican]

Then I wouldn't care. But they're doing a lot more than that. They expect everyone to pamper to them because they don't have a home (the ones who are thinking correctly) and they just haven't learned the value of work.

[Beowulf]

Well, if someone who is homeless is able bodied, isn't suffering from a mental problem but just has a drug/alcohol problem then I say draft em'. The military is a good place to end an addiction, get over being lazy and they may make some money on the side.

[CzechPrince]

Yes. Its a bad idea. Lots of homeless people do suffer from plain old lazy and/or drug addiction. There is already help for that.

But for those who are mentally ill.... and alot of homeless people are, would have to be diagnosed, treated, and given a way to stick with the treatment they'd need to for the rest of their lives.

And who pays for all that? It wouldn't be them. No matter what you do we pay the way, and they will either be forever in our care or forever begging.

:claps:

[wayne]

Well, how about the homeless guy over 50 who cant get a job because he is considered too "old" to run with the young bucks? Been there done that. It is especially true in construction.

[Lubbock]

. . . but I don't believe in pampering lazy people.

We've been doing that since the inception of LBJ's Great Society.

If all of the Welfare Bums were made to work for their food, housing, and medical care, the Mexicans would have to go home.

Then there would be lots of dollars to care for the homeless who are truly mentally ill and need care.

Not everyone who is homeless is in that condition simply because he's lazy.

Geraldo Rivera was the instigator who emptied the mental institutions where so many of the truly mentally ill were warehoused. That was the big phrase at the time: Warehoused. And there was a huge Liberal outcry to end it.

That's what put so many mentally ill on the streets.

Let's face it: Every ill that has befallen mankind since Eve ate the apple can be layed directly at the feet of Libs.

[DoctorDoom]

There are the lazy, there are the mentally ill, and there are these guys.

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[Incident_command]

We've been doing that since the inception of LBJ's Great Society.

If all of the Welfare Bums were made to work for their food, housing, and medical care, the Mexicans would have to go home.

Then there would be lots of dollars to care for the homeless who are truly mentally ill and need care.

Not everyone who is homeless is in that condition simply because he's lazy.

Geraldo Rivera was the instigator who emptied the mental institutions where so many of the truly mentally ill were warehoused. That was the big phrase at the time: Warehoused. And there was a huge Liberal outcry to end it.

That's what put so many mentally ill on the streets.

Let's face it: Every ill that has befallen mankind since Eve ate the apple can be layed directly at the feet of Libs.



Excellent

[DeclinetoState]

I think LBJ probably meant well, but as they say about the road to hell being paved with good intentions . . .

Liberals, at least since the '60s, have felt that society shares a collective guilt for poverty. While there are hardworking people who have fallen into a poverty trap, the question of how the trap came into existence should be, but rarely if ever is, asked. I believe it is excessive government regulation of legal businesses, as well as government's willingness to spend millions of dollars on exotic projects of all sorts rather than on basic infrastructure, such as roads and bridges.

While I have no inherent problem with public education (others here are free to disagree), I do feel that students should be taught the basics (reading, writing and arithmetic) in language arts and math (instead of how to write protest fiction, e.g.). In science and history, they should be taught how to observe and analyze the world and society, not how to convince their parents that the world is overpopulated, that global warming is threatening us all, etc.