Some argue that homelessness is being strategically created by an increasingly authoritarian government. Here’s what the government (police state) gets by leaving lots of scary, desperate people on the streets.
– Keeps activists who might otherwise be WATCHING THEIR GOVERNMENT fully occupied with a massive and terrible humanitarian crisis.
– Scary people on the streets and their crimes of desperation makes the residents clamor for more police. (We could easily cut the police force in half if we housed the homeless)
– Scares the corporate slaves (workers) by showing them what happens to people who leave their McJobs.

EDITOR NOTE–Let’s end this thread re homeless. I want to leave open the other topics. THANKS

Lots of new arrival professional social services people in Boise trying very hard to startup the same gig they had going on the left coast before it got too expensive and too dangerous for them to live there. They bill and you pay.

Bike Boy – There is NO ONE homeless by choice. Another silly myth. People will avoid the shelters because they are stuffed in like sardines, and sleeping is near impossible with 100 people coughing, sneezing and snoring in one room. They also have frequent violence since too many people who have developed PTSD because of being homeless can’t take being in crowded situations. The mayor of Salt Lake City UT went out and lived as a homeless person for a few days to find out what it was really like. Quite interesting reading…

BTW… Leaving people homeless is approximately 6 times more expensive than just giving them food, shelter and basic preventative health care. (Studies done in other countries) When you add up the costs of cops, emergency room visits, aid programs, crime, etc.

Some argue that homelessness is being strategically created by an increasingly authoritarian government. Here’s what the government (police state) gets by leaving lots of scary, desperate people on the streets.

– Keeps activists who might otherwise be fully occupied with a massive and terrible humanitarian crisis.

– Scary people on the streets and their crimes of desperation makes the residents clamor for more police. (We could easily cut the police force in half if we housed the homeless)

– Scares the corporate slaves (workers) by showing them what happens to people who leave their McJobs.

For some poor unfortunates, I’m sure it is indeed a “life threatening [and ideally temporary] emergency.”

For those people, especially FAMILY people(!), I’m totally on board with taxpayer assistance. To coin an overused cliché, “Let’s give them a HAND UP – not a handout!”

However, nobody will convince me that among the chronic homeless (victims of mental illness, addicts and substance abusers, etc.) there aren’t also some “homeless by choice” citizens, who have grown accustomed to a life with no responsibilities. And they are not only fleecing the taxpayers and well-meaning kind-hearted strangers who hand ’em some cash thru the car window, but are also diluting the resources that SHOULD be going to those who are not homeless-by-choice.

How do we distinguish between the sheep and the goats? Especially the goats from out of town? (“Homeless” has not persuaded me that we don’t have some in our midst.)

Private Message To Editor Dave:
Thank you Dave for being a thought driver and providing a forum for discussion. You are appreciated!

Read older articles before the PC police started to impact the professional findings.

Mental illness and addiction numbers are huge for homeless. It is why they are homeless not the other way around.

Yes, it is absolutely a government problem. One that goes way beyond renting or building an unsupervised home for them. That’s a just a shortsighted scam.