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Originally Posted by varmint
Stop feeding them.
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Liberal West Coast city governments would
never go for that approach.
Thinking that any reasonable number of homeless will just get up off their asses and find a job if the freebees dry up is being a bit too optimistic. In addition to drug/alcohol problems and mental illness, many of these folks have little education, no real job skills, and no work ethic. This is why they're homeless to begin with. Most will never, ever become self-sufficient, despite the number of taxpayer-funded programs designed to help make them so.
Social workers say that many of today's homeless came out of the foster care system. Instead of just throwing money at this problem after the fact, It would be good to see some energy directed at keeping people from becoming homeless in the first place. Let's face it, the marketing/advertising industry in this country could probably sell snow shovels in Miami if they wanted to. How about a partnership with both federal and local governments that would use conventional and social media to sell the general public on the concept of responsible parenthood?