With innovative new efforts like these to poke a hole in the tramp problem, maybe a more-deserving nation like China can borrow and put to more-appropriate use that otherwise offensive phrase from our American national anthem, "land of the free and home of the brave." Thoughts, Bill Press? (Although, I really shouldn't encourage the leftist 20 percenters like that).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2168175/Are-lethal-concrete-spikes-stop-beggars-sleeping-city-bridges-REALLY-Chinas-best-option-stop-homeless-problem.html
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I know you can't just throw money at the homeless situation and expect it to go away for any length of time, but it seems like the funds used for the spikes would have been better spent on actually helping someone.....just a thought. I know it's a big issue.
ReplyDeleteHomelessness is like poverty. There are not easy solutions. Nor many people who care to find solutions. Rather only partisan ideologue buffoons who really couldn't give a rat's ass on her either side about these people, but who instead only care about how they can use them to their political advantage. And you're damn right: ANY USE of those funds other than using them to build anti-hobo spikes would be a good use!
ReplyDeleteIt seems like they are both too out of control to even try to fix them....that's such a defeatist attitude and so not like me, sorry!
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if you're talking about the two problems or the two parties! To the extent it's the two parties -- that's not defeatism, it's reality. They cannot be fixed.
ReplyDeleteHahaha! You're so right, my comment is pretty genius in that it applies to both situations.....too bad I didn't write it that way on purpose! haha! I think I was talking about homelessness & poverty =)
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