Comments on: “Homeless” advocates usually have the process backwards http://actlocallysf.org/blog/petpeevesblog/2007/09/12/homeless-advocates-usually-have-the-process-backwards/ The ActLocallySF Pet Peeves Blog Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:55:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: Jason R http://actlocallysf.org/blog/petpeevesblog/2007/09/12/homeless-advocates-usually-have-the-process-backwards/#comment-1311 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:45:51 +0000 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/petpeevesblog/2007/09/12/homeless-advocates-usually-have-the-process-backwards/#comment-1311 And most of the people who stand in the same place every day "selling" Street Sheets ARE scamming the system. Very few of these homeless people on the street are homeless beause they're "unlucky", most of them have made choices and given up. Some of them aren't even homeless! They're provided housing and go stand on the corner begging for money to get food. People who make an effort to improve themselves and their situation should be HELPED (not givena free ride) People who have become dependent on the system need to be dumped and bussed out of here somewhere else - see how compassionate other cities are.<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 10</li> </ul> And most of the people who stand in the same place every day “selling” Street Sheets ARE scamming the system. Very few of these homeless people on the street are homeless beause they’re “unlucky”, most of them have made choices and given up. Some of them aren’t even homeless! They’re provided housing and go stand on the corner begging for money to get food. People who make an effort to improve themselves and their situation should be HELPED (not givena free ride) People who have become dependent on the system need to be dumped and bussed out of here somewhere else - see how compassionate other cities are.
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]]> by: Gretchen Cotter http://actlocallysf.org/blog/petpeevesblog/2007/09/12/homeless-advocates-usually-have-the-process-backwards/#comment-1305 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:23:03 +0000 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/petpeevesblog/2007/09/12/homeless-advocates-usually-have-the-process-backwards/#comment-1305 I agree. "Homeless" is a broad term that applies to the truly homeless who got that way because of physical or mental illness and who should probably be hospitalized, families who due to job loss or major incident - death in family, loss of breadwinner, etc. and the lazy louts to just want to live at the expense of someone - anyone else. Because not all homeless are equal, the solutions to their needs will differ. We need medical, mental or custodial care for the truly ill. We need services and support for the temporarily homeless so they can get back into society, and we need to drive out the lazy louts who want a free ride - they don't deserve anything but a one way ticket out of town. I'm really tired of being asked to feel compassion for people who have simply learned to scam the system. Send them out of town and let some other "progressive" city support them.<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 10</li> </ul> I agree. “Homeless” is a broad term that applies to the truly homeless who got that way because of physical or mental illness and who should probably be hospitalized, families who due to job loss or major incident - death in family, loss of breadwinner, etc. and the lazy louts to just want to live at the expense of someone - anyone else. Because not all homeless are equal, the solutions to their needs will differ. We need medical, mental or custodial care for the truly ill. We need services and support for the temporarily homeless so they can get back into society, and we need to drive out the lazy louts who want a free ride - they don’t deserve anything but a one way ticket out of town. I’m really tired of being asked to feel compassion for people who have simply learned to scam the system. Send them out of town and let some other “progressive” city support them.
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