Earl (01-19-2020)
Officials want to clear a mile-long homeless camp on a Sonoma County bike trail. Some don't want to go
I get tired of public officials with their, out of sight and out of mind policies, making the homeless move?!!
If I was homeless, my main concern would be bathing and clean underwear to put on afterward?!! I take showers everyday, a habit I kept from the army?!!
Santa Rosa, California (CNN)The globs of peanut butter were evenly applied. But this was no sandwich.
Pest control workers were using the spread as bait as they installed rat traps -- 340 of them -- throughout the mile-long homeless encampment after infrared video from a sheriff's helicopter revealed a major rodent infestation.
"I think it's sad and overwhelming," said pest control technician Matt Dougherty of the conditions for more than 200 homeless residents. "We're here just to make it better for them."
The rat problem could hardly have been a surprise. Trash and human waste had been piling up for months along the Joe Rodota Trail, nestled behind neighborhoods in the heart of Northern California wine country.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/18/us/sa...amp/index.html
I think it's a damn shame we even have homeless in this country?!! Coming up in the 50's, 60's, and 70's, I never did see any homeless people?!!
Earl (01-19-2020)
Not all the homeless are mentally ill but there is a fair number of them. I thought this interesting why there could have been less homeless on the street way back when. They were living in hospitals.
""Deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill has roots in the civil rights and civil liberties movements of the 1960s, which envisioned more fulfilling lives for those who had been languishing in understaffed psychiatric hospitals through new medications and robust community-based services. The number of patients living in state hospitals dropped from 535,000 in 1960 to 137,000 in 1980.""
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519584/
Callinectes (01-18-2020), cancel2 2022 (01-18-2020), Truth Detector (01-24-2020)
Hoovervilles all over again!
I guess the stock market isn't helping homeless much
Tie Your 'roo down Mate
Before indoor plumbing was the Saturday bath
The greatest inconvenience of living in my boyhood day and age was the absence of a running water system and inadequate sewer system in the house. This is what I believe made the Saturday night bath an institution.
Saturday night bath, in a house with no plumbing, you haul in the water, heat it!
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Callinectes (01-18-2020), Earl (01-19-2020)
I will volunteer to clear that camp myself. All I ask is for a steamroller and qualified immunity.
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I remember there used to be some police show on TV back in the 50's called the Naked City. It had a monologue that started out with, "There are 9 million different stories in New York etc.............
Well, it is true that 9 million people would have 9 million different stories, so it made some kind of sense.
About 40 years ago I was attending classes after work at the County College, and after a long day one day, I decided to dive into one of the bars across the street from the college, AND HAVE MYSELF A BEER! LOL!
I was there drinking my beer, and a stumble bum pulled up a barstool and as he sat down beside me, he asked, "Could you buy an old drunk a beer"?
I was a bit surprised by all this sudden predicament but I said, "OK- But only if you tell me what has led you to being a bum".
He pulled out his wallet and pulled out a business card and handed it to me. The card said so and so ATTORNEY AT LAW from one of the well know Dallas Law firms.
I asked him, "Is that you"? And he said, "Well it used to be me" So I asked him, "What happened to that"? THIS WAS HIS STORY.....
He said, he used to have a beautiful wife and two sons, a nice home in Highland Park, and everything he could possibly want. He said he bought one of those nice cigarette boats and he used to take it to Lake Texhoma and cruise the lake with his family. One day, he hit a wake wrong and flipped the boat over, throwing everyone out in the water, and no one was wearing any life vests. He could see his wife about 10 feet away and struggling, his sons were in the other direction 20 feet away and they looked like they were drowning. Well, somehow, his wife and both his sons drowned that day and he somehow managed to save himself.
He said it went downhill from there because he started drinking, turned into an alcoholic, and ended up losing his job, his home, and everything he owned but the clothes he was wearing.
I've kind of looked at bums a little differently since then. And since then, I've heard some rather sad stories from some of these bums- always about alcohol or drugs somewhere in the mix.
Last edited by Adolf_Twitler; 01-18-2020 at 05:05 PM.
Charoite (01-19-2020)
In NYC, over half the homeless have a job. It is not enough to get them a home. And as another poster did put it, there are a lot of difficulties in getting a job without a home.
The most successful policy they have found to get rid of homeless is Housing First. Trying to solve other problems (mental health, drug addiction, employment) when homeless is almost impossible. If you get them into housing first, everything else will often fall into place. All other policies have less than a 10% success rate, but Housing First has over a 90% success rate. It really is magical.
BUT, our minds rebel against giving someone who refuses to deal with their other problems free housing. It does not seem right.
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Truth Detector (01-24-2020), Wolverine (01-24-2020)
Earl (01-19-2020), Truth Detector (01-24-2020), Wolverine (01-24-2020)
From Kenny's link:
Gee, why wouldn't hardworking people want that in their backyard?...Trash and human waste had been piling up for months*...
...revealed a major rodent infestation...
...public health and safety concerns...
..."It's an occupation. It's taken over our neighborhood,"...
..."Yes, there are thieves and there are addicts,"...
Earl (01-19-2020), Truth Detector (01-24-2020)
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