Yea sure. Nothing wrong with that. Government also provides social assistance, mental health support and outreach programs. The city I live in has a downtown that is destroyed by the homeless. The people trying to run their business have lost their livelihoods because the homeless hang out in the streets smoking crack and begging people for money. Nobody wants to bring their family downtown because of the drug use and drug users stumbling around at 3pm. Being a leftist and wanting to help the homeless shouldn’t mean we ignore the other people in society or the impact that homelessness has on everyone. I’m tired of having to accept drug use next to high schools just because people treat the homeless like lost kittens on the left. They’re real people. They make their choices. They deserve help but that doesn’t also mean we treat them like they don’t have autonomy or abilities of their own to not use drugs in areas where kids or businesses are trying to operate.
The cool thing is there’s a really easy solution that’s a lot more effective than blaming the homeless. Tax the rich and give the homeless… You’re never going to believe this… Houses.
I don’t disagree. I can get behind helping them in so many ways. At the sametime I want to make sure everybody can enjoy our cities if that makes sense.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal loaves of bread.
Yea sure. Nothing wrong with that. Government also provides social assistance, mental health support and outreach programs. The city I live in has a downtown that is destroyed by the homeless. The people trying to run their business have lost their livelihoods because the homeless hang out in the streets smoking crack and begging people for money. Nobody wants to bring their family downtown because of the drug use and drug users stumbling around at 3pm. Being a leftist and wanting to help the homeless shouldn’t mean we ignore the other people in society or the impact that homelessness has on everyone. I’m tired of having to accept drug use next to high schools just because people treat the homeless like lost kittens on the left. They’re real people. They make their choices. They deserve help but that doesn’t also mean we treat them like they don’t have autonomy or abilities of their own to not use drugs in areas where kids or businesses are trying to operate.
The cool thing is there’s a really easy solution that’s a lot more effective than blaming the homeless. Tax the rich and give the homeless… You’re never going to believe this… Houses.
I don’t disagree. I can get behind helping them in so many ways. At the sametime I want to make sure everybody can enjoy our cities if that makes sense.