tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post2413124890894564043..comments2024-03-28T23:57:50.103-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: It's not a "homeless" crisis - it's a drug crisisPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-17673044835814628662021-10-23T06:55:01.657-05:002021-10-23T06:55:01.657-05:00Or, we could simply institute a rule that no welfa...Or, we could simply institute a rule that no welfare will be paid to out-of-state homeless unless they can show 10 years gainful employment in a new state.<br /><br />Otherwise, if you've got a SS# from NFY or Wisconsin, that's the only state you can legally receive state or federal benefits in (other than a one-time one-way bus ticket back home).<br /><br />Then suddenly, 47 other states will start having to take back all their own toothless banjo-playing dope- and alcohol-addicted kinfolk, and the screaming will start everywhere else besides California.<br /><br />Be still, my beating heart.<br /><br />;)Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-74818942182675059162021-10-22T21:55:46.513-05:002021-10-22T21:55:46.513-05:00In San Francisco, they fund a camping location, it...In San Francisco, they fund a camping location, it costs >$5k/month PER TENT (and I don't know if that even includes the test) Even in San Francisco, that's apartment rental money (although not the repair costs for the damage to the rentals, as other 'rehousing' programs have seen when they take over not-low-end hotels to house the homeless)<br /><br />Then there's the houses they built a few years ago to house the homeless, they cost somewhere north of $700k per person (which is close to the median house cost on California, FAR from what the bottom-of-the-market houses would cost, before you stick a person in each bedroom)<br /><br />word needs to get out about how badly all that money is being wasted to get people upset enough to get it cut off, at which time the number of homeless will drastically declineUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12084309137541367977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-45294082593982705492021-10-22T18:52:06.685-05:002021-10-22T18:52:06.685-05:00Both parties profit military and civil enforcement...Both parties profit military and civil enforcement and incarceration as well, the donations by private prisons and rehabs trend heavily to the party-in-power, which in most areas of heavy drug use is the blue side of the party coin. They get to burnish their credentials, act tough on crime, and then act like they're better because they want to 'help' those 'victimized' by it.nHightecrebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12105154969289523695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-3555068112214547792021-10-22T15:07:54.706-05:002021-10-22T15:07:54.706-05:00"Doesn't help that both political parties..."<i>Doesn't help that <b>both</b> political part<b>ies</b> basically lives off the government money generated or created by and for the drug war.</i>"<br /><br />The Republicans profit from military and civil enforcement, incarceration, etc.<br /><br />The Dems get trial lawyer defense, rehab, treatment, <i>ad infinitum</i>.<br /><br />The only party pushing for Eradication is The People, and until they institute Option Three, as I outlined above, that isn't getting public funding from anybody.<br /><br />"<i>What cannot continue, will not.</i>"Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-56559908063657126302021-10-22T11:36:49.475-05:002021-10-22T11:36:49.475-05:00The current Drug War? It's an indirect act of...The current Drug War? It's an indirect act of war by the ChiComs against the US.<br /><br />Who supplies all the chemicals to make and transport drugs to the Cartels in Mexico and South America? Communist China.<br /><br />who supplies already-made drugs to the Cartels in Mexico and South America? Communist China.<br /><br />Who supplies the secondary products used by the Cartels in Mexico and South America? Communist China.<br /><br />Who supplies a lot of the shipping? Communist China.<br /><br />Until we, as a nation, get the idea that the ChiComs are attacking us, supplying our nation's idiots and mentally ill and rich and poor with enough fentanyl and other drugs to kill everyone, then we will never ever stop anything, and the 'Drug Crisis' will get worse and worse and worse.<br /><br />Doesn't help that one political party basically lives off the government money generated or created by and for the drug war.Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-27522251013844744962021-10-22T11:30:36.016-05:002021-10-22T11:30:36.016-05:00My first drug patrol was in a CG HU-16 in 1978, as...My first drug patrol was in a CG HU-16 in 1978, as we taxied out the pilot said "we're going out to do our part of keeping the price of drugs up on the street".<br />43 years later, son-of-a-gun if he wasn't right!Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05450082315014407506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-49966798906816645822021-10-22T11:09:13.671-05:002021-10-22T11:09:13.671-05:001) There is no "War On Drugs". There is ...1) There is no "War On Drugs". There <i>is</i> a "Slap Fight On (Some) Drugs, With Collateral Damage".<br /><br />If it were a war, we'd carpet bomb and strafe delivery vehicles and production sources, wherever found, execute dealers on the spot, and put addicts in prisoner-of-war camps, and clean them up forcibly, with <i>one</i> second chance, lifetime. Recidivism would be a noose. Prison is a waste of time and money after the first attempt.<br /><br />2) There is no "homelessness" problem. People don't wake up one day, and find they've misplaced their domicile.<br /><br />What there is a a massive substance abuse problem, because people drank their home, their assets, their paychecks, their job, or snorted it, or injected it, until all those bridges are forever burned, and they finally end up with nothing, save shreds of clothing on their backs, shuffling from one bottle, fix, or high, to the next, existing on public largesse, the gullible jacka@$$ery of people giving them money, recycling, theft, prostitution, or outright robbery, usually of each other, and finally, of anyone they can.<br /><br />See the solution in #1, above.<br /><br />3) The absolute miracle in American society is that people haven't started widespread application of the "Three Esses" principle (Shoot-Shovel-Shut-Up) to the "homeless". Except for convenience, they'll even eliminate the "Shovel" step, and let the chips, and the "homeless" fall where they lie.<br /><br />When sociology and social work degrees become a total waste of time, and mortuary science becomes a college major, you'll know that the ultimate solution to the problem has finally been adopted widely.<br /><br />Anything less is simply publicly enabling the problem, as a sop towards whatever conscience or religious system one genuflects, while providing a gravy train racket to those receiving the bulk of funding, public or private.<br /><br />No one is helped by any charity that allows them to continue in their cesspit of addiction, and pretending otherwise is a mortal sin.<br /><br />Admitting that problem is the first step to solving it.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-60579523069264466172021-10-22T10:43:50.890-05:002021-10-22T10:43:50.890-05:00Well said.
I volunteer at a drug treatment center...Well said.<br /><br />I volunteer at a drug treatment center and it is a truism that addiction begins with a variety of minor -- and treatable -- mental disorders, coupled with poor decision-making skills and learned behaviors.<br /><br />An awful lot of the people we see in the center happen to be "outpatients" from mental institutions. They're "outpatients", mainly, because a) there is no economic incentive to commit and treat them properly, and b) apparently you have the right to wander the streets as a danger to yourself and the general population because some bleeding heart lawyer made an impassioned speech to a stupid judge.<br /><br />We don't have a crisis of homelessness: we have a poor mental health system which has mostly been left to government to operate.Matthew Notohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com