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Originally Posted by crockett
I'm not against helping them, I all for it. I'm just against money being wasted while accomplishing nothing. I mean really if we go with the 200 number that kind of money spent is clearly not going to help those people, because there is no way it should cost that much.
However, looking again at the second article in your post above, puts the number at 1,200 people not 200 which is in the CBS article as well as your first article. Now if the number is actually 1200 people, then that makes all the difference in the world in what was spent.
Again I'm certainly not against helping them, what I'm against is govt officials using tax dollars to line the pockets of companies or supporters while claiming they are helping the homeless. If the number is just 200 then there is certainly something shady going on with needing that kind of money. However if it's actually 1200 people, then it's likely a good job done.
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I agree, It seems to me like the CBS article misrepresented the situation. I'm not sure why they would choose to do that on a story like this.
and I also agree with you that many homeless claim to want to live that way. I think deep down though, many simply say that because they realize they don't have much hope to change their sitch and they've simply accepted that. hell, and if your RV adventures have been like mine, you meet homeless people on a completely different level. YOu've seen them on their level, not a charity level.
so the problem of figuring out a way to communicate to those folks that there are alternatives can be a difficult proposition, I think that's a big part of why it does cost so much.
ANd I do agree that government wreckless spending is a serious problem, but if they are going to dump cash onto a prob, I'd rather it be the homeless problem than IRaq or BFE.
Speaking of homeless, we're at our usual spot in Huntington BEach today, catching the ocean and ~an hour or so ago one of the homeless folks we've befriended here came up to the rig wearing hospital gown with sensors still glued to his chest. He's the most serious alcholic I have ever met in my life and I was in sobriety for many years. Anyhoo, he had walked out of rehab this morning and wanted a place to lie down inside. He was completely loaded on something, maybe booze, I didn't ask. I gave him a beer and turned him away.