Reduce the homeless

[wakosama]

Blue state county bucks trend on handouts – and homeless population craters

Colorado's Douglas County put up signs telling residents that "Handouts Don't Help" at intersections and street corners. Now, the homeless living on the streets have virtually disappeared.

www.foxnews.com

 

[baboon]

Blue state county bucks trend on handouts – and homeless population craters

Colorado's Douglas County put up signs telling residents that "Handouts Don't Help" at intersections and street corners. Now, the homeless living on the streets have virtually disappeared.

www.foxnews.com

I knew an idiot that made sandwiches and bottles of water and in the winter handed out blankets. Most of the homeless turned their noses up at the food but took the water they really wanted cash.

Eventually the cops seen him doing it and told him if he was caught again the would they would make him learn the lesson the hard way.

From there he started taking in strippers. That had hard luck stories that he believed. That didn't end well either for him. One cleaned out his house of anything of value. The others "boyfriend" paid him a visit once and tuned him up.

 

[Lead Belly]

I give the homeless a handle of vodka and $50. Never got a complaint, from them anyway.

 

[Texasjack]

So, twenty-something years ago, I went through a divorce. Like most divorces, it was a miserable time and made all the more worse by my now ex-wife and her attorney. I ended up living for a while at a fairly cheap apartment complex in Houston. I discovered that my next door neighbor's apartment was used by a couple of guys to prepare roses for the "homeless" to sell around intersections in the area. Basically, they'd buy a case of roses from some distributor for cheap, then trim the roses and wrap them in plastic sheets. The sellers had to buy these prepped roses, and then they'd sell them while holding up signs about how they were out of work, their house burned down, or they were widowed and had kids to support. People would give them $10 or $20 for a rose that cost $0.50. The ringleader in this scheme was a guy named Kenny, and he was a real operator. If he had tried to live an honest life, he would probably be a millionaire, but instead he lived on the margins and used enough drugs to kill a normal person.

The truth about these rose sellers was interesting. Some of them made $80,000/year. They all had cars, carefully hidden from view, and apartments or houses. None were actually "homeless". Drugs were a major part of the program, and Kenny would gladly buy drugs or sell them to the rose sellers (always at a profit!). If they got hassled by the cops, or if people recognized them and quit giving money, they'd simply move to another part of town for a while. It's a racket.

Those of us old enough remember when Hollywood and the Dems were making a big stink about the "homeless" during the Reagan Administration. Truth was that state governments discovered that if they shut down mental hospitals, they could have huge piles of money to spend on prostitutes and cocaine. Hollywood got involved and made a big stink about people's rights being violated by being locked in such facilities. (Barbara Streisand was particularly vocal, although she didn't take any homeless into her 110 room mansion.) These new "homeless" people stayed away from shelters because they wouldn't let them drink booze or do drugs. Democrat propaganda kept raising the estimated number of homeless people into the millions. Then, as now, the truth was never reported.

There have been a number of times when I've been approached by someone claiming to be hungry. (Esp. when I worked in downtown Houston.) I even had a woman approach me near my home. I will happily walk with them to the nearest restaurant and buy them food. I will never give them cash for them to use to buy drugs.

 

[seeker_two]

Jonathan Swift had an interesting solution... .

 

[zackmars]

 

[Mohawk600]

We plan to cut all homeless people in half by 2025.....................

 

[BRD@66]

from the article: ""It seems like the more you give at those particular corners, the more people it attracts. It becomes a conversation topic on the streets – if you go to this corner, you'll get money there," he continued."
GASP!

 

[Tnhawk]

I observed the same people work the same locations in memphis, nashville, knoxville and atlanta for years

 

[Polkwright]

The only time I gave to somebody was the guy holding the "Visions of a cheeseburger" sign in the freeway u-turn lane near my house. He got a Whataburger meal out of me. There was a Whataburger right there. I went through the drive-thru and came back around. At least he was honest.

 

[popper]

Last time I helped one, she was a DART 'rider'. Needed a drink so I went to the car and got an unopened coke. She actually offered $ to pay for it. They take the suitcase with them from south to north terminus during the day, reverse before dark.

 

[no2gates]

When I lived in California 20 years ago, there was a guy I noticed almost everyday on my way home from work who stood on on a street corner and always only had one shoe one. I gave him a few bucks one time and he seemed nice. A few weeks later, I pulled over and sat down to talk to him, found out his name was Mark, and ask why he only had one shoe. Said his left foot was swollen more and couldn't get a pair of shoes to fit both feet. I offered to take him to Walmart to get 2 pair of shoes so he could have one functioning pair, but he declined the offer. He just wanted food and water and socks for his left foot.
I'd stop by to see him once a week and chat for a few moments and bring him some food and water. Then one day he was gone. Never found out what happened to him.

 

[no2gates]

There was one time over 20 years ago when I was in the Houston area on a business trip. Saw some guy who looked really happy, holding a sign that said "Please visit my website www.ineedabeer.com" Made me laugh so I gave him $5 for the entertainment value, knowing full well it wasn't going to buy any food, but just beer.

 

[Eastexasrick]

There was a guy at 35E and Mockingbird for several weeks. He had a cardboard sign that said I Need A Beer. I stopped and said let’s go inside, there was a beer store on the NW corner. He said no, he just wanted cash. I wrote him off my Christmas list.

 

[HKSig]

I saw one yesterday whose sign said "Long Story." I didn't ask.