Until you have a sit-down with the political players and agenda people.....to agree to categorizing people....none of this will be resolved and you will just throw money into a pit.
How you categorize people? Well....into four groups:
1. Drug addicts.
2. Mentally unstable.
3. People with no drug issue and no mental issue.....having a valued job skill.
4. People with no job skill, no drug issue and no mental problems.
Group #3 are the ones that you'd want to help relocate into a low-cost housing situation, some job coaching, and some life skills jobs. They will require a year of serious attention but can come back.
Group #2 needs a one-way ticket to a facility that has a fence, and don't really need a real urban environment.
Group #1 can be offered a one-time rehab deal. If they fail....don't waste time or money....just shuffle them into a fenced area and hold them in a prison type environment.
Finally, Group #4....this is the group has the highest cost....you need to provide twelve months of real job training, and a boot-camp atmosphere. They also don't require a highly urbanized atmosphere.
Yes, what I'm hinting is that you need to remove around fifty-percent of most of these people from SF, Portland, or NYC. They can be put into a pretty remote place and forgotten about.
If you don't have any willing nature to do this.....just write a simple rule that no more than $1,500 a month can be spent on any homeless guy/gal, and limit the public 'pain' involved.
We operate a small organic teaching farm near the outskirts of Eugene, Oregon.
ReplyDeleteThe acreage is surrounded by goofballs in warehouse-pallet hovels covered with blue plastic tarps.
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The next time you are through this area, notice the high water-table of the Willamette Valley... aka 'swamp'.
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Half the year, the goofballs lay around in ankle-deep swampy mud.
As you might imagine, their disposal of their sewage -- 'any place is as good as any other' -- is down the list from the primary concern:
* intoxication.
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Throwing money at them will only result in more intoxicated goofballs.
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We call them 'feral'; they choose to exist on the fringe of civilization.
Hence, their utter disrespect and disregard for societal standards.
Example:
* Eugene, Oregon is known as the 'stolen bicycle' capital of this particular universe... stolen bicycles are disassembled, then sold for scrap.
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I see no way to 'co-exist' with those intent on destroying everything Northern European Heritage folk built and maintain.
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An aside:
On one Survival forum, a thread asks:
* "what do I do if squatters show up in my yard after SHTF or this economic collapse!"
Listening to discussions with local property owners and business owners, the 'protected class' will go 'floppy' in the first half hour.
Squatters will not be an issue.