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From the folds of its robe, it brought two children; wretched and miserable.
They were a boy and a girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, Where graceful youth should have filled their features out, a stale and shrivelled hand, had pinched and twisted them and pulled them into shreds. Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing. No change, no degradation, no perversion of humanity, in any grade through all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has monsters half so horrible and dread.
The man started back, appalled. He tried to say, they were fine children, but the words choked themselves, rather than be parties to a lie of such enormous magnitude.
“They are Man’s children” said the Spirit, looking down upon them. “And they cling to me. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
“Have they no refuge or resource?” cried Scrooge.
“Are there no Prisons?” said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. “Are there no workhouses?”
Yes, let’s use our democracy, such as it is, to vote ourselves and our children straight back to a 12 hour work day and no legal way to discharge debts while a substantial percentage of Americans are underwater with debt.
Theyve just made homelessness illegal. Next they will take away legal bankruptcy. Then when they take peoples’ homes for unpaid medical debts, they can put those people straight in jail or a concentration camp.
brilliant!
Is there no WIC? Is there no TANF? Are there no food banks? Are there no public schools, MediCal, school meals, section 8 housing? Is there no internet hyperbole?
Gee. You should have been investing your dimes on the homeless so the rest of us could keep our dimes that the state has been wasting on the homeless. $27 billion dollars of waste in the last 5 years alone. You might have gotten a better ROI. I know I would have gotten a better ROI on my dimes.
Not bullet proof but clearly statistically bullet resistant. Bad luck falls equally on everyone but some just seem to do something about it. Others just point fingers.
Remember, a significant percent of houseless people suffer from mental heath problems.
Telling them to “behave” or buckle down and getting a good paying job is simply not a reasonable suggestion.
We need to provide resources for housing, mental healthcare, addiction treatment, and crime prevention.
We don’t do that. And magic isn’t real.
If you are unable to control yourself, there needs to be institutional solutions. If you have arrived at that state through voluntary self medication, then there needs to be a more judicial nuance applied, commensurate to the degree of trauma you have undergone. For example, if you a getting blasted out of your mind because you were raped as an 11 year old, and both your parents died within the next 5 years, there should be therapeutic treatments open to you.
If you are able bodied and lazy, and pissed because you weren’t born into wealth, a 40 hour work week is beneath you, and have just washed your hands of any attempts to join in functioning alongside society, perhaps something more compulsory is needed. People should be held accountable for choices they make.
There absolutely do need to be in-patient mental healthcare institutions,
and in-patient drug and alcohol rehab facilities- compulsory, if necessary.
But there is a whole other group who are less severe, yet who are still not able to make it on their own in this highly competitive economy.
For them, we need low income, or even free, housing and state-0provided jobs.
People who commit crimes should receive education and training as part of their sentence, and should be placed into a housing situation and provided with a job upon release.
The problem of houseless individuals is solvable, but we need to do more than just complain.
You are on point here Jebs. A job corps could provide people with the opportunity to work and subsidized housing could be part of such a program.
People unable to care for themselves without committing crimes need to be separated into groups and treated appropriately. Criminals separated from noncriminals. All criminals should be held accountable for their actions and incarcerated when necessary to protect potential future victims. All people who need psychological help and/or addiction treatment should receive it. It should be compulsory if they are unable to care for themselves without victimizing others. Violent criminals should be separated from the nonviolent. Those legitimately unable to work should be supported and able to lead simple but dignified lives. All who are willing to work should be provided jobs. Ideally those jobs are stepping stones to better, independent lives.
This is the type of conversation we need to be having.
Yes, it’s complicated. And there is no one-size-fits-all solution.
But there are solutions.
And what we’re currently doing (incessant complaining and hate-speech included) isn’t working.
Sounds nice but good luck with that. This whole site was founded by someone who announces that ignoring laws, ie crime, is a personal choice.
Besides who is really unable to work is a very tricky question. People who have severe disabilities sometimes work very successfully while some of those who claim severe disabilities for benefits are sometimes seen to be doing hard labor and being paid under the table.
Then there is the issue of the amount of resources needed to get useful work out of those who don’t like either work or being told what to do. There is no shortage of work available now. Seems most illegal immigrants have no trouble finding it. What there is a shortage of is what a social worker called “fantasy jobs”- jobs that pay enough to get what is wanted but don’t require people to show up when they don’t want, do things they don’t want and have no supervisors ordering them around.
The level of effort needed to “confine” the unwilling or get work out of the unwilling…
Not state provided jobs but tax credits for employers who employ the hard to employ and $ to that employer to bridge the gap between what employee is worth And what the employer pays heshe.
We have way too much government now in California And the control is way too centralized in sacramento (southern california and the bay area call the shots of course).
It is inefficient, corrupt, wastes our money and it is oppressive. The bigger the government is the more it pushes you around.
Our taxes are paying Democrat politicians to buy votes so they can get reElected and raise our taxes. It is a vicious cycle.
Need to qualify that there is no possible way our Nation can do this for the broken minds and souls in the entire world, or even our hemisphere. We have our own domestically produced tragedies, sociopaths, criminals, layabouts, or as Neil Young said, “park bench mutations”.
We have our own up to our hat-brim, sorry- we are full.
THAT is a good and legitimate question. The dems have been in control of California for thirty years. They have spent BILLIONs on the issue. What can they show for it?……………
Our pandering and feckless democrat politicians in Sacramento refuse to make any tough decisions and our entire state is suffering. Vote republican for a positive change or expect more of the same and worse.
Many of these children may lack sober parents or parents at all… They are not “mentally ill”, what they are is traumatized… They can be “educated”, but first they need to learn human interaction, how to play, how to behave with others…
Lacking sober parents, intrauterine drug exposure, parental and personal homelessness, hunger and constant discomfort result in children who are damaged in very challenging ways…
I have a close associate who spent 7 years in what we used to call continuation schools, doing play therapy, sand tray, and various chores like gardening…
They are not “mentally ill”, they are severely damaged, and many, permanently, while experiencing co-occurring poverty…
I’m not sure it’s possible to help these kids, but there are grant-funded organizations that are trying…
Special Ed gets extra funding from the Feds. A lot of times is not a medical decision but an economic one. While in theory it costs the local district an equal amount more for special education, the reality is that most districts simply do it on paper. Educators talk about the short funding of Special Ed, which is true for children needing it. But the solution has been to put more children in the category but use most the extra funding to supply court mandates for the more seriously disabled children.
California’s rate for special Ed children is about 17%. So Humboldt is actually lower in number if your figure is correct.
Sounds like the old work-farms like the one at talmage. Those used to function as intended. Can’t have that anymore though. Instead you want to ‘house’ the mentally ill in our neighborhoods. Your tax funded free housing utopia dream died in the San Fran tenderloin, the housing projects of LA, and beyond. So sorry! If you had any chutzpah you’d be stepping up to social work in the Bay Area or other tough locales instead of advocating to sh*t up the north coast with new incentives for societal rejects and transients
We been doing that to the tune.of billions of dollars and the.problem has just gotten worse.
Perhaps it is.time.they start being accountable for.their actions and making their own way..
How about this. Cut my taxes wayyyy back then the people that feel we need to raise taxes for the.homeless etc you can just have them take it out of your pay and let me.keep mine.
Yet those who have a level of mental illness that prevents managing that completely are very small in number. They are a very small percentage of people who are homeless.
Most people have some level of depression at some time in their lives. Many people some level of emotional lability or mental impairment all their lives. They deal with in order not to be homeless. At least for long. That is not the reason for skyrocketing homeless camping out. The shifting of blame from the individual to society is.
But the idea that punitive bans on camping fixes the issue is not realistic either. It makes it less of a burden on the public in conducting their own lives if effective limits on where people can camp exist , which not a bad thing, but, until the issue is seen as individuals voluntarily not wanting to burden everyone else with their problems, nothing will change. Getting them to change to that mindset requires simultaneously making it easier to do that than camp out, the problem will not stabilize.
Recreational drugs can never be an universally acceptable go-to option because it inevitably leads to a certain percentage of people choosing that over everything else. Making a world that loves recreating with drug makes sure that will always be a problem. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/a-funny-bone-to-pick/202406/10-ways-people-justify-doing-bad-things
PoM himself admits to living on basically the edge of poverty. Having to have moved to some shithole in Lake county in his old age.
These comments of his are the typical “crabs in a bucket” phenomenon. He feels unsupported in his struggles and thus lashes out at any mention of anyone else getting any support in theirs.
It’s a pretty common phenomenon among the American working class. You see it, well you used to see it a lot more, locally around the whole weed issue. Lots of bitterness and anger at anyone who made it up an economic tier from a bunch of working folks who never did. It’s a real sad phenomenon and just so happens (total coincidence, absolutely couldn’t have resulted from carefully crafted social control mechanisms that have been studied for at least decades by powerful entities, but to no avail) to facilitate the continued agglomeration of resources with a small group of people.
I am retired, but with assets, and an investment guy would say I am better off than 75% of my age-group peers.
I have a home. I have two. One I would not rent to you, particularly…
The whole of Lake County is a shithole, but many people my age move here because it is cheap, compared to anywhere else, and guess what? The homeless don’t hang around where I live.
I worked 41 years for what I have, invested and saved, but you will hear me point out how unfairly Seniors are treated in this country, when they are forced to pay income taxes on their savings and SS…
Nobody gives me a “grant”, free healthcare, a free ride or a fucking thing: I had to work for it, just like my parents, who did die pretty much poor, because they did not save or invest…
Nobody in my family, going back 5 generations in California, has ever lived in a tent in the street.
Nobody in my family would waste their time making up excuses like “oh, I hurt myself and couldn’t work”, or “I got addicted to drugs and wound up “mentally ill” and living on the streets…
Get real, homeless are outliers, homeless are liars, and, calling them “disabled” is embarrassing, facile and obtuse…
A nice big camp, with a tall fence like the one around, say, Pleasant’s Valley Prison, with detox and rehab, work assignments and only basic supplies and necessities. You stay until you are willing to play, or just stay forever, where nobody will be bothered by you again…
And if you really live in Arcata, you should watch who you are calling “dirt-poor”, because Seniors in 60 year old Mobiles living by the skin of their teeth, shopping at Grocery Outlet and Dollar General probably have more pride and contribute more than the average clown in a tent on the sidewalk in the Mission…
Who works giving out free stuff to the homeless, through their church, in a parking lot, every Saturday?
The idea that objecting to expecting someone to mostly take care of their own problems is nothing but greed or envy is so typical of those who failed at it. Or think that they are due what others have worked to acquire by virtue of being born. Or whose dissatisfaction is unremitting.
Most of us are not. Otherwise the ranks of the homeless would not be less than 6% of the population. And that is considering the very expansive retooled definition of homeless of recent years. Chronic homeless are less than a quarter of that.
Most people deal with injury or medical expenses on way or another. But slap on drug or alcohol addiction and that ability evaporates.
Seniors who are homeless, are a growing group, but, “Senior Housing” and “Disabled” Housing, and “Low Income Housing” are becoming more available, and in some places, vacancies are plentiful…
Help is available, if you are really looking, but feeding and caring for Seniors in need is far more important than the care and feeding of the drug addict in a tent on the sidewalk…
And remember, slavery is illegal, but a whole new class of slaves is dripping saliva at the thought of getting across the border to the country paved with gold…
Thousands get in, every day, to live the life that the homeless throw away…
Get these parasites off the street and into Internment Camps, far out in the boonies…
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Jason
2 months ago
Every other country figured out long ago that letting people camp on the sidewalks will exacerbate homelessness, which is exactly what has happened here.
A Pit Bull has more value than the average “homeless guy”…
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Cosmic Charlie
2 months ago
There’s a guy in mck who spends every day jogging around town looking like a zombie. Definitely has some mental issues, but where some see hopeless, I see opportunity. Advertising. Like the people who spin signs on street corners except this guy covers serious ground. The ones who don’t move much could just wear sandwich boards, big hats, shopping carts that say, ‘this space available’.
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Is that a wand of teleportation or of disintegration? And is the answer we don’t need to know, or that we don’t want to know?
Who cares?
Fuck the homeless, they are a waste of resources…
Put them in work camps and don’t let them go until they behave…
Suddenly it happened, I lost every dime….
Give them all a one way bus ticket to SF, lots of free stuff there
From the folds of its robe, it brought two children; wretched and miserable.
They were a boy and a girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, Where graceful youth should have filled their features out, a stale and shrivelled hand, had pinched and twisted them and pulled them into shreds. Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing. No change, no degradation, no perversion of humanity, in any grade through all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has monsters half so horrible and dread.
The man started back, appalled. He tried to say, they were fine children, but the words choked themselves, rather than be parties to a lie of such enormous magnitude.
“They are Man’s children” said the Spirit, looking down upon them. “And they cling to me. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
“Have they no refuge or resource?” cried Scrooge.
“Are there no Prisons?” said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. “Are there no workhouses?”
Yes, let’s use our democracy, such as it is, to vote ourselves and our children straight back to a 12 hour work day and no legal way to discharge debts while a substantial percentage of Americans are underwater with debt.
Theyve just made homelessness illegal. Next they will take away legal bankruptcy. Then when they take peoples’ homes for unpaid medical debts, they can put those people straight in jail or a concentration camp.
brilliant!
Is there no WIC? Is there no TANF? Are there no food banks? Are there no public schools, MediCal, school meals, section 8 housing? Is there no internet hyperbole?
Gee. You should have been investing your dimes on the homeless so the rest of us could keep our dimes that the state has been wasting on the homeless. $27 billion dollars of waste in the last 5 years alone. You might have gotten a better ROI. I know I would have gotten a better ROI on my dimes.
all these people are bulletproof apparently
Not bullet proof but clearly statistically bullet resistant. Bad luck falls equally on everyone but some just seem to do something about it. Others just point fingers.
Proper planning prevents poor performance!
Try it at home…
Remember, a significant percent of houseless people suffer from mental heath problems.
Telling them to “behave” or buckle down and getting a good paying job is simply not a reasonable suggestion.
We need to provide resources for housing, mental healthcare, addiction treatment, and crime prevention.
We don’t do that. And magic isn’t real.
Magic definitely happens.
Only at magic shows.
Little do you know.
It must suck to not be able to do or see magic.
Don’t confuse what magic is or isn’t.
Then again, maybe I’m a witch…???
(Sucks to not be a witch…)
I try very hard to wish only good things upon people, but sometimes, mountains do move…
(I’ve conjured up a thing or two…)
🤷♂️😁🧹🧙♂️🪄
Don’t believe me, Tru Matters…???
Let’s see if I can magically conjure up something…
Observe…
“Epxowpuf..!!!”
(Abracadabra)
🤔🧐😁🤷♂️🧹🧙♂️🪄
Tada…!!!
Worked just like magic…!!!
“Epxowpuf…!!!” deciphers to “downvote…!!!”
And… Voila…!!!
Done…!!!
Thanks for helping me to do “magic”, whoever you are…!!!
🤔🧐,
“Expowpuft…!!!”
🧹🧙♂️🪄😉😁
Oops, that should have read, “Epxowpuft…!!!”, not, “Expowpuft…!!!”…
Deciphers to, “Downvotes…!!!”…
(Which I conjured up successfully, just like magic…)
😁😉🧹🪄🧙♂️😂😂🤷♂️
If you are unable to control yourself, there needs to be institutional solutions. If you have arrived at that state through voluntary self medication, then there needs to be a more judicial nuance applied, commensurate to the degree of trauma you have undergone. For example, if you a getting blasted out of your mind because you were raped as an 11 year old, and both your parents died within the next 5 years, there should be therapeutic treatments open to you.
If you are able bodied and lazy, and pissed because you weren’t born into wealth, a 40 hour work week is beneath you, and have just washed your hands of any attempts to join in functioning alongside society, perhaps something more compulsory is needed. People should be held accountable for choices they make.
There absolutely do need to be in-patient mental healthcare institutions,
and in-patient drug and alcohol rehab facilities- compulsory, if necessary.
But there is a whole other group who are less severe, yet who are still not able to make it on their own in this highly competitive economy.
For them, we need low income, or even free, housing and state-0provided jobs.
People who commit crimes should receive education and training as part of their sentence, and should be placed into a housing situation and provided with a job upon release.
The problem of houseless individuals is solvable, but we need to do more than just complain.
You are on point here Jebs. A job corps could provide people with the opportunity to work and subsidized housing could be part of such a program.
People unable to care for themselves without committing crimes need to be separated into groups and treated appropriately. Criminals separated from noncriminals. All criminals should be held accountable for their actions and incarcerated when necessary to protect potential future victims. All people who need psychological help and/or addiction treatment should receive it. It should be compulsory if they are unable to care for themselves without victimizing others. Violent criminals should be separated from the nonviolent. Those legitimately unable to work should be supported and able to lead simple but dignified lives. All who are willing to work should be provided jobs. Ideally those jobs are stepping stones to better, independent lives.
This is the type of conversation we need to be having.
Yes, it’s complicated. And there is no one-size-fits-all solution.
But there are solutions.
And what we’re currently doing (incessant complaining and hate-speech included) isn’t working.
Sounds nice but good luck with that. This whole site was founded by someone who announces that ignoring laws, ie crime, is a personal choice.
Besides who is really unable to work is a very tricky question. People who have severe disabilities sometimes work very successfully while some of those who claim severe disabilities for benefits are sometimes seen to be doing hard labor and being paid under the table.
Then there is the issue of the amount of resources needed to get useful work out of those who don’t like either work or being told what to do. There is no shortage of work available now. Seems most illegal immigrants have no trouble finding it. What there is a shortage of is what a social worker called “fantasy jobs”- jobs that pay enough to get what is wanted but don’t require people to show up when they don’t want, do things they don’t want and have no supervisors ordering them around.
The level of effort needed to “confine” the unwilling or get work out of the unwilling…
Not state provided jobs but tax credits for employers who employ the hard to employ and $ to that employer to bridge the gap between what employee is worth And what the employer pays heshe.
We have way too much government now in California And the control is way too centralized in sacramento (southern california and the bay area call the shots of course).
It is inefficient, corrupt, wastes our money and it is oppressive. The bigger the government is the more it pushes you around.
Our taxes are paying Democrat politicians to buy votes so they can get reElected and raise our taxes. It is a vicious cycle.
Need to qualify that there is no possible way our Nation can do this for the broken minds and souls in the entire world, or even our hemisphere. We have our own domestically produced tragedies, sociopaths, criminals, layabouts, or as Neil Young said, “park bench mutations”.
We have our own up to our hat-brim, sorry- we are full.
Spot on Billy Jr.
And if your wife got a cancer diagnosis three weeks after you lost your job?
Or if you’re hit by a car and are left in a wheelchair in chronic pain and unable to work?
Or both? It does happen.
Don’t enable these vagrants.
Why haven’t California politicians been doing that ?
THAT is a good and legitimate question. The dems have been in control of California for thirty years. They have spent BILLIONs on the issue. What can they show for it?……………
I think they have spent billions on the care and support of southern border crossers, and the bureaucratic jobs created to attend to them.
Our pandering and feckless democrat politicians in Sacramento refuse to make any tough decisions and our entire state is suffering. Vote republican for a positive change or expect more of the same and worse.
Mental health is not real, it is total nonsense…
Drugs are the real problem, and homelessness results from giving people the power to camp out in our faces…
Bleeding hearts be damned, make them work for their keep, or at least contain the mess out of our sight…
I feed feral cats, but not feral humans…
Nearly 1 in 6 kids in Humboldt Country Schools are in Special Education.
https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/2222/special-education-disability-prevalence/table#
These kids will grow up to become adults and will overwhelmingly have a very difficult time maintaining stable employment and housing.
You don’t have to like it, or understand it, but mental health issues are real.
Many of these children may lack sober parents or parents at all… They are not “mentally ill”, what they are is traumatized… They can be “educated”, but first they need to learn human interaction, how to play, how to behave with others…
Lacking sober parents, intrauterine drug exposure, parental and personal homelessness, hunger and constant discomfort result in children who are damaged in very challenging ways…
I have a close associate who spent 7 years in what we used to call continuation schools, doing play therapy, sand tray, and various chores like gardening…
They are not “mentally ill”, they are severely damaged, and many, permanently, while experiencing co-occurring poverty…
I’m not sure it’s possible to help these kids, but there are grant-funded organizations that are trying…
Special Ed gets extra funding from the Feds. A lot of times is not a medical decision but an economic one. While in theory it costs the local district an equal amount more for special education, the reality is that most districts simply do it on paper. Educators talk about the short funding of Special Ed, which is true for children needing it. But the solution has been to put more children in the category but use most the extra funding to supply court mandates for the more seriously disabled children.
California’s rate for special Ed children is about 17%. So Humboldt is actually lower in number if your figure is correct.
So the brain is the only organ in the body that can’t malfunction. Jeepers!
Sounds like the old work-farms like the one at talmage. Those used to function as intended. Can’t have that anymore though. Instead you want to ‘house’ the mentally ill in our neighborhoods. Your tax funded free housing utopia dream died in the San Fran tenderloin, the housing projects of LA, and beyond. So sorry! If you had any chutzpah you’d be stepping up to social work in the Bay Area or other tough locales instead of advocating to sh*t up the north coast with new incentives for societal rejects and transients
Work farms are a great idea!
Keep people busy and motivates them to get a better job.
And what causes most of the mental health problems ? DRUGS !!
see: Rat Park
your ignorance is showing
We been doing that to the tune.of billions of dollars and the.problem has just gotten worse.
Perhaps it is.time.they start being accountable for.their actions and making their own way..
How about this. Cut my taxes wayyyy back then the people that feel we need to raise taxes for the.homeless etc you can just have them take it out of your pay and let me.keep mine.
May be you could take a few into your home to help. DRUG US IS NOT MENTAL ILLNESS. It’s wrong how these people live and we let it happen.
Yet those who have a level of mental illness that prevents managing that completely are very small in number. They are a very small percentage of people who are homeless.
Most people have some level of depression at some time in their lives. Many people some level of emotional lability or mental impairment all their lives. They deal with in order not to be homeless. At least for long. That is not the reason for skyrocketing homeless camping out. The shifting of blame from the individual to society is.
But the idea that punitive bans on camping fixes the issue is not realistic either. It makes it less of a burden on the public in conducting their own lives if effective limits on where people can camp exist , which not a bad thing, but, until the issue is seen as individuals voluntarily not wanting to burden everyone else with their problems, nothing will change. Getting them to change to that mindset requires simultaneously making it easier to do that than camp out, the problem will not stabilize.
Recreational drugs can never be an universally acceptable go-to option because it inevitably leads to a certain percentage of people choosing that over everything else. Making a world that loves recreating with drug makes sure that will always be a problem.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/a-funny-bone-to-pick/202406/10-ways-people-justify-doing-bad-things
Most of us are one injury or major medical expense away from homelessness, bud
PoM himself admits to living on basically the edge of poverty. Having to have moved to some shithole in Lake county in his old age.
These comments of his are the typical “crabs in a bucket” phenomenon. He feels unsupported in his struggles and thus lashes out at any mention of anyone else getting any support in theirs.
It’s a pretty common phenomenon among the American working class. You see it, well you used to see it a lot more, locally around the whole weed issue. Lots of bitterness and anger at anyone who made it up an economic tier from a bunch of working folks who never did. It’s a real sad phenomenon and just so happens (total coincidence, absolutely couldn’t have resulted from carefully crafted social control mechanisms that have been studied for at least decades by powerful entities, but to no avail) to facilitate the continued agglomeration of resources with a small group of people.
Careful, you assume a lot…
I am retired, but with assets, and an investment guy would say I am better off than 75% of my age-group peers.
I have a home. I have two. One I would not rent to you, particularly…
The whole of Lake County is a shithole, but many people my age move here because it is cheap, compared to anywhere else, and guess what? The homeless don’t hang around where I live.
I worked 41 years for what I have, invested and saved, but you will hear me point out how unfairly Seniors are treated in this country, when they are forced to pay income taxes on their savings and SS…
Nobody gives me a “grant”, free healthcare, a free ride or a fucking thing: I had to work for it, just like my parents, who did die pretty much poor, because they did not save or invest…
Nobody in my family, going back 5 generations in California, has ever lived in a tent in the street.
Nobody in my family would waste their time making up excuses like “oh, I hurt myself and couldn’t work”, or “I got addicted to drugs and wound up “mentally ill” and living on the streets…
Get real, homeless are outliers, homeless are liars, and, calling them “disabled” is embarrassing, facile and obtuse…
A nice big camp, with a tall fence like the one around, say, Pleasant’s Valley Prison, with detox and rehab, work assignments and only basic supplies and necessities. You stay until you are willing to play, or just stay forever, where nobody will be bothered by you again…
And if you really live in Arcata, you should watch who you are calling “dirt-poor”, because Seniors in 60 year old Mobiles living by the skin of their teeth, shopping at Grocery Outlet and Dollar General probably have more pride and contribute more than the average clown in a tent on the sidewalk in the Mission…
Who works giving out free stuff to the homeless, through their church, in a parking lot, every Saturday?
Poor Seniors, that’s who…
The idea that objecting to expecting someone to mostly take care of their own problems is nothing but greed or envy is so typical of those who failed at it. Or think that they are due what others have worked to acquire by virtue of being born. Or whose dissatisfaction is unremitting.
Most of us are not. Otherwise the ranks of the homeless would not be less than 6% of the population. And that is considering the very expansive retooled definition of homeless of recent years. Chronic homeless are less than a quarter of that.
Most people deal with injury or medical expenses on way or another. But slap on drug or alcohol addiction and that ability evaporates.
Yeah! And the old people next! Am I right!
Your comment makes no sense, but that’s OK…
Seniors who are homeless, are a growing group, but, “Senior Housing” and “Disabled” Housing, and “Low Income Housing” are becoming more available, and in some places, vacancies are plentiful…
Help is available, if you are really looking, but feeding and caring for Seniors in need is far more important than the care and feeding of the drug addict in a tent on the sidewalk…
And remember, slavery is illegal, but a whole new class of slaves is dripping saliva at the thought of getting across the border to the country paved with gold…
Thousands get in, every day, to live the life that the homeless throw away…
Get these parasites off the street and into Internment Camps, far out in the boonies…
Every other country figured out long ago that letting people camp on the sidewalks will exacerbate homelessness, which is exactly what has happened here.
‘camping on sidewalks exacerbates homelessness’ ??
no…rich fuckers at the top hoarding all the wealth (land, housing, medicine, politics, journalism etc etc) are exacerbating homelessness
it could be you someday bucko
Yeah this is the simplicit, zero sum perspective that’s allows these issues to flourish.
I would have said “rich fckers” in my early twenties too
no war but class war comrade
Cool it with the antisemitic remarks
Best cartoon I’ve seen from Terry
He should have drawn a 25 year old tweaker with an off leash pitbull. The old vagabond caricature is straight out of the 1930’s
It’s hard to draw all those face tats…
A Pit Bull has more value than the average “homeless guy”…
There’s a guy in mck who spends every day jogging around town looking like a zombie. Definitely has some mental issues, but where some see hopeless, I see opportunity. Advertising. Like the people who spin signs on street corners except this guy covers serious ground. The ones who don’t move much could just wear sandwich boards, big hats, shopping carts that say, ‘this space available’.
Reminds me of a Jerry Seinfeld episode where Kramer tried to get the homeless to pull rickshaws around in the city!
I’m surprised such an overt racist term is allowed to stand here.
Really? Been reading comments here for long?
Now lets hope Eureka gets rid of them when they camp in public places. Maybe then they will go to Newsomland down south.