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Helping the Homeless
I do feel that giving ANYTHING to the homeless is encouraging them to remain homeless. For example if you give only food or clothing, what you are doing is allowing them to spend 100% of any cash donations they have recieved on alcohol, drugs, whatever because now they don't have to spend it on food or clothing. I know a homeless man downtown that is quite intelligent and will just straight out admit that he would rather sit around doing nothing and taking handouts than get a job. He claims the free meal programs by the organizations and church groups are more than enough food, and he can get free clothing and bedding from these places also. Some people don't want to work and believe that they are better than others, and that others should work and support them. The price of laziness should be hunger but thanks to do-gooders trying to get a warm fuzzy feeling from helping them, they aren't hungry.— August 10, 2009 3:28 p.m.
Close Encounter
In response to your question: Where are all these agencies who are supposedly working to help these people? I'll tell you where they are - they are right there making it easy for these chronic homeless to litter San Diego with their pee and poop and trash. They are feeding them daily, providing bedding, doing whatever they can to foster dependency and encourage these people to be lazy, because why would they work when they are given what they need with no expectations?— May 7, 2009 12:31 p.m.
Homeless in my neighborhood
The homeless in the area that AuntSanDiegoSpeaks about are chronic homeless. Even though there are shelter beds available, even though they could go to Alpha Project or St Vincent's and actually get help getting back on their feet, they won't. They don't want to get back on their feet. Because it is too easy to sit on your a$$ instead of be on your feet. People leave donuts by them on Saturdays, walk around handing out sack lunches, and organizations provide hot meals every day. As long as we make it easy to be lazy and homeless, guess what, they will be lazy and homeless. I know those do-gooders are getting a warm and fuzzy from "helping" these homeless people, but I wonder, do they understand the harm they are doing by fostering the encouraging their dependency? So. What can we change? Well we could forbid free food dispensing in the areas that are very "public" where lots of people live and work, tourist areas, etc. and move it to some podunk place. Hopefully the lazy homeless will follow. Bring back the camping ban. Make them do WORK to get out of jail. Because WORK is probably the thing that will discourage them the most from arrest, and encourage them to take their lazy butts somewhere else. Because if you feed a stray dog, it will stick around.— May 7, 2009 12:18 p.m.