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Forums - Politics Discussion - Cities are cutting funds to shelters and outlawing the sleeping in public spaces...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/27/occupy-wall-street-and-homeless-evictions-cities_n_1111094.html

So, is the solution to execute homeless people for breaking laws?  If shelter funding is being cut, and homeless individuals aren't going to be allowed to sleep in public spaces, what other option is left?



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I'd consider myself right-wing, but this is horrible - there are some people that need help in the world, and the homeless have few enough options as it is



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Meh, why not go all the way and introduce Death Patrols to get rid of the unwanted people once and for all...or better, kidnap them and sell them as guinea pigs.



radishhead said:
I'd consider myself right-wing, but this is horrible - there are some people that need help in the world, and the homeless have few enough options as it is

If the economy gets worse, this could become more and more common.  The climate today is to cut spending everywhere, and somehow, people believe the problems will go away.  Maybe it is best that the deaths that happen, happne quietly in the name of "freedom" than done as a strategic initiative on the part of the state.  There is a belief in a magical place called "away" that all issues with polution and poverty can be placed, and they just go away, and they can be ignored.



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Go out and invite those into you houses, hypocrites. Why tax money should be spent to benefit those who're not even paying it?



Ha! Next you know things will worsen and we'll develop, "Camps" for the underprivileged homeless. Something needs to be done.



           

MDMAniac said:
Go out and invite those into you houses, hypocrites. Why tax money should be spent to benefit those who're not even paying it?

How about they camp outside your house on the street and die there, since you have so little concern about what happens to them?  Why should tax money be spent for ANY problem in society?  Why even bother to pay for police of fire protection?

The issue is, what do you do with the homeless if few people do as you suggest.  Would your tax dollars rather go to pay for more prisons to house the homeless, because they are breaking the law by being homeless?



blkfish92 said:
Ha! Next you know things will worsen and we'll develop, "Camps" for the underprivileged homeless. Something needs to be done.

Considering what is happening with Occupy, such camps will be seen as illegal, and not allowed either.



MDMAniac said:
Go out and invite those into you houses, hypocrites. Why tax money should be spent to benefit those who're not even paying it?

Because it's winter, and people get cold, and having thouands of desperate people with no legal options is suicidal for a society.



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