richardhutnik said:
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? |
Finally, you make a statement that I can agree with! Although, I would say that there needs to be a locally funded police force (with far fewer powers and resources than what they currently have, particularly in Britain, and far fewer actual police...), as that comes into the role of Government of protecting our rights.
Providing shelter for the homeless? It's a tragedy, but not a role for the Government. Banning people from public streets? Well, I don't necessarily agree with the notion of public streets.
I'd just like to point out, however, that whatever it is that is going on here, clearly disproves your stance on governmental assistance, when the government can so easily treat the homeless this way. Sure, they're receiving funding cuts, but do you honestly think that there weren't other things that could have been cut first?
I don't know about this particular case, but it happened earlier in the year in the UK. The Government announced that they were cutting funding to local councils. Local councils each have dozens of jobs that pay 6 figure salaries + bonuses. They also have entire departments with very little value. What gets cut when their funding gets cut? Libraries and public loos. Their salaries either stayed the same, or increased, and councils maintained funding for ridiculous self-serving schemes (like Essex Council (my council) hiring in a new staff to deal with the council's PR... with the head position paying over £100k).
