A modest proposal to solve the homeless problem in America....

[Rath]

Kasz216 said:

Mr Khan said:

SamuelRSmith said:

theprof00 said:
The answer is simple really.
And a good economic solution during times of crisis.

You pay people to do jobs they really don't want to do, like digging holes.
You pay people to dig holes for minimum wage, or prepare lanes for national railway, etc etc.
The vagrants sleep on a railroad card anyway, so you just put the railcart on the rails and have the homeless somewhere in the mid-US building railroads at minimum wage or something like that.

We have people who are digging holes in Iraq and Afghanistan... spending trillions doing so.

Granted in Afghanistan this could be productive in the long run, if by "digging holes" we are referring to broader infrastructural development programs. Afghanistan sits on a fortune of rare earth metals, last i heard.

Actually so far all those holes have gone to the Chinese and Indians in the bidding process.

Hey, at least it proves you guys didn't just go over there to steal their resources right? =P