Apparently my modest proposal to illegal immigration in American got locked.  So, the next issue to address is homelessness in America.

There has been debate over whether or not to have government handle it.  So, let's rule out government and see if there is a possible solution free of tax dollars.  And there may be.  The solution would consist of the following:

* The solution wouldn't be able to be guaranteed to be on private land, so some public land would be useful to house the homeless, so say parks are used.

* Since the homeless out in the elements alone would cause them to risk their lives, it is proposed they be allowed to use tents donated to them by citizens.

* Since the homeless usually have problems with education, and not associating with educated people, you have college students stay with them.  This also has the college students make contact with real people with real problems.  This also provides the homeless a form of community, so they can connect with other humans.

* Have people ship in food to feed everyone, and also allow them set up basic first aid for them to.

* For basic hygene, people can periodically leave to go shower in private homes.

* Of course, management and giving people a voice is an issue, so they could assembly regularly during the day and discuss things in general.

You allow this to continue until the economy improves. 

All that would be needed for this is some public land, say in a park somewhere out of the way that isn't used.  These camps would cost far less to operate than other attempts at sheltering folk, and be safer than just letting the homeless be under bridges.  They could grow as needed.  And with the money saved, this could be returned to the rich to invest and generate jobs.  It is a win-win all around.  The only other possible solution, unless one wanted to actuall use more tax dollars (or hope people donate more money) is maybe to make the homeless go to a mythical place called "Away" so people who have jobs and homes don't have to look at them.  Shame that there is no mythical place called "away" for undesirable problems to go to any longer.

and who pays for maintenance of the park?

the tax payers


follow ron paul,he will solve all of america and world's financial problems and also finish the wars in the middle east if he gets elected

My dad always told me we should feed the homeless to the hungry. BLAM! Two birds with one stone!

There are enough resources and productivity in the world to provide for the basic needs of everyone alive right now.
Why isn't that happening?


FUCKING GREED! Plain and simple.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRwIZ36po3Y

The rich are our masters and they're total fucking idiots, what does that make us?

Did you totally not read my long extensive comments about the homeless in the other thread?

There isn't really a homeless problem that can be solved by anyone without revoking someones right to refuse treatment.

The problem with what your suggesting is, of course the problem that's already happening now.

Mass crime, sexual assaults and the like.

In general there is plenty in place to help the homeless, it's just a matter of getting the chronic homeless to use the services.  Everyone else is homeless for less then 2 months, 80% less then 3 weeks.

Truth is, it's extremly hard to be homeless in the US, which is why chronic homless people tend to moslty tend to have some sort of mental problem. (See HUD reports on homelessness).

and what of those who choose to be homeless?

what is the point of these retarded threads?

ehh, this is the least of our worries. We should be focusing on other things more than homelessness.

You have the homeless in the park be trained to take care of the park, or appoint one of the homeless a head janitor and hire some kids after school to take care of the park.  Have the place for the tents be on concrete and you don't have to worry about taking care of the grass.  You would have one elss union job this way to, which taps into what Newt wanted.  This job role, which is unpaid will teach the lazy homeless a work ethic to.  It is a win-win.

There are workarounds to avoid having the tax payers pay for things.

You provide them another choice of the shelter environment they may not feel safe in.