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Originally Posted by Vin
Where the heck did anyone say "Most homeless ARE problem cases"? Did you just make it up?
And what makes you think "ALL problem cases are homeless"? You are not even making any more sense at this point of your argument.
Who cares if Obama was a cocaine user as a kid? The fact is that he did not end up a problem-person in the DTES, when many of your compatriots are. There is no point bringing him in when obviously his environment turned out to be way better than our city's dysfunctionality, so much so that he could quit cocaine and became the president of the United States. A user IS a problem no matter how you see it. Even if he or she does not commit any crime, the person will still cost society a lot: not only by not contributing to it due to frequent incapacitated episodes, but as a financial resource drain when there are mishaps such as getting into ODs, etc. Not every user is from the DTES, but you must agree that the DTES has the highest concentration of problem individuals and user in this whole country, right?
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Those repeat-offender articles about vandalism, sexual assault, murder and attempted murder that you love to post? Every single time, the perps come from tent cities, shelters or random street corners. Feel free to show me one that has a stable job and a fixed address in a rental, co-op or owned home. I’ll wait here.
And they turn to hard drugs because they’re homeless. Plenty of self-confessed users from stable backgrounds (and many from unstable ones) have turned their lives around using resources such as what's available in the DTES; long-time unsheltered street-dwellers only get worse, so better to put them into shelters before they're beyond that kind of help. You’re
also proving my point.
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