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Originally Posted by EdwardTH
LOL yes I'm sure they all have beautiful furnished condos with river views waiting for them and they choose to sleep in a dangerous garbage heap instead. Maybe some of them have alternate accommodations. Likely in one of those buildings you read about on the news where meth dealers have smashed out all the windows and taken doors of the hinges and shit. Places you wouldn't last an hour in let alone a night. Do you really believe we have an ample supply of clean, safe housing for these people? Where is it then? We've barely built any in the last 5 years. Any logical person can tell if they're choosing to live in the camps then any alternative must be hell. But you'd rather just tell yourself a lie that helps you sleep at night and believe they all have great housing if they really wanted it but choose to sleep in a meth dump instead. I'd wonder how you could believe something so absurd but I know you want to believe it so you can tell yourself it's their fault and you don't need to help anyone. "Never help an addict or a homeless guy because I saw one of them get in a cab once." lol what absurd bullshit.
This forum used to be great but the "conservative cranky grandpa" slant has just made it unbearable.
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I will say first hand I personally know all about the various types of housing quality that exists and have been in them all - tellin' myself no lies! This logical person also knows that it makes no sense to pay rent for one of those less than quality places if one then chooses instead to be camping down by the river. One or the other but not both.
The cab thing, it was not an exaggeration, it was a statement of fact. I saw a line of cabs waiting on Higgins. Might be hard to hear, but sometimes people who are down and out, people with addictions or mental health issues will make poor choices.
I've been around long enough to know that one can be empathetic without being naïve. Social problems are complex and they do not disappear overnight.
Oh and by the way, I'm a cranky grandma, not grandpa!