NIMBY – Not in my backyard.
The left talks a great game. After they create homelessness through their asinine policies, they get voted in on the promise of “doing something about it,” like in L.A., where politicians promised to build housing for the homeless.
It’s just that no affluent areas have given any type of green light to building the structures.
The a-hole virtue signalers vote in the pols who are the most progressive, and then they show up at meetings to block the implementation of what they voted for.
As for our headline? It’s the setup for a joke sent in by JD Hasty.
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Last night I asked a pretty, young homeless woman if I could take her home.
She smiled at me and said yes. The look on her face soon changed, however, when I walked off with her cardboard box.
The nice thing about dating a homeless woman is that when the date is over you can drop her off anywhere.
I had the Army take me home many times, almost always where you would never want to be….
“Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mamma
Take me home, country roads”
Sorry, honey, I’d need another person to ride shotgun chaperone.
Homelessness ahs always been a crisis manufactured by the elitists who rule over us. To repeat my earlier post on the Seattle thread:
There are two mutually inclusive goals at work here:
The first is to drive crime up so much that people beg for a police state. They will take your rights and freedoms that you will trade for “safety”.
Next is they create a problem, (homelessness) the solution to which is you give them more money and power. When that doesn’t work, they tell you they need more money and power. When that doesn’t work, they have all the power they need to keep taking your money and power whenever they want it. And the police state created by step one works for them.
Meth heads will do anything
Progressive policy will never do away with homelessness, and will usually exacerbate it. The problem is the people themselves – who are the homeless, and why are they homeless? Tackle that problem, and the rate of homeless should decrease.
But it’s easier to just advocate for more shelters and more homeless housing, which in turn attracts more homeless, which results in calls for more shelters and homeless housing. Put that gentleman over there baying at the moon in a shelter – preferably in some other neighborhood – and I can forget about him. Trying to figure out why he is what he is and what can be done to correct that situation…well, that’s hard.
That’s not compassion – as so many progressives like to claim – that’s ignoring a problem.
It has a while since I actually belly laughed at a joke. That one did it. Thanks.
The simple truth, especially in places like L.A., is that the shortage of housing for homeless is not the problem but rather the conditions that generate more and more and more homeless. Part of which is building more housing for the homeless!
If a man won’t work neither should he eat, give them brooms to pick up the trash first. they leave trash behind everywhere they go. I saw a homeless guy sitting outside of a 7-Eleven last week he was sitting next to the trashcan eating something when he was done he left the trash on the ground not more that 6 inches from the trashcan.
You all need to re-align your perspective. It is not homelessness, it is drug abuse. Homelessness is not the root cause but a symptom. God forbid we address the drug abuse, we may have to actually admit to a boarder problem!
That is why the left insist on calling it a homeless problem.
Probably get a different expression if you just asked if you could touch her box.
If you are homeless aren’t you home wherever you are that’s not your home?
There is nothing F***ING funny
about homeless women & children.
“Where do you go when no one else will have you?”
“Home.”
My guess (and I am profoundly ignorant on the subject) is that “homelessness” is either a life choice (as in SoCal and Hawaii) or the result of mental instability.
Anybody remember when the Demonrats turned out all the mentally-ill to have them “integrated” into society? After “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest?”
“Mainstreaming” I think they called it. During the Kennedy or Johnson Administration, if memory serves.
Oh, and all the “progressive” cities and towns shut down the “flop-houses” where hobos and junkies could sleep for a dollar.
izlamo delenda est …
Umm. actually there is nothing funny about mentally ill homeless men either. It is a fact. It can also be a fact that a woman and her children might become temporarily homeless, but even shithole places like Richmond, VA and Baltimore, MD have support and facilities to aid these people. The epidemic that we are facing right now (and this dovetails with socialism) is that it is hard to be responsible. It takes a lot of work to provide for oneself not to mention a family. It would be SO much easier if somebody else called the shots, told us when to rise, report to work, which button to push, when to go home and have a beer. RESPONSIBILITY IS HARD. That stated, even a sorry assed, high skrewl educated, cracker like me has successfully provided for my children, my dearly missed bride and myself for a very long time.
As a number of you have intimated, the root problem is mental illness. Until that is dealt with, we will always have people choosing to live under overpasses. and on that note, GOD bless America that we have the right to do so. As a matter of fact I am thinking after these last two move on with their lives, I might just find a mutherfooking cardboard box of my own.
THIS COMMENT SUCK
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
Another advantage of dating a homeless girl is she won’t ask you, “Call me?”
i came home after a babysitting job in the early 70s, to find the doors locked against me….i slept outside, and the next day, my brother told me he was not allowed to let me in, even to get my clothes….
i spent the next year and a half on the streets….. i was not a “problem child” – all this happened just after our mom told us our dad was losing his mind to arterial sclerosis…..so……
apparently, my mom was willing o throw me out rather than confront my dad…..
never ever gotten over that……..
know a thing or two about “homelessness”…….
we’re not ALL nutcases and druggies……some of us are just collateral damage……
course, today i am not homeless…i live in a house i built with my own hands, designed with my own brain, and paid for with my husband’s money…..lol
chuckie, I know for a fact that it is not always the fault of the person left homeless. I am glad that you were able to rise to the occasion. You took responsibility.
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
Bleh. Bad joke on more than one level. But it’s the mechanics of it that makes me sigh.
Joke can’t work in first person. Only in third person when telling it to others. So it’s one of those you can’t actually pull off in real life.
Hi, can I take her home?
She’s going to look around for this “her” and wonder if you’re another crazy person moving into the neighborhood.
I know, I know. Not even a lampshade on my head is going to save me from being asked to leave the party early now.
One of my Air Force brothers became homeless years after we got out. I had lost touch with him for many years but finally tracked him down and contacted him. He had bounced around doing different jobs like fast food manager, truck driver and such. His true passion was playing the banjo and he is what I consider a world class bluegrass musician. His love for music demanded so much time that a steady job with decent pay and good benefits didn’t fit into the picture. I envy him for his talent and commitment to his love of music, but the truth is that playing the banjo didn’t get the C-notes flowing in. He is doing better now with a devoted wife by his side which is something I did without for most of my life. I chose to make the most money I could to provide for my spouse and four children but I gave up the ability to do what I was passionate about to make that happen. Shift working for thirty-five years with lots of overtime and great benefits comes at a cost but that was my choice. I love my banjo playing buddy like a brother and it’s a little sad to know he has lived on the edge for most of his life, but he did it his way and I guess that’s a freedom a lot of people don’t get.
We have a terrible homeless problem. Might just be more vagrancy as most choose to be free range subhumans at all four corners of busy intersections.
But our city’s liberals have their priorities in order. Mandate “affordable housing” in the most expensive part of the city and spend millions of dollars to restore a train that’s sat in a public park for the last 65 years so it can “roll down the tracks” again.