I propose using state and federal land to establish camps for the homeless.
NOTHING has worked so far and it's insane to think that the majority of homeless would suddenly adopt middle class values and work ethic if they were handed a home. Some will, but they are the exception.
Services can be more efficiently centralized by both city, county, state, federal government, along with various charities. Those who want help will be assigned an individual, group, of family tent. Daily meals will be offered, but before the meal, all must attend talks education on self-care, safety, and personal responsibility.
Mental health and drug treatment will be available, plus an area where MJ can be used in accordance with state and local laws, but hard drugs and weapons would be prohibited.
Connecting folks with their family of origin, whenever possible, and/or good work and living options would be a very high priority, along with providing help for mental illness and/or substance abuse disorders. Voluntary individuals who demonstrate the ability and desire to integrate positively into their community can leave after three weeks, but will be returned for a longer period, if they choose to be homeless again, i.e., vagrant.
Camp security will be provided to ensure safety and no guns, or large knives will be allowed. Those who volunteer to help with cooking, cleaning, and peer councils will be paid a stipend. There can be a separate area for those who are belligerent and/or violently oppose assistance and placement.
Our military can assist with preparing a tent and support facilities, as they have great experience in that area. No plan is perfect, and this plan is meant to be flexible, but again, it's better than folks being out on the streets where crime, victimization, and environmental degradation are commonplace and where self-care and stability is all but impossible.
PS: I was sent to a similar camp, only more strictly managed, regimented, and regulated. My collogues and I HAD to attend the above suggested classes. We HAD to receive immunizations, training, and work assignments. We were required to demonstrate appropriate personal responsibility with peer leaders being assigned to facilitate the process. It was called, "the draft." I didn't love it, but my experience made me and virtually all there want to work hard to better our situation.
I'm currently living in [and in spite of] TX. Your Republican "leadership," has just passed our crazed and delusional pols in the Repub race to the moral, ethical, and reality based thought process bottom.
Let that sink in for a minute.
I do everything I can to support minorities and I particularly try to help the homeless regardless of race, or any other circumstance other than need, but it's very frustrating when scum like this live down to the stereotype. Thank goodness I'm not this thug, but if I was, I would have been fired long ago. If I was Latino, I would be proud of the good things I and my fellow Latinos worked for and I would fight for fairness, but I would be doubly angered with someone like vasquez and demand he be fired. I would not want him to be in a responsible position, while giving La Raza a bad name.
God bless this good woman...and please provide a bit of feedback, self-awareness for these sad, pathetic excuses for Americans. I would be happy to do so, should I be in the store when they come around.
Wow! The usual right wing trailer trash mentality is well represented here! Fake stats, lies, and paranoia gushing per these sad, pathetic souls like the Colorado River before human assisted global warming! Santa Fe and several others cities have adopted increased minimum wage with no ill effects. That's a fact. Colorado is doing so as a state; another fact. But real, verifiable facts never get in the way of a good ole right wing, Fox news flunky, trailer trash rant, but thanks for proving me right, by being so wrong...again! Please continue to be all hat and no cowboy my right wing friends. Always wrong, but always entertaining!
In all likelihood, if I, or anyone on this post was living in poverty and in a 3rd world country where the gap between rich and poor was even greater than in America, We'd be hiking the length of Mexico, paying scumbag coyotes, or whatever was needed tto improve our lives. But that's only half the story. This story reads like a highly biased informercial for very selective amnesty. Senor Levya is also an exceptional Latino. What about those seeking a better life from Asia, who wind up being trafficked and exploited. Where's the article on corrupt governments and what is in many ways, a corrupt culture that says you have to make many babies to be somebody, as the Catholic Church and Latino culture does, resulting in more people and less resources. Why is the Latino culture the only one that refuses to assimilate? We're not dialing 2 for German, 3 for Chinese, or 4 for Gaelic.
Where's the article and the pressure on banana republic dictators, as in Guatemala and El Salvdor? Mexico has more millionaires per capita than the US, yet grinding poverty and wholesale corruption. Addressing these issues is also important and even more critical on a larger scale.
Wow! Thanks to "Vince of Darkness" for the almost humorous distortion of history!
The the two major parties flip flopped during the '60's and the Party of Lincoln traded his amazing
legacy for the white sheets and hoods of the Dixiecrats. We now have the Bubba Belt, stretching from the deeply disturbed South, to the OU campus, Ohio, Wisconsin, and crAZy AZ with it's Taliban-like
hiding of hatreds to numerous to count behind a theocratic jihad against reason, the Black guy,
as well as the true intent of Lincoln and our founding fathers. No more fact farts from the dark recesses of Vince's warped mind please.
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NOTHING has worked so far and it's insane to think that the majority of homeless would suddenly adopt middle class values and work ethic if they were handed a home. Some will, but they are the exception.
Services can be more efficiently centralized by both city, county, state, federal government, along with various charities. Those who want help will be assigned an individual, group, of family tent. Daily meals will be offered, but before the meal, all must attend talks education on self-care, safety, and personal responsibility.
Mental health and drug treatment will be available, plus an area where MJ can be used in accordance with state and local laws, but hard drugs and weapons would be prohibited.
Connecting folks with their family of origin, whenever possible, and/or good work and living options would be a very high priority, along with providing help for mental illness and/or substance abuse disorders. Voluntary individuals who demonstrate the ability and desire to integrate positively into their community can leave after three weeks, but will be returned for a longer period, if they choose to be homeless again, i.e., vagrant.
Camp security will be provided to ensure safety and no guns, or large knives will be allowed. Those who volunteer to help with cooking, cleaning, and peer councils will be paid a stipend. There can be a separate area for those who are belligerent and/or violently oppose assistance and placement.
Our military can assist with preparing a tent and support facilities, as they have great experience in that area. No plan is perfect, and this plan is meant to be flexible, but again, it's better than folks being out on the streets where crime, victimization, and environmental degradation are commonplace and where self-care and stability is all but impossible.
PS: I was sent to a similar camp, only more strictly managed, regimented, and regulated. My collogues and I HAD to attend the above suggested classes. We HAD to receive immunizations, training, and work assignments. We were required to demonstrate appropriate personal responsibility with peer leaders being assigned to facilitate the process. It was called, "the draft." I didn't love it, but my experience made me and virtually all there want to work hard to better our situation.
Let that sink in for a minute.
Where's the article and the pressure on banana republic dictators, as in Guatemala and El Salvdor? Mexico has more millionaires per capita than the US, yet grinding poverty and wholesale corruption. Addressing these issues is also important and even more critical on a larger scale.
The the two major parties flip flopped during the '60's and the Party of Lincoln traded his amazing
legacy for the white sheets and hoods of the Dixiecrats. We now have the Bubba Belt, stretching from the deeply disturbed South, to the OU campus, Ohio, Wisconsin, and crAZy AZ with it's Taliban-like
hiding of hatreds to numerous to count behind a theocratic jihad against reason, the Black guy,
as well as the true intent of Lincoln and our founding fathers. No more fact farts from the dark recesses of Vince's warped mind please.