Officials want to clear a mile-long homeless camp on a Sonoma County bike trail. Some

S

signalmankenneth

Verified User
Officials want to clear a mile-long homeless camp on a Sonoma County bike trail. Some don't want to go

I get tired of public officials with their, out of sight and out of mind policies, making the homeless move?!!

If I was homeless, my main concern would be bathing and clean underwear to put on afterward?!! I take showers everyday, a habit I kept from the army?!!

Santa Rosa, California (CNN)The globs of peanut butter were evenly applied. But this was no sandwich.

Pest control workers were using the spread as bait as they installed rat traps -- 340 of them -- throughout the mile-long homeless encampment after infrared video from a sheriff's helicopter revealed a major rodent infestation.

"I think it's sad and overwhelming," said pest control technician Matt Dougherty of the conditions for more than 200 homeless residents. "We're here just to make it better for them."
The rat problem could hardly have been a surprise. Trash and human waste had been piling up for months along the Joe Rodota Trail, nestled behind neighborhoods in the heart of Northern California wine country.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/18/us/santa-rosa-homeless-camp/index.html

I think it's a damn shame we even have homeless in this country?!! Coming up in the 50's, 60's, and 70's, I never did see any homeless people?!!
100520181612037792597_2.jpg
 
Not all the homeless are mentally ill but there is a fair number of them. I thought this interesting why there could have been less homeless on the street way back when. They were living in hospitals.


""Deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill has roots in the civil rights and civil liberties movements of the 1960s, which envisioned more fulfilling lives for those who had been languishing in understaffed psychiatric hospitals through new medications and robust community-based services. The number of patients living in state hospitals dropped from 535,000 in 1960 to 137,000 in 1980.""


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519584/
 
signalmankenneth said:
Officials want to clear a mile-long homeless camp on a Sonoma County bike trail. Some don't want to go

I get tired of public officials with their, out of sight and out of mind policies, making the homeless move?!!

If I was homeless, my main concern would be bathing and clean underwear to put on afterward?!! I take showers everyday, a habit I kept from the army?!!

Santa Rosa, California (CNN)The globs of peanut butter were evenly applied. But this was no sandwich.

Pest control workers were using the spread as bait as they installed rat traps -- 340 of them -- throughout the mile-long homeless encampment after infrared video from a sheriff's helicopter revealed a major rodent infestation.

"I think it's sad and overwhelming," said pest control technician Matt Dougherty of the conditions for more than 200 homeless residents. "We're here just to make it better for them."
The rat problem could hardly have been a surprise. Trash and human waste had been piling up for months along the Joe Rodota Trail, nestled behind neighborhoods in the heart of Northern California wine country.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/18/us/santa-rosa-homeless-camp/index.html

I think it's a damn shame we even have homeless in this country?!! Coming up in the 50's, 60's, and 70's, I never did see any homeless people?!!

100520181612037792597_2.jpg
Click to expand...

So you never took showers or put on clean underwear until you went in the army? You must have smelled awfully bad my dear.
 
floridafan said:
So you never took showers or put on clean underwear until you went in the army? You must have smelled awfully bad my dear.
Click to expand...

Before indoor plumbing was the Saturday bath

The greatest inconvenience of living in my boyhood day and age was the absence of a running water system and inadequate sewer system in the house. This is what I believe made the Saturday night bath an institution.

ece0dcd461f19780f5d0b2d4345d0165.jpg

Saturday night bath, in a house with no plumbing, you haul in the water, heat it!
 
signalmankenneth said:
Officials want to clear a mile-long homeless camp on a Sonoma County bike trail. Some don't want to go

I get tired of public officials with their, out of sight and out of mind policies, making the homeless move?!!

If I was homeless, my main concern would be bathing and clean underwear to put on afterward?!! I take showers everyday, a habit I kept from the army?!!

Santa Rosa, California (CNN)The globs of peanut butter were evenly applied. But this was no sandwich.

Pest control workers were using the spread as bait as they installed rat traps -- 340 of them -- throughout the mile-long homeless encampment after infrared video from a sheriff's helicopter revealed a major rodent infestation.

"I think it's sad and overwhelming," said pest control technician Matt Dougherty of the conditions for more than 200 homeless residents. "We're here just to make it better for them."
The rat problem could hardly have been a surprise. Trash and human waste had been piling up for months along the Joe Rodota Trail, nestled behind neighborhoods in the heart of Northern California wine country.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/18/us/santa-rosa-homeless-camp/index.html

I think it's a damn shame we even have homeless in this country?!! Coming up in the 50's, 60's, and 70's, I never did see any homeless people?!!

100520181612037792597_2.jpg
Click to expand...

If you are HOMELESS, AND UNIMPAIRED, YOUR FIRST CONCERN SHOULD BE GETTING A JOB....
 
I remember there used to be some police show on TV back in the 50's called the Naked City. It had a monologue that started out with, "There are 9 million different stories in New York etc.............

Well, it is true that 9 million people would have 9 million different stories, so it made some kind of sense.

About 40 years ago I was attending classes after work at the County College, and after a long day one day, I decided to dive into one of the bars across the street from the college, AND HAVE MYSELF A BEER! LOL!

I was there drinking my beer, and a stumble bum pulled up a barstool and as he sat down beside me, he asked, "Could you buy an old drunk a beer"?

I was a bit surprised by all this sudden predicament but I said, "OK- But only if you tell me what has led you to being a bum".

He pulled out his wallet and pulled out a business card and handed it to me. The card said so and so ATTORNEY AT LAW from one of the well know Dallas Law firms.

I asked him, "Is that you"? And he said, "Well it used to be me" So I asked him, "What happened to that"? THIS WAS HIS STORY.....

He said, he used to have a beautiful wife and two sons, a nice home in Highland Park, and everything he could possibly want. He said he bought one of those nice cigarette boats and he used to take it to Lake Texhoma and cruise the lake with his family. One day, he hit a wake wrong and flipped the boat over, throwing everyone out in the water, and no one was wearing any life vests. He could see his wife about 10 feet away and struggling, his sons were in the other direction 20 feet away and they looked like they were drowning. Well, somehow, his wife and both his sons drowned that day and he somehow managed to save himself.

He said it went downhill from there because he started drinking, turned into an alcoholic, and ended up losing his job, his home, and everything he owned but the clothes he was wearing.

I've kind of looked at bums a little differently since then. And since then, I've heard some rather sad stories from some of these bums- always about alcohol or drugs somewhere in the mix.
 
Last edited:
Grokmaster said:
If you are HOMELESS, AND UNIMPAIRED, YOUR FIRST CONCERN SHOULD BE GETTING A JOB....
Click to expand...

In NYC, over half the homeless have a job. It is not enough to get them a home. And as another poster did put it, there are a lot of difficulties in getting a job without a home.

The most successful policy they have found to get rid of homeless is Housing First. Trying to solve other problems (mental health, drug addiction, employment) when homeless is almost impossible. If you get them into housing first, everything else will often fall into place. All other policies have less than a 10% success rate, but Housing First has over a 90% success rate. It really is magical.

BUT, our minds rebel against giving someone who refuses to deal with their other problems free housing. It does not seem right.
 
signalmankenneth said:
Before indoor plumbing was the Saturday bath

The greatest inconvenience of living in my boyhood day and age was the absence of a running water system and inadequate sewer system in the house. This is what I believe made the Saturday night bath an institution.

ece0dcd461f19780f5d0b2d4345d0165.jpg

Saturday night bath, in a house with no plumbing, you haul in the water, heat it!
Click to expand...

Your crotch must stink to this day. I can only imagine what crawling around in that honey pot of yours.
 
Walt said:
In NYC, over half the homeless have a job. It is not enough to get them a home. And as another poster did put it, there are a lot of difficulties in getting a job without a home.

The most successful policy they have found to get rid of homeless is Housing First. Trying to solve other problems (mental health, drug addiction, employment) when homeless is almost impossible. If you get them into housing first, everything else will often fall into place. All other policies have less than a 10% success rate, but Housing First has over a 90% success rate. It really is magical.

BUT, our minds rebel against giving someone who refuses to deal with their other problems free housing. It does not seem right.
Click to expand...

NYC, another city completely controlled by libs. Shocker.
 
signalmankenneth said:
Officials want to clear a mile-long homeless camp on a Sonoma County bike trail. Some don't want to go

I get tired of public officials with their, out of sight and out of mind policies, making the homeless move?!!

If I was homeless, my main concern would be bathing and clean underwear to put on afterward?!! I take showers everyday, a habit I kept from the army?!!

Santa Rosa, California (CNN)The globs of peanut butter were evenly applied. But this was no sandwich.

Pest control workers were using the spread as bait as they installed rat traps -- 340 of them -- throughout the mile-long homeless encampment after infrared video from a sheriff's helicopter revealed a major rodent infestation.

"I think it's sad and overwhelming," said pest control technician Matt Dougherty of the conditions for more than 200 homeless residents. "We're here just to make it better for them."
The rat problem could hardly have been a surprise. Trash and human waste had been piling up for months along the Joe Rodota Trail, nestled behind neighborhoods in the heart of Northern California wine country.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/18/us/santa-rosa-homeless-camp/index.html

I think it's a damn shame we even have homeless in this country?!! Coming up in the 50's, 60's, and 70's, I never did see any homeless people?!!

100520181612037792597_2.jpg
Click to expand...

From Kenny's link:
...Trash and human waste had been piling up for months*...

...revealed a major rodent infestation...

...public health and safety concerns...

..."It's an occupation. It's taken over our neighborhood,"...

..."Yes, there are thieves and there are addicts,"...
Click to expand...

Gee, why wouldn't hardworking people want that in their backyard? :awesome:
 
signalmankenneth said:
Officials want to clear a mile-long homeless camp on a Sonoma County bike trail. Some don't want to go

I think it's a damn shame we even have homeless in this country?!! Coming up in the 50's, 60's, and 70's, I never did see any homeless people?!!
Click to expand...


Have you ever considered that the population has almost tripled since those halcyon days when you had to haul the water in from the well and heat it for your Saturday night bath? Hell, I lived in Sonoma County(Santa Rosa)in the 90's and I NEVER saw a homeless person. I have another theory though, besides population growth, wanna hear it?

Okay. Leftist policies, state and federal, are driving productive Californians out of the state, disappearing tax base means you can't throw massive amounts of money at the problem, lots of poor people moving in because of the weather, and families don't stay together and help each other anymore.
 
Walt said:
In NYC, over half the homeless have a job. It is not enough to get them a home. And as another poster did put it, there are a lot of difficulties in getting a job without a home.

The most successful policy they have found to get rid of homeless is Housing First. Trying to solve other problems (mental health, drug addiction, employment) when homeless is almost impossible. If you get them into housing first, everything else will often fall into place. All other policies have less than a 10% success rate, but Housing First has over a 90% success rate. It really is magical.

BUT, our minds rebel against giving someone who refuses to deal with their other problems free housing. It does not seem right.
Click to expand...

Or fiscally responsible lol.

What city or local government could possibly afford such a thing? Should they provide free heat and electricity? It would also have the unintended consequence of people seeing an opportunity in ‘becoming homeless’ in order to qualify for free housing. It could be as simple as living in a tent for a few weeks and filling out some papers.

That said, I don’t have an answer for it either.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top