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Patrick did it himself, so yea it’s literally happened before.
It was in a comment reply to FortWayne where I suggested that Christians Grow up already and stop acting like children. Patrick said it was a personal attack on Fort Wayne lmao.
CovfefeButDeadly saysIf you have a better solution, there are people listening.
The church in America needs to stop spending money on giant screens and worship bands, and start taking care of the poor and needy in their neighborhoods. I blame government a lot, but the church is really the first line of failure here.
I think you are underestimating how severely difficult it is to rehab the homeless. A local pastor who runs a couple of the programs at Weingart center in downtown LA http://weingart.org/ estimated that about 1 in 25 people who enter his program actually complete it to the point where they get a job and residence(and some still subsequently fail).
Some good points. I grew up in the Protestant church, my Dad was a youth pastor for many years. I remember a lot of fake people, and church leadership that just wanted to create a group of followers(of them, not God). Those churches might pay lip service to Christ's mandate, but nothing more. If the church was doing it's job, these encampments wouldn't exist, at least not in such a dirty state.
Your question quoted above is incorrectly stated. "The question was, do you move the encampment".
errc saysPatrick did it himself, so yea it’s literally happened before.
It was in a comment reply to FortWayne where I suggested that Christians Grow up already and stop acting like children. Patrick said it was a personal attack on Fort Wayne lmao.
Uh, so basically you called FortWayne a child? Direct personal attacks get scrubbed.
Learn the rules homie.
Goran_K saysThat's literally never happened on this board and I challenge you show where a post like that was scrubbed because of unfavorable comments towards Christians
They do is you make unfavorable comments about the GOP, Trump and anything that suits the moderators fancy.
My business is zoned in the gritty industrial area of town, the same part that homeless "Shit Rolls Downhill" wind up occupying. After decades of daily experience, I have no illusions or sympathy.
There are do-gooder charities that give out care packages of food and clothes. This ends up concentrating increasing numbers of homeless, and maintaining them JUST ABOVE their rock bottom, in perpetuity. They cherry pick the canned goods and abandon the ones they don't want or can't trade (most of the package.) They wipe their ass on the carefully laundered and folded clothes and abandon those too.
Sometimes I'll witness a bunch of them languishing around the far reaches of a shopping center parking lot. Then, the heroin dealer pulls in and these people suddenly COME ALIVE and walk with determination to meet him.
It sucks coming back from a weekend to find someone has spent a great deal of time methodically going through everything in my parking lot, stealing and ...
There are do-gooder charities that give out care packages of food and clothes. This ends up concentrating increasing numbers of homeless, and maintaining them JUST ABOVE their rock bottom, in perpetuity. They cherry pick the canned goods and abandon the ones they don't want or can't trade (most of the package.) They wipe their ass on the carefully laundered and folded clothes and abandon those too.
Sometimes I'll witness a bunch of them languishing around the far reaches of a shopping center parking lot. Then, the heroin dealer pulls in and these people suddenly COME ALIVE and walk with determination to meet him.
It sucks coming back from a weekend to find someone has spent a great deal of time methodically going through everything in my parking lot, stealing and damaging things left and right. Recently in addition to obvious foraging, one left me a big pile of poop, inches from a stray paper plate and trash can, then stuffed the shitty paper towels into the wheel...
I'm all for helping those who want help, but there needs to be structured program with tough rules and jail time for those who refuse.
They do if you make unfavorable comments about the GOP, Trump and anything that suits the moderators fancy. Not sure about Christians per se but I stand by everything else.
The back of our office has a 3ft brick wall a few feet out from the building that creates a natural "homeless hangout". Had a guy who lived back there for about 6 months. He was a vet. Guy had some porno mags and liquor back there, but his area was basically clean. He didn't use the bathroom by our building, and didn't take drugs. For some reason people in my office didn't like him being there, and got a restraining order. So he left, and now we get random people back there weekly. Some just camp overnight, but others have used the area to piss, or talk VERY LOUDLY in small groups. The latter obviously didn't respect our office, and I was fine with shooing them away. But the vet, still don't understand what the issue was, other than homeless people make others uncomfortable.
The University of North Carolina did an experiment 3 years ago where they attempted to gauge the cost of homelessness. Moore Place has 120 units, and was built at a cost of $12,000,000 (not counting staffing and maintenance cost per year). So to house 120 homeless people, it cost an instant $12,000,000 hit, and whatever the continuing cost will be to keep the property, maintain it (utilities, meals, etc), and fully staff it. These startup costs are much cheaper in North Carolina than they are in Orange County.
Direct personal attacks get scrubbed.
Where have the nice homeless gone
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"there is no way we are going to allow Orange County land that is supposed to be used by residents to be occupied by the homeless"
"But I’m not going to intermingle this population with property owners, are you kidding?"
What a douche.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/26/los-angeles-burbs-crack-down-on-huge-homeless-camp-near-disneyland-fearing-new-skid-row.html