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Simple solution to a huge blight in America. |
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Dude I always thought that all the homeless should be rounded up and placed in a petting zoo. Kids could buy alcohal-soaked food pellets for a qarter from a bubble-gum machine and feed the bums while they pet them. That is my dream! |
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I don't think that address a single social situation beside that of society needing others pain to fulfill their own pleasure. |
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I deal with bums daily here in Ann Arbor and after a while I couldn't help but just become rude towards them. How long do you give them the spare change in your pocket before they become old friends happily greeting you under the awning of some trendy piece of shit store. In fact I think we should rip them of any smidgen of any dignity they could possibly have left. They don't even bother to remember your face when you look them in the eye. They have no style. That's the worst part. The reach around, heh. That's what they give you, right then and there. I'm talking about all those people in NYC or whatever. These people here have a system built around the 10¢ deposits of cans and bottles. Like that essay stated they can sustain their lives with recyclables. But there are only so many public trash cans in the minute city of Ann Arbor and I'm sure the homeless have some kind of ghetto territory gang shit going on. Is that why they ask for change? Damn. What an annoyance. McDonald's is always hiring. Anyone. I know, I worked there for nearly 5 years. MadTV once did a spoof ad for McDumpster's. That was some funny shit. |
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I meant I'm not talking about the people in NYC. Damn, I'm a frigging idiot. |
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no I get you, I think we can make homelessness illegal, and enforce what the author said I think it'd work, and I feel your angst with the situation in a small town. |
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How to deal with homelessness = buy a home |
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need a job to buy a home, will these guys solution work is the question? |
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*this, this guy's solution........ typos are stpid |
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Maybe the company that makes BVD's could deport them to a sweat shop where everyone stinks and then they could get laid when they're not working for 23¢ an hour like they're used to anyways. |
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I think it could be like the days of the "New Deal" by FDR. He fucking had out of work, trucked out to the dessert. He had them dig a hug ditch, then trucked them home. He then trucked out more people, and had them fill in the ditch. Just to get people working again. I think this could work, and possibly work well. |
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It is a good idea. |
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I think bums could also do a lot of good if they hung out with pro-lifers. Like everytime there is an anti-abortion rally the homeless could show up and follow someone home like a lost puppy dog. |
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Don't think that would work well for the homeless locals who are always along my daily route - I'm really not sure all of them could stand up straight again if they bent over to pick something up. |
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we could hand out those "grabber" things you see on tv, or that janitors use, no? |
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When I was a kid I wanted to be homeless.. I mean I wanted to be on my own. Not having a fucking job to go to. Just doing what I feel like all day - society will prevent that you know (unless I get the job of my dreams). Not sure it's my dream anyway, but it should be everybodies right to do what they feel like... we need to rebuild the society from scratch! |
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anyway = anymore |
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BUt that requires people to work... if they were able/prepared to do that they could get a "normal" job. |
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After I graduated high school I went traveling. I started with spending alot of time listening to homeless people and their stories. But really, they are totally pathetic and the majority of their stories are lame and not fun to listen to. I ended up hanging out with gutter punks in Roanoke, VA and then my boredom declined a bit. I'm a tv kid. I need bleeps of entertainment. Humans can't offer that. So being homeless has no grounds within my own personal sanity. Unless I met some elves in the woods. |
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I began reading your post and when I had gotten to "I started with spending alot of time listening to homeless people and their stories" I thought like hey, this guy's gotto write a book about that! It just seemed like the perfect book to me "homeless people - their own stories"... I mean, maybe it's not a happy book (they didn't make it really, did they), but I think that's a book that I'd like to read if it was interesting (and not like you described reality). |
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Most homeless people are on drugs. You have to round them up and get them off the streets and off drugs and put them in hostels and do it in one full sweep. |
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yeah... that plus they don't sleep as much as they need to, which makes them weird. |
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Seeing homeless people on the streets gets people down. It depresses people so you have to get them off the streets. There is absolutely no need for them to be there but we all know why they're there - you just have to do deal with it. |
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so we make homelessness illegal, and then get them jobs recycling works fine if you ask me, doesn't require much more than a few army trucks in a few cities to round them up, temperary housing, and then they have jobs and can get to life again. If they quit, well, homelessness = illegal, so they can go to jail. seems to work out easily. |
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at least their forced to bath in prison i know i wouldn't wanna rape a dirty bum but a clean inmate is a totally different story i'd say writing a book about homeless peoples' stories could be interesting... a heard alot about aliens, the dark side of the moon, abstract spiritualty, etc etc if you wanna read a really cool book about homeless I suggest 'The Mole People' by Jennifer Toth it's all about the people living in NYC in the sewers and below the subways Really interesting shit! |
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Yeah its for their own good anyhow. |
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thanks for the book-tip... I'll put it on my books-to-read-when-I-have-time list! I really have such a list... and that title made it! =) |
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many of these people are homeless because they are too crazy, drunk and or retarded to hold jobs. this is why they sit on benches talking to themselves and eating butter. what i don't get, is homeless people here in seattle. its so cold and wet. if they had any smarts they would migrate south to a warmer climate where food grows on trees and sleeping outside won't give you hypothermia. are there homeless people in alaska? where the hell do they sleep? |
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are there homeless eskimoes? that's an even more interesting question... |
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Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell is a good book about homeless people. |
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we've got homeless here in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the dead of winter with 6 inches of snow but I figure Eskimoes are a form of native and if they don't work hard and live in balance with their environment they'll starve or freeze. No room for laziness there. |
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see, you make that shit illegal, and make a job sector (recylcing) that ONLY homeless people can occupy, and get them on their feet. I mean, if it flops, wtf, you didn't recycle enough, not like it costs the taxpayers much, and it forces the issue. I say we do it, fucking just take action instead of lawmakers with thumbs up their butts and mayors faking cleaning up their cities. |
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Rubbish is for badly behaved kids at school to clear up since there is no corporal punishment anymore. |
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come now, it would work, and it would be easy. we need governmerns and mayors with their own balls, not their hands on other peoples' balls |
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Great idea! What an excellent way to deal with two problems at once... brilliant. Problem is ofcourse the homeless won't be very motivated to recycle our junk if they are simply forced to do so. We need people to make sure they'll do their jobs properly. Maybe give them cattle-prods, that'll motivate those lazy bastards! What other useless members of our society shall we force to watch over the homeless? The smokers? The handicapped? People on wellfare? |
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thanks Ceri JC... that one just made it to -the list- to! I've read (G. O.'s) "1984" before, but I don't remember much from it (except I enjoyed reading it). I know it's an important book though. |
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I don't think they are useless, I think it can simply take care of two problems at once. Not as a social tool, but as a way to get people off the street, and get them jobs, without much fuss, and with things they already generally do well. btw: I penned that article, and appreciate all the comments. I think we could swing it, and get on with biggere problems. |
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.........maybe not...... |
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Down and out is good- like Hunter S. Thompson's writing it's not your usual liberal nonsense that you get from "insider's stories" type journalism. It's an honest, objective look at homelessness based on personal experience. Really helps you understand homeless people's point of view more. |
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cool! thanks for the tip. |
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whats a "normal" job then? |
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McDonald's |
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Who gets all that suff out of the Portipotty and how do they do it? |
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