Homelessness is not necessarily a disease that needs curing. In this I disagree with Pappion.
Because there are some who cannot or will not settle down, get a job and work 40 hours a week in order to pay out 95% of what they earn on food and rent, and advance themselves so they are in debt to the grave like all good middle class Americans, we need a place in Lubbock where hobos and the homeless can camp out.
A tent city where you can stay and shower if you follow some basic rules is just perfect for that.
There have always been homeless. The history of our country has been a migration westward of the homeless from the first colonies in the new world to the settling of California, Oregon, and Alaska. We are all the children of the homeless
What is different now is that there are few unowned, unfenced-in places to squat down in, none to homestead, and that most homeless have lost basic survival skills other than asking for handouts and pilfering. If a homeless person tries to be self-sufficient and carries a gun for potting rabbits and squirrels, nowadays they end up in jail and gunless forthwith. So much for the 2nd Amendment.
So I am not one to believe that every homeless person needs a hand up. Sometimes they just need a place to hang out and be out of the way.
Because there are some who cannot or will not settle down, get a job and work 40 hours a week in order to pay out 95% of what they earn on food and rent, and advance themselves so they are in debt to the grave like all good middle class Americans, we need a place in Lubbock where hobos and the homeless can camp out.
A tent city where you can stay and shower if you follow some basic rules is just perfect for that.
There have always been homeless. The history of our country has been a migration westward of the homeless from the first colonies in the new world to the settling of California, Oregon, and Alaska. We are all the children of the homeless
What is different now is that there are few unowned, unfenced-in places to squat down in, none to homestead, and that most homeless have lost basic survival skills other than asking for handouts and pilfering. If a homeless person tries to be self-sufficient and carries a gun for potting rabbits and squirrels, nowadays they end up in jail and gunless forthwith. So much for the 2nd Amendment.
So I am not one to believe that every homeless person needs a hand up. Sometimes they just need a place to hang out and be out of the way.
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