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Originally Posted by gren
I do think laws like this create long-term problems. You really can't just hide problems in the long term. You may get the homeless off of the street until the time of the homeless intifadah comes. Which, would probably be purse snatching and violence. If we have a problem we need to fix it and while it may make people feel better to keep the dirty people away it's not going to fix societal problems. I seriously think America has a problem with thinking "I worked hard to earn my money so why don't they do the same". In most cases that's not true... and the amount of money you have doesn't have equal correlation to how hard you work, or even how well you planned your life. I think laws like this do highlight some really deep societal problems when you take away people's access to resources and then scorn them when they use unnaccepted means to gain access to resources.
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I'm all for the belief of giving people jobs rather than giving them handouts--or if given handout let it be temporary to motivate them to get a job--but with outsourcing and money-grubbing corporate bigwigs replacing human labor with technology, jobs may be harder to find. I'm all for technology, but we seriously need to figure out an alternative if this trend continues.
It's already hard enough for the homeless to survive with the increased difficulty in receiving a job. Most companies--if not all--require that a person gives a permanent address and many bosses are afraid of homeless people stealing. I can understand about not wanting them to be fed at the park, but they need to hold a designated area to feed the homeless.
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