Trump’s plan includes forcing unhoused individuals into treatment or institutionalization.
The good old Victorian approach
Sounds about right. Someone has to make a buck off of them. Just like our incarcerated people.
It is so disgusting. Print out this news article, stick it to your wall. Read it every day to remember why these people are a disease to society.
Better yet, stick on public walls
Yeah, it's not the homeless people that are victims of a cruel society that has not only abandoned but also ostracized them. It's the wealthy that have to share an imperceptible amount of their wealth so that they have somewhere to sleep.
trump already believes homeless people are richer than him because they don't hold debt.
Is this a dead cat?
I'm inclined to agree. The idea that a cabinet-to-be is able to make headlines during a lame duck session is... well, I don't think it's normal, but I may be misremembering.
Nothing earth shattering today (Dec 13) but a few noteworthy things on AP: https://apnews.com/hub/congress
Every action involves a reaction.
You cut taxes? What will be lost? This is not an exception.
Half million people that have literally nothing to lose (even a prison may be a safer place for them) is quite an army. Desperate people are famous for doing desperate things.
This will not end up well and not only for the homeless
This is the danger of elite projection. What his life is like must be how other people's lives are like.
He was successful. If he wanted to get a job, he could. If he did work, he got paid.
If these people aren't doing that, it must be their fault, and they need "treatment" (via institutionalization) in his mind. It couldn't possibly be because to get a job, you often need existing housing, but to get housing, you need money from a job. Or the fact that people like him don't pay enough.
It's always their fault. Individual responsibility, meritocracy and all that jazz.
What happened to "make Orwell fiction again" Elon?
Likewise I call billionaires a lie and propaganda.
Ah yes, it is a "life style" choice and all that jazz..... Not at all the inevitable result of decades plus of poor governance/systemic failures.
Sounds like the kind of thing a tyrannical government would say.
It’s rather interesting to see trump falling for the same bullshit he feeds his devoted minions.
What complete and utter morons. Just like the majority of American voters.
Clearly we can solve homelessness by simply terraforming Mars and moving all the homeless there, right?
For someone with the means to reach infinite corners of the globe he’s so out of touch with the world
If those nefarious groups are profiting from high level of homelessness, nothing is stopping them from finding sheltered for the unhoused...
What if Luigi was acquitted and launched a startup that sold guillotines at cost...
Isn't this just the exact opposite of the de-institutionization that happened during Kennedy back in the 1960's? Which Reagan then ruined in the 1980's by defunding the programs that supported the people who would previously be housed in a mental institution that were put forth by Carter?
Feels like it's just admitting Reagan fucked up. But trying to fix it by spending government money on rebuilding the mental institution system. Doesn't make any sense.
Yes, Regan fucked up. Yes we need to rebuild the mental institution systems and we should be spending a hell of a lot of tax payer money to ensure those institutions serve their populations in a humane manner. Most homeless have mental health issues and the US has very little resources for these people. Drug rehab facilities should be free to users and well funded by taxpayers, as should all healthcare.
Saying that homelessness is entirely due to housing shortage is not seeing the forest through the trees.
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