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Sunday, January 31, 2016
The Homeless
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As we are the most generous nation on Earth, there are ways to help those in need. West Palm Beach is tackling the Homeless problem with a new program.
I was just at Publix in Lw near dixie & the same homeless man I've seen hanging around for a year tried to ask my 2 year old daughter for a dollar as she was standing next to me. He was kinda black asian looking, really grubby and ive seen him on the police blotter dozens of times. I understand helping those in need but some dont want help they just want handouts and are a drag on society. What can be done about these? Its horrible!
He may not be homeless but a panhandler. We could enforce anti-begging laws here just like PB county has for those begging on streets. However, he was on private property. It's up to Publix to ask him to move on I would think. Keep complaining to Publix and ask them to do something.
Publix or most other businesses won't do anything about this, we dined outside on Lake ave and were harrassed by some alcoholic bum, we had to shoo it away restaurant did nothing, never went back.
I don't know why people persist on calling these vermin homeless, PC talk is inappropriate here, there is plenty of help for those who want it, no hope for those who only want drugs.
These are the very people who do need help--the addicts. And we have plenty of them freely walking around in our city, stealing to get money. If it's not nailed down, they will take it and in broad daylight. Because of their addiction, they can't hold down a job. They end up on the streets. They are homeless. Now we have wealthy young addicts arriving here where mommy & daddy want them out of their hair and put them in a sober Home that also doesn't care. And then they end up on our streets.
We have a terrible problem here and I was glad to see that a couple of our commissioners attended the Homeless Coalition Event. Hopefully, we will find answers to this scourge.
Yes it is a serious problem and they need to be pushed out of our city. Sadly, we are not going to solve this problem, but we do not need to become a dumping ground for all our neighbor cities which is what is happening. You don't see these folks begging in Palm Beach, you don't see them camped out in the parks in Palm Beach. And we pay more to PBSO than the Town of Palm Beach pays for its own police dept.
i don't know why peopel get on drugs or how they gt addicted. all I do know is many are homeless becasue they can't feed thier habit. this is a medical and mental issue and they need help.
Maybe be can buy the Navy's aircraft carrier USS Ranger, featured in the Tom Cruise movie "Top Gun" - they are asking for a penny to scrap it.
OK, maybe that's too far of a rage… Let's get the Air Force to donate one to us!
So we get an Air Force carrier, then we park it on the southside of peanut island between FPL and the island of Palm Beach, and we move all the homeless there. You know they can house about 5200 people on those ships. They could even fish for added protein. At least will be teaching people a skill they could use and control what comes on board.
They could have classes on how to learn a new skills. people could cook their own food, enjoy hot showers and an bunk, do their laundry, heck on the top deck they could even grow their own vegetables, raise some chickens for eggs - ah utopia
That is until the people on Palm Beach decide they don't want that in their backyard…
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I was just at Publix in Lw near dixie & the same homeless man I've seen hanging around for a year tried to ask my 2 year old daughter for a dollar as she was standing next to me. He was kinda black asian looking, really grubby and ive seen him on the police blotter dozens of times. I understand helping those in need but some dont want help they just want handouts and are a drag on society. What can be done about these? Its horrible!
He may not be homeless but a panhandler. We could enforce anti-begging laws here just like PB county has for those begging on streets. However, he was on private property. It's up to Publix to ask him to move on I would think. Keep complaining to Publix and ask them to do something.
Publix or most other businesses won't do anything about this, we dined outside on Lake ave and were harrassed by some alcoholic bum, we had to shoo it away restaurant did nothing, never went back.
I don't know why people persist on calling these vermin homeless, PC talk is inappropriate here, there is plenty of help for those who want it, no hope for those who only want drugs.
These are the very people who do need help--the addicts. And we have plenty of them freely walking around in our city, stealing to get money. If it's not nailed down, they will take it and in broad daylight. Because of their addiction, they can't hold down a job. They end up on the streets. They are homeless. Now we have wealthy young addicts arriving here where mommy & daddy want them out of their hair and put them in a sober Home that also doesn't care. And then they end up on our streets.
We have a terrible problem here and I was glad to see that a couple of our commissioners attended the Homeless Coalition Event. Hopefully, we will find answers to this scourge.
Yes it is a serious problem and they need to be pushed out of our city. Sadly, we are not going to solve this problem, but we do not need to become a dumping ground for all our neighbor cities which is what is happening. You don't see these folks begging in Palm Beach, you don't see them camped out in the parks in Palm Beach. And we pay more to PBSO than the Town of Palm Beach pays for its own police dept.
Call them homeless by choice then, but don't be naive.
i don't know why peopel get on drugs or how they gt addicted. all I do know is many are homeless becasue they can't feed thier habit. this is a medical and mental issue and they need help.
Maybe be can buy the Navy's aircraft carrier USS Ranger, featured in the Tom Cruise movie "Top Gun" - they are asking for a penny to scrap it.
OK, maybe that's too far of a rage… Let's get the Air Force to donate one to us!
So we get an Air Force carrier, then we park it on the southside of peanut island between FPL and the island of Palm Beach, and we move all the homeless there. You know they can house about 5200 people on those ships. They could even fish for added protein. At least will be teaching people a skill they could use and control what comes on board.
They could have classes on how to learn a new skills. people could cook their own food, enjoy hot showers and an bunk, do their laundry, heck on the top deck they could even grow their own vegetables, raise some chickens for eggs - ah utopia
That is until the people on Palm Beach decide they don't want that in their backyard…
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