(our savior)

Here in “Little Berkeley”, the city council is looking endlessly for a site for the “One Stop Homeless Center” because they haven’t yet found enough ways to bleed the residents dry. Apparently the city was concerned when the National Organization for the Homeless named us as one of the meanest cities to the homeless (that didn’t stop homeless people from flocking here as usual though). Measures like putting bars in the middle of park benches was just one of the reasons for the “meanest” rating, along with a restriction on setting up a soup line in front of the downtown courthouse. Many of these types of measures were adopted, along with a beefed up police presence, after the 1990 brutal slayings of 5 University of Florida students by homeless, transient Danny Rolling, (who also confessed to other murders and rapes in other parts of the country).

Mind you we have several charities in town that cater to the homeless, The Salvation Army and a Catholic Charities homeless shelter along with other church-based networks and ministries. But the city wants to compete with these “faith-based” organizations. I am rather happy with the current arrangement–those who want to support the charities will, and those who do not are not obliged. And whereas the faith-based charities attempt to teach a man to fish (or he can move on) the government help is going to be an endless supply of fishes, at taxpayer expense.

Above all, I’m aghast at the notion that a local government would ask its residents to pony up for an endless parade of outsiders. The only debate in our town, unfortunately, is where to put the “One Stop” center, not whether or not it’s needed.

“I didn’t expect the city to be the way it is,” “I was expecting something different, something better.”

How about: I didn’t expect the administration to be the way it is. I was expecting something different; something better.

Others are recent arrivals who… becom[e] discouraged by the city’s noise, the mazelike subway, the difficult job market or the high cost of housing.

Switch out a word or two and we get: …discouraged by the administration‘s noise, the mazelike explanations, the difficult job market or the high cost of housing people who can’t be bothered to pay their own mortgages.

So, yeah, you could make a case that New York should provide the great I Won with a one-way ticket out of the US. Maybe they could convince his brother to share the shack?

Can we get a list of cities that have this program? I would like to see Obama’s 57 states this summer.

I wonder how many are illegals – bet none – as they have ‘rights’ you know!

Still, like all liberal schemes – it is bound to waste money, become corrupt with fraud and fail – in the end.

ACLU…..calling the ACLU……………..hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am not even a liberal lawyer and I see so many juicy violations of the Constitution here.

Oh no………no one will take advantage of this giveaway.

Prolly cost less to provide the right services for these folks so they can re-enter society as tax paying citizens.