Seattle wants to spend $5M for homeless tent

[lenny flank]

Ya know, people in jail get everything for free too.

Yet people try to break OUT of jail, not INTO it.

 

[John61CT]

Good piece on San Fran
https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-tech-billionaires-war-over-homelessness

And a poop map http://mochimachine.org/wasteland

 

[QinReno]

They don't "live" there at all, they just get to sleep there. The place is shut from 10:00 AM until 5:00pm. Between those hours they are out on the street and in the winter that often means outside in the freezing cold. 
..........
Here is a more accurate picture of the situation they have in Boulder Colorado. http://www.dailycamera.com/news/bou...ss-worry-day-shelter-closes-and-boulder-plans

Two problems with this description. 

Firstly, 24 - 7 = 17 hours that they do get to be inside in the shelter. That's when they get the beds, warm places to lounge, movies, cable, internet, meals, &etc. In the daytime in winter, you'll find many of them inside the new expanded library, which is prettier than the homeless shelter. 

Secondly, the referenced article is NOT talking about the homeless shelter, which is 2-miles out North Broadway. It's talking about something else that is/was downtown on Walnut St, and not run by the City. Two different things entirely. In regards the one on North Broadway, the article says ....
- "[font=Georgia,]The north Boulder shelter will expand its "clean and sober" transitional program to 120 beds...."[/font]

The following article is also referenced on that page ... so the City Council aren't just a bunch of SOBs.
- http://www.dailycamera.com/news/bou...omelessness-strategy-calls-neighboring-cities

 

[QinReno]

Good piece on San Fran
https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-tech-billionaires-war-over-homelessness

And a poop map http://mochimachine.org/wasteland

There is already another thread on this crap.

 

[Mechelle]

Meh, all of those "handouts to the poor", in total, cost less than ONE SQUADRON of F-35 fighter-bombers.

The argument "we can't afford it, boo hoo hoo" is silly. The US is the wealthiest society that has ever existed in all of human history. Richer than the Roman Empire. Richer than the Spanish Empire. Richer than the British Empire. Richer than all three of them put together.

We can well afford to help the poor and homeless. We simply don't WANT to.

We're not the wealthiest per capita,  that would be the western european countries hands down.  

We're just the least feudal that ever was ...hence the post powerful, productive and influential as our middle class and poor 
were in a better position than any remembered.  that's what made the US so strong.

Now were going backwards to feudal europe/asia/india style.  imo America will buck that rider right off thou, and the world will follow.

 

[Mechelle]

The rich would quickly learn two things: (1) they're not as independent as they think they are, and (2) they're not as indispensable as they think they are.

I prefer the old Roman "secessio", in which all the "commoners" would pack up and leave town, allowing the aristocrats to do everything for themselves. Since the aristocrats can't even do their own laundry in the morning, they were crying within days to have all the commoners come back.

they are banking on 'robots'

 

[Mechelle]

Lived 3 years in Seattle.

One day  "what the bleep."
The exits on the free ways are on the left.  Fast lane confusion. Always clogged.

Found out Seattle was settled by the Hippy children and there is a big big pot culture there.
Some heavy duty mind damaging chemically enhanced stuff comes down twice yearly from Canada.

They also design a lot of items that are made in China.  Started noticing things like electronics that,
light turns red when on and green when off...

imo this tent thing is like alot of the things from Seattle..  besides a poor long term investment idea
someone was way too stoned, those things will be miserable in the winter with all that rain and mold

 

[John61CT]

Cleaning up: Aussie mobile shower + laundry service for the homeless goes international

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2...e-laundry-for-the-homeless-goes-international