Originally Published 9/8/21 on Culturcidal by John Hawkins When I was in my mid-twenties, I struggled mightily with my finances. It was a tough job market, I had very little experience and I was temperamentally unsuited to take orders from people that weren’t as smart as me. This led to a repeating pattern. I’d take some horrible job that didn’t pay a lot, struggle along, get sick of the idiocy at work and quit – oftentimes without having another job lined up. Although I had no savings and my car was a lemon that frequently broke down, I managed to limp along, barely paying my bills. Eventually, as my education in the school of hard knocks started to pay off, I concluded it was time to start getting ahead of the game. That led me to seriously consider planned homelessness.
Well said Mr. Hawkins. As with so many issues affecting our country, the far-left's lazy answer is to continue to throw more money at homelessness when that has failed time and again. Anyone who dares to suggest alternatives which require proactive interventions by the rest of us and motivated effort from those we seek to help are dismissed as haters or worse.
I've addressed similar outcomes regarding other issues in my book "A White Man's Perspectives on Race and Racism", available cheap at smashwords.com/books/view/1184004. If you're interested, I'd love to hear what you and your readers think. ZL
Have you ever asked how much money is given/ spent by all of the aid organizations, starting with federal government programs to state level, county, city, community, church, not-for-profit, etc. We are a generous nation and more money will not solve the issue as you point out.
--“Additionally, although few people will admit this, there is also probably some percentage of people that are chronically homeless not because of mental illness or substance abuse, but because they CHOOSE to live that lifestyle.”--
This is an important point. I saw a documentary in which a humanitarian organization set out to get people off the street into housing and provide jobs that would in theory be enough to cover their needs. In a very short time every effort failed. Bottom line was that each of them felt like a fish out of water and were more comfortable living in the streets. No amount of money can change that.
Well said Mr. Hawkins. As with so many issues affecting our country, the far-left's lazy answer is to continue to throw more money at homelessness when that has failed time and again. Anyone who dares to suggest alternatives which require proactive interventions by the rest of us and motivated effort from those we seek to help are dismissed as haters or worse.
I've addressed similar outcomes regarding other issues in my book "A White Man's Perspectives on Race and Racism", available cheap at smashwords.com/books/view/1184004. If you're interested, I'd love to hear what you and your readers think. ZL
Have you ever asked how much money is given/ spent by all of the aid organizations, starting with federal government programs to state level, county, city, community, church, not-for-profit, etc. We are a generous nation and more money will not solve the issue as you point out.
--“Additionally, although few people will admit this, there is also probably some percentage of people that are chronically homeless not because of mental illness or substance abuse, but because they CHOOSE to live that lifestyle.”--
This is an important point. I saw a documentary in which a humanitarian organization set out to get people off the street into housing and provide jobs that would in theory be enough to cover their needs. In a very short time every effort failed. Bottom line was that each of them felt like a fish out of water and were more comfortable living in the streets. No amount of money can change that.
"I was temperamentally unsuited to take orders from people that weren’t as smart as me."
I suffer from the same malady. :)