chriswerner_1
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I live in London, Ontario Canada pop: approx. 350, 000. This city does not have a large homeless population but it is present and frankly annoying, not to mention repulsive. Not to be insensitive to the feeling of others (waaaaaaaa!!!!8-{} ) but in this day & age, and particularly with the extensiveness of our social saftey-net ie. "Ontario Works" (a.k.a. "fare-well" aka welfare), Men's mission, Salvation Army, numerous churches etc, etc, etc. There seems to me really no excuse for someone to be homeless unless of couse they are criminals (in which case we have jails) or mentally defective (in which case we have institutions) In our quasi-socialist country we provide everything that a person requires NOT to be homeless so there should be no excuse for it. Therefore I draw the conclusion that this is a chosen way of life. Simply put, someone who is sleeping on the streets made choices that forced them to sleep on the street... for example... going to drink somewhere instead of making the 11PM curfew at the misson or wherever. That is why it is my opinion that people who choose to be homeless should perhaps live in the wilderness or some far off location away from our urban areas. If they wish to drop-out of our civilization and not participate in our society, they should not feel so offended when our officials ask them to leave. What is so Draconian about asking someone who doesn't want to play our game to leave the the game area. How about a new slogan "This is is for CITIzens only... bohemians will be asked to leave."
What is most bothering about the homeless is not how they clog up traffic while they push their 2-shopping cart contraption down a main traffic arterial giving the finger to the people honking behind them; it is not the incessant rambling the disturbs your reading while you wait for the bus; it's not even the "spare change" they ask for when really, they just don't want to ask mom or dad for $10 so they can get a gram of weed because mom and dad are being @$$holes about the tongue peircing and the empty bottle of Crown they found; The MOST bothersome thing is that this type of behaviour keeps the timid from visiting downtown because it so DANGEROUS. (last year our murder rate doubled from the year before... to 4 murders up from 2 the previous year.... no... that's not a day or a month... that was all year.... citywide) Homeless people make a bad statement to visitors and citizens alike. It's say.... "yeah, we're building a new arena... brand new central library... but we're not doing enough to keep these people off the street. Frankly, we are doing more than enough... except keeping the mentally ill institionalized or at least taken care of and being firm on anti-vagrant by-laws. Tax paying citizens pay for our beautiful tree-lines streets and new libraries, parks etc etc. We shouldn't be afraid to use them because the "non-participants" are blocking the entrance asking some change "for something to eat."
What is most bothering about the homeless is not how they clog up traffic while they push their 2-shopping cart contraption down a main traffic arterial giving the finger to the people honking behind them; it is not the incessant rambling the disturbs your reading while you wait for the bus; it's not even the "spare change" they ask for when really, they just don't want to ask mom or dad for $10 so they can get a gram of weed because mom and dad are being @$$holes about the tongue peircing and the empty bottle of Crown they found; The MOST bothersome thing is that this type of behaviour keeps the timid from visiting downtown because it so DANGEROUS. (last year our murder rate doubled from the year before... to 4 murders up from 2 the previous year.... no... that's not a day or a month... that was all year.... citywide) Homeless people make a bad statement to visitors and citizens alike. It's say.... "yeah, we're building a new arena... brand new central library... but we're not doing enough to keep these people off the street. Frankly, we are doing more than enough... except keeping the mentally ill institionalized or at least taken care of and being firm on anti-vagrant by-laws. Tax paying citizens pay for our beautiful tree-lines streets and new libraries, parks etc etc. We shouldn't be afraid to use them because the "non-participants" are blocking the entrance asking some change "for something to eat."