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Post by mgderf on Feb 23, 2020 9:27:22 GMT -5
Not really news, but he just confirmed it again.
He just stated in a press conference that he thinks doctors should be able to write prescriptions for housing, saying he believes it is a health care issue.
In my best Bus Bunny voice, "What a moroon".
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2020 9:45:52 GMT -5
Shouldn`t be surprising coming out of Kalifornia. Something in the water out there? Common sense and reason don`t seem to be common or reasonable at all.
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Post by beermaker on Feb 23, 2020 10:52:41 GMT -5
Where does he suppose one should be able to get that Rx filled?
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Post by medic22 on Feb 23, 2020 11:23:29 GMT -5
He has a point in the fact that homelessness does affect the overall cost of healthcare services, but prescriptions for housing is just silly. Healthcare is one issue I tend to lean more liberal, nowhere near the level of socialism.
This is an issue that is so far down the list of things that need addressed that its not even worth discussing right now.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2020 12:00:11 GMT -5
Where does he suppose one should be able to get that Rx filled? Obviously, at the taxpayers trough. |
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Post by greyhair on Feb 24, 2020 11:31:09 GMT -5
Some like to say that homelessness is only a problem in liberal cities. Not hardly, it is a problem in conservative areas too, maybe just not in the news so much. Any sizable city is dealing with it.
Terre Haute is only about 60,000 and there are several homeless camps.
The truth is, many homeless people are mentally ill. Despite all the finger- pointing and braying by politicians, I have yet to hear anyone come up with a good solution.
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Post by greyhair on Feb 24, 2020 11:33:45 GMT -5
But writing an RX for this might be the dumbest thing I ever heard
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Post by moose1am on Feb 24, 2020 12:03:37 GMT -5
Yea that is stupid. Writing an RX for homeless people. Why can't we just build more affordable housing? Tiny Houses might work.
A lot of the homeless people I see are out on the street corners and intersections begging for handouts/money. They stand along the side of the road where traffic backs up for a stoplight with their homemade signs claiming that they are homeless. The use old cardboard to make their signs. One guy is there almost every day. He has a beard that's at least two years old and it's gray. We are told not to give them money but to direct them to the homeless shelters. Evidently, they don't like the homeless shelter's rules and prefer to live under a bridge or in their cars and beg or money. They are all over the city of Evansville, IN. We use to have a lot of manufacturing jobs here but they have all moved out of town and left for Mexico.
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Post by greyhair on Feb 24, 2020 15:05:31 GMT -5
There are always con artists in every group. It is a complicated problem and not all the homeless are alike. With some. You could put them in a dwelling and give them a job and the necessities and they still cant function. Some just don't want anything more, many are in the grips of drug and alcohol addiction, and some are just bums
I really feel for them, but I still don't want to step over them coming out of my hotel.
A few years ago, in Las Vegas, there was an ordinance against feeding the homeless without a permit. The City wanted charitable feeding to be done only in certain designated areas and at certain times. They didnt want them hanging around the hotels and casinos.
I thought they might put up signs that say" do not feed the homeless. They may lose their fear of people and have to be relocated"
I know a guy that goes to the homeless camps around here and gives out hats, gloves, blankets, vitamins, whatever he can scare up.
God bless him...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2020 20:56:34 GMT -5
Yea that is stupid. Writing an RX for homeless people. Why can't we just build more affordable housing? Tiny Houses might work. A lot of the homeless people I see are out on the street corners and intersections begging for handouts/money. They stand along the side of the road where traffic backs up for a stoplight with their homemade signs claiming that they are homeless. The use old cardboard to make their signs. One guy is there almost every day. He has a beard that's at least two years old and it's gray. We are told not to give them money but to direct them to the homeless shelters. Evidently, they don't like the homeless shelter's rules and prefer to live under a bridge or in their cars and beg or money. They are all over the city of Evansville, IN. We use to have a lot of manufacturing jobs here but they have all moved out of town and left for Mexico. I agree with our Pastor when he says those who are homeless choose to be, since Good News Mission downtown would take them in, but they don't want the rules. And as far as jobs, there are plenty of jobs that employers are having trouble filling, and pay is rising due to this. If the beggars are able bodied, there's no excuse for them not working. |
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