Ask anyone in New York City what happened with all the homeless people after Giuliani took office, and no one can give you a straight answer. No one seems to know. There used to be a ton there at one time, but now they have suddenly vanished. Does anyone know for sure?
I’m not certain of the factual answer, but I’ve heard that what happened was that Guiliani started tough crackdowns on “vagrancy” in the nicer areas of New York, arresting homeless people who were staying in those areas. The homeless people migrated to areas where enforcement was not a priority (a.k.a the poor neighborhoods) and became more adept at hiding.
Soylent Green.
Are you telling me then that Soylent Green is ***PEOPLE?!?[/*B]
Wrong.
Did you ever wonder what the hot dogs sold at New York Yankees games were made from?
- They were used as planted corpses to make the 9/11 conspiracies more believable.
Maybe they just all got homes.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE HOMELESS?
This part was interesting
Hell, at $200,000 each, I wouldn’t have a problem with it, if my city rounded them up and dumped them in the wilderness to fend for themselves. Or bought them a one-way plane ticket to somewhere else. We certainly don’t need them around.
That’s ludicrous- $200,000 per person? They should stop leeching like that- regardless if they’re mentally ill, down on their luck, or whatever, spending $200,000 per homeless person and getting no return on that investment is mind boggling.
There are still a “ton” of them out there. I see them every day. Who says they “vanished?”
Inhumane, much? :dubious:
What Bosda said. Also, it ain’t the homeless’ fault we insist on addressing the problem in a disjointed, cost-inefficient way.
What Eve said (and Bosda). Homeless people are easy to find in New York, and it’s not like you have to look for them. A lot of them are sleeping outdoors now that the weather is warmer. I remember Rudy’s proposed crackdown being unpopular, and I don’t know if it lasted long enough to get any results.
Wow.
New York Magazine ran a feature about two years ago. Apparently some of the homeless are relocating to Boston:
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/urban/features/10608/index.html
While this article profiles a small group of individuals, it was presented as part of a larger series (if memory serves) that looked at the larger trend of NYC homeless living the city in light of the vagrancy crackdowns.
This may be a “radical” solution.
Set them to work doing jobs other refuse.
Keeping the city clean.
Tending plants in parks and park ways.
Doing the jobs that others refuse to do because of being on the dole.
In other words: No tickee, no washee!
Honolulu did exactly that while I lived there. If you were homeless in Honolulu and had a place to go on the mainland, the state would buy you a one-way ticket there. There were a LOT of homeless people in Honolulu - there was actually a “tent city” in one of the parks. I don’t know how many took them up on the ticket offer.
Don’t they all live underground in old Subway tunnells with a vast complex secret society? And don’t they hold elaborate rituals and have a very complicated caste system with kings and armies and priests? and trained alligators?
I was going to respond with some flip answer about the potential but not proven mole people, and then I stumbled over this picture of the kind of atrocity I was shocked to see with my own eyes the other week, and I couldn’t go on. Weep with me over Our Fair City and what it has come to.
Are you a native Texan?