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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that DC needs to do a lot better with coordinating and making efficient and effective use of its resources.

DC also needs to get serious about the harder decisions that need to be made, for example if there is a homeless untreated schizophrenic drug addict threatening and harrassing people on the streets and causing problems for business, he needs to be given an ultimatum of either being committed for treatment, voluntarily or involuntarily, or taking himself and his bullshit elsewhere and DC not allowing it to continue.

That said, I don't think Houston suffers from some of the other contributors to homeless that DC does.  For one, DC is the recipient of tons of homeless who get shipped here, mostly from red states who cynically want to make it political, where sheriffs will round up any homeless they find and put them on a bus with a one way ticket to DC to make it "DC's problem" because they blame "Joe Brandon" or "liberal politics" or whatever for homelessness, ignoring the fact that DC government has absolutely nothing to do with a homelessness problem 4 states away.  It's unfair to DC taxpayers.

Additionally, and along a similar vein, DC is also a magnet for homeless crazies, the schizophrenic and paranoid delusional conspiracy theorists, like maybe they think they have the whole alien reptoid illuminati conspiracy all figured out and they are going to come here to expose it all, or whatever else.

For those reasons, DC has an excess burden of homeless and mentally ill that its neighboring communities don't.  That's a burden that should be shared and not be for DC to shoulder alone.

Additionally, costs are much higher in DC than in many other parts of the country - real estate costs for housing the homeless are higher, not to mention DC has limited space to begin with; labor costs are higher, and so on - it makes more sense to try and house and treat the homeless in places where it's more fiscally affordable.  [/quote]

Sensible comments...  but crickets...[/quote]

What’s there to say? When you announce you’re a sanctuary city you have to be a sanctuary city. [/quote]

You are stuck on stupid.  You keep saying "sanctuary city" as if it has any relevance.   Again, for the 20th time, "sanctuary city" DOES NOT mean we will house, feed and clothe you.  It ONLY means we don't check what your immigration status.[/quote]

So easy to take this position when you have no skin in the game and somewhere else far away is bearing the burden. Fake compassion. [/quote]

National Guard now called out In Massachusetts because the locals hate having the migrants there so much.

I thought the bus rides were a dumb “own the libs” gesture, but it really has been a master stroke of making every state become a border state to show what it’s like. [/quote]

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