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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MAGAs, no matter who you are and how well you think you’ve protected yourself, you’re much more likely to be homeless than a billionaire. But you scream communism anytime anyone mentions taxing them to solve these kind of problems. Remember, one day that could be you or your loved one. 
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Maybe, but even if homeless, you won’t find me dealing or selling drugs in public or drinking liquor or panhandling or stinking of urine walking around children in the library. Many homeless fight through their tough times and emerge just fine without ever becoming deranged drug addicts who ruin public resources for others.

And god forbid me or my loved ones ended up in that state, I pray the government would involuntarily commit us away from respectable citizens. [/quote]

Being homeless is not a crime. Being mentally ill is not a crime. Being an alcoholic or a drug addict is not a crime. Sounds like you would like the US to do with these groups what the Nazis did.

The Nazis harshly persecuted drug addicts, the homeless, and the mentally ill, labeling them "asocial" or "degenerate." Addicts faced imprisonment or sterilization; the homeless were forced into labor or concentration camps; and the mentally ill were killed in the T4 Euthanasia Program or used in experiments.
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And your kind, compassionate approach is to let them rot on the sfreets?[/quote]

Even if your wet dream of cleaning up the streets of all the smelly, crazy, rotting-in-place undesirables was implemented, there would not be enough beds in medical and treatment centers to house them all, not to mention the prohibitively high cost of doing so. Our nation's mental health and substance use treatment infrastructure is inadequate and underfunded, even more so when Republicans are in power. Where do you imagine all these people can/should be housed and how do you propose paying for it?[/quote]

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