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So we know there is a positive correlation between poverty and youth crime; how can the government intervene to fix the problem?
Interestingly, Trumpy (who ain't no Libertarian), understands the scale of the intervention required to fix the homelessness problem:
(The Independent)
Elon Musk calls homelessness a ‘lie’ and ‘propaganda’ — and Trump is listening
Musk says “Homeless is a misnomer. It implies that someone got a little bit behind on their mortgage, and if you just gave them a job, they’d be back on their feet,” he told former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson in October. “What you actually have are violent drug zombies with dead eyes, and needles and human feces on the street.”
Trump has a view on how to deal with it:
Trump, meanwhile, says people experiencing homelessness should be forced into treatment or mental institutions “or face arrest”.
His campaign has promised to “end the nightmare” of the “dangerously deranged” with a plan to “open large parcels of inexpensive land, bring in doctors, psychiatrists, social workers, and drug rehab specialists, and create tent cities where the homeless can be relocated and their problems identified”.
He wants to “bring back mental institutions to house and rehabilitate those who are severely mentally ill or dangerously deranged with the goal of reintegrating them back into society.”
Good on ya', Trumpy; and necessary (despite what "bleeding-heart liberals" say) ...although rather costly for the taxpayer?
Meanwhile, a view from the ("bleeding -hearts") mainstream Left:
Musk and Trump are not alone.
Influential billionaires and right-wing think tanks have been advancing legislation that criminalizes homelessness in Congress and at the Supreme Court...,
"Criminalizing homelessness" - there's a 'novel' approach....
“and they all share this backwards, incorrect view that if we punish people enough, they will choose not to be poor”, according to Jesse Rabinowitz, campaign and communications director with the National Homelessness Law Center.
Rabinovitch continues:
The primary driver of homelessness, particularly among families, is a lack of stable affordable housing, with evictions, overcrowded housing, domestic violence and job losses sending homeless families into shelters and onto the streets.
“Ending homelessness comes down to three things: using person-centered and evidence-based policy and program design, providing key resources at a scale necessary to get the job done, and showing the leadership and public will to keep a long-term commitment to our goals. Our leaders have honored that commitment to veterans. It is now time for them to honor it for the rest of the nation.”
Yes, but neither side (Left or Right) - with a different view of the causes of, and solutions to, the problem - has addressed how to pay for these massive needed interventions.
Gnads says....stay away from taxing me or 'hardworking (!) billionaires'. (They actually "earned" all that money, you see....like Musk who has "earned" over $200 billion since Trump's win).
So the 'funding-can' justs keeps getting kicked down the road.
Deplorable.
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