From: "Gary Britt" 

These shelters are NOT the solution that full time residence in a mental
health facility where they were required to take their medications was
prior to the liberal meddling.  Your shelter didn't have these people
staying there full-time for years.  They come and go and wander the streets
because liberals demanded they be dumped on the streets and demanded that
they couldn't be forced to take necessary medications and demanded that
they couldn't be "punished" by being required to live at the
county poor house if they didn't have any visible means of support.

Those were real solutions and real deterrents.  The liberal approach caused
the homeless explosion and a few pitiful temporary non-health facility
shelters might be good for liberals to try and cover their permanent guilt,
but are NOT a substitute for the real solutions that were in place prior to
being ruined by the liberals.

Gary

"Bill Lucy"  wrote in message
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> In article , email{at}from_Gary_Britt.org says...
> > The plight of the homeless has been used by the same groups who made
them
> > homeless in the first place as a political weapon against Republicans
ever
> > since (even though Republicans were for providing them homes, in effect,
> > through mandatory hospitalization and poor houses/work farms).  The
homeless
> > problem only takes a breather in the press when a democrat is president.
> > Then it gets rediscovered when a republican gets back into office.
>
> Nancy and I were volunteers with a homeless shelter during most of the
> 90s.
> http://www.westsuburbanpads.org/dnn/
>
> I was a founder of the shelter, Nancy a board member, and some of my
> best friends are on the current board (including the vice president and
> treasurer). Joanne, Nancy, and I all worked the first night the shelter
> was opened (October 2, 1992). I also handled the data for the first year
> of the shelter, since there was no staff beyond volunteers. I can tell
> you that there were mentally ill people among the people we sheltered.
> We also provided temporary and permanent housing to some of those same
> people, as the program continues to do. They are not exploited, despite
> what you might say.
>
>

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