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Addiction: Crime or Health Issue

Should our drug problem be considered a criminal issue, or a health issue?

  • Health Issue

    Votes: 9 60.0%

  • Criminal Issue

    Votes: 2 13.3%

  • Other/none of the above

    Votes: 7 46.7%
  • Total voters
    15
My god.. first my hotmail account gets spammed literally daily for this acai-berry crap, but now threads here are too??!!

go away.
 
Grateful Heart said:
If they were left on the streets, that would be true. But most urban areas pay for "homeless shelters."
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They shouldn't do that. What are charities for?

Grateful Heart said:
Probably less expensive than jails.
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And less moral. If someone wants to support a "shelter", he can donate his own money as his own choice.

Grateful Heart said:
But on the taxpayer dime all the same.
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See how wrong it is forcing people to pay for that kind of crap? They then have less money to take care of their own families.

Grateful Heart said:
The taxpayer cost for 'homeless' in New York City alone is staggering:

NYC Budget Analysis, 2001

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Shouldn't be financed by public taxation. How hard is that to understand?
 
Scarecrow Akhbar said:
Shouldn't be financed by public taxation. How hard is that to understand?
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I guess it depends on your perspective. When I lived in downtown Washington DC I really didn't care how much taxpayer dollars were spent getting addicts and alcoholics off my doorstep... I just wanted them gone. Period. And it was my opinion then that our police force would be better spent dragging these bums away than by issuing traffic and parking tickets.

I'm now in a nice quiet suburb and we don't have a 'homeless' problem.

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Grateful Heart said:
I guess it depends on your perspective. When I lived in downtown Washington DC I really didn't care how much taxpayer dollars were spent getting addicts and alcoholics off my doorstep... I just wanted them gone. Period. And it was my opinion then that our police force would be better spent dragging these bums away than by issuing traffic and parking tickets.

I'm now in a nice quiet suburb and we don't have a 'homeless' problem.

:2wave:
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You're not even discussing the issue at hand.

It is the job of the police to remove trespassers.

We're discussing the funds wasted on "shelters" etc for these parasites that aren't trespassing or otherwise providing an excuse to move them on.

Lancaster, CA has a charity that gives free one-way bus tickets to bums who claim to have family somewhere else. That's what charities are for, isn't it, the alleviation of the homeless problem in their own towns.
 
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