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    I fully support this program, the city of Denver is apparently giving vagrants a one way bus ticket to another city. I say we expand this program.

    http://www.9news.com/news/local/next...town/387284797

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    Minneapolis did this to US a few years back. Payback is a bitch.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TFOGGER View Post
    Minneapolis did this to US a few years back. Payback is a bitch.
    Minneapolis does it all the time.. Growing up there I remember seeing stories about it on the news every time the temperature dropped below zero. Rather than trying to find places for them to sleep they just gave them a one way ticket to just about anywhere they wanted to go.

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    I saw this article and the thing that stood out to me was this:

    One of the homeless people who received a bus ticket is Austin Blitzer, 27, who documented his Greyhound ride to San Diego on Facebook. Days after arriving he wrote on Facebook that he was still homeless, riding around in a car with friends, smoking marijuana.
    How does a homeless person have a facebook account that he updates regularly? To follow that up, how does he have friends with a car and weed but they won't help him? It really shows why people are so jaded to helping the homeless when you have people like this out there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave_L View Post
    How does a homeless person have a facebook account that he updates regularly?
    Public Library/obama phone/free wifi and a cheap tablet/etc.
    To follow that up, how does he have friends with a car and weed but they won't help him?
    What you consider friends, and what he considers friends, are not the same.
    It really shows why people are so jaded to helping the homeless when you have people like this out there.
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    Lets just hope he stays in CA or further north.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave_L View Post
    How does a homeless person have a facebook account that he updates regularly?
    Probably keeps track of it on his cell phone. Duh. Everyone has their priorities.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave_L View Post
    I saw this article and the thing that stood out to me was this:

    How does a homeless person have a facebook account that he updates regularly? To follow that up, how does he have friends with a car and weed but they won't help him? It really shows why people are so jaded to helping the homeless when you have people like this out there.
    I agree.

    "Need" has been replaced with "want." These are choices and I'm tired of subsidizing them.

    The ACA does the same thing with subsidies. "Could a person work?" and if so "how can help find them a job?" are questions that are seldom asked.

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    One of the homeless people who received a bus ticket is Austin Blitzer, 27, who documented his Greyhound ride to San Diego on Facebook. Days after arriving he wrote on Facebook that he was still homeless, riding around in a car with friends, smoking marijuana.
    He's in a better place now

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    Mr. Blitzer seems to be a non contributor one way or the other. I'm glad he's as further away from where I live.

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    He made his own bed, he wants someone else to pay the rent.

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