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2025-07-26 Home Front: Politix

Trump to sign executive order forcing homeless off America''s streets

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Posted by Fred 2025-07-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [245 views ] Top

#1 They have to go to rehab. The only way they go to rehab is if they are faced with jail. All the companionate stuff is just adding pillows and chairs to what should be rock bottom. Stop helping them build a gutter lifestyle and then complain about when they OD and die. If you are giving them a debit card, you are the problem.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-07-26 07:44|| 2025-07-26 07:44|| Front Page Top

#2 My wife worked in adult probation for ten years and reported only the rehab or jail choice reduced repeat visits to the judges.

Posted by Bobby 2025-07-26 09:01|| 2025-07-26 09:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Quick, invest in mental health treatment centers.

Posted by ed in texas 2025-07-26 09:39|| 2025-07-26 09:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Or just allow them to 'destroy' the 'record' drug seizure the cops get. Exit stage right ->

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-07-26 10:24|| 2025-07-26 10:24|| Front Page Top

#5 "Ridiculous"

The Supreme Court ruled last year in a 6-3 decision that localities have a right to impose fines on homeless people who camp without permission on public property.

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-26 12:00|| 2025-07-26 12:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Rehab only works for the druggie side of the equation, not the untreated mentally ill, or the self-treating-with-street-drugs mentally ill, many of whom are on the street because they refuse treatment. And rehab is only a temporary fix unless the addict in question truly wants to be sober instead of soberly craving the high of his or her drug of choice.

Make one side of the the insane asylums a rehab facility, and the other side long term residence for those drug addicts uninterested in sobriety and the mentally ill who cannot be medicated to independent functionality for whatever reason.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-07-26 13:30|| 2025-07-26 13:30|| Front Page Top

#7 "The order redirects federal funding..."

How about stopping federal funding all together? This is a state and local problem (less DC, perhaps), not a federal problem.

Posted by DooDahMan 2025-07-26 13:37|| 2025-07-26 13:37|| Front Page Top

#8 The order redirects federal funding to prioritize ''shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment.''

I think the key here is civil commitment. If they are truly mentally ill and sleeping on the sidewalks or in the river beds, society has a right to have them "committed" to some kind of institution where they can at least sleep in a bed with a roof over their heads and pee in a pot instead of outdoors in public places. Call it a loony bin if you will and, yes, it will cost money. But it's the only humane solution and it's the only solution that will get them off the streets where they are a menace to society.

And if they are just druggies or if they are just plain bums, put them in tent cities out in the boondocks. If they get out after 30 days and get arrested again then they go back to the tent city for 90 days and then a year. Rinse and repeat. Three strikes and they get to live in the tent city for the rest of their lives. Give them water, apples, baloney sandwiches and absolutely nothing else. No cigarettes. alcohol, drugs, TV or internet. Maybe they can visit a library once in a while. If they can do some kind of work while they're incarcerated they can have a hamburger and french fries.

The politicians in California use the homeless as an excuse to claim that we need more affordable housing. But that's just a scam and the politicians are crooks. Give a hobo a house and the developer gets rich and the politicians get kickbacks in the form of campaign contributions. The house will be destroyed and the hobo will still have all the same problems he or she had when the house was given to them. Those problems must be treated in an institutional setting where the hobo cannot escape. The treatment cannot be voluntary, it must be imposed whether the hobo likes it or not.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-07-26 16:19|| 2025-07-26 16:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Only one problem. It's a sure bet that some crooked politician or NGO will sue and some Obama appointed judge will declare Trump's EO unconstitutional.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-07-26 16:21|| 2025-07-26 16:21|| Front Page Top

#10 Make the only place legal for homeless to sleep in public be Martha’s Vineyard, the Hamptons, Beverley Hills……

Posted by Airandee 2025-07-26 16:39|| 2025-07-26 16:39|| Front Page Top

#11 And there's that Palasides (sp?) fire....

Posted by DooDahMan 2025-07-26 18:19|| 2025-07-26 18:19|| Front Page Top

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