In their war on America, the Left weaponized vagrants
theAspenbeat.com,
by
Glenn Beaton
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Posted By: Big Bopper,
8/24/2025 9:45:40 AM
The Left pretends to pity the plight of the people we used to call “vagrants” but are now required to call “homeless.” Their numbers keep growing – despite the fact that we keep throwing money at them and giving them free housing, free meals and other free stuff.
Let’s stop right there. That last sentence, expressed as I just expressed it, is easily recognized as a “Fox Butterfield.” He was a New York Times columnist who expressed puzzlement at the “paradox” that more criminals were being sentenced to prison even though crime was down.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
RobertJ984 8/24/2025 9:57:51 AM (No. 1994734)
I really believe people would be more tolerant of the "homeless" if they just pick up their damn garbage
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
FlaDiver74 8/24/2025 10:31:01 AM (No. 1994744)
To get farmers to increase a specific crop the government subsidizes the increase. Government must want more vagrancy.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
pc504 8/24/2025 10:55:04 AM (No. 1994755)
I understand people end up homeless for a variety of reasons but most have to do with substance abuse and/or mental illness. I live in a Republican jurisdiction and our government supports a re-hab facility that has very good outcomes , mental health services and a homeless shelter. The goal is to get people off the street, de-tox them and help them become productive members of society with a job and they’re own apartment.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
seamusm 8/24/2025 11:10:19 AM (No. 1994762)
Glenn, if these people hate the rich so much why do they kiss up to them at every turn? Conversely, why do the wealthy back these socialists in every election? To appease them - just enough to keep them off their backs?
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The issue is that homeless shelters have rules about alcohol and drugs and they will not tolerate that restriction.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 8/24/2025 11:35:08 AM (No. 1994781)
My oldest sister has a son out there somewhere, and my other sister has a brother-in-law living on Skid Row in L.A. They both came from "good families" that provided education and stable homes. Both were lazy students that became heavily involved in drug and alcohol abuse. The "in-law" family did not subsidize their wayward son hoping that reality would get through, but it never did.
My oldest sister, on the other hand, did subsidize her boy and he is still a "boy" at 48 years old. A few years ago, she took him back into her home and took him around to many "therapists" both conventional and unconventional. His teeth were rotten, and she paid for him to get implants. He once burned a hand terribly in a bacon-grease fire and she paid for the reconstruction of his hand. About a year ago he pulled back his fist and was going to punch her in the face but hit the kitchen cabinet instead. She still let him stay. Then last March she had a major stroke. She's now in an assisted living facility.
My nephew was "encouraged" by the family to leave town. They even bought him a gently-used Jeep Rubicon and tricked it out with "camping gear", so he could live his "dream" of "freedom", and several thousands of dollars to get started somewhere else. Yet he still "circles back" and causes problems, like breaking into his mother's house while his sister was trying to rent it out...to pay for the assisted living place. His latest trick was to accuse his sister of elder abuse and tried to get a restraining order against her. Once the investigators talked to my niece they dropped the charges.
When people want to self-destruct, there is nothing anyone else can do.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 8/24/2025 12:01:48 PM (No. 1994789)
I always called them BUMS. Now the leftist BS term is "the homeless".
They are still just bums. Roust them, put the mentally ill in mental institutions, put the addicts in prison. We need to stop tolerating this crap. There have ALWAYS been bums, but we haven't let them camp and crap literally in the middle of downtown.
THAT is as insane as the worst of these bums.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 8/24/2025 1:17:42 PM (No. 1994805)
Glenn Beaton just described Denver to a “T”. Democrats have turned it into a shitehole.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/24/2025 1:18:18 PM (No. 1994806)
What percentage of homeless people are homeless due to their actions? The art of politics is to pander to people by telling them they won't be held accountable for their choices and actions. Lots of irresponsible people out there and their votes are for sale. Lax laws. Free money. Politicians have voters for life! Both parties do it, btw.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 8/24/2025 1:48:29 PM (No. 1994813)
There are always homeless (bums, vagrants) and always will be. Substance abuse, mental problems, poor unfortunates and those who just like living on the street with no one to answer to. We are a rich nation and can offer help, but so many don't seem to want it or the rules that come with that structure of assistance.
The cities with the most problems are Democrat run and have allowed this slide into filth and crime. My small city has a tiny bit of homeless, but their little groups are well hidden in wooded places out of sight. They know that trying to pitch a tent or take a dump on the sidewalk will get them a quick trip to the jail, a charge for trespassing and indecent exposure. 30 days in jail with no drugs or alcohol is a big deterrent.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
JrSample 8/24/2025 2:47:26 PM (No. 1994841)
I had forgotten about the Fox Butterfield paradox; ''I don't understand it, I keep eating pizza but my belly just gets bigger and bigger.''
''How can crime down with all these criminals getting long prison sentences?''
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 8/24/2025 4:02:10 PM (No. 1994874)
The democrats created a lot of the homeless problems when they closed the mental institutions. Of course, they will never admit it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
danu 8/24/2025 5:25:45 PM (No. 1994906)
priorities...ladies and gents...we're farmers...
every inch of land is under use, night and day, dawn to dusk, including prayer.
blessings at dawn, the angelus at 6pm, the cows come home, rosary before bed.
if you're not doing any of those things-yer out.
we know who's in need...of a spud and a blessing; and off they go. socialists and gov't types require more,
which we manage -w/ dogs, ducks, geese.
sheep are handy traffic cops...the occasional broom, or grape [a hoe, like a pike]...
and rather treacherous terrain...cow pies and otherwise. wear your wellies.
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