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Humanist_Activist

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15. i don't see why it is either/or, we have a significant homeless problem in St. Louis, if we didn't..

Mon Sep 14, 2015, 04:29 PM

Sep 2015

take in refugees from Bosnia back in the 1990s, I would imagine it would have been much worse, and more areas would be blighted. The Bosnians helped stabilize the population loss, promote some economic growth and increase the tax base. Now St. Louis is trying a pilot program of "house first, try other things later" with veterans like other cities are doing, and the success or failure of this program will be directly related to how much political capital will be invested in it.

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Am I wrong in feeling we should take care of our homeless folks first? [View all] Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 OP

Yes You Are Wrong ProfessorGAC Sep 2015 #1

We should declare the homeless as internal refugees KamaAina Sep 2015 #2

Thanks Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 #5

Internal refugees, good one. bermudat Sep 2015 #35

Take what we can get HassleCat Sep 2015 #3

I get it but for now we seem to be doing neither. Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 #6

I agree get the red out Sep 2015 #12

I can walk and chew gum. Scootaloo Sep 2015 #4

The only limit on our resources is imagination gratuitous Sep 2015 #7

Oh that is not true yeoman6987 Sep 2015 #9

We have a water management problem, Codeine Sep 2015 #10

Thanks! I wish they'd get on it. yeoman6987 Sep 2015 #14

+1 lunasun Sep 2015 #21

+1 daleanime Sep 2015 #28

We can do both. We simply choose not to do the former. LanternWaste Sep 2015 #8

Why are senior citizens here faced 840high Sep 2015 #18

So true and I am a senior citizen Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 #23

I understand. I'm almost 840high Sep 2015 #29

Because KentuckyWoman Sep 2015 #38

It's not just senior citizens anymore. ScreamingMeemie Sep 2015 #40

You are right. 840high Sep 2015 #41

I agree but there is one significant difference Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 #43

That does not happen to just senior citizens. I am 45. ScreamingMeemie Sep 2015 #46

There are exceptions but when you are old and sick Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 #47

When you are young and sick... same deal. ScreamingMeemie Sep 2015 #49

Agreed nt Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 #50

the problem with the homeless in this country is complex hollysmom Sep 2015 #11

Thank Ronald Regan for closing mental health facilities Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 #24

until caring/kindness is considered a virtue, wendylaroux Sep 2015 #13

i don't see why it is either/or, we have a significant homeless problem in St. Louis, if we didn't.. Humanist_Activist Sep 2015 #15

did you ask to do something before the issue with refugees ? JI7 Sep 2015 #16

Take care of your own first. If we 840high Sep 2015 #17

More cheap labor inwiththenew Sep 2015 #19

if we took in percentage wise the amount Germay is taking in it would be over 3 million for the US lunasun Sep 2015 #20

Conservatives are not going to help the refugees. If liberals don't help them, no one will. pampango Sep 2015 #22

Most of our foreign aid goes for arms not humanitarian needs. Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 #25

Let's do both, to do that we have to get rid of all non Democratic politicians. randys1 Sep 2015 #26

No you are not but it seems human nature to write a check to go across the ocean Cleita Sep 2015 #27

We should and can do both. roody Sep 2015 #30

We damn sure can and should do both. onecaliberal Sep 2015 #31

I have always been a "Charity starts at home" thinking person and, quite frankly, believe that we Ghost in the Machine Sep 2015 #32

The exception I would make is where we start messes, we need to fix them. Cleita Sep 2015 #36

I can go along with that, and even go a little bit better! As part of their sentence, Bush, Cheney, Ghost in the Machine Sep 2015 #37

the entire Bush Junta should be assigned the burial detail - nt KingCharlemagne Sep 2015 #55

No, they would probably find some sick joy in burying all those dead "brown people". I would have Ghost in the Machine Sep 2015 #61

Agree. 840high Sep 2015 #44

We helped set the Middle East on fire cpwm17 Sep 2015 #33

Read the link below 840high Sep 2015 #34

It's not an either/or choice. SheilaT Sep 2015 #39

Military spending is our ONLY jobs program... haikugal Sep 2015 #53

My son tells a similar story Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 #57

Maybe. A little. cheapdate Sep 2015 #42

we can do both, the money exists nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #45

The United States helped created the refugee crisis... SMC22307 Sep 2015 #48

There's no objective answer The2ndWheel Sep 2015 #51

There's enough money for that Facility Inspector Sep 2015 #52

We are NOT broke...we have money, as a country we're capable...we need a political revolution. haikugal Sep 2015 #54

I see your point, but then there are always homeless people treestar Sep 2015 #56

There are some programs Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 #58

Yes, You are Wrong. Herman4747 Sep 2015 #59

In the abstract you are correct Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 #60