Wow, recall the Mayor and the City Manager

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http://nypost.com/2015/12/10/each-homeless-person-with-hotel-housing-costs-the-city-5k-a-month/

This is housing alone, not including other expenses.
Many outside the City don't even make that much working full time.

PIGDivot

Release this will probably get political real fast, but this is what happens when liberals elect uber liberals. You have the right mindset in helping those who need a hand when they are down, but in my experience dealing with the homeless, most are there due to some sort of substance abuse, either alcohol or drugs. Sure, you have exceptions to that, but generally in America you are homeless because you want to be. And these liberal policies are not helping the homeless, but enabling them to continue in their drug and alcohol abuse.

But the people elect these idiot enabling politicians, so carry on in your ignorant wasteful spending of someone else's money.

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I am not saying anything bad about being homeless. A lot of them got into the situation without choice believe it or not. Once they're in the downward spiral, once they become homeless, and the longer they stay homeless the less likely they'll ever get out of it. We need to ask the question of , why the sudden explosion of homeless population in recent years ?

Our city had done a study to help those before they become homeless. The key is to get them the help prior to becoming homeless. I don't dispute there are those whom had fallen through the crack with drugs and gambling issues and could not help themselves, becoming a burden to the society. But giving them a hotel room is not the best way to spend the money to help them. What is N.Y. going to do when Winter comes ? Ship them out to the South on a train ?

This thread is to show that we have "leaders" whom is not suitable for the job they're occupying. The only thing they know is to cash their paycheck and bar anyone from entering the department whom have the ability to replace them.

It really disturb me when I see those not fit for the position taking charge of someone else's life. And I had seen it with my own eyes of some large organization ( for profit or non-profit ) with people in charge like this.
All of them have in common is an impeccable resume and knows the interview procedure to get the job. Most of them have no clue beside sharpening the pencil to make things look dandy on paper.

I call it paper shuffling.

PIGDivot

Release not that it matters at this point, but again, we are talking elected figures here. The blame goes straight to the voters electing them. But if you interview the "average" voter you can easily see the problem. Go on youtube and you can find an endless supply of videos of "average" people signing petitions to the craziest things, including banning free speech and the first amendment. There are plenty of videos of college students asking them basic American civics questions that they cannot answer.

So what's the end result? We the people elect the best looking person with the easiest name to pronounce. And then once they get into office they never leave because the people are either too stupid or lazy (or both) to hold anyone accountable. Politicians know this too. Once elected it's usually a lifetime appointment unless they do something so stupid as to attract enough negative attention to them to risk losing an election. It rarely happens.

I mean, come on. The two leading candidates for the next President are between Clinton and Trump? Is this seriously the best we can do? No, but when you do propose someone with integrity and an honest interest in fixing things, they are considered too boring for anyone to vote for them. And if you are asking me to choose between Clinton and Trump I will tell you that neither is worth my vote. I have ZERO trust in either of these two people, and I consider both of them seriously dangerous to the future of this country.

But this is what "we the people" are voting for, so in all honesty there is nothing I can say or do to honestly give a crap about any of it. All that is left to do is point at a story like you posted here and say, "yep, dumbass people elected these schmucks."

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PIGDivot

Just me, I'm not planning on voting this year, at this point. Really could not find the "lesser of the evil " to cast my vote. As it stands. I'm not able to cast my vote on the remaining 2 running for the top dog position.

Yes, unfortunately, as I aged, I had found out in general, people are over informed and confused. Lack of interests or being ignorant to understand our own surroundings and the rest of the world is a very common fault among the younger generation. If one does not have the basic understanding of human history and the other culture and then bombarded by all the information come across sometimes unreliable sources, then it is very easy to make a wrong choice, even for themselves. I said that because it is prevalent these days that we are looking after our own interests, which is true for the ages but at least we pretend we were nicer in the past.

These days, the kids not even pretending to be nice . Kids I meant all the way from the baby boomers. So don;t be surprised if a 50, 60'ish still behaves like an idiot.