Have you ever given food to a homeless person?
Well, if you do it again in the future it might be a criminal act
depending on where you live. Right now, there are dozens of
major U.S. cities that have already passed laws against feeding the
homeless. As you will read about below, in some areas of the
country you can actually be fined hundreds of dollars for just trying
to give food to a hungry person. I know that sounds absolutely
insane, but this is what America is turning into. Communities
all over the country are attempting to “clean up the streets” by
making it virtually illegal to either be homeless or to help those
that are homeless. Instead of spending more money on programs
to assist the homeless, local governments are bulldozing tent cities
and giving homeless people one way bus tickets out of town. We
are treating some of the most vulnerable members of our society like
human garbage, and it is a national disgrace.
What
does it say about our country when we can’t even give a warm
sandwich to a desperately hungry person that is sleeping on the
streets? A retired couple down in Florida named Debbie and
Chico Jimenez wanted to do something positive for their community
during their retirement years, so they started feeding the homeless
in Daytona Beach. But recently the police decided to crack down
on their feeding program and slapped everyone involved with
a $373 fine…
For the
past year, the
Jimenezes have set up shop every Wednesday on Manatee Island in
Daytona Beach, Fla., where they feed hot dogs, chicken, pasta salad
and other BBQ staples to about 100 homeless people, WFTV reported.
Handing out meals is just one aspect of the ministry the two
founded, Spreading
the Word Without Saying a Word, to
help people living in poverty.
But on Wednesday, the Jimenezes said that
without warning, they and four other volunteers were accosted by
police, fined and told that they could be thrown in jail if they
continue their program, according to NBC News.
Each of the six was fined $373 and were given
10 days to either pay up or go to court.
“We’re
going to court,” Debbie Jimenez, 52, a former auto parts store
manager, told NBC News. “The police don’t like it. But
how can we turn our backs on the hungry? We can’t.”
Don’t the police down in Daytona Beach have
something better to do with their time?
Sadly, more
than 50 major cities have
passed laws against feeding the homeless at this point. It
appears that “cleaning up the streets” has become a big point of
emphasis all over the nation.
And what the city of Camden, New Jersey just
did is even worse than what happened in Daytona Beach.
Camden
just bulldozed an
entire tent city and
dumped all of the belongings of the homeless people living there into
the trash…
Hazmat teams showed up at the camps in the
early morning to search for syringes. A drug-sniffing dog followed a
police officer around the area. And bulldozers tossed trash and
discarded belongings into dumpsters before razing the premises.
Over the
past few weeks, flyers had warned people in the tent cities that this
was going to happen. Yet it still seemed surreal to many of them that
their communities were about to be demolished
for good.
But
for most of the people that were living in that tent city, there is
no place else for them to go. The homeless shelters in the area
are at max capacity, and so many of them will end up sleeping in the
streets without
any shelter at all…
Aaron Howe,
the “mayor” of a tent city that had 12 tents the night before
eviction day,
said he had called every shelter in town and not a single place had
room for him and his girlfriend.
“There’s no available spots, and the city
is saying if we pitch a tent somewhere else they’re gonna rip it
down,” he said. “It’s not gonna look good when there’s a
bunch of homeless on the streets.”
Camden
has got to be one of the most mismanaged communities in the entire
country. Why is Camden spending time and money bulldozing
homeless communities when it has so many other problems? For
much more on the nightmare that Camden has become, please see my
previous article entitled “Camden,
New Jersey: One Of Hundreds Of U.S. Cities That Are Turning Into
Rotting, Decaying Hellholes“.
Other
big cities that are a little bit more “progressive” are
attempting to get rid of their homeless populations by giving them
one way tickets out of town. Some of the major cities that are
doing this include San
Diego and San Francisco…
When her Greyhound bus pulled into town 6
months ago, Maria Castillo got off with two bags and dream.
“Start over, start a new life,” said the
42-year-old.
Castillo had been homeless in San Diego when a
social worker offered her a one-way bus ticket to Portland.
“They said come here because all the
opportunities in Portland, Oregon,” she said.
But
Castillo said life isn’t much better in her new town. She’s still
homeless. A Unit 8 investigation found several cities from San
Diego to San
Francisco are
providing one-way bus tickets to the homeless.
As
shocking as everything that you just read is, what one lawmaker out
in Hawaii is doing tops it all. In a previous
article,
I described how a state representative named Tom Brower has actually
been using a sledgehammer to destroy shopping carts used by homeless
people. Just check out the following short excerpt from an RT
article that
was published a few months ago…
In the past two weeks residents in Hawaii
noticed what appeared to be a crazed individual carrying a
sledgehammer through the streets of Honolulu, a state lawmaker
looking to rid the city of homeless people by targeting their
belongings.
State Representative Tom Brower (D) is
currently dedicated to dealing out his own personal brand of
“justice” by seeking out homeless people and destroying
their possessions. Brower estimates that he has used the sledgehammer
to smash at least 30 shopping carts, rendering them useless by
bashing in the front wheels.
“I got tired of telling people I’m
trying to pass laws. I want to do something practical that will
really clean up the streets,” he told Hawaii News Now. “I
find abandoned junk, specifically shopping carts, and I remove them.”
Is this how our society is going to treat those
that are down on their luck from now on?
Where is the love?
Where is the compassion?
Why can’t we seem to be able to take care of
these people?
The
federal government sure seems to have plenty of money to waste on
other things. For example, it is being reported that workers at
an Obamacare processing facility in Missouri are being paid to do
nothing but
stare at their computers…
Employees at an ObamaCare processing center in
Missouri with a contract worth $1.2 billion are reportedly getting
paid to do nothing but sit at their computers.
“Their
goals are set to process two applications per month and some people
are not even able to do that,” a whistleblower told KMOV-TV,
referring to employees hired to process paper applications for
ObamaCare enrollees.
The
facility in Wentzville is operated by Serco, a company owned by a
British firm that was awarded $1.2 billion in part to hire 1,500
workers to handle paper applications for coverage under the law,
according to The
Washington Post.
The
whistleblower employee told the station that weeks can pass
without data entry workers receiving even a single application to
process. Employees reportedly spend their days staring at their
computers, according to a KMOX-TV report.
So we have millions upon millions of dollars to
waste on that, but we can’t take care of our homeless population?
And
without a doubt, the need to help the homeless is greater than it
ever has been before. Right now, there are 1.2
million public school students in
America that are homeless. That number is an all-time record,
and it has grown by 72 percent since the start of the last recession.
In
addition, there are 49
million Americans that
are dealing with food insecurity. Even in the midst of this
so-called “economic recovery“,
poverty is absolutely exploding.
And it is going to get a whole lot worse.
This is only just the beginning.
What is going to be needed in the years ahead
is a tremendous amount of love and compassion.
But instead, it appears that hearts are
becoming colder in America with each passing day.
So what do you think the solution is?
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