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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFt. Lauderdale mayor's words about feeding homeless. What a philosophy.
90-Year-Old Good Samaritan Sends Unwavering Message After Getting Arrested for Feeding HomelessAbbott explained why police decided to fingerprint him on the spot and issue him a citation, rather than arrest him:
They didnt have the gumption to move in on us. They were afraid, afraid of public opinion.
And the words of the mayor shocked me. He doesn't sound much like I have always thought a Democratic leader should sound.
Despite the negative public reaction, Ft. Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler defended the new city ordinance, claiming it was set in place to help the homeless better themselves:
The experts have all said if you are going to simply feed them outdoors to get them from breakfast to lunch to dinner, all youre doing is enabling that cycle of homelessness. They dont receive the aid and assistance they need to receive.
In Florida the homeless, the needy, the poor, the sick....are NOT getting what they need from Rick Scott and the Rick Scott Republicans who rule.
So I find it sad that Jack Seiler would deprive them of food with the excuse that it is not enough.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)sanitation facilities (toilets and handwashing stations) for feeding, and that it be primarily indoors. It was suggested that the meals be moved to a church with the facilities about a block away.
Do you have any info on the ordinance? I'd like to know if it differs from the one passed in the 90s, which was successfully challenged.
I hope Abbott wins...or in the best of both worlds, the city provides sanitation facilities for outdoor feeding.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)Here's more. Still not finding very specific stuff
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/03/fort-lauderdale-feeding-homeless_n_6094234.html
undeterred
(34,658 posts)They're addictions.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)John Birch Societies play book from the late thirties. So much hatred.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)Claire Conner said something about today's laws reminding her of growing up in the Birch Society.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Wow. Just imagine showing compassion to the downtrodden from morning till night? Without wanting a dime in return.
That's some scary shit right there...might have to go rub my $2 bill to feel better.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)It is a condition, not anyone's real choice.
It makes us look so heartless here in Florida.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)"Housing first" has worked really well in cities where it has been tried, and it does include some enforcement actions, but the crucial step that Florida is missing here is you have to get people into housing before anything else.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)FL leaders are not fond of low cost housing.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)That's what NYC does IIRC. But pretty much before anything else, get them a bed they can rely on.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)Just curious.
And should folks like Abbott wait on a govt agency to provide shelter before they feed them?
Recursion
(56,582 posts)I'm saying they're completely getting the way other places have shown this to work backwards.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)Okay thanks.
flvegan
(64,416 posts)Yes, ENABLING folks to be homeless. Helping them to be homeless, because that's obviously what they want.
Sometimes, it's a dollar. Or a meal.
Would someone please call The Idiot Store as I feel they may be running low having exported so many to this discussion.
Rick Scott/Skeletor isn't going to help them as he can't steal anything from them.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)flvegan
(64,416 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)"They dont receive the aid and assistance they need to receive.
An empty stomach can't wait for the bureaucratic wheels to turn. It can
take weeks for one piece of paper to move from one desk to the next.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)"If you feed the poors they will just breed more poors"
They see us as wild animals, not human beings.