gov money/power
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 weedeater64 |
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Posts: 3 (03/01/07 20:18:28) |
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silverspringwoman |
another take on the hawaii homeless shelter | ||
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Posts: 269 (03/02/07 08:49:50) |
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Reframed from another angle. Remember, this is the "business" I am in: I work for a homeless shelter, and one of the things that I do is show people how to live more comfortably(and with less fear) being homeless. The solution that Hawaii has come up with is not ideal, cramming people into quonset huts and charging them rent. The better solution would be to offer it with some radicalization: teaching people to live communally, forming intentional communities, having educational goals for the community, encouraging participation without force; case management services would be nice if they offered lessons on getting out of wage slavery, dumpster diving, bartering, etc. But that is a bit too "out there" for governmental agencies, and downright "verboten" by HUD and CSBG, which help to fund these places. |
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arkham618 |
Re: another take on the hawaii homeless shelter | ||
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Posts: 5 (03/25/07 11:29:54) |
No kidding. I worked in a shelter in Florida for two years and was appalled at the dependency-substitution that went on there. Get off the drugs and alcohol, get onto disability, unemployment, public housing, and a host of other government programs -- or go back to work. Oh, and find Jesus, because he'll land you a six-figure income, a condo in Miami, and three Hummers in your driveway, if you just believe. The entire thrust of the program was to refurbish broken lives and reinsert them into the consumer economy. I finally had to quit that place, I was so disgusted by it.
P.S. - Note how the shelter in the article has only 300 beds, but the authorities evicted 700 people from one beach. They must be using New Math in their calculations. |
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weedeater64 |
Re: another take on the hawaii homeless shelter | ||
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Posts: 3 (02/17/08 18:08:34) |
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Posts: 6 (03/27/08 14:20:25) |
Many attempts to "help" the homeless, the starving, the impoverished, etc., are motivated more by the desire for more consumers and producers than by
a sincere desire for help. With globalization, all of the markets of the developed world are filled. The only way to keep up profits is to make infinite
meaningless changes and "upgrades." If the have-nots are given the ability to become haves, then they will become a huge new market for consumer
goods, as is happening in China and India. Poor people the world over have been brainwashed by the wealthy into believing that consumer society is the only
way out of their suffering. What we need is more people who can speak the truth to the poor, people who can point them into a more sustainable way out of
poverty.
Not "one laptop per child," which only produces more tech-addicted consumers, but perhaps "one garden per child." |
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Hakim Baker |
one ____ per child | ||
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Posts: 45 (03/28/08 16:12:15) |
one garden per child--love that!
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