And if you need a new garden shed for the backyard you can go down there with your truck and offer them $200 for it. Throw in an extra $50 if you want them to help you load it.
Did you see the lady that designed jackets that turned into sleeping bags for the homeless? That shit was genius too!
Homeless people are dumb, the one guy wants a DVD player....you need at LEAST a Blu-ray player if not a 4k...pfft. For 2 billion dollars I want a fucking skyscraper, which might be doable if you get some contractors to donate some time.
This is easy. $2-billion? Let me tell you how to build it and keep the money. Make a new company. Just for building the tower, OK? Don't make yourself CEO. You are only a consultant. Highly paid! The CEO is in CHI-NA. Bring the contractors in from out of state. No unions. Hire them through a middleman. Day workers. Not your employees! After the work is done, complain. They made a lot of noise. Lots of trash. Workers were rude. Whatever. When it comes time to pay, don't. Offer them 65% of the original contract. Oh, they don't like it? Their work was shoddy. If they threaten to sue, tell them their lawyers will eat 40%, and it will take years. 65% sounds pretty good! But don't pay it. Pay like half, OK? Fold the company you made. Declare bankruptcy. More lawsuits? Wasn't your company. Take it up with Ping Ming in China. The work was shoddy! Paid them millions for crap! I'll never work with them again! You should walk away with at least 30%. Make America Great Again!
Unfortunately many homeless people are demented and once resided in an institution. If you want to see the largest population of homeless people visit Venice Beach in LA. Maybe Trump would suggest dumping them all in Tijuana. Screw the wall idea. Re populate what is South of our border. The Cubans did that to President Carter in Miami.
I can understand that homelessness can happen in any city, but I fail to understand why homeless people actually come to places like Portland. It's cold and rainy. Not exactly great conditions. Furthermore, helping the homeless is one thing, but if they're moving here to get help, that creates a much bigger problem. We can't afford to take on the rest of the countries homeless population as well.
Most evidence suggests that these are mostly home-grown homeless people, not transplants. Yes, Portland sees an explosion of transient "street kids" in the summer, but they are just the most visible part of the homeless population.
homelessness in Eugene seems to have become an intentional community, a career choice for some. if we want to trim the fat off our tax burden, young hippy kids in their 20s should not be begging for spare change and taking food stamps for being irresponsible .....join the fucking army if you can't feed, cloth or house yourself and you're 22 years old. There's work if you have an iota of ambition...when I retired from the school district, I found a job within about 4 hours doing humanitarian work that pays the bills....and I'm old as dirt..this is not making America great again.....no offense to the legitimately displaced homeless that are truly victims of circumstance....that's a different scenario and I'll pay taxes to help them out
I've come to know a few of the homeless here in San Diego. The typical story I hear is, "I was a vet, I'm waiting on a government check, etc." The government is failing those guys. A bunch of them would sleep in the underground garage where I worked. I'd ride my bike to work and parked it there. I ended up talking to them quite a few times. The neighbors complained they were making lots of noise and smoking dope (and doing other drugs) all night. One of them died from exposure in the winter. It was a sad and scary day. The COO of the company decided then to not allow them to sleep in the garage anymore. Some of the people who look homeless are just panhandlers.
60% or more of homeless are suffering from some degree of mental illness. Michael Bloomberg's puppet Kate Brown just shut down a major mental hospital on the coast which will throw another few hundred tortured souls onto the streets. http://registerguard.com/rg/news/lo...ocal-residents.html.csp#.WE9uwttpL_I.facebook
