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San Diego is going bankrupt--but it will pay $900,000 to provide the homeless with toilets.
"Last week, the San Diego Regional Task Force on the Homeless reported that homelessness in San Diego Countys up by 7.8 percent from last year. Given that there’s been no significant increase in shelter beds that means more people living on the street.
Amid whats sure to be a long and complicated discussion at today’s San Diego City Council meeting about next years redevelopment-agency budgets is a relatively small request: $900,000 for more public restrooms downtown. Through their Basic Dignity campaign, a nonprofit called the Girls Think Tank (Girls is deceptive the group was started by female attorneys) wants the city to add more public restrooms Downtown, specifically some Portland Loos, solar-powered, stainless-steel urban toilets, the first of which was installed in Portland in December 2008. The Loos, the girls say, are to supplement the port-o-potties that homeless-advocate and retiree David Ross has installed, and paid for, in East Village."
Here is a couple of ideas.
1. If the attorney "Girls" really wanted to help stop the creation of more homeless, they would build the toilets with donations, not tax dollars. Or they would build more shelters, with beds and bathrooms.
2. The city, instead of spending money making it easier for people to live on the street, create policies, like tax cuts, better regulations, end the deficit, so that people would have more money--instead of taking money and making more poor.
Just a thought teach them to fish rather than giving them a fish.
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"Last week, the San Diego Regional Task Force on the Homeless reported that homelessness in San Diego Countys up by 7.8 percent from last year. Given that there’s been no significant increase in shelter beds that means more people living on the street.
Amid whats sure to be a long and complicated discussion at today’s San Diego City Council meeting about next years redevelopment-agency budgets is a relatively small request: $900,000 for more public restrooms downtown. Through their Basic Dignity campaign, a nonprofit called the Girls Think Tank (Girls is deceptive the group was started by female attorneys) wants the city to add more public restrooms Downtown, specifically some Portland Loos, solar-powered, stainless-steel urban toilets, the first of which was installed in Portland in December 2008. The Loos, the girls say, are to supplement the port-o-potties that homeless-advocate and retiree David Ross has installed, and paid for, in East Village."
Here is a couple of ideas.
1. If the attorney "Girls" really wanted to help stop the creation of more homeless, they would build the toilets with donations, not tax dollars. Or they would build more shelters, with beds and bathrooms.
2. The city, instead of spending money making it easier for people to live on the street, create policies, like tax cuts, better regulations, end the deficit, so that people would have more money--instead of taking money and making more poor.
Just a thought teach them to fish rather than giving them a fish.
More...