The Chronic Denver Homeless and Those Who Love Them

It's amazing to see how the do-gooders who dedicate themselves to helping the homeless get a clue as to how many of the chronically homeless don't mind being so because it's become part of their lifestyle. In 1997 and 1998 I worked at a job where day labor was often used in busy times, and it happened more than once that after I got home from work I would head to a neighborhood food store only to see one or more of the day laborers that I had just gotten done working with coming out of Denver Drug & Liquor with an already open bottle of booze. In the 10 years since, I continue to see a few of them from time to time, always drunk and loitering somewhere. One I came across passed out drunk on a sidewalk. One thing that most advocates of the homeless do not understand is that 1) if these people are willing to work, the money they get all goes toward their alcohol and drugs, and 2) people like this tax food banks and soup lines because they want to spend their little money on alcohol and drugs which means that local food banks are unnecessarily burdened and drained. "Aiding" people like this only encourages them and prolongs their unwillingness to straighten up. Whenever you see someone panhandling or "performing" on the street for money, that person is either a chronically homeless drug and alcohol abuser or is a complete moron. I call them morons because local charities have free clothes, free clothes washing and even free showers to help them work. Combine this with the large number of jobs available to them and the picture of willful homelessness comes together. All I can figure of these advocates of the homeless is that they were reared in sheltered suburban environments and do not understand inner city lifestyles. In fact, most of these advocates tend to be middle class white people who often praise the Lord and I suspect many of the older ones help out to get into heaven.



Here's an example of someone who either doesn't want to hold down a job or is not able to formulate simple logic and mathematics. "Street performers" get very little money for all their guitar playing and bongo drum beating, and if they worked even a minimum wage job (which do not exist) they would come out vastly ahead for the same time spent. The idiocy is mind-boggling.