Crush the Bums

 

No camping in the alcove

Sometime in the last month, security gates were installed across the alcove in front of the entrance doors of this apartment building in downtown Portland.

Sometime in the last year or so, a couple of doors down from this place, a chain link fence was installed across an empty storefront's covered inset.

I don't understand why apparently no progress has been made with the homeless. Maybe it's just class warfare, or rather class neglect. The people who are in power just don't care about the problem. Any discussion of the homeless is simply an opportunity to score political points, never mind if it does anything useful. But right now everyone is thoroughly entrenched in their positions and are waiting for the election. 

Some of our elected government officials are intelligent, dedicated folks who can be trusted to base their decisions on the facts. 

Some of them are big huggy bears who are blown whichever way the winds blow. They wouldn't know a fact if some one hit them upside the face with it. For them , logical thought is a foreign country.

Some of them intelligent, cunning, psychopaths who don't give a rats ass for anyone or anything except power, money and glory.

There is some overlap between these three categories, but I think that about covers it. Let us say our elected government officials are evenly divided into each of the three types. That would certainly explain why it is so hard to get any decent legislation passed.

I just searched my archive for 'homeless'. There are a number of posts. The oldest is dated 2009.