There's no dodge of the matter but rather the situation is circumstantial as in no sign of Cat and she has usually appeared by now. Her Internet caves all the time so there's no melodrama to it.
Quick repeat as there's no contest to anything said on the matter thus far but curiosity / OCD has set into it so the question of the disparity stays interesting. Blogs are simple and stupid but they make it one hell of a lot easier to carry some discussion out over days or maybe weeks. Try that on a social network and find some instant frustration as it feels all the time like Groundhog's Day on any of them.
Homelessness as a general problem is interesting for its own sake because I view it as a pernicious and maybe even infectious cancer eating society from inside. We can review all day whether anyone has a right to a roof over his head in some kind of independent living but we have seen it may well be less expensive to do that than to absorb the destructive effect of large numbers of homeless people with nowhere to go.
Just now Providence, RI, is up in arms because of a horde (truly) of homeless people all around Kennedy Square which is the central bus 'terminal' for the city. The city resolved recently to stop harassing homeless panhandlers and the population of them at Kennedy Square went way up. Ignore hyperbole as I have no idea of actual numbers but I do know business owners in the area are furious for restraint of trade and fair enough.
There are obvious and immediate problems to solve and it's also obvious the current ways of doing it don't work. We can talk of the economics as there seems reasonable evidence it's cheaper to house people than leave them on the street but the projects aren't a solution when many, maybe all of them, wind up as centers of the ghetto in a shameful state of repair. For the moment, I'm not interested in reasons so much as facts since we know these things are true even without specifically qualifying the statistics.
Some may not agree but I submit you ain't seeing nothin' yet for jobs drying up and maybe give it a generation, say twenty years, before the sciencer roboids are considerably more prevalent. I've posted multiple articles of science driving it and their robots are far past putting fenders on cars on assembly lines for automobiles. There's also the export of a tremendous number of jobs possibly with the thought of imminent automation of that work. For the moment, slaves overseas can do it.
That projection in combination with the existing problem tells me homelessness will do nothing but get worse without appropriate steps to ameliorate the situation. I strongly believe that comes from recognition of the fact these jobs are not going to come back along with recognition of how intelligent automation will dry up many more.
Keep in mind the same phenomenon will happen everywhere, likely in quick succession. When manufacturers in other countries see American companies making things with robots for peanuts, that will come everywhere and then global unemployment hits a major iceberg.
This is not glum and bummed but rather failure to prepare on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part. The world is crawling with emergencies but almost all of them come from failing to prepare. America starts a war but doesn't prepare an exit and the country is still there sixteen years later. That's not an emergency, it's fucking stupid.
Some say going for the Deep Solutions is a waste because people won't accept it. That's complete bullshit since people will go along with anything if it makes any kind of sense. Right now the pols throw the most exceptional bullshit but the gifted ones make it sugar-coated and people are so desperate for sensibility they follow it.
Give them real sense and they will believe. I haven't the faintest doubt of it. There will be hooting but there always is. If I don't trust that much in people then there really is fuckin' nothin' and I don't believe that.
Quick repeat as there's no contest to anything said on the matter thus far but curiosity / OCD has set into it so the question of the disparity stays interesting. Blogs are simple and stupid but they make it one hell of a lot easier to carry some discussion out over days or maybe weeks. Try that on a social network and find some instant frustration as it feels all the time like Groundhog's Day on any of them.
Homelessness as a general problem is interesting for its own sake because I view it as a pernicious and maybe even infectious cancer eating society from inside. We can review all day whether anyone has a right to a roof over his head in some kind of independent living but we have seen it may well be less expensive to do that than to absorb the destructive effect of large numbers of homeless people with nowhere to go.
Just now Providence, RI, is up in arms because of a horde (truly) of homeless people all around Kennedy Square which is the central bus 'terminal' for the city. The city resolved recently to stop harassing homeless panhandlers and the population of them at Kennedy Square went way up. Ignore hyperbole as I have no idea of actual numbers but I do know business owners in the area are furious for restraint of trade and fair enough.
There are obvious and immediate problems to solve and it's also obvious the current ways of doing it don't work. We can talk of the economics as there seems reasonable evidence it's cheaper to house people than leave them on the street but the projects aren't a solution when many, maybe all of them, wind up as centers of the ghetto in a shameful state of repair. For the moment, I'm not interested in reasons so much as facts since we know these things are true even without specifically qualifying the statistics.
Some may not agree but I submit you ain't seeing nothin' yet for jobs drying up and maybe give it a generation, say twenty years, before the sciencer roboids are considerably more prevalent. I've posted multiple articles of science driving it and their robots are far past putting fenders on cars on assembly lines for automobiles. There's also the export of a tremendous number of jobs possibly with the thought of imminent automation of that work. For the moment, slaves overseas can do it.
That projection in combination with the existing problem tells me homelessness will do nothing but get worse without appropriate steps to ameliorate the situation. I strongly believe that comes from recognition of the fact these jobs are not going to come back along with recognition of how intelligent automation will dry up many more.
Keep in mind the same phenomenon will happen everywhere, likely in quick succession. When manufacturers in other countries see American companies making things with robots for peanuts, that will come everywhere and then global unemployment hits a major iceberg.
This is not glum and bummed but rather failure to prepare on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part. The world is crawling with emergencies but almost all of them come from failing to prepare. America starts a war but doesn't prepare an exit and the country is still there sixteen years later. That's not an emergency, it's fucking stupid.
Some say going for the Deep Solutions is a waste because people won't accept it. That's complete bullshit since people will go along with anything if it makes any kind of sense. Right now the pols throw the most exceptional bullshit but the gifted ones make it sugar-coated and people are so desperate for sensibility they follow it.
Give them real sense and they will believe. I haven't the faintest doubt of it. There will be hooting but there always is. If I don't trust that much in people then there really is fuckin' nothin' and I don't believe that.
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