What is it called by some? The "Homeless-industrial Complex?"
In that the government has found another "cause" to build and grow more government revenue, more departments, and more bureaucracy? And now that the bureaucracy has been created, the "cause" that created it can never be solved, lest the bureaucracy will be ended?
It is truly shocking at how much taxpayer money is wasted on programs to help the homeless, while never actually managing to help the homeless. As a society, we should be appalled, and we should undoubtedly demand much better by all those elected to represent us.
The amount of fraud waste and abuse at every level is more than a little concerning. When privately run nonprofits operate more efficiently even with some offering excessive compensation it is more than time to have a conversation about balancing the books. We pay significant sums of tax dollars for public services and resources. We should at the very least see some meaningful benefit from it, or receive a reasonable response and solution to the situation.
I agree, it is growing completely out of hand. The homeless issue is a huge illustration of just how bad things have gotten. For all the money state an local government spends on 'services to help the homeless' there shouldn't be any homeless people, there's vastly more than needed to house everyone.
Unfortunately it is neither moral, ethical, nor kind. Especially when the resources they continually take from the average household place many more at risk of the very same fate.
I hope that people can begin to see the obligation we have to ensure these systems don't run off rails, and that we have to hold those in positions of responsibility accountable to the commitments that put them there.
Well said, and I think we do well to start looking at government fraud, waste, and abuse as a moral issue, rather than as a political issue. It is undoubtedly immoral to extract taxes from citizens, and then turn around and waste those taxes.
If we recognize that, then the next question must be, how can we allow people to hold elective office if they are allowing the bureaucracies they ultimately control to act immorally?
I think somewhere along the way people started to equate turning a blind eye to absolution. You often hear the legalese come out to play when someone had knowledge but willingly chose inaction when their oath of office demanded accountability and action.
What is it called by some? The "Homeless-industrial Complex?"
In that the government has found another "cause" to build and grow more government revenue, more departments, and more bureaucracy? And now that the bureaucracy has been created, the "cause" that created it can never be solved, lest the bureaucracy will be ended?
It is truly shocking at how much taxpayer money is wasted on programs to help the homeless, while never actually managing to help the homeless. As a society, we should be appalled, and we should undoubtedly demand much better by all those elected to represent us.
The amount of fraud waste and abuse at every level is more than a little concerning. When privately run nonprofits operate more efficiently even with some offering excessive compensation it is more than time to have a conversation about balancing the books. We pay significant sums of tax dollars for public services and resources. We should at the very least see some meaningful benefit from it, or receive a reasonable response and solution to the situation.
I agree, it is growing completely out of hand. The homeless issue is a huge illustration of just how bad things have gotten. For all the money state an local government spends on 'services to help the homeless' there shouldn't be any homeless people, there's vastly more than needed to house everyone.
It is wasted instead.
And how can that be moral?
Unfortunately it is neither moral, ethical, nor kind. Especially when the resources they continually take from the average household place many more at risk of the very same fate.
I hope that people can begin to see the obligation we have to ensure these systems don't run off rails, and that we have to hold those in positions of responsibility accountable to the commitments that put them there.
Well said, and I think we do well to start looking at government fraud, waste, and abuse as a moral issue, rather than as a political issue. It is undoubtedly immoral to extract taxes from citizens, and then turn around and waste those taxes.
If we recognize that, then the next question must be, how can we allow people to hold elective office if they are allowing the bureaucracies they ultimately control to act immorally?
I think somewhere along the way people started to equate turning a blind eye to absolution. You often hear the legalese come out to play when someone had knowledge but willingly chose inaction when their oath of office demanded accountability and action.
I can't disagree.