San Antonio to build two high tech 24-hour restrooms downtown.

[TheWriter]

They dont have enough gumption to walk down the street and freakin get a job let alone do that.


More tax dollars at work, spending on the "less fortunate" amazing how they arent homless anymore its "less fortunate"

More spending on the homeless. Of course. That makes the problem better.

More money for people who wont work, because they know, people will have to do for them.....

Yes TPark, all homeless people are lazy bums.

Goddamn, you're a sad .

There's people who get laid off and can't find work.

There's mother's of children who can't find work who have to live on the shirt with their children.

There's children who can't work and have no other choice but to live under bridges or in cardboard boxes.

Do you think homeless people want to be homeless, poor, freezing cold in the winter and hoping to god they have room at the SAM shelter?

man. They don't. Some, a small percentage are lazy and rather panhandle for the rest of their life but guy, the rest don't say:

Hey, I really don't fill like making money and buying things or putting a solid roof over my head for me and my kids, I'd rather push a cart around filled with a bunch of . That's sounds good!

If you took your head out of your big ass TPark for maybe two seconds, you'd see that those people would love nothing more than to live in a 500 sq. ft apartment and work the nightshift at McDonalds. But sometimes life just ing sucks and it can't happen that way. Sometimes you have no tranportation to get you to and from work. Sometimes your a vet with a handicap who can't do crap but beg for handouts.

ing TPark, you self centered, self helping .

[T Park]

A 27 million surplus

Novel idea here, return that money to the tax payers.


There should never be a surplus.

Tourists complained, so the city came up with a longterm solution to help the homeless.

Booo hooo, joe schmo can get a job, but "hasnt found anything good" yet, so stays in the mission downtown.

So now I have to take money, that i work my ass off for, to pay for bathrooms for this clown, because he doesn't want to work.

Also the same clown I go downtown and offer a job to, turns it down because "well, I need something here in town" now I have to take my money and support this guy??

Hmm, sounds GREAT.

[Dex]

There should never be a surplus.

It's that line of thinking that has this country stuck in a 60 zillion dollar defecit.

[TheWriter]

Novel idea here, return that money to the tax payers.


There should never be a surplus.



Booo hooo, joe schmo can get a job, but "hasnt found anything good" yet, so stays in the mission downtown.

So now I have to take money, that i work my ass off for, to pay for bathrooms for this clown, because he doesn't want to work.

Also the same clown I go downtown and offer a job to, turns it down because "well, I need something here in town" now I have to take my money and support this guy??

Hmm, sounds GREAT.

So those homeless child don't deserve a place to use the restroom?

Those mother's who can't get jobs don't deserve a place either?

How about the vets. who can't work, they don't either.

So because you've encountered homeless people who don't want to work, you now generalize the entire bunch of them?

Why not take your taco bell loving ass downtown and start a dialouge with some of those people and find out the real story instead of making your own generalizations about a group of people your spoiled rich as knows nothing about.

Do it, go ask them if it's easy beans trying to find a job to support a family to find a job that will get you a home or an apartment and a car and clothes and food.

Go ask them.

Because I'm ing sure they'd take your life or my life or some McDonald's manager's life over their own in a micro second,

[TheWriter]

It's that line of thinking that has this country stuck in a 60 zillion dollar defecit.

That and elected Sir. Re -a-lot.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Joe Schmo doesn't make up the majority of the homeless population in SA.

In 2003, a city census showed that 49% of SA and Bexar County's homeless population were members of families with children. 37% of the homeless are children. 15% are EMPLOYED!

http://www.sanantonio.gov/comminit/p...melessness.pdf

[TheWriter]

Joe Schmo doesn't make up the majority of the homeless population in SA.

In 2003, a city census showed that 49% of SA and Bexar County's homeless population were members of families with children. 37% of the homeless are children. 15% are EMPLOYED!

http://www.sanantonio.gov/comminit/p...melessness.pdf

TPark just likes talking out his big ass from behind his small computer.

ing spoiled asshole.

Thinks everyone is handed a silver spoon upon birth.

[TheWriter]

37% of the homeless are children.

Get their asses into sweat shops! I'm sure Kathy Lee could use some fresh blood. But no, they're too goddamn lazy and stupid to do anything. ing commies suck.[/TPark]

[T Park]

If you took your head out of your big ass TPark for maybe two seconds, you'd see that those people would love nothing more than to live in a 500 sq. ft apartment and work the nightshift at McDonalds. But sometimes life just ing sucks and it can't happen that way. Sometimes you have no tranportation to get you to and from work. Sometimes your a vet with a handicap who can't do crap but beg for handouts.

ing TPark, you self centered, self helping

Well Buddy the dumb .

Once again talking out of your ass.

The people my company hired for the longest time was ALL, homeless people.

So I have a first hand knowledge.

1st, you get the "Well I need something that I want to do"
Oh well ok jack, Im sure IBM will roll up any day now with that CEO position ready.

2. The ones that DO accept the job, they will work 3 days, say that, "Well, Im tired, I cant work anymore, the hours arent good"

Oh yeah the hours spent at the SAM are much better for you forgive me.


No Mr Holly, I have no clue about homeless people

GO off.

Would you rather the homeless beg for change, defecate in public, etc. or would you rather some of them take some of the opportunities afforded them and try to make a change (job, home, etc.)?

Id like for them to get jobs.

Funny when I go down there, offer 300 a week, free room and board, free washing machine, free medical care, and quick advancement.

I always get the "No no thanks"

Once again, get in my position, and you see from my point of view.

[T Park]

Why talk dialogue with Mr Buddy.

this.

You cant talk with this in idiot.

[TheWriter]

I always get the "No no thanks"

So how many of those no's came from woman/mothers and how many of them came from children.

I'm sure you asked them to.

No Mr Holly, I have no clue about homeless people

I'm sure you have a slight knowledge about homeless people and how their life got to where it is... oh wait, that slight knowledge is of only homeless males who look strong and who you think would be able to work in construction, huh? Very vast knowledge there head.

[T Park]

TPark just likes talking out his big ass from behind his small computer.

ing spoiled asshole.

Thinks everyone is handed a silver spoon upon birth.

Go yourself.

Once again you dont know .

[TheWriter]

Why talk dialogue with Mr Buddy.

this.

You cant talk with this in idiot.

Than don't talk to me, talk to the other guy tearing your big ass up.

[TheWriter]

Go yourself.

Once again you dont know .

You're a self-serving jackass who takes a few experiences and then uses it to generalize a larger group and treat them like .

The city does a ing good thing overall for the longterm goal of a better quality of life and all you can do is ing moan and like a ing rich private school head who didn't get his Benz detailed properly.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

$5.15/hour * 40 hours/week = $206/week * 52 weeks = $10,712/year

After a brief look at ApartmentGuide.com, the cheapest apartment (many didn't have prices listed, though) was $338/month.

$338/month * 12 months = $4,056/year.

Forget for a second that most properties ask that you make at least 2.5+ times the rental rate before you move in. Forget for a second that most apartments enforce a limit of no more than 2 people per bedroom rule. Forget that there is even affordable housing programs at some apartment complexes

$10,712 - $4,056 = $6,656

I'm a single, college-aged male with computer access living in a one-bedroom, 500 square foot apartment and I average out to about $40/month in utilities (I also live in a city which AFAIK doesn't depend as heavily on utility bills to fund themselves as does SA)

$40/month * 12 months = $480

That leaves just over $6,000 a year to spend on being able to work, provide schooling for your children (which includes clothing, supplies, etc.) and other expenses.

You're telling me that trying to give people a helping hand is wrong?

[T Park]

moan and like a ing rich private school head who didn't get his Benz detailed properly.

Funny.

Never owned a benz, and went to a public school.

Wanna keep talking out of your ass there picture boy?

[T Park]

You're telling me that trying to give people a helping hand is wrong?

Nope.

Just dont use my money to do it.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Park, I'm not calling you a liar, but for $7.50/hour plus everything else you said, you can probably get most college students to work for you.

[TheWriter]

Funny.

Never owned a benz, and went to a public school.

Wanna keep talking out of your ass there picture boy?

I used that to compare your ing and moaning, I didn't say that were your ing life situation.

You went to a public school!?!? Oh god, how'd you survive that?

[T Park]

The sad thing is the homeless wont even appreciate it that much

YOU HOMLESS HATING BAS !! TAKE IT BACK< YOU DONT !!! YOU(thewriter)

[T Park]

You went to a public school!?!? Oh god, how'd you survive that?

I dont know.

I blame alot of my idiocy on that stupid place.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Id like for them to get jobs.

Funny when I go down there, offer 300 a week, free room and board, free washing machine, free medical care, and quick advancement.

I always get the "No no thanks"

Once again, get in my position, and you see from my point of view.

Always? The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

I'm not doubting that there are people who don't want the job for whatever reason, and you know what, it's pretty ing stupid of them to turn down offers like that "just because."

Since 22% of people in that survey I mentioned earlier (20% mentally ill and 2% with AIDS/HIV) are homeless, I wonder...does your free medical care cover those illnesses.

Again, I'm not trying to say that you offering jobs to people and getting shot down is wrong or anything - I applaud you for that. My dad does the same thing at his small business in Austin.

I just don't think you can lump the entire homeless population, some of which are in their positions through no fault of their own, into a population that you're seemingly asking to be eradicated with a request for no further funding.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Why are they building such a hi tech restroom when they could get like 20 low tech ones?

Are you going to take a job cleaning and securing it?

[3rdCoast]

I just don't think you can lump the entire homeless population, some of which are in their positions through no fault of their own, into a population that you're seemingly asking to be eradicated with a request for no further funding.

Everyone is in their position in life because of choices and decisions they have made in the past.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Everyone is in their position in life because of choices and decisions they have made in the past.

So Arthur Ashe made a choice to be infected with the AIDS virus after a blood transfusion?

So the over 3,000 people who died on 11 September 2001 made a choice to be killed by terrorists attacking our nation because they boarded airplanes on cross-country flights, went to work in the Pentagon, went to serve food in a resturaunt at the top of the WTC?