So Bill Gates decided to give billions to his worldwide causes

@MayorOfCrushtown how would you find them ? Everyone would say they need money

@Whyme you cant help everyone, but, a person could go into a restaurant and hand everybody working there a 100 dollar bill. it wouldnt change their life, but it might help feed them for a week. every little bit helps. plus, if you did it that way, they wouldnt have to pay taxes on it. LOL

@MayorOfCrushtown i agree theres ways but you would inevitably give someone drug money also

@MayorOfCrushtown that's nice too

@MayorOfCrushtown my thoughts are completely different on the subject. instead of handing someone money . (you don't know what they are doing with that hundred), Take the "easy to help" first. fix their lives. get them in school. get them a business. get them a home, etc...then move on to the next group of people, until their aren't any homeless.

@DIABLISS the problem is some dont want help and some will get back there regardless so what do you do with them ?

@MayorOfCrushtown Maybe setup an education fund that provides scholarships to workers, and their children.
Build social housing that provides an affordable place to live.

@chrisCA those are nice ideas

@Whyme If i were rich...i would pick out an area. then pick out a handful of families. Then i would have them go thru a small series of tests...psychological and physical...fix what needed to be. Then send some to college (pay for everything)...some i would set up in what ever business they know or desire to be in. (and i would pay for everything). buy houses but they would be my houses until said families could afford to buy them from me (and this may never be). I would fix them and their lives. In the meantime, i would be establishing a large building for this testing and the temporary housing for these homeless as i was preparing them. As they are starting their new lives i would start helping the next group of people and so on...

You can't just hand people money and expect them to get better on their own. They can't.

And for those who need help in the addiction department...they would go through the 6 weeks of rehab and then go through it a second time as a volunteer...helping those who are coming in off the street with THEIR addictions. Nothing helps a person see reality more clearly than to see someone in the same situation and helping them through it.

@DIABLISS there will always be homeless but not near as many as now. My city hired social workers to help get the homeless back on their feet by assisting them with getting their SS cards, ID cards made etc so they can get through the paper work of getting help, getting them on a housing list. There is a tiny home community (parents with children and handicapped are first priority). You’d be surprised at how many of the homeless refuse help. The reason in many cases is that they don’t want to follow the rules of abstaining from drugs, looking for work, learning how to set a budget and following it etc….they want to be “free spirits” asking for donations of $ and the freedom to use drugs etc. Some 40% are refusing help. There is a meth camp on the edge of the city in a large wooded park. Many of them have been banned from the free meal site due to being high or violent. So they are chronically homeless unless they get someone to take them in and that’s dangerous. Have had some murders here due to that and also many other problems they create. Police are staying busy dealing with them.

@cherokeepatti nice to hear

@DIABLISS Even with that help we still have a chronic problem. Due to a leftist mayor and some of her cronies. Police wanted to clear up the meth camps in the woods and she ordered them to stand back and let it fester for years. The good thing is that she was voted out of office and we got a new mayor last week. He is working on these problems including putting back the police jobs that the mayor cut while she was in office. I believe the other mayor was also inviting homeless to gather here to further her agenda.

@cherokeepatti yikes! was she selling them for parts?

@DIABLISS More like for votes to get more liberals on her side. This is a university city and that alone draws in liberals and then you have students who are brainwashed by the professors. They are the ones that supported the mayor. They can’t think critically so they went along with whatever. She allowed a sit in by the BLM here in the city hall and then allowed a vote without any input from the citizens to defund the police. Did it quickly like within hours of the sit in. Pure Commie tactics.

@cherokeepatti a good percentage of them will eventually become conservatives when they figure out that their ideas just dont work in the long run.

@MayorOfCrushtown Most of them will have no other choice because their liberal degrees won’t pay them diddly squat.

@cherokeepatti If you ever want to look for one just go to your local Whole Foods, Trader Joes, etc. .... thats where they work ........ they might as well walk around with a sign that says "I have an advanced degree in something that it not marketable in the least" LOL

@MayorOfCrushtown haha I don’t go to those places. Maybe they work in Natural Grocers or Sprouts though.