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| The Billion Dollar Homeless Scam |
| 2018-08-24 |
| New York City will be spending $2.06 billion on its Department of Homeless Services. There are 61,421 homeless people in the city which is spending $33,539 per homeless person. That’s only a little short of the starting salary of an FDNY firefighter at $39,000. More money will be spent on the homeless than on the firefighters who save New Yorkers from burning buildings. The FDNY will have to make do with $2.04 billion, and the health department with $1.6 billion. That’s impressive for DHS, a department that was only created in 1993 by the disgraced Dinkins administration and is now burning through more cash than agencies fulfilling actual vital city functions. Two years ago, DHS had over 2,600 employees. That’s 1 employee to every 23 homeless people. Meanwhile 234 New Yorkers get only 1 police officer to serve and protect them from criminals. Has this vast infusion of cash solved homelessness in the city? Nope. New York’s homeless population has kept on growing until it now has more homeless people than any other city. New York City’s homeless growth rate is also faster than that of any other city. Maybe because it spends more than any other city. But Los Angeles is catching up. IMO, the most evil thing about the Left is that they get you through your innate decency |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 Old fashion Christians compassion required change of behavior of the recipient. Even Mother Teresa's Calcutta operations for street people there had limits. Occasionally some obstreperous beneficiaries were kicked back into the streets of Calcutta. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-08-24 13:38 |
| #3 It's a subsidy program for the muzz store owners who sell short dogs even tho alcohol is haram. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-08-24 10:55 |
| #2 >You get more of what you subsidize But you also get it at even lower quality. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-08-24 06:06 |
| #1 You get more of what you subsidize Old fashion Christians compassion required change of behavior of the recipient. If the individual continued in the old behavior, no more compassion. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-08-24 06:01 |