Well, that's cheery to know

[kierthos]

Phoenix, Arizona is joining Columbia, South Carolina in a "Man, fuck the homeless" kickoff.

(The Columbia, SC reference is to one of our city council, E.W. Cromartie, getting a case of the hairy ass over the Salvation Army using one of their lease properties to run a soup kitchen. He is however, now claiming that the city shouldn't sue the Salvation Army in spite of him saying they should pursue all options to keep the SA from opening the soup kitchen.)

*sigh*

I don't like homeless people coming into the store during the night and trying to stay there and/or bum change, but trying to shut down programs that feed the homeless isn't going to make the homeless go away.

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[flemco.livejournal.com]

Oh, but it WILL make the homeless go away! First, the homeless will get desperate, and a bunch of them will die of starvation. The ones that are left will resort to crime in order to feed themselves, and when they get caught, bam! Into prison with them! See? Problem solved!

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

*nod* Aggressive panhandling is actually a misdemeanor crime here in Columbia, but outside of the downtown club/bar districts, and around the state capitol building/downtown area, I've never heard of it being enforced.

As it stands, we've had to tell a couple of the more argumentative ones (shouting and cussing for the most part) that they aren't allowed back in the store, or we'll call the cops on them. Right now, I only have two 'regulars', and I had to call the cops on one of them last night.