Comments by "Babu" (@Babu-kr3cr) on "KGW News" channel.

The churches used to stay open 24 hours and people who were homeless could go in and sleep on the pews. Those are nice benches to sleep on. That is wrong that they are causing homeless to die from lack of shelter. What good does camping gear do if you can't camp, good point. That must be so stressful and terrifying to wander all night not knowing if you can stay warm enough to live. Regulations need to be ignored and fought in these situations. If the church just leaves the sanctuary open and the homeless find out by word of mouth, no one has to know about it in the government who would rather see people die. Even staying in a drafty apartment is stressful, but being out in this must be unbearable.
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It isn't like 25-30 years ago when if you were on the street, you could find some help or help yourself and get a job and place to stay. Nowadays, once you lose your place in society, you are kept out. You can't find another place, another job or really much help. It used to be you got full food stamps for being homeless. Now you get almost nothing because they think you have no shelter expenses. If you have housing under rental assistance, they won't negotiate with the landlord. They tell you to get a lawyer if you are abused or mistreated or if they attempt to run you out. Then the legal aid either won't take the case or will just throw it to the prosecution and not defend you. They manipulate everything to keep people down. People in social service agencies will tell you they aren't social workers and don't have to advocate for you and won't tell you what help is available. Any funding there, you have to seek it out yourself and then fight for it. It is a lot of work like the lady in the camp said. If you know you qualify, you have to keep at it until they give it to you. This country is horrible. The only opportunities are for the rich and well off to take advantage of the poor and needy. It isn't a fair society, and any rights you think you have, you have to keep fighting for. It is a never-ending war and struggle to survive or have a life. Here is another thing. People are disappearing from the streets. There are missing homeless and even people who dare to look homeless, they just vanish. How is this possible? Are all of them shunted out west and down south? A lot of them have really no means to get there or travel that far even if someone paid for a ticket. What happened to them when even rent in rooming houses has gone up to like $800 per month, if you can even find one clean enough and maintained enough to survive in long. I really think this is a hidden extermination agenda.
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It would be cheaper to just hire a sanitation crew to come by and keep it neat and tidy. Now there are homeless people scattered all over and the city is paying the towing, impound fees, and massive cleanup. They need to leave these people alone and stop putting them in tiny homeless shed compounds that are expensive. These people are self-sufficient and proud. Let them do their thing and just try to keep it under control. They are working against the homeless not with them. They make them feel hunted and I see why.
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Why are all of these politicians grandstanding g now?
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They killed him in cold blood for being a suspect. It is like a war on the people by the police.
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The lady in the trailer is such a nice lady and a good mother and is trying so hard and is pregnant. I would love to have her around. The street is public property, they can't say who parks there. It is a public right of way. She is too nice to fight with all of these judgmental losers. I would have said how much would you give me, enough for a campground for a week or what? It is expensive trying to park anywhere. I think she could get a small toaster oven or Instapot and make tater tot casserole or a pizza. I know she wants a real place to live though. Why can't people help instead of judge? They are so short sighted. This lady would probably like to clean homes or do whatever as she is parking nearby. It could be a win win for everyone instead of a war.
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The economically disadvantaged are being accused of mental illness based on circumstantial evidence. These ladies aren’t mentally ill.
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Portland lured people there with services and then just says it is time to go when they need help the most? They throw them out into the cold? Why not let them sleep on the floors and in the halls? How can there be no room at all? They lured them there to kill them like in the Nazi ghettos? This is despicable. They are not druggies, bums, mentally ill . . . they are human beings. They wouldn't leave dogs out in the cold without being fined, but they can throw people out to their deaths? Suddenly all the warming centers are just closed, but never for the migrants huh? They are destroying Americans on purpose.
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No desire to become a slave.
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They get paid to maintain homelessness, not solve it.
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When they clean up the camps, they should leave the tents and obvious camping equipment alone. Take the trash and maybe the furniture that belongs in a house but leave these people what they need to survive. Respect goes both ways. You show respect for others property and lives, they show respect for your parks and towns. If they come back with a vengeance, it is like a war mentality. They are trying to make it hardier to clean up lugging in couches. Leave them a little something to take and move on with, or just leave them in peace and try to keep it clean for them.
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Let's not nitpick. Clean up the litter and let them keep what they need.
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Aren't there city financial officers, comptrollers, freeholders, or someone in charge of making sure the money is going to what it is allocated for? Did it all go to the pocket of the woman in charge who has no information? Homeowners should not have to pay after donating their land for five years and housing a homeless shelter for the county. They should get that little guest house free. That lady really wanted to help people though. Maybe she would have charged cheap rent and let the homeless stay there as tenants. Everyone is being ripped off here but the people in charge of helping who can just say well it is another department now, and here are no questions asked.
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@johnf8877 That is one way but not the only way.
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These people think they are doing a public service getting rid of undesirables. The whole country is like a judgmental "I'm better than you" club looking for new members. If you don't join, you are run out and run around like a stray dog who they would probably even take in over a suffering person.
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