Comments by "tcorourke2007" (@tcorourke2007) on "Cenk's Nephew Exploits Homeless For Laughs" video.

Homelessness has little to do with the economy. It has exploded because: A) we have decriminalized drugs and therefore can't force people into rehab as an alternative to jail, and B) we allow them to sleep and plie their stuff on public property. 99% of the chronically homeless are mentally ill, drug addicts or both, and we have enabled them with our efforts to "help."
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@PrezVeto Have you been living under a rock? Drugs have been effectively or explicitly decriminalized in every major city in the U.S. In San Francisco, you can smoke crack on the front steps of a police station. Even where people are arrested for drugs, it's only a pretext for other behaviors, and they don't face any punishment.
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Nothing says "humanizing" like putting on a mask to approach your fellow "humans."
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@Joe-Przybranowski You are part of the 1%.
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@sweetiespoon5150 Nobody has ever been punished for seeking help with addiction. You have no idea what you are talking about.
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@adamlowe8822 There are dysfunctional people who end up temporarily homeless when they lose employment. A small percentage end up descending into street life permanently. The reason most people end up permanently homeless is that their mental condition and/or addiction has caused them to become unemployable and has deteriorated their relationships with friends and family.
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@kerwynpk If you lost your job, savings, and home overnight, you would stay with friends or family until you were back on your feet. Barring this, you would stay in a shelter. You would seek any employment as a temporary measure. If rents were too high, you would get roommates. The people who end up on the street do none of this because they have alienated their social network and cannot get along with others. In the past, the economy has been far worse with far less homelessness simply because we did not tolerate it.
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@nikko5492 False. The vast, vast majority of people could lose everything and not end up homeless, because friends and family would help them. People who end up living on the street have eroded those relationships with behaviors related to addiction and mental illness. In order to help them, we need to force them into treatment. Anything else is enabling. Including the idea "It could happen to you."
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@ducdashot1239 The elimination of mental health services and shelter scams have nothing to do with the economy. And the notion that homelessness could easily be solved if only people weren't so "lazy" is too ignorant to address.
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@PrezVeto So your objection is I said can't instead of won't?
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@ducdashot1239 You literally listed "sheer laziness" as a reason homelessness isn't solved. That's dumb. You've also written two lengthy replies about why what's being done isn't working and zero about how to solve this "easy problem."
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