Comments by "Sean" (@sean2015) on "Democracy Now!"
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@vallee7966 I'm tired of people making excuses for this thug. The media has been harping on the fact that is mother was killed in 2007, as if that's any excuse for his mile-long rap sheet or the fact that he broke a 67 year-old woman's nose or pushed a 60 year-old man onto the tracks.
I know plenty of people who lost a parent at a young age, but didn't turn to a life of drugs, vagrancy and thuggery like Neely did. Again, I'm not interested in hearing about his mother. The old mental illness excuse has been getting worn thin by the Left for years now.
There are infinitesimal resources available for people like Jordan Neely: our country spends half (HALF!) of its annual budget just on Social Security and health care alone. That's $2 trillion. Nobody in this country is starving (with all the food pantries we have), nobody is dropping dead in the street for lack of access to health care (that's a bogus Leftist lie).
From what I can gather, Neely was placed under psychiatric care at some point but fell off the wagon, stopped taking his meds and stopped attending his appointments. You can't help people who won't accept help, and unfortunately bums like Jordan Neely usually only want one type of help and that is cash so they can buy booze or drugs. He did not have a "mental illness problem", he had a substance abuse problem. He alone chose to go down that path. I feel no sympathy for him, nor should I. I only feel disgust towards him that he could've made something of his life but didn't.
The rest of us trying to go to work have to deal with them threatening us because 1) our government isn’t caring for them and 2) our government isn’t providing safe mass transit for us. ...you can blame the Police Defunders for that. These people should NOT be allowed to use subway trains as shelters, they should be actually staying in a shelter where they belong. And no, shelters are not always full every night of the year (that's another bogus Leftist myth) but people like Neely refuse to stay in them because they don't want to abide by the "no smoking/no drugs/no alcohol" rules. Otherwise we need to bring back insane asylums and commit these people, even forcibly if necessary. The alternative is leaving them on the street.
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