Homelessness as an industry: Bring them to the clinics, where the clinicians can make a living off them. I thought on this as I considered someone's warning that in moving the homeless out of downtown the downtown area, we must not remove them too far from their services.
Perhaps the services are helpful, all of them. But, we should give them pause. We should consider not only if they are necessary, but if they are being administered in the best of fashions, which, in part, means that someone's not making their buck off the homeless while the homeless really are not reaping much benefit.
I say this, in part, because we cannot afford many bills. Often, the government pays the bill. We are maybe $18 trillion in debt. Some things -- even good things and things we want to do, are simply not affordable.
But, even if it were not a matter of what we could afford, the homeless should not be an industry, they should be a service.
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