by Jack
(Homeless dumping or patient dumping is the practice of hospitals or other agencies releasing homeless patients on the streets instead of placing them with a homeless shelter or retaining them, especially when they may require expensive medical care with minimal government reimbursement from Medicaid or Medicare. )
For several years local law enforcement has known that Chico is a dumping place for other state’s homeless, but you never heard the Police Chief admit it at our council meetings. Surely, if his officers knew he knew, right? And if the cops all knew it, then our local shelter operators and others involved in the Homeless Task Force must have known it too. But, it seems this little secret was deliberately being kept from the general public in Chico for some reason.
Dumping explains why the job of our local street ambassadors, volunteers counselling homeless about the local rules, will never be finished. Every few weeks we’re dealing with a whole new group of problem people from outside Chico.
6o minutes did a segment the practice dumping, as well as at least a half dozen major news agencies within California. The conclusion was always the same, bums are getting a free bus ticket to California!
For some senders of homeless, California wasn’t nearly far enough, and now Hawaii is being overrun with bums and mental patients coming from all over the USA. For the doubters of homeless dumping Hawaii is proof positive, because you just don’t hope a train to Oahu, they must arrive at the airport with one way tickets and where do bums get expensive tickets, hmmmm?
It should be illegal for government entities to ship their problem people to other states like California, but it’s not. And California was so enticing, it was like this giant welfare magnet that implied we have more money than brains, so all you bums come and get it!
yes, dumping explains why we have an exploding population of bums and mentally disturbed people wandering our streets, parks and panhandling at every mall exit. This is 180 out from what were led to believe by liberals who did polling about 2 years ago.
Hospital dumping of mental patients on skid row in many large cities has generated lawsuits, but the practice still continues. For out of state hospitals, it’s either dump them elsewhere or go broke keeping them. Sadly, for too many of the mentally ill its a situation of being just well enough to make a decision on their own to stay away from the help of a mental hospital. The ACLU made sure they could not be forced into care, even when they were completely bonkers.
It’s become quite popular for some cities and counties to buy one way bus tickets to California for their chronic alcoholics, bums and criminals.
People who deal with these homeless types here prefer to deny that dumping exists. They want to pass off this explosive jump in our homeless population as just local people in need. See, to many of these workers homeless represent welfare and grant money. Oh, and sure there are also the bleeding heart liberals who “love seeing the bums overrun Chico” so they can feel good feeding them. They’re part of the problem too.
They are being enablers just like those who give money to the bums or the two big shelters that provide free food and a clean bed. They all help to attract and keep the out of state bums here. Lucky us, eh?
Click here for more information.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/10/nevada-settles-busing-homeless-lawsuit-san-francisco
http://www.kgw.com/news/local/program-to-bus-homeless-out-of-portland-begins/204664598
We have a temperate climate, Jack. They should freeze?
You know what I’m going to say. If the 20% had been paying their share, lo, these 40 years, we would not even have this problem. No matter how many times I remind you, you persist in forgetting. Chico’s first street person was a woman, who lived chiefly at 2nd and Salem, in 1983, 4, 5, etc., an immediate consequence of Ronald’s first term, and in one of your positive manifestations of sexism, could not be made amenable to departure by the usual methods employed by law enforcement.
What it’s going to cost to address the problem, retroactively, does not bear thinking about … but you are just going to have to pony up.
The 20% have ponied up and then some and all they have gotten for their money is a long list of failures!
The homeless/mentally ill problem does not exist for lack of money.
And you know it was liberal thinking that came up with the bright idea of throwing mentally ill people out on the streets, thus creating a massive homeless problem.
The following from an article at Gateway Pundit includes source links:
Readings in Humanistic Psychiatry, “Where did the ‘Deinstitutionalization Movement’ take us?”
Reagan may have signed legislation, as did Edmond G brown and later his son Moonbeam, but the idea percolated (and was sold to politicians) in “humanist” psychiatric circles filled with “good intentions.”
Once the new newcomers to Chico came here for either College or a skilled job. Not anymore. Chico has become a destination for the homeless and ex-cons. They are often counseled to say that they are local when questioned, so the surveys have been misleading.
The street ambassadors often ask them why they are here, and the answer is usually that there is free food, easy panhandling and the cops don’t hassle them. Also proposition 47 didn’t help much either.
The results are bums everywhere around town and crimes including vehicle break-ins, home burglary and bicycle theft are happening way too often, and little is being done to stop it.
All these things need to change if we are going to make Chico a clean and safe city again. Keep this in mind when voting.
We have trillions for war. We print money for that.
So where is the pro life stance here? We need to stop the greed that erodes our healthcare system. Make healthcare in the USA as affordable as it is in the rest of the world. Why do we pay more for the same exact drug than they do in Canada and Mexico?
Why is Big Pharma putting up 109 Million Dollars against prop 61?
We need to stop this. All Humans deserve healthcare. Mental Illness should not be a death sentence. being poor should not be a death sentence. Many are working when they get sick and loose everything.
Pro life?
Solve the problem. Stop complaining about the less fortunate. I bet many of them are VETS.
Many cities have discovered “If you build it, they will come.” Offer more freebies, and the great unwashed will flock to your door.
Phoenix, San Diego, San Marcos have all limited the freebies, so the bums have to look elsewhere for handouts.
Not gonna change in Chico until the bleeding hearts start paying for the giveaways themselves instead of John/Jane Q Taxpayer.
But the bleeding hearts are taxpayers … who vote funding directly, or through their representatives, for such projects.
You are just bummed because their are, for the moment, more of them than of you.
There’s always Idaho, ya know.
Uh, Lib? And how many of the great unwashed are you inviting into YOUR home to feed, clothe and entertain?
Don’t be absurd. But I do vote for county representatives who raise monies for shelters and rehab and that sort of thing. You vote for representatives who do not. And, for the moment, you are out-numbered.
That’s a horrific thought, Libby: ” their are, for the moment, more of them than of you. ” Don’t know if you referred to the homeless or the BHL, but scary either way…
“Many cities have discovered “If you build it, they will come.” Offer more freebies, and the great unwashed will flock to your door.”
Ya know that axiom applies to all government (taxpayer) programs, especially since the giveaways offer a handout rather than a hand up. The left loves to breed dependency.
It’s one thing to care for the truly needy, which we do, but I must remind people like Libby that we are talking about the able bodied people who chose to drop out. They are the people who made bad life choices and it took them down to camping out on the streets of major cities. They didn’t come to little Chico to find work or in any way contribute to Chico, they came here to take things, often without our permission. I don’t like that. I don’t like the filthy mess they are making of our city and the costs of their care, be it in jail or free medical. They are bums, they are spiking are crime rate and infecting other weak minds with their low values and morals. Anyone who thinks of them as the noble unemployed just doing the best they can under a repressive capitalist system is delusional. That would be you Libby. No amount of giving freebees to these people by the top 20% is going to change a thing – this is who they are by choice.
Well said, PS – and 1000% correct!
Jack, that is not true. Damned near all of them suffer from some thing or other that renders them unemployable. A whole lot of them got screwed up during their military service. You choose to blame them for their plight to absolve your own self of responsibility as a citizen. It won’t work.