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i can tell you that your ROI (saved lives) on addressing homelessness and drug overdose will be a lot higher than chasing some boogeymen in the desert.

by readhn 10y ago

0xfeba 10y ago
> chasing some boogeymen in the desert. Whom we are chasing mostly because of the instability we caused in the region in the first place.
leereeves 10y ago
> addressing homelessness and drug overdose That's been tried before with little success. Some people will choose to use drugs no matter what the government does. Some people will choose to be homeless. Some people are mentally ill and unable to take advantage of government programs. Some people just refuse help. What program would you suggest, that isn't being done, that would reduce homelessness or drug overdose?
- maym86 10y ago
  http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic-homelessness-by-91-percent-heres-how http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic... Great success. Do some research. Spend effort expanding programs that work.
  - leereeves 10y ago
    > A similar approach was first tried in Los Angeles in the late 1980s and New York City in the early 1990s. > Later, the Bush administration adopted the model, and cities and states started writing 10-year plans to end chronic homelessness. ... > And even though many cities in the U.S. have also been doing this for a while, they still come to Utah to study why it's working so well here. The article mentions several times that it's already being done. This isn't mutually exclusive with efforts to fight terrorism.
    - awqrre 10y ago
      The problem with the fight against terrorism is that they use it to push other agendas... just like they do with the fight against pedophiles and such.
- grey-area 10y ago
  What program would you suggest, that isn't being done, that would reduce homelessness or drug overdose? Just one of the 59 cruise missiles fired on Syria yesterday would fund intervening in and saving hundreds of lives - they cost $1.41 million each. Some people may refuse help, many, many people in these situations don't get help. Soup kitchens, treatment for mental illness, shelters, training, are all worthy causes which cost very little to run. There are so many useful programs that could be funded, which are being defunded this year in order to prioritise spending on the military (already the largest in the world by some margin) and searching social accounts/mobile phones and storing passwords for who knows what reason (it certainly isn't to prevent terrorism).

i can tell you that your ROI (saved lives) on addressing homelessness and drug overdose will be a lot higher than chasing some boogeymen in the desert.

by readhn 10y ago

i can tell you that your ROI (saved lives) on addressing homelessness and drug overdose will be a lot higher than chasing some boogeymen in the desert.

0xfeba 10y ago

> chasing some boogeymen in the desert. Whom we are chasing mostly because of the instability we caused in the region in the first place.

leereeves 10y ago

> addressing homelessness and drug overdose That's been tried before with little success. Some people will choose to use drugs no matter what the government does. Some people will choose to be homeless. Some people are mentally ill and unable to take advantage of government programs. Some people just refuse help. What program would you suggest, that isn't being done, that would reduce homelessness or drug overdose?

maym86 10y ago
http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic-homelessness-by-91-percent-heres-how http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic... Great success. Do some research. Spend effort expanding programs that work.
- leereeves 10y ago
  > A similar approach was first tried in Los Angeles in the late 1980s and New York City in the early 1990s. > Later, the Bush administration adopted the model, and cities and states started writing 10-year plans to end chronic homelessness. ... > And even though many cities in the U.S. have also been doing this for a while, they still come to Utah to study why it's working so well here. The article mentions several times that it's already being done. This isn't mutually exclusive with efforts to fight terrorism.
  - awqrre 10y ago
    The problem with the fight against terrorism is that they use it to push other agendas... just like they do with the fight against pedophiles and such.
grey-area 10y ago
What program would you suggest, that isn't being done, that would reduce homelessness or drug overdose? Just one of the 59 cruise missiles fired on Syria yesterday would fund intervening in and saving hundreds of lives - they cost $1.41 million each. Some people may refuse help, many, many people in these situations don't get help. Soup kitchens, treatment for mental illness, shelters, training, are all worthy causes which cost very little to run. There are so many useful programs that could be funded, which are being defunded this year in order to prioritise spending on the military (already the largest in the world by some margin) and searching social accounts/mobile phones and storing passwords for who knows what reason (it certainly isn't to prevent terrorism).