Being a puppet state of Putin with a terrible human rights record is one thing. Doing a good job at protecting law-abiding citizens from bums is another. Belaru

Being a puppet state of Putin with a terrible human rights record is one thing. Doing a good job at protecting law-abiding citizens from bums is another. Belarus is a safe country to live in. And no, they don't just send every bum they catch to prison. They have a sorting and distribution system in place that directs them to either mental hospitals, rehabs, or prisons (most go to rehabs for alcoholics), after that, they provide them jobs (usually shitty jobs on useless state-owned factories, or cleaning streets) and housing (dormitory rooms), and check on them on a regular basis to prevent relapse, if caught again bumming or avoiding work, yes then they go to prison. A state exists for the benefit or tax-paying, law-abiding public, and one of it's goals is to protect them from everyone else. And no, bums are sent to prison not to "fix" them, or even isolate, but to deter potential other ones from bumming (and it does a great job, because number of bums in prison is very low, and there are almost 0 bums in the streets). Prison must be hell and even bums should be scared to death at the prospect of getting there. Subsidised housing - that can't work in a country like USA. Because if you give housing to bums, all housing in the vicinity becomes a lot cheaper and the value lost, and property taxes lost, will become so unbearably high it's better to leave them in the streets. There must be no bums. People must know that staying out in the street is a very bad idea. Now they only do because they can.