I didn't say the homeless crack addicts are manipulatively employing the victim narrative. It's the taxpayer funded social support network around them that does that.
>>The amount of money that actually goes to homeless people is extremely low, and most of those meager funds are used to give them food and temporary shelter so they don't literally die outside.
Social housing and shelters are extremely expensive. All the federal assistance programs like Social Security Disability Insurance are a massive expense. And a lot of these non-profits who work with the homeless are funded by government. About half of the funding for non-profits comes from government, and the aggregate amount of funding is massive.
>>And even then, the amount of taxes that "low wage laborers" earn is slim.
The point is they're supporting themselves through back breaking work while crackhead and his buddies are loitering around and smoking crack every day with no one forcing them to start paying their own way.
>>Why can't those with vast excessive wealth give some of it to services that can rehabilitate the homeless, or create unskilled or low skill jobs that pay enough to keep people indoors?
What rehabilitation are you referring to? There is no discipline or order imposed on these drug addicts. They live a completely unstructured life, with no strings attached to the aid they receive.
They don't want to work, or abide by the basic rules of society, and their poverty activist supporters will ensure that any effort to change that is met with exasperated calls of fascism, lack of compassion, "criminalizing the poor" or some other items from the set of manipulative victim narrative talking points.
And any way, it's not the responsibility of those whose wealth ideologues deem to be "excessive" to pay for the living costs of those who do drugs every day.
>>If a homeless addict is smoking crack outside, what he needs is a shelter that can rehabilitate him, get him off drugs and get him employed somewhere where he can make meaningful contributions and connections to his society.
They don't want to get rehabilitated or work. This idea that they're all well-meaning people down on their luck is propaganda. The reality is that many of the most irresponsible people in society are among the homeless, and that they won't take any responsibility unless forced to.
>>To assume that the homeless are homeless because of "responsibility and consequence" is to totally ignore any systemic circumstance outside of their control that may have led them to become homeless or jobless in the first place.
Some are homeless and jobless because they'd rather do crack and party with their friends than take up responsibility.
There are countless government programs they can avail themselves to. They don't want to. They don't want to listen to any authority, or control their impulse in any way.
You don't seem to understand and/or care that you can't fix someone who doesn't want to get fixed, unless you take control of their lives over their objections.