California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working

Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working by hotpotamus on Friday June 02, 2023 @09:24PM (#36172788)

I wonder what label will be applied to rounding up people and forcing them to labor? Particularly the minorities?

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Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working by bombcar on Friday June 02, 2023 @11:54PM (#36173554)

We’ve tried the “round up undesirables and put them in work camps.” Work didn’t make them free and it didn’t get a standing ovation overall.

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Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working by hotpotamus on Saturday June 03, 2023 @06:49AM (#36175473)

"Arbeit macht frei" has a storied history to say the least.

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Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working by ericfrenkiel on Saturday June 03, 2023 @12:41AM (#36173775)

The label you are looking for is “duly convicted party,” per the 13th Amendment:

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

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Re:California Spent $17B on Homelessness. It’s Not Working by hotpotamus on Saturday June 03, 2023 @06:51AM (#36175484)

If you can criminalize their existence, then I suppose it's off to the gulag with them.

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