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> Half the people in the Lamb Center are mentally
> crazy. Who in their right mind would want to hang
> out there? The staff needs to control the
> “Bar Fly’s†that have turn the
> place into the Echelon Place, for those who do not
> want to get a job and are a drag on society. The
> purpose of the Lamb Center is to help those that
> are making an effort to get back on their feet.
> Not pander and cater the trash of society that has
> the attitude of “Why Should I apply My Self
> and Get a Job, so I can be self sufficient. It is
> the first of the month so you know all those drug
> addicted welfare people will have a bunch of food
> stamp to sell to you so they can get their fix.
> This is where you hard paying tax dollars is going
> to work.
> Here is a reprint of an article that I pulled off
> the inter and this is what is taking place at
> “The Lamb Center†Here the link
>
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/high-cost-homelessn
> ess
> Opinion
> Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor
> Granted there are some who truly deserve to be
> housed, such as young families and retirees
> working minimum wage jobs, but in my experience in
> dealing with many (Drug addicted, Lazy, and Drug
> dealers) why should taxpayers shell out cash to
> those who do not deserve our pity?
> Society did not put a needle in their arm, they
> did, it is not like they did not know the warnings
> of drugs, as society has spent untold billions
> worldwide warning them. Drug Dealers on the other
> hand seem to get caught and convicted time and
> time again, only getting a slap on the wrist and
> are released over and over again by a lienient
> Justice system we pay for ! We would have less
> homeless if the courts imposed a Zero Tolerance on
> Drug Dealers, life imprisonment, and a National
> Selective Service for those who enjoy living off
> us, yet are able bodied, The Selective Service
> would teach the unemployed a skill and put them to
> work on government work programs, forest clearing,
> tree planting, road work and berry picking, we are
> currently bringing in people from other countries
> because Governments state we have a shortage of
> Labourers, certainly not from what I have seen.
> Do you notice how many homeless seem to have a
> plentiful supply of cigarettes on hand, but no
> money for food or shelter, but money for tattoos
> and piercings?
> They look young, fit and able to do work, an lets
> face it, there are more youth out there in DTES
> than anywhere else. Let em work for a change,
> there are many programs for those who wish to
> work. Immigrants fresh off the boat find work, why
> not Canadians?
> In ending, I have had to enter more homeless
> shelters and crack dens that I care to remember ,
> feces, urine,empty food wrappers, grafitti etc.
> What landlord in his right mind would welcome
> anyone who does this to his property, a property
> he is forced to maintain or suffer media backlash
> all because the homeless trash time and time again
> and do not appreciate a roof over their heads,
> knowing the Public purse will care for them. Mark
> my words, you build more shelters and housing for
> those who do not deserve it, and they will come.
> They will come from all of North America for a
> Free Ride in the Land of Left Coast of BC. Very
> few homeless in this Province are actually from
> this province, Why? Because word of mouth spreads
> like wildfire that BC has historically been an
> easy touch since the Hippie days of the 1960s.
> The Solution !! Drug Dealers get Life
> Imprisionment for the lives they continue to
> destroy. The 37-55K to house the homeless, well I
> would take that money put it into work programs,
> anyone able bodied person who wants a roof over
> their head will be required to work for it on
> infrastructure programs, including picking
> berries, they would get a living wage as well. No
> one should get a free ride, though our government
> seems to think Laziness is a disability, where as
> the able bodied seem to think welfare is a Career
> aspiration. Then and only then will homelessness
> be solved, otherwise this province will become a
> endless moneypit for the taxpayers trying to build
> and care for the many homeless who continue to
> come to British Columbia looking for a Free Ride.
>
> Speaking of free ride, I was driving along
> Boundary Road and Hastings, when I came upon yet
> the same homeless young person with a new sign,
> this sign stated "Car Out of Gas" please Help, God
> Bless and Happy Easter. Previous months I have
> seen the same person with a different sign such as
> "Hitchiking to Alberta, lost wallet, hungry and
> broke, anything will help". I stopped and told
> him at the stoplight that Labour Ready was hiring,
> apparently he didnt like my advice. I put it this
> way, if his aversion to work is so ingrained in
> his head, why help him? The effort he puts into
> begging for 8 hours a day could have made him a
> salary at one of the many temp help labour pools.
> No matter where I go all over the mainland the
> people are all the same, only the story on the
> cardboard signs change. As for me, I say Screw
> em.
>
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html
> ?id=11fdf74c-9130-41b3-b902-4273591ce59d&k=77775
> The high cost of homelessness
> Every homeless person costs system $55,000, an
> amount that could buy supported housing for each
> of them
> Lori Culbert, files from Randy Shore, Vancouver
> SunPublished: Friday, March 21, 2008
> VANCOUVER - We've been counting them and
> governments have been scrambling to try to help
> them, but a recent university study has been
> looking at a new question about homeless people in
> B.C. - what each one costs taxpayers a year.
> The answer is $55,000 per person, or an annual
> total of $644.3 million in health, corrections and
> social services spending for all the homeless in
> B.C.
> But the conclusion of the 150-page report -
> written by five academics at Simon Fraser
> University, the University of B.C. and the
> University of Calgary - is that B.C. taxpayers
> could even save money if that cash was instead
> spent directly on supported social housing.
>
> Below is a related story on a Visitors view
> reported in the media which is in stark contrast
> to what Every Politican in British Columbia calls
> the " Most Bestest City in the World to Live in"
> and why all three lefty parties promising change
> for the homeless did little over the past three
> decades and will continue to sit on their flabby
> moist asses collecting your money and generous
> benefits. Yet for some reason, the historically
> unclued public still buy their useless rhetoric
> time and time again, in the belief they as voters
> have done their part by voting for idiotic
> promises thus while sipping their $9.00 Lattes,
> absolve themselves of blame and thereby wasting
> their tax money on politicians inflated salaries,
> when workable solutions are at hand as I
> previously stated in this story, but will never be
> implemented, by a unwilling workforce of able
> bodied dregs on society.
>
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.htm
> l?id=0a19f278-6e27-43dc-a2b2-5d71d2c59272
> Approach to social woes a moral failure by all
> three main B.C. partiesMiro Cernetig,
> Vancouver SunPublished: Monday, March 24, 2008
> Betty
> Anne and Max Hunter crossed Canada by train to
> celebrate their
> honeymoon. They got more than just scenery,
> though, when their train
> trundled into Vancouver.
> "You have such a beautiful country,"
> Betty Anne said in her warm Texas drawl, sipping a
> beverage inside the
> Terminal City Club. "But we were so surprised when
> we got into
> Vancouver."
> "Oh," I said. "Why's that?"
> Welllll . . ." she hesitated, clearly not wanting
> to be impolite.
> I urged her on.
> "Well,
> when we were coming into Vancouver on the train,
> there were all these
> homeless people living on the side of the train
> tracks and on the
> streets, under plastic tents. It looked like
> something out of one of
> those movies about the Depression. I was
> surprised, we didn't see
> anything like it in your other cities..."
> She took a breath.
> "Then,"
> Betty Anne continued, "when I was coming out of
> the hotel, this young
> woman came up to me and asked me for money. She
> said that someone had
> stolen her horse.
> "At first I didn't know what she was talking
> about. I asked Max, 'Why would she have a horse?'
> "
> Max, sipping a beer, looked up.
> "I told her horse is the word for heroin," he
> said. "The girl was saying someone had stolen her
> drugs, Betty Anne."
>
>
> Continue reading at NowPublic.com: The High Cost
> of Homelessness | NowPublic News Coverage
>
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/high-cost-homelessn
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> AS WE CAN SEE THE LAMB CENTER IS A REPLY OF WHAT
> IS TAKING PLACE UP NORTH. JUST LIKE THE GUY SAID
> THE AREA IS FILLED WITH LABOR POOLS AND TEMP
> AGNECIES BUT YOU DO SEE ANY OF THE PEOPLE AT THE
> LAMB MAKING A EFFORT TO WORK THERE WAY OUT OF THE
> WHOLE THAT THEY PLACED THERE SELF IN. HOWEVER THEY
> KNOW HOW TO STAND IN FRONT OF THE 7-11 AND SAY
> “GIVE ME A FEW DOLLARS, I KNOW YOU HAVE
> MONEY!†THE REGULARS THAT HANG OUT AT THE
> LAMB CENTER SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN ANYTHING UNLESS
> THEY CAN PROVE THAT THEY ARE WORKING OR LOOKING
> FOR A JOB OR DOING SOME COMMUNITY SERVICE SUCH HAS
> HELPING CLEAN UP THE HIGHWAY ROAD AREAS. WHY
> SHOULD SOICIETY BE FACED WITH THE HIGH COST OF
> CATERING TO THESE PEOPLE THAT ARE JUST TRING TO
> LIVE OF GOOD PEOPLES MORAL CONCIUSS? PERSONAL I
> KNOW FOR A FACT THAT MOPST PEOPLE TRY TO HELP OUT
> THOSE THAT ARE MAKING AN EFFORT, BUT THESE
> “BAR FLY’S†AT THE LAMB OR
> SOMETHING ELSE. THE QUESTIONABLE LATINO (ILLEGALS
> ARE SOMETHING ELSE, THAT WALK INTO THE PLACE AND
> ACT LIKE THEY CREATED ALL THIS IN THE USA.)
Post haste!