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Microsoft Co-founder Pledges $30 Million To House Seattle's Homeless (cnn.com)
Paul Allen, a founder of Microsoft has pledged $30 million to house Seattle's homeless. From a report: Seattle Mayor Ed Murray said Wednesday the city was partnering with Paul G. Allen's family foundation to build a facility to house homeless families with children. Allen's foundation will provide $30 million toward the development of the facility, while the city of Seattle has pledged $5 million for its maintenance and operation. It will be owned and operated by Mercy Housing Northwest, a nonprofit housing organization. Seattle is in King County, which has 1,684 families that are homeless, according to the mayor's announcement. More than 3,000 homeless children were enrolled in Seattle's public schools during the 2015-2016 year, it said.
It will be interesting to see if the number of homeless in the city increases or decreases because of this.
To liberals everything is great if someone else is paying for it. Why don't you house them and feed them and pay for their medical bills and children when they have them.
You should not make claims on other people's property with the goal of 'doing good'.
The risk of accidentally helping some homeless children that also don't have the right papers is an especially dumb reason to not help homeless children.
You misspelled "evil" as "dumb" there. Because we all know what this is really about: finding excuses not to help anyone else under any circumstances which are avoidable. This attitude was ingrained during the great depression, in which people mostly told everyone else to fuck off while they were trying to take care of their own shit, and it was hammer home during the baby boom, when everyone felt like they were the shit and didn't need help from anyone in spite of the fact that American prosperity post-WWII is the result of the rest of the world getting the shit bombed out of it.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
You're not thinking this through. To be fair to you, this is a problem common to many liberal sorts. They focus solely on immediate emotions, and neglect to consider longer-term aspects of issues, leading to sub-optimal outcomes.
Of course there's nothing wrong with helping children. Nobody but you has even suggested that it could be wrong!
The problem is that providing assistance to people who have gone out of their way to violate American law causes harm, too.
1. It would give help to criminals, often when there are law-abiding Americans who could very well use the same help. Depriving law-abiding Americans of this help, while giving it to law-breaking illegal aliens instead, would be just plain disrespectful and scummy.
2. It would encourage more foreigners to come to America illegally just to take advantage of such handouts. This would just make the original homelessness problem even worse.
3. It wouldn't encourage the illegal aliens who are receiving the handouts to try to improve their situation on their own, making them a perpetual burden.
It makes perfect sense to provide temporary assistance to hard-working, law-abiding American families who have experienced a difficult time so that they can get back on their feet and support themselves again.
It makes no sense, and in fact it is very harmful, to provide perpetual assistance to uneducated, unemployable, law-breaking illegal aliens who are leaching off of the generosity of others.
Illegal immigrants are just regular people, so you may know some of them without realizing.
NO, illegal immigrants are people who have NO LEGAL RIGHT to be in the country.
You are a simple-minded naive child. Keep your mouth shut when you know nothing, which in this case
is obvious.
If the rich didn't get more ways to weasel out of paying their due, we wouldn't need the pittance they pay as charity. We'd have the money to provide for our people ourselves.
Fuck you Paul Allen. The only reason you could create that "charity" is because you evaded paying what you owe.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
You just chose the worst example possible.
Europe is currently suffering from a severe influx of third-world illegal aliens. Most are coming to Europe solely to abuse generous European social assistance programs, with the remaining coming to engage in terrorism.
Europe has seen a huge spike in crime and terrorism within just a few years. Sweden now suffers grenade attacks every couple of weeks. What used to be peaceful New Year's Eve celebrations in Germany turned into massive sexual assault incidents, perpetrated by non-Europeans. That's on top of the large number of very severe terrorist attacks that have been carried out in Europe since this illegal alien disaster started.
Europe is being torn apart because naive leftist policies allowed huge numbers of illegal aliens from some of the worst places on Earth to flood into Europe, and these illegal aliens have proceeded to abuse social programs and engage in crime and terrorist attacks.
The disaster unfolding in Europe is exactly what we should expect to happen when immigration laws aren't enforced and generous aid is given to undeserving third-worlders. America should not make the same mistake.
llegal immigrants are just regular people, so you may know some of them without realizing.
NO, illegal immigrants are people who have NO LEGAL RIGHT to be in the country.
Yes, but I believe most people think "bad hombres", not "my neighbors".
Case in point woman who voted for Trump thinking only illegal immigrants with criminal records will be deported.
Maybe you think everyone should go, but many people assume a more nuanced definition will apply.
If they came here illegally then they by definition have a criminal record. This isn't fucking rocket surgery