The city recently gave itself a lot of credit for rounding up as many homeless as it could catch and putting them up in the Hilton Garden Inn downtown. Real nice place, and several dozen of them got rooms, meals and laundry service for a month this was touted as a way of protecting one of the city’s “most vulnerable populations” from the COVID virus.
Not boasted about by the city is how in less than 24 hours the hotel was forced to evict a fair number of them and police officers had to be posted on every floor to keep the rest in their rooms as many of the beneficiaries of the taxpayers’largesse rebelled against the relatively few rules that the hotel imposed and began to drink, use drugs, fight and destroy the hotel.
There’s a message there about the effectiveness of working Socialism but I can’t quite put my finger on it, can you?
The city I live in puts the homeless up in local hotel rooms, usually by leaning on the businesses in regards to their business licenses and other fun things, during 'cold weather because poor babies blah blah blah.'
ReplyDeleteAnd then says to the hotels to get insurance to pay for any damages, it's not the city's fault, when said poor babies decide to, as you reported in your fair city, trash the 'free rooms' like rock stars on super-speed.
Yeah. Dumb asses.
Now, giving the homeless new tents out in the bayou, each with special anti-Novel Wuhan ChiCom Corona Covid-19 virus rotten chicken quarters hanging around their necks...
That oh-so-clever last paragraph was supposed to read "Now, New Orleans giving the homeless new tents..."
DeleteThough, come to think of it, we have alligators here that like anti-viral rotten chicken quarters as snacks...
Hey Murphy
ReplyDeleteYeah...There is a message there ....somewhere......but I can't recall.....
There is a reason most of them are on the streets...something about being able to follow directions.
ReplyDeleteWelp, that WAS a nice hotel... Was...
ReplyDeleteI am not surprised that the hotel thing backfired with then and homeless in NOLA. And the Stupid is not finished. Now they want to use the Sheraton on Canal as a hospital for COVID patients even though they just got 1000 beds in the Convention Center.
ReplyDeleteI stayed at that hotel with my lady on a visit, pre-Katrina. The one thing I learned about the homeless during 37 years as a cop, is that they are homeless for a reason. By-and-large, they can't live with civilized people.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see you're safe, Murph! Keep your head down and your mask on.