And They Told You They Had No Money for Cops
Posted by Andy on September 26th, 2006
Minneapolis is going to spend $45 million over the next 10 years. That’s $4.5 million a year. This is new spending, not something that was cut somewhere else.
No it isn’t for cops. Minneapolis is going to spend $45 million to ‘end homelessness’.
Yep, for all of you out there getting raped, robbed, or murdered you’ll have to wait. RT Rybakthinks its more important to end homelessness than protect his taxpaying citizens.
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September 26th, 2006 at 9:59 am
Idiots!
September 26th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
So….using the high end estimate of 3000 homeless in Minneapolis….that means spending $15000 on each of them to give them free stuff that they don’t have to pay for. I’m sure that they’ll all use this opportunity to take some personal responsibility, a shower, and head to an employment agency and find some work. That way they can eventually buy a home and pay property taxes to pay back this $15000. Why don’t we just give them the cash?
In fact, to cut out the trouble, why don’t they just pick 3000 business owners and have us write a check to our own homeless person for $15000. I’ll fire Amy, the single mom who busts her tail working for my business as a second job, making about $15000/year part time so I can afford my bum tax. They can change the name from “Heading Home Hennepin” to a government mandated “Adopt a bum” for those of us who actually give a damn enough to make something out of our lives….and the Amy’s of the world will be the ones who suffer.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:24 am
Worse, it’s $4.5 mil ON TOP OF the $102 mil they already plan to spend for this stuff (see para 6 of the news story).
We’re looking at $45,000 a head, Andrew, the equivalent of a $20 an hour job. At that price, I know quite a few people who’d be willing to quit working for The Man and become homeless.
Who was it that said: what you subsidize, you get more of. Get ready, MPLS. The bums are coming.