Illegal to Feed Homeless in Parks

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Like you are with your own solution. Kill them? Help them? You don’t want your money to help feed them. You don’t want them in your park. What’s your plan?

My plan is exactly what's happening: running a food kitchen in the park is illegal. My money is dedicated to feeding and housing me and my family, and sending my kids to college so they'll be more likely to not be homeless.

I'd like to have some left over to live on when I'm too old to work, but that's not looking too strong right now; taxes for well-meaning entitlement programs soaked up all my retirement savings while I was unemployed for a few years. (Funny, nobody wanted to feed me then, in the park or otherwise...they still waned *me* to feed *them*). Fortunately I had enough to meet the above vital needs until I could improve my skills and become employable again.

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

If you want minimum wage to be higher, suggest your own amount. I posted what I thought was a bare minimum.

No, I don't particularly...that's *your* idea. I lived though the Nixon administration, and I don't think wage controls are particularly useful. I prodded you to run the numbers to show you what a lame, ineffective idea it actually is.

Originally Posted by spexxvet

It’s the CEO, who makes $100 million, saying “I can exist on $80 million, I’ll put $20 million toward payroll and raise the standard of living for my employees, who can’t support themselves on $9.00/hour. See? Look Mom, no government!

Do you know such a CEO? I don't. That's a fantasyland scenario. You don't get to be a CEO by being altruistic.

Originally Posted by spexxvet

Hey, There’s an option I hadn’t considered.

Sure you have...it's implicit in your collectivist platform.