[bob33212]

Complainer: 'Homelessness is a mental health problem, they shouldn't be arrested for sleeping and shitting on the sidewalk.'

Me: 'Please go ahead and convince that homeless person to go to a Doctor's office, after you set up the appointment, and then follow up to make sure they take their medicine every day.'

Complainer: 'Well, that is the job of a social worker, not me'

Me: 'Are you going to go hire the social worker and let them know that they need to do this?'

Complainer: 'That is the government's job, not mine'

Answer: 'So you are going to vote for someone who says they will fix this, and that is about all you are going to do?'

Complainer: 'I'm very busy'

[devenblake]

> Homelessness is a mental health problem, they shouldn't be arrested for sleeping and shitting on the sidewalk.

Yes.

> Well, that is the job of a social worker, not me

Yes.

> That is the government's job, not mine

Yes.

>> So you are going to vote for someone who says they will fix this, and that is about all you are going to do?

Yes I will. I pay my taxes, it's not my fault the government wastes my money on the military and law enforcement. When there are candidates that pledge to fix this I donate to them and vote for them.

[sidlls]

You're attempting to mock someone for not personally taking on a problem of society. That's uncharitable to say the least.

[prepend]

I read it as mocking continuing to elect public officials who are not acting accountably to solve the problem.

SanFrancisco spends lots on homeless programs [0], more than almost every city, but they are ineffective. So government is failing at this problem.

[0] https://sf.curbed.com/2019/12/19/21027974/san-francisco-home...

[sidlls]

No argument from me re: government failing. There are so many failures regarding housing and other issues up and down the bay area. It has got to the point where I question whether the rich culture that does exist is worth the quality of life trade.

[whimsicalism]

? This seems to be shoehorning some disagreement you had about homelessness into an unrelated discussion.

[TheCoelacanth]

You don't see the connection from homelessness to housing affordability and the connection from housing affordability to the illegality of building affordable housing?