[primitur]

> Homeless people don't need showers.

Homeless people DO need showers! Been there? Done that?

One sure-fire way to not get a job (and thus get yourself and your family off the street): show up stinking of whatever slept on you last night, under some bridge or cardboard or .. whatever.

Homeless people DO NEED SHOWERS. Showers and self-hygiene during conditions of regular duress are a sure-fire way to feel better about the day, get prepared for the challenges, face the sunshine and Do Something About It.

Government organized "Mental Health Care", in case you weren't paying attention, is exactly how this mess got started, In The First Place. So: Nope to that. Deny the currently-in-power insanity profiteers their budget!

Minimum Wage: TOTALLY! Absolutely with you on this one, buddy! Give someone a way to have a daily shower and a regular job to go to that can pay for a weeks worth of living expenses, and you've got a winning formula .. But thats always the problem when you are "A do-nothin' Bum": One mans Living expenses are another mans pocket-change ..

[mseebach]

A higher minimum wage doesn't "give" anyone a decent job, it just outlaws a bunch of non-decent jobs in the hope that employers need those jobs done enough to raise the wage on them. It's obvious that that will be the case for some minimum wage jobs, but it's equally obvious that it won't be the case for others.

So with the drive for higher minimum wage comes the implicit value judgment that having no job is better than having a low paying job.