21 US cities restrict sharing food with homeless people

[ibx 2]

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/10/20/cities-restrict-sharingfoodwithhomelesspeople.html

The United States of America: Where the merciful are forbidden to feed the homeless. Where being poor is illegal. Truly the greatest country on earth.

[GeorgiaDon 362]

Sensationalistic tripe.

Requiring food banks and "soup kitchens" to comply with food safety regulations is not the same as "forbidden to feed the homeless". I could play the same game and say you favor feeding the homeless rancid spam on moldy bread. Neither statement would be true, and neither would be helpful.

Not every place is suitable for every activity. This is why zoning ordinances exist. Putting soup kitchens in a place where you can also offer other services such as job training or medical services makes sense. Putting them in a place that is hard to get to, or that disrupts or destroys other people's businesses (thereby making them also homeless) is not reasonable. Similarly, it would not be reasonable to expect to be able to move into an established residential neighborhood and open an auto salvage business in your front yard.

Don

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[Zep 0]

Whitehouse lawn seems like a real good place, Government serving the people an all.

Gone fishing

[BillyVance 34]

Al Jazeera? Seriously?

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[RonD1120 62]

The majority of the time, it is ridiculous to respond to the posts and replies of foreigners.

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[JohnnyMarko 1]

ibx

Truly the greatest country on earth.

Got that right

[SkyDekker 1,465]

RonD1120

The majority of the time, it is ridiculous to respond to the posts and replies of foreigners.

Then why are you posting on a website owned by a foreigner, hosted in a foreign country?

[rehmwa 2]

RonD1120

The majority of the time, it is ridiculous to respond to the posts and replies of foreigners.

Most seem to have good discussions and an interesting perspective.....just like a lot of natives here.


Noted that some do seem to have an "I hate the US regardless of reality" stick up their asses.......just like a lot of natives here.

but I think the first kind greatly outnumber the nonsensical others.

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[RonD1120 62]

Once again you prove my point.

Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them.

[champu 1]

RonD1120

The majority of the time, it is ridiculous to respond to the posts and replies of foreigners.

Well, that escalated quickly.

[airdvr 210]

ibx

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/10/20/cities-restrict-sharingfoodwithhomelesspeople.html

The United States of America: Where the merciful are forbidden to feed the homeless. Where being poor is illegal. Truly the greatest country on earth.

Coming from someone in Germany...irony score 100%.

Please don't dent the planet.

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[jakee 1,500]

Why, do the Germans have particularly strict homeless laws?

(Serious question)

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[Andy9o8 2]

Ooh, excellent trolling. I'll bite.

The difference between the US and Germany is that the sentence "We use people to pave our roads" means one thing in one country, and quite another thing in the other.

[turtlespeed 221]

Andy9o8

Ooh, excellent trolling. I'll bite.

The difference between the US and Germany is that the sentence "We use people to pave our roads" means one thing in one country, and quite another thing in the other.

. . . ouch.

Ah, but at least they offered a sauna experience as a benefit.

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[SkyDekker 1,465]

turtlespeed

***Ooh, excellent trolling. I'll bite.

The difference between the US and Germany is that the sentence "We use people to pave our roads" means one thing in one country, and quite another thing in the other.

. . . ouch.

Ah, but at least they offered a sauna experience as a benefit.

Sauna, Napalm, Nuclear Bomb, you guys have done enough evil between the two nations to keep a pissing match going for a while.

[kelpdiver 2]

SkyDekker

Sauna, Napalm, Nuclear Bomb, you guys have done enough evil between the two nations to keep a pissing match going for a while.

Only Russia has a chance at catching up with them.

[quade 4]

OMG! 21 out of thousands upon thousands of cities? Really?

I would have thought more. I mean, we're pretty big assholes. Only 21 cities though. Huh.

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[Andy9o8 2]

I say we set up a big barbecue.



In Dresden.

[rehmwa 2]

quade

OMG! 21 out of thousands upon thousands of cities? Really?

I would have thought more. I mean, we're pretty big assholes. Only 21 cities though. Huh.

well, if you are eurocentric, perhaps one assumes many countries only have about 20 or 30 cities total?

(except Germany is pretty big, so that's not it....)

I'd expect that Americans are such assholes, that only very brave news outlets will report the widespread attitude. So 21 cities is likely just indicative of every single city. Except highly enlightened liberal cities with lots of turning circles of course.

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[lawrocket 3]

[Url]http://reason.com/blog/2013/02/27/health-inspector-destroys-venison-bound[/url]

I brought it up last year. [Url]http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=4450012#4450012[/url]

It is not uncommon for the feds, states and localities to enforce those "there ought to be a law" situations. I'm just surprised there aren't undercover stings where Johns who would give food to a homeless person that has not been inspected and stamped will be arrested by SWAT teams and shamed.

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[jakee 1,500]

rehmwa

***OMG! 21 out of thousands upon thousands of cities? Really?

well, if you are eurocentric, perhaps one assumes many countries only have about 20 or 30 cities total?

The main difference is that we distinguish cities from towns and (with a few exceptions) expect a city to have at least a few hundred thousand inhabitants - whereas in the US any commune that's grown big enough to elect at least 1 local official is called a city.

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[billvon 2,998]

>whereas in the US any commune that's grown big enough to elect at least 1
>local official is called a city.

We frown on the word "commune" because that brings to mind filthy stinking hippies. We prefer "compound."

[rehmwa 2]

billvon

>whereas in the US any commune that's grown big enough to elect at least 1
>local official is called a city.

We frown on the word "commune" because that brings to mind filthy stinking hippies. We prefer "compound."

I'd certainly like a breakdown on the list:

village
hamlet
waystop
town
city
metropolis

I wish I had time to look up a thesaurus, I'm sure the list is huge with options - I like hamlet - it sounds like omelet

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[airdvr 210]

rehmwa

***>whereas in the US any commune that's grown big enough to elect at least 1
>local official is called a city.

We frown on the word "commune" because that brings to mind filthy stinking hippies. We prefer "compound."

I'd certainly like a breakdown on the list:

village
hamlet
waystop
town
city
metropolis

I wish I had time to look up a thesaurus, I'm sure the list is huge with options - I like hamlet - it sounds like omelet

If you put ham in your omelet does it become a hamlet?

Please don't dent the planet.

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[kallend 2,027]

rehmwa

***OMG! 21 out of thousands upon thousands of cities? Really?

I would have thought more. I mean, we're pretty big assholes. Only 21 cities though. Huh.

well, if you are eurocentric, perhaps one assumes many countries only have about 20 or 30 cities total?



Depends how "city" is defined. In the US some one-horse villages call themselves cities.

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