Jackson Jambalaya

Definitely no toiling occurring there...

Not a care in the world... I don't sleep that well in my nice bed in my nice home in Madison.

Yes, he is one of God's Creatures. Maybe not a best effort result, although for all I know, panhandling may be hard work, and the more I think about it, even panhandlers deserve a break. Hopefully some dang heathen in a BMW won't run over him, because that would leave a mark that might be slow to heal.

I am 9:16 with fingers that were too quick to hit the submit button. Might leave a hard to get rid of mark on the sleeper and not the BMW!

He looks awfully comfy.

I like his bike.

That bike is likely stolen.

He better lock up that bike while napping or it will be gone.

Got tired from his recon on the Waffle House.

The hundreds of thousands spent to fence out the underpasses just moved them a few yards further out. Brilliant.

It’s easy to call these people bums but the facts are much more complicated. All these people have mental illness and drug and alcohol problems. Most have abused themselves so much that even if they got treated they would never be normal. There is no treatment for these people. You can’t lock them up forever even if they commit a crime. How these people get out of their situation is impossible to answer. Some cities offer all kinds of solutions but it never solves the problem and for some it makes it worse. This may be the only life they know but if sober and mentally capable they would never select this life. I am not bleeding heart liberal and all I can do is say a prayer that God rescues them from their plight. They are Gods creatures just like everyone else.

For the money we've wasted on the garbage fiasco, we would buy or lease some garbage trucks, get them clean, and start a program to employ them.

The sleeper must awaken.
The spice must flow

11:12 nice virtue post but they are BUMS. It’s not impossible to get your shit together, especially with all of today’s programs and help, but you gotta man up (or woman up) and decide to no longer be a bum. They choose not to because of how easy it is for them to support a crack habit. I’d bet you every single bum panhandler in Jackson would test positive for dope. They aren’t just homeless and hungry as their signs say. Give them $40 and see how fast they disappear to the nearest trap house. It’s the idiots that fall for their shit and hand them money constantly with each cycle of a red light that are the bigger problem. I’ve watched the same white guy bum with glasses do this shit for 10+ years now in Jackson. Look and see how many of these types are laid out in Madison interchanges. None because the city don’t play that shit. This is a COJ problem.

I wonder where they get that cardboard they make their little signs out of.

Union break!

There is no doubt that he earned the money to purchase that expensive bicycle by collecting aluminum cans and selling them. Right?

11:12 and 12;16 I agree with much of what each of you said. And to take it a little farther: YES they've had tough times, and much of it may be due to mental health and/or substance abuse. YES their plight is probably made worse through handouts and the city making things easy for them.

All that comes to the main question (in my mind, anyway): Why has society (a/k/a the "leadership" of Jackson) determined that it's a good idea to foist the plight of 0.001% of the population on the remaining 99.999% of the population? Why must they be a burden on the rest of the city to act as a virtue signal for those at the "top?" In the past, when cities were clean, it was based, in no small part, to how the city reacted to those "less inclined to believe in an orderly society." SOOOO, again, what's the end game of this current administration to create the worst possible living conditions for its populace? Should that be clear to me?

"It’s not impossible to get your shit together, especially with all of today’s programs and help, but you gotta man up (or woman up) and decide to no longer be a bum."

For those who are significantly mentally impaired, that decision may not be possible.

The Supreme Court said panhandling is protected by the Constitution.

Mary and her minions can't override the Supremes.

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