A solution for repeat criminals: blast them off
If I was a U.S. President with unlimited power (obviously this isn’t possible), I would try to find a large tract of land and create an Australia 2.0.
With no one really doing anything about nutcases in places like NY/Chi/LA, I believe the only true solution would be to revoke citizenship and send them off to some island or something (upon 2nd serious offense). This could be a U.S. territory with a citizenship pathway for future generations, and this solves the issue of shitty mental health/homeless centers not working.
On top of that, all the social justice people complaining about poor funding/over-policing could put there money where their mouth is and go to the island to take care of them.
I believe this would make public transportation usable in cities (no shit/piss smell + much lower chance of getting thrown on the tracks by a crackhead), reduce public funding for burden centers, and ease the police/healthcare issues a bit.
I’d love to hear people’s thoughts on this. I also wish the U.S. could partly socialize healthcare by levying taxes on fat people since they are the root of most health issues (waist size test, would need a way to make this not a huge administrative task which would be difficult).
Allow fat people to opt out by forgoing healthcare services, allowing the general population to receive better healthcare costs. As the country reverts to a low obesity rate, healthcare can then possibly be funded by a reduction in DoD funding.
So if you can't afford to have a roof over your head, then you lose US citizenship and get deported to the middle of nowhere like in the USSR. I swear it seems like every week on here some whiz kid intern figures out a way to solve homelessness by making it a crime to be poor.
It still shocks me that pussy analysts are scared that crackheads will throw them onto the train tracks but see no problem with sharing the road with crackheads who are in control of several tons of steel moving at 70 miles an hour. Obviously the latter is orders of magnitude more deadly.
I'd recommend re-reading the initial post. OP's hypothetical states that deportation is only an option UPON THE 2ND SERIOUS CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
Maybe he's just an intern, but at least he can read.
I'm aware of what he wrote, but he seems to think that this rule would impact the majority of homeless and clean up the streets.
Well there's already the three strike rule on the books which gets you a life sentence in New York or California after three serious criminal offenses. That brought down violent crime and gang activity down in the 90s but it hasn't had a significant effect on homelessness. Because most homeless people aren't felons, they are usually petty criminals.
If being poor means smearing shit on the subway window/smoking a crack pipe inside then yeah. Many of the homeless people I see are drugged out or completely separated from reality, and they are being bussed into the city from places like Texas who know they have no hope. There’s no way to make them into functioning citizens at scale.
Obviously that’s very different from someone working the grocery bags/minimum wage jobs. Never did I say kick out poor people, just 2nd time serious (ie violent/sexual offenders). Unless you think poor people all fit that bill, you’re the one who is being discriminatory here.
Also I’m not a “pussy analyst” afraid of being thrown on the tracks. For one, I’m an associate, and two, I don’t stand on the edge like an idiot. I brought that up because a lady got thrown on the tracks of the subway station right next to where I live. And yea, crackheads driving should get their licenses permanently revoked too; someone ~10 blocks away from me drove into a convenience store front door + a few weeks ago some other idiot stole a car and got his dumbass killed driving into a pillar at full speed.
The people I am talking about are complete wastes, so I would happily ship them off somewhere to reduce a great amount of public spending. I don’t think the prison system is harsh enough (yes, it works in places like tiny Scandinavian countries), so just ship these people somewhere and let them deal with each other.
It already exists in New York and Cali it's just 3 strikes instead of two, and a life imprisonment instead of some kind of hunger games island. Your solution would not stop homelessness because the vast majority of homeless people are not career criminals.
What is with the extrapolation/projection of some weird internalized liberal oppression? I didn’t bring up political alignment, those three areas just happen to be where a lot of finance runs (ie where people on this forum live in general).
Also, who could guess that crime tends to be more outwardly visible in densely packed urban areas…. Obviously I’d apply this as a blanket rule across the U.S.
Also, you’re accusing me of being a racist when I never brought that up. Good job showing how you’re the actual racist talking about “dark skinned monsters.”
Seriously, this political divide in the U.S. is so ridiculous that some guy in RE seems to need to defend the “liberals” while the “republican” criminals go free based on some strange mental fantasy. I’m neither a republican nor a democrat, and I believe American politics are a complete joke.
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