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Proposal for Denver's homeless
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By Robert L. Love, Denver
In this mornings edition of the Denver Daily news, I saw the article about spending more money on the many parks in Colorado, and while parks are nice, there is a more pressing, and important issue that needs to be addressed, and that is; what to do about the 12 to 15 thousand homeless that are clogging the many shelters, and living on the streets of Denver, Colorado.
The article lists a proposed spending budget of $140 Million Dollars on park construction, and renovation. This money could, and should be spent on helping the homeless get off the streets, and back into good paying jobs, and ow-cost housing. I submitted a proposal via e-mail to both Governor Bill Ritter: Governor.ritter@state.co.us and Mayor John Hickenlooper: MileHighMayor@ci.denver.co.us that would help radically reduce the large numbers of homeless that are addicted to substances such as alcohol, and illegal drugs by rounding up all the drunks, and dope addicts up, and putting them in state run substance abuse treatment, and vocational rehabilitation retraining, and job placement program.
Rounding up all the illegal immigrants, and deporting them back to the various countries that they all came from. Placing all the “hard-core” repeat criminal offenders in a state run vocational rehabilitation retraining, and job placement program, and rounding up all the mentally ill, and put them back in the mental institutions where they will be better cared for then they are on the streets or in the shelters, leaving only those homeless that are “NOT” addicted to any substances in the shelters, and on the streets that are 110 percent capable of being trained, and provided with funding in a state ran, and funded program that must be created, that will allow all homeless that are not substance abusers, illegal immigrants, hard-core repeat criminals, or mentally ill to own, and operate their own small home-based businesses of their own choosing, instead of spending all this money on more parks!
The Casino Industry in Colorado can be of tremendous help, if all Casinos in Colorado would be required to give up just 1 percent of their annual earnings to the program that needs to be created, and would be more than capable of radically reducing the numbers of homeless that remain on the streets, and in the many shelters after all the drunks, dope addicts, mentally ill, and hard-core criminals, and illegal immigrants are no longer in the shelters, and on the streets. Additional income, and funding can also come from raising the Alcohol Taxes, and putting just 1 percent of all the extra revenues generated towards the state run, and funded Homeless Small Business Training, and Funding Program that must be created for this purpose!
I urge all Colorado residents to contact Mayor Hickenlooper, and Governor Ritter at the addresses above with your comments about this issue, as radically reducing, if not ending “homelessness” is by far, much more important than more parks! The vast amounts of money that can be generated to build, and renovate parks should be spent on your fellow Human Beings, first! If you agree, then please contact your elected officials, and tell them so!
Robert L Love is a homeless man living on the streets of Denver, Colorado.