Thinking about the fires in L.A., and I'm guessing that there are a whole lot more homeless people today than there was last Saturday. With all those houses burned, lots of folks are sleeping in unfamiliar situations.
Many of these folks will recover. They are not the kind of people who will remains homeless for long. No sleeping in tents on the sidewalk or under a bridge. They have networks, family, friends, assets that they can use to start to recover.
Los Angeles still has the homeless that they had last week, but those folks are not so much homeless as helpless. No place to live, no place to go, they are simply a drain on the taxpayer. When we subsidize something, we get more of it, and I'm not sure that Los Angeles can afford to subsidize them anymore. Let then either move or starve, it's an easy choice.
The fires are still raging, and L.A. simply will not have the revenue to solve everyone's problem. Better that the available money be spent on taxpayers instead of those who bring nothing to the community.
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