First Massachusetts gave ‘em welfare, then they gave ‘em food stamps, then they gave them free cell phones through Safelink Wireless, then they gave ‘em free cars. And now, they’re spending $2,000,000 per month to house the homeless in motels.
WPRI reports:
A record number of families are being put up in motels in Massachusetts. High unemployment and the rising number of home foreclosures is the reason the state is taking this action.
Housing Massachusetts’ homeless is costing tax payers around $2 million per month. It costs an average of $85 per night to have families, including nearly 1000 children, stay in motels.
The Interagency Council on Housing and Homelessness admits that the use of motels for the homeless is not ideal, but is the best that can be done at this time.
Homeless advocates are worried that families are not getting the support of shelters with living rooms, kitchens, and play areas.
This looks like a self-defeating proposition to us:
Give everything to those who have nothing by taxing those who do have something until they don’t have anything.
Source: WPRI
This post was last modified on January 26, 2021
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I got no problem giving people a hand WHILE THEY ACTIVELY search for a job and a home. The problem is the out of control spending when it was completely unnecessary to spend that much money.
Wait, I'm not done... You've gotten dupped by a foreigner who "falls in love" with you. Then he leaves you with 2 kids to raise on your own. Despite having 2 degrees, this person cant find a decent paying job for 2 years. Where is someone like that supposed to stay? In a subway? Renting rooms is cheaper than opening up a homeless shelter and paying staff members.
If you'd really like a free cell phone and a free car and food stamps, quit your job and start making minimum wage so you can see how hard it really is to just be barely keeping your head above water. You better thank God you're not hungry and homeless, and you have heat in your own home and you don't have to encounter angry glares when you're at the check out line and the cashier is envious of your cart of food and food stamps. Be informed before you make those kind of statements.
Lazy loafers?
Alright imagine if you will that a natural disaster has destroyed your home.
You need time to get a new place, but your job gets impatient with you and lays you off. Now you have no place. Now you go into this motel situation to have shelter...a basic necessity. Where else on earth would you want to be? In the streets? Good job on calling 1000 kids lazy loafers.
What do you expect from a state which continually elects Ted Kennedy?
so, so, so TRUE. As long as Massachusetts residents keep voting in these nit-wits, the working people pay taxes forcing us to give, give and give while the lazy, loafers keep taking!
My wife and I are going to the San Diego area next month to one of the higher-end Marriots (as high end as they get). The event has booked 100 rooms. The price is $129 a night. I would guess these rooms are normally about $300 a night or more. So imagine the state, with the power it has, the large number of rooms to book, and what should be a low-rent area. Any businessman could have gotten rooms, even with kitchenettes, for around half the price they are paying.
And you know what, on top of this, add in the cost of the bureaucracy to run this program.
Tax the rich, feed the poor, 'til there are no rich no more.....
or something like that from the song from the 60s
And which motels are they staying in? Holiday Inn? What ever happened to Motel 6?
Doesn't liberalism make SO much sense?
You'd think someone would think to negotiate a block room rate and save a million a month.