basketball Bill Walton proposes moving homeless away from "civilized taxpayers" to "Sunbreak Ranch"

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33. I notice he was careful to do a head-fake in the direction of "I care about veterans."

But other than that, this is pretty standard "I hate homeless people" horseshit.

This is going to come as a huge shock to the blithely dismissive "Why don't they just get a job?" types. But a lot of homeless people have jobs. Does this smelly, disease-ridden douchebag want to take these people away from their jobs? Take them away from their medical care, their mental health care, their lifelines for getting off the streets?

The homeless problem is a complex one, and requires complex solutions. But two easy ways to begin addressing the problem include instituting a living wage for everyone. And bringing back comprehensive, state-level in-patient mental health care programs, the kind Ronald Reagan spent his governorship and Presidency gutting into uselessness.