Gov. Ron DeSantis sent out a statement this week on his efforts to help the homeless in Florida. "We cannot allow any city in Florida to become like San Francisco, where homelessness, drugs, and crime have decimated the quality of life, hurt the economy, and eroded freedom," he said.
DeSantis' proposal includes:
- Prohibiting camping on city streets, sidewalks, and parks.
- Creating state enforcement tools to ensure local governments comply.
- Increasing funding for homeless shelters, while requiring occupants to not use drugs and utilize workforce services.
- Increasing funding for substance abuse and mental health treatment.
Horrible, right? Homeless people would be prohibited from sleeping on the sidewalks but would be moved to camps designated for them … as opposed to setting up a tent on the sidewalk.
The Miami Herald, which will never miss a chance to dunk on DeSantis, asks if this is Germany and DeSantis is putting the homeless in internment camps.
Forcing Florida’s homeless into monitored camps is called internment. Are we Germany? | Opinion https://t.co/jnOZl9E57B
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) February 6, 2024
Legitimately the dumbest headline of the week https://t.co/SCIAQqxGTj
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 6, 2024
Florida isn't Germany and it certainly doesn't want to become San Francisco.
Hey @fabiolasantiago — how many homeless have you brought into your very nice, upper-middle class home?
— GayPatriot 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🌈 (@GayPatriot) February 6, 2024
What a laughably ridiculous take.
— George Wept (@GeorgeWept) February 6, 2024
🤡🤡🤡🤡
They think they're helping the homeless by letting them sleep on the streets. They don't have a solution, they just dislike any effort to clean up the state.
You guys okay?
— Jeremy Redfern (@JeremyRedfernFL) February 6, 2024
Really just doing a wellness check, here. Seems like it’s appropriate.
So if we don’t want drug addicts and obviously psychotic people to suffer in the streets or threaten others, we are Nazis? 🤡🤡🤡
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) February 6, 2024
No, it’s actually a more humane treatment of someone who’s suffering from either drug dependency, financial instability or mental illness. It’s a way to actually get them into treatment.
— chris delgado (@delgadostowe) February 6, 2024
Would you prefer them sleeping on your street or outside your children’s school or playground?
— Judy Keen, #StillTeamSanity, #DeSantis2024 (@jkzoie) February 6, 2024
Providing safe shelter and giving treatments options and a path back to society is humane. Why do you hate homeless people?
— LK_1111 (@elle_kaye11) February 6, 2024
Well, I suppose they could hand out drug supplies and have the homeless shit on the streets but not everywhere is San Francisco 🤷♂️
— Tom Buckley (@BullheadRanch) February 6, 2024
Was the person who wrote this high? Or just a really sore loser?
— Andrea E (@AAC0519) February 6, 2024
I read the article and it seems like a humane way to deal with this. Clean facilities, access to mental healthcare and secure places to live sounds pretty good.
— Hersades1989 (@hersades1989) February 6, 2024
“Anything or anyone I don’t agree with is a Nazi”
— Matthew 'Whiz' Buckley (@TopGunOptionsHQ) February 6, 2024
Checks out
I had no idea Florida was doing this. This is exactly what I've been saying we need to do in California for years.
— Banana In The Tailpipe (@TailpipeBanana) February 6, 2024
Forcing them into a place where they are safe and fed is a good thing.
— DC (@donna_appraise) February 6, 2024
Yea, prohibiting camping on random public property and specifying that municipalities must provide sanitation and mental health care for any property they designate for camping is *exactly* the same as forcibly jailing and murdering millions.
— Polkabecky (@polkabecky) February 6, 2024
You are why people hate the media.
They have to hate it because DeSantis supports it. If they had their way, the homeless would be given the freedom to sleep on the sidewalk and do drugs if they wanted to.
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