Passenger Trains > No overnight sleeping

New policy gives authority to oust homeless people using the JFK AirTrain Jamaica Station to sleep overnight.

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Bravo!!!!

-John

NIce!

Now, will they enforce it?

I hope so. Jamaica has not been a safe neighborhood since the 1960's. 

Now the ACLU or some other organization will sue claiming great harm to this population..........

As the writer Anatole France pointed out in the nineteenth century:  "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread. "  Kicking people out from a warm place with no alternatives simply increases the penalties that go along with being poor.  It may make us more comfortable by keeping them out of our sight, but it doesn't change their situation or show any concern for them as people.

There but for the grace of God go I...

BobB Wrote:
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> As the writer Anatole France pointed out in the
> nineteenth century:  "The law, in its majestic
> equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep
> under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal
> their bread. "  Kicking people out from a warm
> place with no alternatives simply increases the
> penalties that go along with being poor.  It may
> make us more comfortable by keeping them out of
> our sight, but it doesn't change their situation
> or show any concern for them as people.

Maybe if they got a job they might not be "homeless". Everyplace you look where we live, there are lots and LOTS of "HELP WANTED" signs.

HotWater Wrote:
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> BobB Wrote:
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> > As the writer Anatole France pointed out in the
> > nineteenth century:  "The law, in its majestic
> > equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep
> > under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to
> steal
> > their bread. "  Kicking people out from a warm
> > place with no alternatives simply increases the
> > penalties that go along with being poor.  It
> may
> > make us more comfortable by keeping them out of
> > our sight, but it doesn't change their
> situation
> > or show any concern for them as people.
>
> Maybe if they got a job they might not be
> "homeless". Everyplace you look where we live,
> there are lots and LOTS of "HELP WANTED" signs.

For people who don't have addiction and mental health issues. Which, based on personal observation, a majority of them have.

HotWater Wrote:
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>
> Maybe if they got a job they might not be
> "homeless". Everyplace you look where we live,
> there are lots and LOTS of "HELP WANTED" signs.

Job application: Line below your name requests an address.  uh-oh 

HotWater Wrote:
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> Maybe if they got a job they might not be
> "homeless". Everyplace you look where we live,
> there are lots and LOTS of "HELP WANTED" signs.

And HotWater for the win. He has the homeless crisis solved. 

No one has figured out  what to do about the mentally ill and drug addicted population which is most of the homeless.
Lots of kids being born into drug additcted and mentally ill households

longliveSP Wrote:
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> HotWater Wrote:
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> > Maybe if they got a job they might not be
> > "homeless". Everyplace you look where we live,
> > there are lots and LOTS of "HELP WANTED" signs.
>
> And HotWater for the win. He has the homeless
> crisis solved. 

Exactly. There is a lot of affordable housing in NYC for people working minimum wage jobs.

DutchDragon Wrote:
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> longliveSP Wrote:
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> > HotWater Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Maybe if they got a job they might not be
> > > "homeless". Everyplace you look where we
> live,
> > > there are lots and LOTS of "HELP WANTED"
> signs.
> >
> > And HotWater for the win. He has the homeless
> > crisis solved. 
>
> Exactly. There is a lot of affordable housing in
> NYC for people working minimum wage jobs.

They have to get the job first...