In a huge waste of taxpayer & donation $$$, Oregon political leaders have managed to create an out-of-control “Homeless Lifestyle” and a separate industry to support it! Everyone from politicians, to drug rehab clinics, to managers of charities for the homeless are profiting from Portland & Multnomah County’s failure to differentiate between aid for the “truly needy,” and those able bodied individuals that can work but choose to drop out & embrace the “homeless lifestyle dream” instead. It turns out that only a small portion of the “so called” homeless are truly deserving of aid.
“Homelessness” has become a politically motivated scam that’s luring our youth into a life poverty & drugs. Portland City policies are generating widespread drug dependency, crime, illegal camping, & mountains of trash throughout the city, and many of those living on the streets are becoming drug dependent for life. A “no strings attached” approach to giving aid to those that are able to provide for themselves has opened the flood gates to massive fraud & abuse! We must hold public leaders accountable for the way they distribute aid to the homeless by establishing stringent standards & qualifications for those receiving aid, and by demanding monthly well publicized audits of how public tax & donation $$$ for the homeless is actually being spent. Then and only then will we be able to solve the homeless problem.