letter to the editor

[brimic]

I found this in yesterday's litter box liner. I can't decide if its the worst kind of blind ignorance or if its brilliant satire.


http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/your-views-b99100715z1-224316851.html

Allow homeless to live in abandoned houses
I read that there has been an increase in the number of homeless in Milwaukee ("Milwaukee's developing crisis of homelessness," Crossroads," Sept. 15).

I was thinking that there are a number of houses that have been obtained by the city and county due to the owners not paying their property taxes. Why not have a number of these homeless people move into these houses, and they could paint the houses in return for living in them? This would make the houses more sellable, and when the houses are sold, the people then would move to other houses that would need painting.

Besides having the houses painted, with someone living there, these houses would not be stripped of wiring, pipes and other things by other people. If the county and city want to get these homeless off the streets, they need to consider this idea.

Carlo Santarelli
Milwaukee

[makattak]

I found this in yesterday's litter box liner. I can't decide if its the worst kind of blind ignorance or if its brilliant satire.


http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/your-views-b99100715z1-224316851.html

Allow homeless to live in abandoned houses
I read that there has been an increase in the number of homeless in Milwaukee ("Milwaukee's developing crisis of homelessness," Crossroads," Sept. 15).

I was thinking that there are a number of houses that have been obtained by the city and county due to the owners not paying their property taxes. Why not have a number of these homeless people move into these houses, and they could paint the houses in return for living in them? This would make the houses more sellable, and when the houses are sold, the people then would move to other houses that would need painting.

Besides having the houses painted, with someone living there, these houses would not be stripped of wiring, pipes and other things by other people. If the county and city want to get these homeless off the streets, they need to consider this idea.

Carlo Santarelli
Milwaukee

That's BRILLIANT... satire.

Of course, she's probably serious and unable to consider the nature of most homeless people. She thinks they are EXACTLY like her, but they are "down on their luck."

Leftists: all that matters is that you have good intentions.

[brimic]

My favorite line in the letter:

"Besides having the houses painted, with someone living there, these houses would not be stripped of wiring, pipes and other things by other people."

Word bolded to add emphasis.

[Scout26]

Can they cut the grass also?   Then we can bring over marshmellows and sing Kumbiyah as we sit around the smoldering embers of the house they just torched while cooking up some meth.

 

[Levant]

I don't even know what to say.  THis is just nuts..