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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Dope1 ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Vote Republican, cut ACA
Date: 02/02/26 6:06 PM
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When I asked you politely to just tell me what you thought should be done, you just....responded with what you thought should be done. You've had four years of writing and responding on this topic, and you never really did that in those last four years. So maybe - just maybe - if you tried responding to people on this board and asking them without comment or criticism what they thought might be a good solution to a policy, they might give you the substantive response you seem to want?

And here we go again making it about me instead of addressing what I just said.

By the way: you're flat out wrong.

<20 seconds of searching and I find this:
Dope1 writes on A benefit of the DC crackdown

This. This is the way. There are laws on the books about public camping, public dumping, public defecation/urination and virtually all the other behaviors exhibited by street campers.

When Seattle's outreach people help the city conduct camp cleanups what they find is that
-The people they talk to don't want shelter. They find they don't like the restrictions
-They don't want rehab, either. They like their lifestyle because it doesn't have any consequences attached.
-Sometimes they even have multiple tents at different locations (because they follow the local drug and sex supply chains)

Mere enforcement of laws on the books does wonders for people who are hopelessly addicted to drugs or mentally ill. You offer them treatment like this
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov: The First Comprehensive Program for Opioid Use Disorder in a US Statewide Correctional System

...and you see results:
The increase in illicit use of heroin and other illicit opioids is a serious public health concern. Despite justice-involved persons being especially vulnerable to overdose and relapse upon release, prisons and jails have been slow to allow this population access to MAT. Rhode Island’s statewide comprehensive program expansion at the RIDOC shows that MAT is feasible in correctional settings, and preliminary outcomes suggest strong rates of treatment retention after release.

Any cop or any case worker will tell you that one thing that tends to motivate junkies is a night in the slammer where they're forced to go Cold Turkey. That's not popular At. All.

So there you go.
Meanwhile, I crushed your question.

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