Letter: Why not ship homeless to East Coast?

Monday, July 9, 2001 | 8:55 a.m.

I have a thought on how to solve the homeless situation -- a bath and a one-way bus ticket to the East Coast. The leftists in the East know how to solve social questions. After all, they are habitually trying to show us how to show humanity to the less fortunate, albeit with our money.

If that is not acceptable to our itinerants and the ACLU, we could supply a home surrounded by barb wire matching the conditions down by the good old railroad tracks where they were so happy. As an added bonus we could provide a nutritious and tasty soup three times a day along with a one-a-day multivitamin.

Of course, the meal should be all you can eat and of course it would be the same soup every day. Showers and a makeshift laundry should be made available for those who would eventually like to find outside jobs. Tax-paying citizens should be encouraged to supply used want ads to these enlightened suburbs along with old reading glasses.

These boroughs would generate constant intellectual stimulation to its populace as new arrivals would be deposited by Metro from moochers scraped off the streets.

Since Metro is above coming to stranded motorists to take reports on stolen vehicles this would give all those displaced work-card handlers something substantial to do.

PAUL GENSHEIMER

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