How do you know these people cannot survive on their own? What if they are just lazy, like dank? If a city has provided services to a person for a couple years and they are able to work but unwilling, why should the city keep paying for those services?
I agree 100%. If you continue to feed the homeless then they will have no incentive to improve their lives and get a job, ect. [...]
I find this kind of myopia amazing; it's kind of like the "it's your fault that you're poor", even if you work several jobs and still barely make enough to feed your family.
I wonder if you would hold on to those views if you were to become homeless one day - or do you think it can't possibly happen to you?
Well it is generally a person's fault because they live in poverty. Even when they work "several" jobs they are all low/no skill jobs which they are generally overpaid to work.
There are also a ridiculous number of social programs that will give the "poor" free food and money for nothing in order to help them "pay for things"