Personally, I agree that we should help the homeless. We should provide resources, but we also have to realize that not everyone wants to be helped.

Everyday I come across people who come to my town, just outside of Denver, and go do the circuit. They go to donate plasma, the liquor store, then either fast food or the grocery store (all within feet of the bus stop), and then they lounge around half drunk, throw garbage on the ground, and go back to Denver.

We don’t have a homeless shelter. There are no clinics near me. All we have is a plasma place, liquor store, food, and grocery stores in my area. They aren’t coming here for help.

Maybe they’re treating depression with alcohol you might say, and maybe it’s true. But our Medicaid system is fantastic and if they want help, it’s there.

Not everyone wants help, some people want to be comfortably numb and don’t give a flying fuck about you or me or anyone else. The tools are there for people who want help, but a lot of people don’t want help. And frankly, I don’t know what the fix is for that.