When “Caring” Kills

“The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.”  Proverbs 12:10

“The final tally [of homeless deaths in Multnomah County] is the highest ever: 92 homeless people died last year, nearly double the death toll released in 2012, when the county started keeping track.” OPB

Some kids kill goldfish. They don’t do it maliciously, but ignorantly. The fish likes food, the child keeps putting in more and more food for the hungry fish, and the fish eats until it dies.

Portland doesn’t want to put the homeless in a building originally constructed as a prison, even though that facility would provide all the necessary components of successful compassionate care for the homeless. They need a change of location, drug and alcohol treatment programs, and job and life skill training. But advocates of this proposal were characterized as not caring for the dignity and feelings of the homeless. So, let’s keep them on the streets, where they die in increasing numbers.

Other examples could be cited. This summer, for instance, the Salvation Army announced the closing of their only Adult Rehabilitation Center in Oregon. They couldn’t get cooperation from the city and county. This was a highly successful program, with great metrics. The 100 year old facility was forced out from unintended consequences of ObamaCare.

Portland goes on its merry way, failing to make use of answers that work, and continuing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on answers that don’t work. That kind of supposed “compassion” kills.

https://www.opb.org/news/article/multnomah-county-oregon-homeless-death-count-2018/