Blazing Zippers wrote:
I would like to thank the moderators for allowing this topic to be discussed. So of us are not afforded the opportunity to speak up without fear of criticism.
I thank the moderator too.
Let's keep the discussion going without giving them a reason to lock this thread. And do not attack each other!
The OPs point was the homeless living in RVs, and that affects us all in this industry. We need affordable housing so they are not living in RVs.
We all would love to continue living this lifestyle of camping, vacation, enjoying our campgrounds, and full-time travelling. But now this massive problem is having a direct impact on enjoying the whole purpose of why we buy these RVs. We want to live and camp in safe areas and enjoy the outdoors.
We are taking care of the rest of the world with Trillions of our dollars for decades and we are throwing our own homeless, veterans and seniors under the bus. This will have a direct impact on our own youth and their future. This is wrong on so many levels.
These countries need to take care of their own people with their own money and it needs to stop. We cannot throw our money at their problems anymore.
We cannot be the police and the ATM machine for the world nor take in millions of their citizens, year after year after year, while we have our own homeless and destitute suffering in our streets.
We need a break, a breather, a pause, stay out of these never ending wars, and put a pause on all immigration both legal and illegal for at least 10 years so we can clean up our own backyard.
We have the same problems they do and getting worse. We have been far too generous for far too long, now we are suffering the consequences of these failed policies.
We have the tax dollars to solve these problems, we cannot continue to give our hard earned money away and it needs to stop. We give billions of our dollars away to countries with zero results for decades.
Now our citizens are resorting to living in the streets in RVs, our Seniors and Veterans are not making ends meet. This should not be happening. Our cities are turning into 3rd world status.
We should also allow our Seniors to work, without tax penalty, to supplement their income if they wish. There are many jobs they can do. They have skills, they are dependable, they have a work ethic. They are valuable to our companies.
I think we need to have a building boom of Senior housing built with 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, in small communities with no amenities, (not The Villages) to keep costs down so Seniors can move out of their big homes, free those homes up for families, and the Seniors can downsize and cut costs.
Someone posted above, Seniors cannot afford rent, it is very concerning we are not solving that problem. We are worried about our parents and ourselves being able to survive the costs of living in this country.
It is very expensive to live here, rent, electric, cable, internet, cell phones, insurance, cars, gas, food, medical, water, taxes. None of those costs have gone down and continue to rise.
We need to stop bringing in the rest of the world and paying THEIR bills out of our paychecks, while neglecting our own. Whoever came up with that policy should be forced to live in a cardboard box in San Francisco for a year. Totally unacceptable.
What is the solution to this homeless problem? Where do you put them? We cannot afford to build billion dollars shelters to live in for free and do drugs, and refuse to work.
Convert shipping containers, make them into studios, work for shelter, basic shelter, put them on empty lots on bus lines. Get on your feet and move on. No more living in the projects for life. We have closed up shopping centers all over this country, use those empty lots.
