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It was somewhat of a relief to discover that the (to me, nearby) City of St. Augustine was not uniquely creative in considering to ship its homeless to quarters outside its borders.
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The "Amount New York City spends each year on air, bus, and train tickets to send homeless people out of town: $500,000." (Harper's Index, October, 2009)
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That's quite a bargain -- on a per capita basis -- to spare the "decent" people of New York the specter of these "human failures."
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Realistically, St. Augustine and New York, however, have no monopoly on this aspect of despicable human character, which is, rather, an American trait, from sea to shining sea. Our morality is measured by how much money we have, our houses, cars, clothing, etc., and one is accorded another bonus stripe of morality within the congregation of the church one belongs to.
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Hey, that's the American way. Not even voting (thus far) changes that. And it's worked for the "decent" people for several hundred years ...well ... other than that little misunderstanding in the 1860's.
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The problem now emerging, however, is that the ranks of the "human failures" now grow larger every day, thereby perhaps ultimately presenting the dilemma for the then to be outnumbered "decent" folks: Should the future homeless horde be permitted to vote, dictate our laws, alter the social contract, or must they be eliminated?
