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HOUSTON USING STARVATION TO PUT AN END TO GROWING HOMELESS PROBLEM
January 23 2011
Houston, TX – There are few people in the world who say that that a life is a life worth living if you don’t have anything in it. While there are certainly truths to the notion that things like love and family are the most important things you get out of 
life, the truth is that virtually everyone in the world, no matter the country or background, lust for material things. In some areas that lust is for purely superficial things, but for majority of people, backed against a wall, simple things like a roof over their head is more than enough.
Heart warming stories like that of Ted Williams aside, the harsh reality is that millions of people across the United States, by far the wealthiest country that has ever existed, don’t even have those basic needs. Something our ancient ancestors enjoyed, living in caves, was more shelter than upwards of four million people simply don’t have. For those of us with such luxuries the sight of the homeless person on the street is either a point of revulsion or sympathy, neither of which many of the people themselves would want, but in some places has reached epidemic levels. In Houston, city fathers have noticed the growing homeless population and unlike many other major metropolises have taken action by starving the homeless out of house and home.
“Anyone serving food for public consumption, whether for the homeless or for sale, must have a permit. To get that permit, the food must be prepared in a certified kitchen with a certified food manager,” said a spokesperson for the Houston Health and Human Services department. “The regulations are all the more essential in the case of the homeless because poor people are the most vulnerable to food borne illness and also are the least likely to have access to health care. We will not tolerate the indiscriminate feeding of homeless people on our streets. Charity of this sort should stay at home.”
A number of citations have been issued in recent weeks over the feeding of the homeless, brining supporters and critics of the rule in direct conflict.
“We want to help the people of Houston, all the people of the city. There are thousands of people here who can’t afford to eat proper meals and we want to make sure that they are taken care of. We want them to be comfortable and to live as well as they can,” said one homeless volunteer who preferred to remain anonymous. “The government wants to keep us down with these rules, having these police come through and giving us tickets, knocking the food on the ground. It’s Gestapo tactics. They just don’t want the poor people to get food, they’d rather them starve and that just ain’t right. We need ot take care of all our people even when they are poor.”
City officials though deny any ulterior motives, again claiming that the rules are for protection.
“Our job is to protect the will of the people of the city. The majority of people in 
Houston are not homeless and it is our job to protect their rights. They should be able to walk the streets of the city without being harassed by panhandlers and hobos. They have rights,” said a city spokesperson. “We enacted similar legislation to rid the city of seagulls and when that didn’t work we had people go out and poison them and now we have more or less gotten rid of seagulls. We likely won’t go to that extreme in this case, hopefully we won’t have to, but by reducing the dependence on outsiders hopefully these people will become more self-sufficient or at least get out of the city. That’d be best for everyone.”
Seagull advocates were equally unhappy with those rules but advocacy groups have all mysteriously disappeared in recent years.
Mike Michaels, American Correspondent
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