Monday, May 18, 2009

Last Post Still Pisses Me Off

Took a bit to percolate through my brain, but using the phrase "frequent fliers" in an article on the most incarcerated people in Orlando over the last 10 years attempts a sad, bad, cruel and tasteless joke.

Such "joke" shifts focus from insanity in the policies of Orlando towards homeless people.

Rather than fund drug treatment programs, affordable housing, work training, and shelters for homeless folk, the city fathers spend $ on locking up homeless people, thereby wasting valuable police and jail resources.

Guess they don't want to sully the image of Orlando, where in the immortal words of Eric Cartman, "People starving hardly never."

Waiting for comment from Sentinel reporter.

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