WWII Vet Restricted from Handing Out Meals

A Florida man has been cited for giving meals to the local homeless people in public. A charitable worker, he has served the community for over two decades, passing out lunches to the local homeless. One may ask why a law preventing charitable works exists in the first place. Well, Fort Lauderdale legislature passed an ordinance on Oct. 22, an ordinance restricting charitable groups from feeding homeless people in public. The law was created to keep trash out of the streets, among other reasons. Business owners are complaining about trash left behind and homeless people living in public areas, arguing that they are a nuisance.

Now, I’m going to take a step back and look at this. To me, it seems like those supporting the ordinance are trying to get rid of homeless people. Instead of worrying about eliminating homelessness, they are trying to dump the underprivileged somewhere. Suppose you spill hot magma on your nice hardwood floors. The smart thing to do would be to get the magma off the hardwood floors and eliminate the problem as whole. Instead, you keep putting paper towels over it in an attempt to eradicate the molten lava. When you continually give a perpetual problem a temporary solution, you cannot expect a good outcome. How about instead of taking the food that keeps the homeless alive in an effort to make them go away, we attack the problem at its root and give some sort of place to live and a chance to get back on their feet?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/04/man-90-arrested-feeding-homeless_n_6100738.html