Send Us Your Drunks
From the what the “rewarding bad behavior” file:
Raise the Booze Tax and Then Give It Away Free…
The program is run by Vancouver Coastal Health near the Downtown Eastside. The building is managed by the Portland Housing Society, who also operates the safe injection site on Hastings Street.
Started in July, Eastside Illicit Drinkers Group for Education has landed $52,000 in a research grant, with aims to gather clinical evidence across B.C. on the benefits of alcohol maintenance programs.
Within the next year they hope to produce research in order to help land a partner in the health care sector to fund a Downtown Eastside drinker’s lounge stocked with vodka, sherry and high-alcohol beer.
Advocates say at a cost of about $350 per month per drinker, alcohol maintenance programs can reduce policing costs and medical fees associated to frequent emergency room visits for illicit booze drinkers. Read more:
Meanwhile, as they provide free crack pipes, needles, and now booze, the count of homeless addicts continues to rise. It’s no wonder as they are doing everything possible to make getting wasted as comfortable as possible.
Why not move the free drug/alcohol program outside of the city to some remote area, and remove all incentive on Hasting street. Round up all addicts by promising the free stuff. The cost of caring for our homeless would drop dramatically, and we’d reclaim our city. They could then focus on helping these addicts without the distraction that the city provides.
The idea that the homeless addicts have a right to Vancouver’s most valuable land is absurd.
We’d then be able to open up this area to redevelopment, allowing for residents that contribute positively to the city’s tax base.
Problem solved.
January 15th, 2012 at 6:21 pm
This is an excellent idea, I shall immediately e mail my representative in Saint John, NB and he can revue all court papers which includes repeat offenders of opiates and alcohol.
A weekly flight of these people could be transported to your local facility for treatment that you deem necessary.
I’m sure we could get the city contribute capital incentives in order to keep the costs as a minimum.
You solve our problem – we help offset yours.
I will keep you informed of how this genius idea takes hold.
Your weather is much more suited to these people then ours is – Minus 18 below as we speak and your area are good for the soul as well because they are socialist.
I wish you all the luck in the world, and would appreciate a response of how these people respond to your “goodwill and generous contribution to the good life.”
This is just too good to be true.
January 16th, 2012 at 5:44 am
I’m not sure where they got their numbers, but I’m pretty sure that the average hardcore drinker could drink more than $10 a night in booze. That’s about a mickey a day – pretty much a warmup for the main event.
January 16th, 2012 at 4:52 pm
The government needs a cheap and plentiful supply of high octane White Lightning, to slake the thirst of those alcoholic victims.
I suggest approaching the Ukrainian farmers from the area near my hometown in Manitoba,and ask them to supply as much of their dynamite home distilled vodka as is needed. The stuff is about 200 proof,so a 40 ounce bottle per day per victim should suffice.
I know I was “rocked” by about two ounces of the stuff,so the rubbies should sleep peacefully after about eight ounces. Supplying cheap beer and wine is cruel as the rubbies want oblivion, not a nice gentle,cocktail-hour buzz.
But, governments being what they are,incapable,I imagine they’ll f*** up this program as they do everything else.