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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: FEDS FORCING Homeless Into Mental Hospitals: Your Tax Dollars WASTED On Failed Programs
Description: The Justice Department is brainstorming ways to round up the homeless while Seattle parks drown in 10,000 pounds of trash, needles, and even abandoned organs. Yet another example of government flip-flopping between neglect and overreach. This episode exposes how federal officials are now considering involuntary commitment and homeless 'concentration spaces' after years of the failed 'housing first' approach that's turned cities like Seattle into open-air asylums. Meanwhile, billions flow to the homeless industrial complex where nonprofit CEOs pocket six-figure salaries while people defecate on public buses. Is anyone surprised that throwing money at the problem has only attracted more homelessness...