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Originally posted by Aa5drvr
My point being, if you want innocent surburanites who probably kick in equal amounts to their church coffers as as the downtown folks to actually COME downtown, you have to make it hospitable for them.
Otherwise the mall is a more marketable environment.
After all we dont go to the zoo and experience wild animals outside their cages.....
You cant PUSH people to downtown, you have to PULL them.......
Yeah, "innocent" suburbanites who kick money into THEIR church coffers....where does that money go? To pay for luxury sports courts for their tacky pre-fab metal building churches.
What do you propose we do with these homeless people? Euthanize them? Round them up and ship them to internment camps? Can you name a downtown of a city over 100k people that doesn't have a problem with homeless people?? In fact, even Stillwater, a town of 40k people, has a homeless population, believe it or not. I don't think Tulsa's problem is any worse than any other city's. IN fact, our homeless seem concentrated along the Denver corridor, vs. spread out all over downtown like in so many other cities.
I agree that you can't PUSH people downtown, but getting rid of the homeless people isn't going to bring them down there....if there is nothing to do there, homeless people or not, people aren't going to show up.
It's very easy for a suburban person to say get rid of the homeless, but they are your problem as much as they are ours.