{"id":1929125,"date":"2023-05-11T19:43:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T23:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/betsy-mccaughey-making-homelessness-a-valid-lifestyle-choice-is-wrong\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T19:46:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T23:46:09","slug":"betsy-mccaughey-making-homelessness-a-valid-lifestyle-choice-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/betsy-mccaughey-making-homelessness-a-valid-lifestyle-choice-is-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Betsy McCaughey opposes making homelessness a lifestyle choice."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbetsy-mccaughey-making-homelessness-a-valid-lifestyle-choice-is-wrong%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1929125&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Don&#8217;t Surrender to the New Normal of Urban Chaos<\/h2>\n<h3>Advocates for the Homeless Demand Unfettered Freedom<\/h3>\n<p>Americans must not surrender to the new normal of squalor and urban chaos \u2014 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/communist-activist-who-wants-to-defund-police-abolish-prisons-offered-job-as-seattles-homelessness-czar\/\" title=\"Communist Activist Who Wants To Defund Police, Abolish Prisons Offered Job As Seattle\u2019s \u2018Homelessness Czar\u2019\">tent encampments<\/a>, public defecation, panhandling, and shouting schizophrenics. In the aftermath of Jordan Neely&#8217;s tragic death on a New York subway, advocates for the homeless and most Democratic politicians are demanding unfettered freedom for the homeless to live on the streets, even with mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates are taking over subway stations and dominating the mainstream media with their demands. Too little is being said about the needs of the quiet majority. People who go to a job every day or operate a business or take their kids to school need safe sidewalks and public transportation.<\/p>\n<h3>Democrats Push for Homeless Rights<\/h3>\n<p>Yet Democrats in the Oregon state legislature are pushing a bill to guarantee the homeless the right to sue for $1,000 if they are harassed or removed from a public space. Democratic lawmakers in California recently defeated a ban on homeless encampments within 500 feet of a school, playground, or youth center. So, it&#8217;s okay for kindergarteners to have to step over syringes and navigate buckets of urine on their way into school?<\/p>\n<p>Urban homelessness emerged as a problem in the 1980s, in part because civil libertarians demanded that mental hospitals be closed. The number of patients living in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ore-to-require-face-masks-outdoors-regardless-of-vaccination-status\/\" title=\"Ore. to require face masks outdoors regardless of vaccination status\">state hospitals<\/a> across the nation plunged from 535,000 in 1960 to 137,000 by 1980. The mentally ill wound up on the streets.<\/p>\n<h3>Speak Up for the Homeless<\/h3>\n<p>The problem worsened when the Obama administration and homeless advocates won a lawsuit to prevent Boise, Idaho, from outlawing camping on sidewalks and public parks. Obama&#8217;s Justice Department deemed homelessness a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/betsy-mccaughey-making-homelessness-a-valid-lifestyle-choice-is-wrong\/\" title=\"Betsy McCaughey opposes making homelessness a lifestyle choice.\">legally protected lifestyle choice<\/a>. Ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>A person who &#8220;chooses&#8221; street living, instead of shelter or hospitalization, is exposed to hypothermia, disease, and crime. On average, a homeless person survives only to age 48, losing 30 years of a normal lifespan. It&#8217;s worse for women.<\/p>\n<p>Allowing that choice is neither compassionate to the homeless nor fair to the rest of society. Kudos to a handful of Democratic politicians who are bucking their party to advocate for involuntarily hospitalizing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-how-blue-city-governance-is-destroying-blue-cities\/\" title=\"SHAPIRO: How Blue City Governance Is Destroying Blue Cities\">mentally ill homeless<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Seize the Moment to Denounce the Delusional Argument<\/h3>\n<p>Neely&#8217;s death is igniting a nationwide debate over homelessness \u2014 the only good to come out of the tragedy. If he had been hospitalized for mental illnesses, maybe he&#8217;d be alive today.<\/p>\n<p>Seize this moment to speak up and denounce the delusional argument that street living is a &#8220;right.&#8221; It dooms the homeless to short, brutal lives, and the rest of us to filth, crime, and chaos.<\/p>\n<p><b>Betsy McCaughey<\/b> is a former lieutenant governor of New York and chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths. Follow her on Twitter <b>@Betsy_McCaughey<\/b>. To find out more about Betsy McCaughey and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at <a href=\"www.creators.com\">www.creators.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Photo credit: igorovsyannykov at Pixabay<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans must not surrender to the new normal of squalor and urban chaos \u2014 of tent encampments, public defecation, panhandling and shouting schizophrenics. 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