BY DAN VALENTI

It’s the same do-gooders who champion DL’s, free housing, healthcare, and a taxpayer paid existence, for illegal aliens.

The democRAT mantra, NIMBY: not even the MA state illegal aliens Rep. Tricia Farley-Country Buffet (d-illegal aliens), wants those unvetted criminals in her neighborhood or home. Can’t blame her though.

**If you can, open the link and look at the unemployed bum, with diabetes, who complains he has to beg for money to “pay rent.” I believe it’s the second picture of the group.

If I were doing this story, I would have let him give his sob story and then asked him a few follow-up questions:

*You can’t pay rent, but you have a decent (not cheap) electric scooter.
*You can’t pay rent, but you have a nice helmet to go with your electric scooter.
*You can’t pay rent, but you have a cellphone with an active plan currently.
*You can’t pay rent, but from looking at the two of you, I’d say you don’t miss many meals.
*You have diabetes, so why are you on a scooter and not walking?
*What level of education do you have?
*Where did you last attend school (name of school, if remembered)?

*One last question, Did the “Dancin’ Dean” (aka-Lady’z Man, Lavante Wiggins), teach you about financial management? Or maybe a dance move or two?

Follow-up questions like this would take the “sting” away of these two not being able to “pay rent.” You can pay for all that other $hit, but you can’t pay for the place that provides a roof over your head?

I’m sure Lumpy Marchetti and Wimpy White, could find a few dollars to have these two, and others like them, to clean up the city. Weeds need manually pulling. Graffiti needs scrubbing. The $hitters at the park need cleaning. Benches need painting. Hornet nests need plucking down.

I would certainly agree that those two could eliminate the city’s racist DEI Department and move 20% of those funds to pay for the above. I’d vote for it in a heartbeat.

Win/win for all. Bums out of the medians. City looks more presentable to outsiders. And unqualified racists will be out of a job. Let’s see how that non-PhD “ethnic studies” degree pans out in the real world.

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The problem is, all the do gooder A holes that give the bums money. If no one gives them a plug nickel, they will leave.

It’s a well known fact that the first amendment protects our right to be traffic hazards and scare the tar out of people by accosting them and demanding money from them. Long live the constitution.

Thousands of agents diverted to illegal immigration crackdown……
Hopefully more agents will show up in western MA!

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-immigration-crackdown/2025/03/22/id/1203910/

Signs are not solutions.
I believe it was Sir Chaz who said here a little while ago that we don’t need more safety nets nets are a trap what we need is a springboard.
This proposed median ordinance is our opportunity to offer a springboard because here’s the thing first of all panhandling is the symptom not the problem and here’s the other thing people ask for what they need.
People need money especially now when we don’t know how expensive things are going to get just that they do get more expensive every day right now so this is our opportunity to point out to our city council that Washington under Trump has given us two effective models that our mayor and city council could adapt at the local level as springboards.
During his first administration Trump showed us that this country can get cash to every single American quickly and repeatedly so that gives us the model for universal basic income yeah go grab your pearls and clutch at them for a minute but somebody else suggested in the comments here shifting money from dei to paying the panhandlers for doing work that needs to be done that’s a good solution.
The other model Washington is giving us right now is to dismantle the programs that are not working.
Here in Pittsfield we have multiple alphabet soup housing agencies none of whom are getting the job done because if they were able to effectively help our homeless friends and neighbors they would not be choosing to live outside. We need to defund all these upside 413s and shift that wealth to our current homeless people whether it’s through doing a CETA style jobs training approach and offering folks a livable stipend and housing while they train or something very similar to that.
Unfortunately I think these ideas are just too radical for CC, so instead what we get from our mayor and current council are things like adding co-responders.
Everybody’s making money off of our homeless except the people who need that cash the most which is the homeless because poverty is a cash flow problem based on systemic failures like all these housing agencies in Pittsfield that don’t actually get people housed
So instead what we get is our mayor not understanding that correlation is not causation and saying that drugs and mental illness are the causes of poverty in Pittsfield and then, and listen I like Marchetti —I think he’s the toughest MF in the room simply because after Bernie Baran he chose to stay in Pittsfield and enter politics and be visible. That’s one tough sumbitch right there but for him to say these things are the cause of poverty rather than symptoms of it or in the case of mental illness aggravated by it and then to say our poor malnourished panhandlers are with their bodies physically blocking the traffic signs which by law have to be at a height of 7 ft, well that one has me stymied and utterly embarrassed for us.
Does he really believe we’re going to believe that we have these freakishly tall panhandlers and we just never noticed that before?
So there are solutions here, we do have the models for solutions and nobody’s going to want to do them because they are radical and that word radical scares people away.