MacBros' Place

It’s seem to be getting really bad around here with the homeless people creeping up closer and closer to the Apartment Property here.

It seems like everyday, I am getting ambushed by these drugged out or drunk, or even both, homeless people asking me for my spare change. I’m not an idiot. I know what they plan on doing with this change, seeing that it always takes place right by the beer store.

I had mentioned this to a co-worker and they responded with, “Oh, dear. that’s sad.”

I said, “Why is that sad? They’re in that situation because they choose it. It’s nobody’s fault but their own.” They get their monthly government welfare check that all working people have to pay for with the taxes taken out of their hard earned paychecks. The nerve of them asking for more by begging for change!

I see these guys every single day passed out on a bench rest or in a park all bundled up in blankets on pick nick tables beside the children’s playgrounds. They can’t go to the shelter because they wont allow drunks or druggies.

With the weather getting colder, they better start thinking about drug rehab. Especially when they’re talking about this Winter being just like last years. Very, very cold and tons of snow.

What really concerns me is that they are squatting extremely close to my apartment lately. I walk to work taking the path out back and I will sometimes kick a dirty syringe, or crunch over a bunch of Colt 48 bottle caps or trip over an empty bottle. It’s really starting to look like an eye sore there and people in Fredericton should really start to say something about this before it’s a problem to big to take care of.

It’s not like there isn’t any help for these people. There are many ways to receive drug rehabilitation help. There are non-profit drug rehabilitation referral service that provides those seeking help with addiction with a referral to a drug treatment facility. They just need to take a reality check and realize they’ll be dead this winter if they don’t do something, since the shelter here in town will no longer allow addicts in. As far as I know they don’t in the summer, because it’s actually next door to where I work and there is addiction treatment center a couple of floors below me at work. So it’s up to them to break the chains and take control of their lives and not the working class people who don’t have the problem, but still have to support a strangers addiction.

People might think that’s harsh, but I really have no sympathy for somebody who sponges off tax payers to buy their garbage and then look for more handouts instead of taking responsibility for their own actions. They got themselves in the hole, they have to get themselves out too. The people I do have sympathy for are the mentally ill homeless that don’t know any better, and have nobody helping them out, while some junkie abuses the system they are so desperate to receive.

Drug rehabilitation works, because I see people go in and come out clean in the center where I work. Some last, but some don’t, but usually go back and try again. As long as they’re trying, I don’t feel so bad, and they’re not in my yard harassing me for change and littering the property with syringes and empty booze bottles.

This is just my opinion, and you’re entitled to it.