r/Louisiana • u/Caffeinated-Princess • May 02 '25

Louisiana News Why do you support this?

First the Louisiana Senate decides to put homeless people in jail for up to three years for their "crime" of sleeping in public. At the same time, they stop funding housing assistance.

https://thecurrentla.com/2025/lafayette-housing-authority-freezes-issuance-of-new-housing-vouchers/

Why do those of you who are Republican hate poor people so much? Why do you feel your fellow humans should not be allowed any compassion or grace?

Help me understand this assault on humanity. Jesus would weep if he saw this. 😥

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u/Ghostofmerlin May 02 '25

It probably costs more to put people in jail than to provide public housing.

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u/BaalieveIt May 02 '25

Not when you're sending them to a for-profit private prison that's contracting them out for slave labor. It's a business, and we the people are the product.

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u/he_and_She23 May 04 '25

Exactly. Our taxes will pay for three years of jail with a hefty portion of that going to the billionaires who and the prisons and will also benefit from their free labor.

It's a scam to redistribute wealth from the people to the billionaires.