[Johny Joe Hold]

Just next door to Freehold in Des Moines a liberal group want to use hundreds of ocean shipping containers as houses. The "homeless" will get to live in them.

How will these luxury homes motivate poor useless people to make something of themselves? If someone is sleeping under a bridge they will work until they get a home. Someone with 250 square feet of luxury shipping container will sit around and do nothing.

I'm calling the Mayor of Des Moines, Frankie Cownie, right now to complain.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...ces/684881002/

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

What is wrong with cardboard boxes? Using shipping containers only makes sense if they're planning to load them on to a ship and send them down the Des Moines River to the Mississippi and on into the Gulf of Mexico.

[BrotherLarry]

As a True Christian™, I spend hours introducing myself to the homeless so they can't go claiming Matthew 25:36 (I was a stranger and you took me in). Lots of folks think that as Christians, we should be doing more to help those without a place to live. I think Jesus would be appalled to see smelly vagrants on every corner or playing Chess in Bryant Park - or picking the pockets of those who do.


Prayer handles everything. Let's lift the homeless in prayer and donate the shipping containers to people who are moving so they don't have to pay exorbitant fees to crooked movers. One reason I am in love with the Lord: He gives us answers to everything, and I am sure His answer would not be to create a shipping container village. Except maybe in Paris.


Tour Guide: "And over here we have what's left of Notre Dame after the fire - here we have a shipping container full of homeless - and the Eiffel Tower sticks above the stench just to your right."


But not in our backyard or anywhere near Freehold.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Originally Posted by BrotherLarry

Let's lift the homeless in prayer and donate the shipping containers to people who are moving so they don't have to pay exorbitant fees

You remind me of a point often overlooked. If containers are used for vagrants, there will be a shortage of containers. Yes, some might have been used for employed people as homes temporarily. But containers were made for shipping goods to us from China. We here in prosperous Freehold enjoy cheap goods shipped here in cheap containers.

Why should my standard of living be lowered so some lazy bum can use a container that would have shipped me the low cost items I enjoy?

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

Originally Posted by Johny Joe Hold

But containers were made for shipping goods to us from China. We here in prosperous Freehold enjoy cheap goods shipped here in cheap containers.

Why should my standard of living be lowered so some lazy bum can use a container that would have shipped me the low cost items I enjoy?

I worry, Brother Mr Mayor Sir, about what happens to all these containers. I mean, I know that they are used to ship goods from lesser countries to the Godly USA, but then what happens to them? Are they shipped back empty, or perhaps full of surplus, unwanted US goods? Or do they remain in the USA? Or are they taken across the border and dumped in Canada or Mexico?

If the last one is true, then Mayor Cownie is - as the British say - playing a blinder!

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

Ever seen piles of concrete piping just sitting there?




I've always thought by letting the homeless have those, we won't need a welfare state.

Put 'em on top of hills, so if they get ungrateful and uppity, it's easy to roll them away.

On the other hand, you'll still be able to see them. Why not put the pipes underground? And to make the pipes useful we could

Oh wait, I think I just invented socialized sewers. That's how Lenin got started. Never mind.

[Dennis Lukes]

Why can't we just let them live in garbage cans and dumpsters with the rest of the trash?

[Mary Etheldreda]

Originally Posted by Johny Joe Hold

If someone is sleeping under a bridge they will work until they get a home. Someone with 250 square feet of luxury shipping container will sit around and do nothing.

Amen! Having Money is a Manifestation of God's Blessings! If a homeless bum want's God's Blessings, all he has to do is have faith and uphold all the rules of the Holy Bible (Joshua 1:8). I'm doing my part by reading the Holy Word to the homeless in those makeshift campsites perched on the steep slope between the businesses on Grand Avenue and the railroad tracks to the south. From the safe distance of my Suburban of course, thanks to the loudspeaker I got for Christmas this past year (Romans 10:17). My children get homeschool credit for social work by helping me throw rocks at the bums who yell at us or try to make us feel bad.

[MitzaLizalor]

Originally Posted by Joanna Lytton-Vasey

..what happens to all these containers[?] ..I know that they are used to ship goods from lesser countries to the Godly USA, but then what happens to them? Are they shipped back empty, or perhaps full of surplus, unwanted US goods? Or do they remain in the USA ..

They are often regarded as a valuable resource. With some cladding and a lick of paint, together with some prefabricated windows, a conversion into postmodern real estate is relatively easy. Of course location is always a factor but a gentrified site very quickly becomes trendy.

[Johny Joe Hold]

That these containers are available might have been prophesied in Genesis 41:30. God told us there would be seven years of good harvests followed by seven bad years.

God may have sent us the containers that we fill them with grain to avoid famine. They would be perfect for that use.

[Isabella White]

Originally Posted by Joanna Lytton-Vasey

What is wrong with cardboard boxes? Using shipping containers only makes sense if they're planning to load them on to a ship and send them down the Des Moines River to the Mississippi and on into the Gulf of Mexico.

Oh, dear Sister Joanna: I agree that cardboard boxes would be suitable, but I fear that these homeless people will start complaining that the boxes are not good enough for them. They will want uppity, customized designs to their dwellings, just to say that they "fit in" with the rest of us who take great pride in our properties. There will be no pleasing them -- none at all. Why, the first thing you know, they'll even insist on having deluxe accommodations for their pets!

A blessed evening to you, dear Sister Joanna,
Sincerely, Isabella W.

[Dennis Lukes]

Originally Posted by Johny Joe Hold

God may have sent us the containers that we fill them with grain to avoid famine. They would be perfect for that use.

Glory! We could force the homeless to gather the grain to fill the containers! That would kill two birds with one stone!

[MitzaLizalor]

At Suvarnabhumi (BKK) airport cardboard is already provided. Two or three layers provide a good enough night's sleep (I've been told) for exploring tomorrow among the silk merchants. Excellent prices are available (depending on where you're going next) for onselling to outstrip opportunity costs by a very significant margin. Why not run up some original designs on your sewing machine? Christians will know which styles offend God and be able to discriminate certain "clingy" effects from more modest styles.

If this is what goes on in "cardboard cities" should even cardboard be considered in such cases? The primum mobile here is food.

II Thessalonians 3:6-14 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us. For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing. And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Let's unpack that here: what happens if you don't eat? There's no shortage of hunger strikes to agree on a figure. About two months is it, then you die of starvation. Whether you're living in a shipping container or under a bridge (or not) is irrelevant, whether Christians provide shelter or not is irrelevant, no-one unwilling or unable to engage in work gets any other option than starving to death. Slowly. Day after day, week after week, month after mont.. (that's about it) and if you don't drink it's days rather than weeks.

God knew that before He created the world and knew why certain types would not work. Therefore they should starve. Not me interpreting Scripture (which doesn't need interpretation) not cardinals or popes or witchdoctors (or others of that ilk) but God. Wherever the homeless have been taken in, wherever they abide, they should starve.

I am not a socialist. Empiricism is their mantra and by empiricism they are refuted. Which socialist enclave ever prospered?

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

I have just found out where Mayor Cownie got this silly idea: where else but Godless Britain? It seems that there are around 210,000 children either officially homeless or sofa-surfing* in England and some of them are now being housed in converted shipping containers.

The story is here - - though I should WARN YOU that clicking will take you to the British Balderdash Corporation. Please check that your JesOS anti-lib protection settings are activated.

I'm not sure what to make of the fact that these 'tainer-towns are located in Bristol, Cardiff and West London, all areas close to international airports. Bristol and Cardiff are also major shipping ports. An optimist might think this is for convenience of deportation.

* Whatever sofa-surfing is, it should be banned. Sofas are costly items and not for playing on.

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

Originally Posted by Johny Joe Hold

Just next door to Freehold in Des Moines a liberal group want to use hundreds of ocean shipping containers as houses. The "homeless" will get to live in them.

I'm calling the Mayor of Des Moines, Frankie Cownie, right now to complain.

The lack of a simple Christian Faith is to blame here: I think "Mayor" Cownie has forgotten
Lu:12:6: Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
Lu:12:7: But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.


All that is required is to wait until God does something: at that point, it would be the Christian thing to fall in with His Plan.

[Johny Joe Hold]

We can count on the homeless to demand this 75" TV in their shipping containers ("How can I be happy without a nice TV like the rich people have?"):

[MitzaLizalor]

A bit of flammable cladding can make a shipping container look ultra-modern (from a distance) but who observed "doing things" on a television actually watch other people "doing things" themselves?

They'd be too busy doing things. I know the trillionaires are cloistered within entailed trans-national estates and that technocrats have wall-to-wall virtual reality (if not plugged into the medulla oblongata directly) but I don't think they can buy and sell continents.

Robin Hood lived merrily in trees, delving down occasionally no doubt, and Robin Hood was effectively homeless. Perhaps the greens could assign trees to homeless individuals? Just not on Greenland. I don't think there's many trees there and the eskimos would kick up a dreadful fuss. Apparently there's a demand for this in the Amazon basin? A real win-win.

[Johny Joe Hold]

I'm going to demand the city leave graffiti on the containers. The drifters need to be reminded everyday they are not legitimate citizens when they receive free stuff from you and I.

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

Originally Posted by MitzaLizalor

A bit of flammable cladding can make a shipping container look ultra-modern (from a distance)

Apparently the high-rise container-cities in London have been dubbed the Grenfell Containers.

Robin Hood lived merrily in trees, delving down occasionally no doubt, and Robin Hood was effectively homeless. Perhaps the greens could assign trees to homeless individuals?

Oh my goodness, Sister, don't even suggest it! My boys would make themselves voluntarily homeless if they were allowed to live permanently in trees, and then there would be the usual whining from the feckless un-housed about it all being So Unfair.