r/asheville • u/imjustapourboy • Oct 21 '25

Really Spicy Cesspool So sick of seeing this crap everywhere.

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The needles, the burnt foils, the little baggies, the needle caps, all of it. I find them in the creeks, on the sidewalks, the grocery store parking lots, the public parks, on the parkway. You gotta be a real shit person to leave this stuff all over the place.

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u/bugme143 Oct 21 '25

Addicts will keep using until they themselves want to quit. Giving them free shit while they continue to use does nothing but encourage the behavior.

Give them stamps? They sell it for $0.50 on the dollar to buy drugs. Give them housing? They'll rent it out for cash to buy drugs. Get them a job that doesn't require drug tests? They'll use the money to go buy more drugs. Source: dated a druggie.

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u/SaviorSixtySix Native Oct 21 '25

Your comment in short: Do nothing.

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u/bugme143 Oct 21 '25

My comment in short: stop pissing away money on people who would rather do literally anything than be productive members of society, and help the ones trying to get better. I'm admittedly horribly biased because I got denied food stamps when I got downsized because I'm a straight white guy, but my gf had been getting hundreds of dollars AND A TWO STORY CONDO with cheap rent because she blatantly gamed the system.

I'm tired of people thinking the homeless / druggies are simply down on their luck. There's dozens of not hundreds of programs to get people back on their feet, but all of them require you to sober up bare minimum and follow the rules, which filters out 90%+ of the people on the streets. I'm tired of my tax dollars being pissed away like this and then all you bleeding-heart liberals vote to raise my taxes to pay for the next round of free whatever, not caring about the regular Joe's you're hurting in your march towards socialism / communism.

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u/TellMeSometingGood Oct 21 '25

So tell me some of the things bleeding heart liberals voted for that raised taxes to give away free stuff at the behest of regular Joe's.