Draft able bodied homeless ?

I read about the increasing numbers of homeless in New York

    City. Is there a more horrible place to be homeless then in the vicinity

    of the Statue of Liberty ? No, don't give me your homeless and destitute !

              What does the Red Cross  have to offer these unfortunate people ?

           I am familiar with quite a few homeless types right here in Providence

    where I work. To be sure, they are not right out of a Dickens' novel - poor

    but lovable. A lot of them are clearly mentally ill. The mentally ill

    should not be free to choose homelessness.  What they need is not a pernicious

    FREEDOM  but a benevolent and protective authoritarianism.  So we must build

    more mental institutions or convert unused government properties for

    housing the mentally ill.

                More " normal " types are homeless for no other reason than that

    they have been abandoned by family and extended family : too inconvenient for

    comfortable people to put up  a poor relative even for a few weeks !

                   The able bodied but chronically homeless might be drafted

    by the military - which might succeed in making clean, self-disciplined,

    and self-respecting individuals out of them - making them useful citizens.

                   And are we not doing  America the Beautiful a favor by

    removing these human scarecrows from our sight - not by neglecting them

    but by caring for them ?

                  Perhaps the homeless do serve a purpose after all in our

    capitalist economy: these human scarecrows remind us of the horrible

    consequences of giving up the daily grind !