Well, brace yourselves. Floridians can expect an influx of homeless people from the Big Apple.
New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg defended a city program to send homeless families out of New York on planes, trains and buses today, saying it “saves the taxpayers of New York City an enormous amount of money.”
And wouldn’t you know it?
The most popular destinations are Florida, Puerto Rico, Georgia and the Carolinas.
Well, yeah, it’s warm in Florida, ya know.
The mayor complained that it cost the city about $36,000 a year to provide shelter for a homeless family. The average stay in a shelter is about nine months, reports the New York Times.
But shipping folks out. That’s a bargain.
‘“The average cost is trivial,” Bloomberg said. “Most go by bus. Very few go overseas, very few go long distances. Bus is the normal ways we pay for transportation, rather than air.”
But shouldn’t Floridians have a say in all this?
Ship ’em or keep ’em? Should Florida start sending the Cubans and Haitians to New York in retaliation?
What do you think?
