City of Monterey and the people of Monterey, please pay attention to this.
What kind of people are we? What kind of example do we want to set for the leaders to come? Are we going to sit on an evergrowing issue? Are we going to put our own selfish lives before the lives we see fading away on our streets every day? Is this the examples we are trying to display of quality leadership for the good of the people?
Let’s dwell on the subject of the image of Monterey. We are a tourist ran city. Our city revenue comes from taxes on fishing, boats, and the income of local restaurants and businesses. So lets just use some LOGIC. People coming from China, UK, and the east coast DO NOT want to see homeless people while on their vacation! They leave a place FILLED with people and homeless people as well. Usually a lot more per capita than we have. What we have to do is put our worries away, put our paranoia of lesser-class aside, and realize that we are all HUMAN BEINGS. We are here to help EACH OTHER, not ourselves. If we put half of the time and effort it takes to post a beautiful picture of the aquarium into finding real estate to put a homeless shelter in, we would have one in a month! If we keep thinking of what could happen, instead of what SHOULD happen, then nothing will ever get better!
Another topic, same subject. Why, seriously, why, do you have to be so heartless that you can drive down the road, see a veteran on a corner in front of Del Monte Shopping Center, and not even think TWICE about HOW we could get them a job, or get them the healthcare they need! We have raised the living wage so high in this area that people that were born and raised in Monterey and Carmel can’t even live in the town they grew up in! So now we have a substantial amount of people that live here that could care less about the people that created this beautiful city!
Find some compassion people, and make decision that are the best for EVERYONE, not just your street.