Remember when, to get you to do your chores at home, your mother would tell you that the world does not owe you a living?  You were supposed to do your part to provide for yourself by doing chores around the house.  Well, it seems that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, in a case involving the city of Boise, that a municipality may not prohibit homeless camping, if the City does not provide adequate shelter for all its homeless.  Think about that.  The Court ruled that anyone who is homeless is entitled to camp on public land if the city runs out of taxpayer-funded shelter.  The court said that the City owes all homeless people shelter, at the expense of the citizens of the city.

So now, a number of municipalities are getting behind an Amicus brief to the US Supreme Court, asking them to take up the new case involving Grant’s Pass, Oregon, to make the final decision on whether every city is required to provide shelter, at public expense, for all homeless people.  Homeless camps are eyesores, often in public parks or on the verges of highways, and people there have been found to be using and dealing drugs, trafficking in stolen property, and selling guns from their tents.  And cities like New York City have actual laws on the books conferring a “right to shelter” on everyone (which is causing enormous difficulties for them in dealing with the thousands of illegal immigrants).

I hope the Supreme Court does take up this case, and if they follow the Constitution, they would strike down the Ninth Circuit’s ruling as being unconstitutional.  The “right to shelter” is a Communist idea, and there is no room for Communism in America.  And, by the way, the world or your city do NOT owe you shelter!