{"id":1383433,"date":"2018-12-30T20:48:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T03:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=959643"},"modified":"2018-12-30T20:48:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T03:48:57","slug":"letter-global-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/letter-global-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Global tribe\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">You see, hear, read and experience homelessness. And in some cases \u2014 like San Francisco, LA, Denver and even Glenwood Springs \u2014 you can&#8217;t avoid it. In fact, it&#8217;s getting so bad it&#8217;s becoming public health concern (drugs, feces, trash, fires, public altercations). In general, the homeless typically do not participate or contribute to the well-being of a community. Instead, they take, beg and wander. Zero community participation (aka the &#8220;tribe&#8221;).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u00a0The Native Americans knew how to handle non-participation with perfection. To them, you are part of the tribe. If you do not carry your weight, participate, assist, then off you go. Kicked out of the tribe. Banned. Why should you get a free meal, fire, tepee? We are all in this together!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The good people within the Roaring Fork Valley who want to assist the homeless are not assisting. They are enabling. To truly do what&#8217;s right, require them to assimilate. Perhaps some sort of participation like trash cleanup, a bit of weight carrying like applying for a job, a maybe teaching the other homeless join the tribe as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">If they contribute \u2014 welcome to the tribe: meal, fire, tepee. If they do not \u2014 do as the Native Americans did.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Dave Heyliger<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Glenwood Springs<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/opinion\/letter-global-tribe\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You see, hear, read and experience homelessness. And in some cases \u2014 like San Francisco, LA, Denver and even Glenwood Springs \u2014 you can&#8217;t avoid it. In fact, it&#8217;s getting so bad it&#8217;s becoming public health concern (drugs, feces, trash, fires, public altercations). In general, the homeless typically do not participate or contribute to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1383433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-14 20:29:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}