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# Letter: Sarcastic claim that homeless could be hired into government jobs
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/091104-story-20040911-4/
- Published: 2004-09-11T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T05:02:11.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import, Homeless

✆ “The homeless are simply those that haven’t learned to work the system and get public school teaching or government jobs, none of which requires much smarts, ambition, sobriety or sanity. The city, county, state and fed should just hire them all. Then, as far as pay, no problem-o, just crank up the... money-generating machine a few more notches.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 11, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/091104.pdf?ref=smdp.com)