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# Venice Freeloaders or in need of help?
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/venice-freeloaders-or-in-need-of-help/
- Published: 2002-07-13T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:30:27.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Venice, #archive-import, Homeless

*By Julia Reeves Santa Monica*

Having read the opinion letter of David Busch, I cannot help but wonder why a person, such as he, with a gift for gab is a “homeless resident” (is that an oxymoron)? It just strikes me odd that someone so seemingly intelligent, with the ability to verbalize himself in writing in such a heady fashion is unable to put it to use somewhere for profit! So many of the people I see being fed in Palisades Park appear perfectly capable of working, and, it just makes me wonder if many of them are not just a bunch of freeloaders. Anyone can stand in line and be fed, no questions asked. It just irritates me to no end when customers who are spending money in establishments to eat, or make purchases, are towed from parking lots, while on the other hand, vagrants are allowed to park their bodies overtime anywhere they see fit, and the law protects them.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 13, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/071302.pdf?ref=smdp.com)