It's like an acquaintance of mine recently said about the city hall meeting he attended: these guys are just bad actors in a bad movie, a spaghetti Western without leads and filmed in a Wal-Mart parking lot.

Why is it that the cheap, simple, solutions are always ignored? In the words of Eric Holder: "Never let a good crisis go to waste."

If these sleazy, corrupt, money grubbing politicians can't create a boondoggle to pad their pockets with kickbacks, then forget it.

City owned high rise parking structures with adjacent restroom facilities, would get the poor under cover, out of site, off the sidewalks and out of the parks at night. Portland State University even has showers.