This is a brilliantly funny column.----- America’s taxpayers give half a mil to Aspen’s vagrants.

America’s taxpayers give half a mil to Aspen’s vagrants
"A fawning “report” in the Aspen Daily News breathlessly announced more federal COVID funds for Glitter Gulch, otherwise known as Aspen, Colorado.

To be exact, $538,073.
...You know the place. 

Where insiders such as newspaper reporters and city council members get slope-side multimillion dollar homes for dimes on the dollars under the taxpayer-subsidized housing program.
The fed money this time is for Aspen’s vagrants. 

Er, I mean “homeless.” 

Er, I mean “persons experiencing homelessness.” 

Whom, we’re told, are camping on the sidewalks and pooping in the gutters because they’re afflicted with something called “shelter-resistance.”
Pity the left’s Sisyphean task in the dictionary of euphemisms. 

Once they find and roll up the hill a suitable euphemism for “vagrant,” such as “homeless,” the euphemism rolls back down the hill because it becomes associated with people who behave like vagrants.
Then they have to find and roll up the euphemism hill another heavy, awkward boulder, such as “persons experiencing homelessness.” 

But alas, that one rolls back down for the same reason – it becomes associated with persons who behave like vagrants.
If the left started calling vagrants “saints,” their media allies would of course go along with them...Read all!