Compassionate conservativism is that you don’t have to walk to the homeless shelter when you’re thrown out of the hospital, because you can’t pay your bills.  A taxi will take you to one.  Preferably in some other city…

For many months, Los Angeles city officials have complained that regional hospitals are dropping off their indigent patients in the city’s tough Skid Row area. On Wednesday, officials at a homeless shelter released a videotape that allegedly catches one hospital in the act. The incident has become part of an ongoing investigation that could result in criminal or civil penalties.

Here’s the pictures of how it went down…

City Council member Jan Perry, whose district includes L.A.’s Skid Row, says hospitals may be dumping their homeless patients in downtown Los Angeles because the cities hosting the hospitals don’t want to deal with their homeless problem.

"We have a very high concentration of services in a small geographic area," Perry says. "And for municipalities who don’t want to… extend themselves to the homeless, it’s an easy excuse to just bring them over here and leave them here."

Easy.  I’ll bet it is.  How much you want to bet that the hospital board of directors and the voters and city officials of Bellflower, California are part of the block of ‘values’ voters that helped president I’m A Uniter Not A Divider to two terms in office?  I have a question for the religious right.  If this is a Christian Nation, as you folks keep yap, yap, yapping that it is…then why is this happening?  In particular, why are the poor and homeless hurting so much in territory you control?

I know…I know…the vastly more important war on homosexuality is taking up all your valuable time and money.  You people have been spending millions to deny us the right to marry, haven’t you?  In the name of Jesus and all that is righteous in the eyes of God, haven’t you?  And you couldn’t even put shoes on her feet before you dumped her out on the street.