Remember what Ronald Reagan said?  Here is a perfect example:

Imagine that you are a social worker. You open the local paper the day after Christmas to find one of those stories that editors like to have in the can for this time of year when newsrooms are short staffed, hard news is scarce, and readers are still recuperating from too much food and drink.

It's a human interest story about a poor old man who has lived in a broken down van in the parking lot of a nearby towing company for the past seven years. He could live there because the business owner lets him stay in the vehicle and use the company washroom. The owner also allows the old guy to run a power cord out to the van so that he can cook and heat the place.
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What sort of response would this story provoke in you, the social worker? Would you (a) mutter "Good for him..." and flip to the sports section; (b) get warm human interest fuzzies and read it to your hung-over fellow breakfasters; (c) turn up your nose at his cigar habit but shrug it off and read the comics; or (d) go evict the guy from his van?
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Sheryl Crum was the employee from the housing division of the Marion County Health Department who visited Green's van after the story ran. She pronounced it in violation of the County housing code and therefore uninhabitable. Reporter Will Higgins explained the code requires that "a domicile have running water and electricity," and power cords and bathroom privileges at the towing company don't count.

Go read the whole disgusting thing.  Apparently, living in a van down by the river is no longer an option.

I miss Phil Hartman and Chris Farley.