If you’ve ever seen (or read) Macbeth, then you’ll likely remember the scene wherein Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude, watches the staged play-within-a-play and comments on the woman playing the queen. The woman has gone on for some time about how she will never marry again once the poor (and poisoned) king has passed. Gertrude is saying at this point that she doesn’t buy it, and that the queen on stage is selling a bill of goods (basically).

Many Americans are thinking that houseless people are a problem, and spend time and energy trying to push the problem out of sight. But that amounts to what? Houseless people moving to cities that have better programs for assistance, or dying unseen in the wilderness. Let’s not forget if homelessness is a criminal offense, now all houseless people will have criminal records. Republican policy is the title of this podcast: Go Die Somewhere Else.