'It’s not a dead end. They can come out of this, these homeless camps and lead a productive life. Or in Hitler’s case, a very unproductive life.”
Sen. Frank Niceley speaks during a debate on school voucher legislation, on Wed., May 1, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn.State Senator Frank Niceley on Wednesday used Adolf Hitler as an example of how the homeless can pull themselves up by their bootstraps and make something of themselves.
Niceley ultimately acknowledged that Hitler ended up having “a very unproductive life” — begging the question of why the Republican legislator brought him up at all., a bill that makes “solicitation or camping along a controlled-access highway or entrance or exit ramp” a misdemeanor warranting a $50 fine and community service work. It also amends an existing law to “apply the offense of unauthorized camping on state property to all public property.