As a typical buck-passing Democrat, Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles Times yesterday posted his quarterly essay on Wealthy People Should Feel Guilty Because So Many Angelenos Are Homeless.

Awww, Stevie.

In the wake of the fire tragedy last week when careless bums in a homeless camp caused six grand homes to be destroyed in upscale Bel-Air, Mr. Lopez pulled out his always-handy class-warfare platform.

Feel guilty, Mr. Buck-passer raged at the Bel-Air victims in yesterday’s essay.

Guess again, pal.

Although there are notable exceptions – namely the military veterans our Bob Rosebrock tirelessly tracks – most non-military homeless have chosen poverty.

I have a homeless friend on Pico Boulevard. I have been slipping money to him for 27 years.

With remarkable dishonesty, Mr. Lopez allows to persons to tell the truth, then slaps them down for disagreeing with him.

True to his soft leftist principles, Mr. Lopez grits his teeth in envy of upper-class Americans. These hard-workers, he believes, should open their bulging wallets and hand over their green stuff to those who refuse to work.  Thank you, FDR.

(The lead story on the front page of Mr. Lopez’s employer charged that it is unfair for the wealthy to benefit most from the new GOP tax bill just because they pay nearly all of the taxes to government.)

As children, we are taught compassion. But compassion, like a car or a firearm, must be used selectively.

The once sacred moral value of compassion has been brutally deployed as a battering ram by Democrats since the dark days of LBJ. He told his choir that America’s wealth must be redistributed daily, which gave birth to social acceptance of single parents and massive welfare for the lazy.

From both a propaganda and distribution standpoints, the nasty principle of fake compassion has been ruthlessly practiced by powerful Democrats, from the dark LBJ days to the dark Obama days.

If there are 34,000 homeless in Los Angeles, Mr. Lopez stubbornly rejects an obvious solution because it is not sexy and fire-engine red.

Homeless must be tackled one neighborhood by one group at a time.

Massive government welfare, Mr. Lopez’s answer, only has been proven wrong for 52 consecutive years that carry the ineradicable stain of LBJ’s wromgheadedness