Posted on 05/02/2022 8:29:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Welcome to the Third World… especially if you live along America’s West Coast. After all, it was really closer than you once thought it was. “Encampments” of squatters abound in parks, parking lots, under and along freeways, wherever they can get away with it. Why? Nothing more complicated than the combination of mild weather and a woke political establishment.
A fact of climatology is that the west coasts of continents have much milder weather than the east coasts. A fact of politics is the existence of guilty middle-class liberals who form a base of support for all kinds of dystopic public policies. It’s one thing to feel compassion for the less fortunate. It’s another to embrace them as being innocent victims of our culture’s lack of fairness.
The latest euphemism for street bums is “unhoused.” The woke establishment boldly claims that the reason there’s so many “campers” lounging about is because there’s just not enough affordable housing. They are compelled to ignore a basic fact of life: ALL HOUSING IS AFFORDABLE, or else it’s vacant. Landlords are not at all pleased to pay for taxes and insurance on nonperforming assets. In their further pursuit of dystopia, the wokesters self-righteously impose rent and eviction controls so as to reign in those greedy landlords. The real-world result is that investors, looking to profit by providing the financial support needed to increase the amount of housing stock, look elsewhere.
TV news crews will look high and low to find the exceptional vagrant: a former brain surgeon who got addicted to painkillers while recovering from a bicycling accident, until his wife eventually threw him out. Good luck! It is estimated by some that 85% of the public vagrant population are drug and/or alcohol abusers.
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But the nature of this problem is obvious. Add to this the recent addition of Fentanyl to the drug-abuser diet and dystopia metastasizes.
People have a right to live in a fridge box.
Welcome to North Mexico.
The future of the rest of the country in just a few years.
Oklahoma Slim, a 1930s hobo gave a good definition: “A hobo is a migratory worker. A tramp is a migratory non-worker. A bum is a non-migratory non-worker.”
Our local town paper here on the San Francisco Peninsula has a front page article about Silicon Valley cities clamping down on people living in their vehicles. Some streets are lined for long stretches with dilapidated RVs ranging from camper tops on pickup trucks to full size RVs. They quoted one guy complaining that he’s been living in his RV for almost ten years and not hurting anybody, so why should they “evict” him from the city streets? The RV “camps” on public streets are one notch up from tent “camps.” The people in the RVs are said to be working at high-tech Silicon Valley jobs and making good money, but not enough to afford an apartment.
I think it’s one of those laws of thermodynamics that says that everyone has to be somewhere.
Soros and his buddies keep bringing up the people from Central and South America.
Let’s return the favor.
Send our homeless south.
It’s only natural.
Except in Mexico, the majority of people living in cardboard shacks aren’t bums. They’ll work if given the opportunity.
Encampments would not be such a bad thing except for the aberrant behavior - the absolute filthy messes, the super unsanitary conditions, etc. No normal down on their luck person finding themselves homeless would create or live in the conditions these encampment people create. Its disgusting.
At one point the Sepulveda Basin encampment had its very own serial killer hanging out there a couple years ago. It continued until the LASD started doing what the LAPD was told not to do and cleaned the place out. You could smell the encampment from the 101 Ventura Freeway.
(Actually the serial killer has possibly been located operating in the LA koreatown district encampment now - exact same MO)
And if you secured the border, stopped the Fentanyl surge, got rid of all the illegals, started building things in America again, and trimmed the crazy Enviro laws in CA, there would be lots of opportunities for foks so they may not get into the hellhole of drugs, dependency and crime.
Things would find a natural level of jobs, wages and housing.
Those things drive up the costs across the board.
Flop houses, SRO’s, garage apartments etc. . .
You might not want to live there, but lots of folks can, when and if they ever had to.
I can’t help but think of Trapper John MD where Gonzo Gates lived in a tenement on wheels called the Titanic.
I have an answer, but no one wants to hear it. Reopen the state mental institutions that were closed in the 70’s and reinstitute involuntary commitment for the insane. Next, STOP saving drug addicts lives with Narcan. These people of “free will” drug abuse will admit they would rather be dead than clean or sober. Next, mandate forced sterilization as a part of every drug rehab program. Society allows these people to breed, facilitates these children remaining with a drug addicted parent or parents, and then can’t seem to figure out why these kids use drugs as adolescents and teenagers. In a society that will conscience abortion at any time for any reason, what’s the problem with preemptively stopping the irresponsible breeding of more addicts? Address this problem like we address our feral cat problem. Medically treat them, sterilize, and release.
It may not be THE answer, but it’s a darn good first step. If people choose to be feral in our society, they should not be allowed to breed. It will take time, but forced sterilization will produce benefits as it filters down to the homeless encampments, generational welfare, and untreatable insane part of our population. Add to this a mandatory death penalty for drug trafficking for citizens and non-citizens alike, and we just might get somewhere.
My son is a police officer in our local small town, 10K people. In one week they were called out to narcan the same person-—3 times. He said I don’t want to sound cold hearted and I understand people make mistakes, but three times in one week! Then he added at some point with people like this you should just stand there and wave bye-bye as they drift off into death.
Him and another officer answered a call this last Christmas morning at 2:00am on a back road in our town a woman driving by saw a body on the side of the road and called the police and put her coat over the woman she found off the side of the road. My son and the other officer called EMS and the body was turning blue. The other officer was the watch commander and asked my son if he had a dose of narcan and he did and he said administer it or she won’t make it. He did and she roused up wanting to know what was going on.
EMS took her to the hospital and my son picked up the good Samaritans coat with gloves and said, I’m not trying to be mean but you may want to wash that coat or trash it, this lady has about every disease known to man-she was a frequent flyer with the police department. A bag of meth fell out of her pocket while they were loading her and my son proceeded to search her bag and backpack and found a crap load of drugs bagged for sell. He submitted his findings to the Commonwealths Attorney for a decision to prosecute and sure enough they issued a warrant and two weeks later my son had a call from a local business where she was trespassed and ran her and found the warrant. She had no clue about the entire incident where she was brought back and taken to the hospital. He took her to jail and she had meth on her...
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