Posted on 03/02/2018 6:35:49 PM PST by jeannineinsd
Yeah I didn’t say NO traction. Outside of San Francisco and Los Angeles there weren’t really any urban areas with more lefty colleges in the state where they would flourish. Many of the campuses of the UC system had yet to be established, and state schools were more for people wanting to work, not iread poetry in coffee houses. USC was pretty conservative. The OC and San Diego counties were not like they are today. By the time the hippie movement came along things had changed. But in the 50s and early 60s the only beatnick most of us knew was Maynard G. Krebs.
Who is going to pay for razing the hotel buildings and hauling the top three feet of contaminated soil to the hazardous waste incinerators?
I feel sorry for the schmoe who showed up for work at the county parks and rec and the boss said, “My boy, have I got a job for you. You are going to pick up used needles and dried up terds all week.”
“Here’s your hazmat suit, Fred. Enjoy your day.”
Did you see they are going to scrape off the top 2 or 3 inches of soil and haul it away for toxic disposal? Egads!!
Even dumb animals know not to foul their nests.
Too bad the do-gooder judge won’t have to pay personally for the damage they do to the motel owners’ properties. I guess Hizonner (or Heronner) just wanted a cleaned up hiking path for himself and miscellaneous environmentally sensitive yuppies.
A pal of mine was a psych nurse and we discuss this all the time. Expecting schizophrenics etc to take their meds on their own is lunacy that only leftwing activists and radical libertarians will believe (those being the two factions who pushed de-institutionalization in the 60s).
The meds have unpleasant side effects. Once the patients feel normal they don’t want to keep taking the meds- no one would, given a choice. So being outpatients they are perfectly free to stop, which they do, and soon they are wandering the streets pushing a shopping cart containing all their worldly belongings and living under a freeway bridge.
My impression is that these aren’t exactly the finest of motor hotel establishments, more like ones that often cater to this same clientele when they have a few extra bucks and decide to live rich.
But I agree that I would love for Hizzoner David O Carter The Compassionate to have to live among his beloved homeless.
I doubt that Carter has ever been on the river trail in his life before his one time walk there- the river trail is a bike path for us plebes upriver from the coast, he’s more like Back Bay Newport Beach material.
I agree that NYC was where it all began, Greenwich Village probably the epicenter. Sometime in the early 50s that crowd relocated to San Francisco, which is why some have the impression that it was a California invention.
What California really specialized in is oddball religious cults, our great gift to American weirdness.
Nicely put. Thanks.
You see time and again the people pushing all their worldly belongings are talking to themselves, to the air, to the lamppost, muttering away nonstop. They are victimized, abused and murdered by other homeless. How in the world is turning such people loose to freeze on the mean streets “compassionate”?
It’s not compassionate and I really hope that we are about to end this utopian policy of putting these unfortunates out in the normal world rather than reopening mental institutions. The current idea of putting them loose in civil society is an obvious failure all around and it’s only getting worse. Their numbers are growing. They self medicate on drugs and alcohol instead of medicines that can alleviate their symptoms. They are a huge portion of the homeless population.
What the hell do they know about communities.
If a community can't define its own standards, then all gated communities and their stupid rules must also be unConstitutional.
I wonder what would happen if a few hundred people decided to camp out around the homes of the Supremes?
Urban outdoorsmen.
Our struggle against the left is ultimately a struggle against absurdity.
I'll second what your pal says, psych tech/RN disabled retired. Bad bad stories.
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