Posted on 08/24/2018 6:41:18 AM PDT by EdnaMode
he day the fence arrived, Gabe was sitting next to his tent, right at the heart of Los Angeles’ Skid Row. It was a chain link fence – about six feet tall – placed at the edge of the sidewalk, where it neatly enclosed Gabe, his neighbors, and the tented homes they have made for themselves on the streets of what is sometimes called the homeless capital of the country.
“They put the whole sidewalk inside the fence,” said Gabe, an older black man with kind eyes and a disarming demeanor who has lived on the streets of Skid Row for about five years. He was scaling a fish over a red plastic cooler as he talked. “I felt like we were in prison on the sidewalk. It felt like we were in prison and could get out, but still in prison, you know what I mean?”
Local activists and police officers were called. Eventually, the chain-link fence was moved to free Gabe and his neighbors. It wouldn’t be the last of the fences.
As street homelessness continues to spiral upwards in Los Angeles, with just over 25,000 people living in cars, tents, and other makeshift shelters across the county, a new phenomenon is prompting frustration among the city’s homeless population: business owners fencing in portions of the sidewalk, seemingly to keep homeless people off them.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
I see some consulting work for mexicans...
Nice Diggs.
Don’t Fence Me In
Bing Crosby
Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above
Don’t fence me in
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love
Don’t fence me in
Let me be by myself in the evenin’ breeze
And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees
Send me off forever but I ask you please
Don’t fence me in
Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old saddle
Underneath the western skies
On my Cayuse, let me wander over yonder
Till I see the mountains rise
I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences
And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses
And I can’t look at hovels and I can’t stand fences
Don’t fence me in
Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies
Don’t fence me in
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love
Don’t fence me in
Let me be by myself in the evenin’ breeze
And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees
Send me off forever but I ask you please
Don’t fence me in
Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old saddle
Underneath the western skies
On my Cayuse, let me wander over yonder
Till I see the mountains rise
Ba boo ba ba boo
I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences
And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses
And I can’t look at hobbles and I can’t stand fences
Don’t fence me in
No
Poppa, don’t you fence me in
Songwriters: Cole Porter
Don’t Fence Me In lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc
Well, it’s probably better than the sh!thole country he came from..................
Did he have a proper license for possessing the fish he was scaling?
When I read articles like this, I wonder “Where are these people coming from?”
Yeah, I get it. California is an expensive place to live. Maybe some can’t afford the rents. Are some what we’d classify as the “working poor”? Are many mentally unstable or chemically dependent individuals who can’t work? Are a lot of them just plain old deadbeats who don’t wanna work or conform to the norms of a regular society? Are many of them illegals?
Part of my Catholic upbringing (and trust me when I say this - I’m no liberal) was to care for the poor because but for the grace of God, there go I. I’m not entirely convinced that govt intervention could do a lot for many of these people. Maybe it’d help a few get up out of poverty. But I suspect many would take advantage of the intervention as a way to freeload.
Is there gonna be a permanent underclass in overall society that no amount of government spending can help?
Homelessness is increasing across the country fueled by illegal immigration and the opioid epidemic.
BUMS
LOL! I think the same was said about Charles Manson.
I reject the notion that government spending helps the poor. I see no evidence to support that claim. It seems instead to create more poor.
Helping the poor is the purview of the civil society: churches and private associations, and even We the People individually.
I know this because Big Media told me so ...
True, that.
If they don’t like the fences, they can get off their lazy butts, get a job, and work to support themselves.
Then they can afford somewhere to live and won’t need to whine about people not wanting them littering their sidewalks and harassing their customers.
Manson had total psycho eyes.
You know what,,,?
The “Dude” really took some Hits!
Not just off Roaches.
😀👊🏻
The Dude Abides...
Hotel California in Spanish,,,
The Ultimate Slam.
Hilarious.
So LATimes - can we put the homeless on your corporate doorstep?
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