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Louis Foxwell

[Ancient Man]

Unconstrained by either sanity or historical economic reality, the flotsam of human wreckage created by “progressive” laws and policies continues to wash ashore and pile up at the feet of the Democrat-controlled cities and states that created them. Meanwhile, upwardly mobile productive citizens, who are expected to finance the cleanup of these human landfills of toxic “progressive” rot are fleeing them in droves. The bloodsucking “progressive” fleas have killed their taxpaying canine hosts.

[cnsmom]

we all know what happens once you become a burden to the Democrat party. When they figure out how to profit from the situation the problem will be solved.

[GOPJ]

The homeless housing being approved costs an average at $479,000 per unit. Two run at $650,000. That’s not homeless housing: it’s homeless luxury condos. And it’s being paid for by the same middle class that is being squeezed out of Los Angeles by the coalition of Democrat politicos and lefty activists.

One more reason to STOP nutty liberal elites from taking over our country.

[UCANSEE2]

I guess the boys at South Park were successful in getting all the homeless to go to LA.

[Anti-Bubba182]

"....But instead the number of homeless increased faster than the supply of homeless housing. By ’18, the number of homeless was up to 58,000 from 32,000 in 6 years. Increasing subsidies to the homeless only increased their number. As usual, government social welfare was generating more of the problem....."

The bold is the gist of the problem. Cutting off support is brutal short term, but that would reduce the number of homeless. Some would go where there is support, some would pull themselves together and some would go to jail or die, but the problem would be resolved.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I sometimes wonder, why do we have so many homeless? why didn’t we have all these homeless in 1960 or 1970? What changed in society so that we are compelled to tolerate homeless encampments set up wherever these vagrants decide to pitch a tent?

[CptnObvious]

The Homeless HELL Hole That Ate Los Angeles Paved with Good Intentions

[olepap]

I just got back from NYC. It has reverted to the shithole it was back in the Dinkins years: Beggars everywhere, filth and garbage everywhere. The Progressive Mayor does not prosecute quality of life violations or keep the streets clean.

[CottonBall]

I’m not surprised that Angelina’s voted themselves a tax increase. Even in conservative Bakersfield, people were happy To increase their property taxes every time a school whined that they needed more money to educate the illegals. The fact that test scores are in the toilet and kids are graduating high school without being able to read and write at an eighth grade level didn’t seem to be a problem for these voters, being willing to throw away more money on the failing schools.

So we moved to Tennessee. People here seem to be a lot smarter. They complained when vehicle registration is threatened to be increased over $25. So the county decided to keep it the same :-) you have to fight every single increase, or they will nickel and dime you to death. The Liberals don’t give up so we have to fight back just as hard. Unfortunately even California conservatives haven’t learned this.

[Pride in the USA]

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[Mr. K]

AND THE SAME STUPID PEOPLE WHO SPENT ALL THAT MONEY SAY THEY CAN SOLVE THE PROBLEMS THEY CREATED BY GIVING THEM MORE MONEY.

And Clifornians will vote for them.

Proposition H is the cure for California hemorrhoids.

[MeganC]

“California’s top-two primaries are the single greatest act of voter suppression today.”

I disagree. I say this because in many races the Republican voters are outnumbered by Democrats two-to-one and more.

In a conventional election these Republican voters are irrelevant to who wins in November.

But like in one of the Assembly races where the two leading candidates were Democrats there was a lefty-socialist named Darrell Fong and a law and order Dem named Jim Cooper.

Cooper won because he directly ran to get the Republican vote and that shut out the leftist.

In the old system the socialist would have won.

Yes, this system doesn’t make it easier for the GOP to gain anything in California but the GOP surrendered California to the Democrats decades ago. At least this way a growing number of Dems are having to move to the right in order to win their elections.

That’s not great, but it is an improvement.

[Yaelle]

By ’18, the number of homeless was up to 58,000 from 32,000 in 6 years. Increasing subsidies to the homeless only increased their number.

Gee whiz, no one could ever have predicted it.

[Yaelle]

It is so bad even my leftie friends can’t take it any more. This upscale neighborhood is filled with vagrants and thieves. Every week I hear of an aggressive bum attacking or threatening women at some fast food place or parking lot.

[daniel1212]

Front Page had some sad reports, such as

Tina Trent Michelle • a day ago

One of the official justifications— at least official in that landlords are assured by officials that it will augment losses — is that section 8 rents paid are set higher than market rates because tenants are likely to destroy the property.

I have been in many publicly subsidized apartments and homes doing home visits where the house is maintained beautifully, with careful decorations, arranged if shabby furniture, and food for the foster kids or grandkids or great-grandkids being raised there. It is humbling to see decency enforced among neighboring chaos. But I always knew what I would be walking into because we already knew these were the good clients. We also knew what we would find in the other ones. There is no mystery in any of this: we vigilantly enforced no standards. That was the policy, drilled into us on the grounds that nothing would be more evil than imposing a standard or judging someone.

I came to believe that some people did terrible things to their children because they knew if they wanted attention or more free stuff, they couldn’t just be a bit neglectful and get whatever perverse incentive they were seeking: they’d really have to make an effort to get those kids taken away. It would have to be unusually bad.

We colluded. Though many didn’t: I know many people who could not stomach the unethical demands of the job and walked away. It was always the policies coming from the diversity police that drove the good people away, not the work itself, sad as it was.

With homeless people, I imagine the same dynamic exists: the system is designed to reward the most dysfunctional within the larger cohort of homeless people, to enforce a non-judgment regime. - http://disq.us/p/1slq8ye