Posted on 03/08/2017 9:30:53 PM PST by Lorianne
California, 1 of only 6 states where Democrats control the governship, statehouse (with a super-majority nonetheless) and state supreme court, is perfectly setup to implement a Bernie Sanders-inspired socialist utopia where everyone makes the same amount of money, enjoys limitless social programs and is never exposed to the horrors of gender-based bathroom signs.
And while liberals would like for you to believe that their socialist agenda is the cure for poverty (in addition to pretty much every other problem plaguing the world), California's reality paints a slightly different picture. In fact, in just the latest example that all is not well in California's socialist utopia, Dan Lyman recently exposed this shocking video footage of a sprawling tent city that is 'home' to an estimated 1,000 residents.
As Lyman points out, what was once a beautiful bike trail along the Pacific Ocean has now been transformed into a tent city, rife with crime, that reeks of garbage and human feces.
Part of the story left out of this...is the cost situation for just about any housing. You could have bought some property in the 1970s for $70,000 and today it’d be worth $700,000. Go look for a 2-bedroom apartment and just shake your head over the going rate. Guys living out of cars, tents....it’s all part of the unaffordable housing trend, and the bubble that has grown in California.
Shocking? This is shocking—the state has a socialist for governor, and an electorate that supports him on the way to to bankruptcy. Moonbeam is an absolute retromingent jackass with a cherry on top. FU Jerry brown.
They need to move these people to Rodeo Drive. Maybe we can move them onto movie studio lots. All that space going to waste. Time for them to step up and put their resources where their hearts are.
I wonder if the rich & famous would start to complain like the racists who do so now. /sarcasm
Just to give you an idea, the owners of my building paid me $20k to move out so they could get $2500 a month for my old small one bedroom apartment. I did and went to the northwest.
You will see plenty of the same sort of encampments on the sidewalks of San Francisco south of Market Street, and east of Mission.
It quite remarkable, and the worst, recently, I’ve seen in 30 years.
I just heard today this area has been bulldozed.
I could take such a video here. Under each freeway overpass is a mini tent city. In the bushes along the freeway and behind a big local park are similar set ups, minutes from my celeb filled neighborhood. "The Homeless" are everywhere around here. And the do-gooders want to "help them" as if giving them things would make less homelessness. No. It makes more.
truly LoLing after looking up that word.
Medical Definition of Retromingent
Retromingent: Urinating backwards. Also an animal such as a raccoon that urinates backwards.
As in: “You have revealed yourself as a miserable, carping, retromingent vigilante, and I for one am sick of wasting my time communicating with you” (Benjamin C. Bradlee, Editor, The Washington Post).
From the Latin retro- (back) + mingent from mingere (to urinate).
There are some even more interesting definitions in things like “The Urban Dictionary.”
It is such an accurate description I think!
Thanks for the education.
You really are a Fun Gi.
Now that the GOP controls the country, we can look forward to more reports and videos of homelessness, even those depicted in rat-controlled cratnifornia.
Thank you. A fungus before a fungi; the moniker was never meant to be a “fungus among us.”
We have always had I homeless population in California, especially LA, SF and Oakland. Even under more conservative governor like Deukmejian and Wilson because the mentally ill and drug addicts have been drawn to California.
But the last 3 years it seems the homeless population has exploded. We see tent cities in places where you would never expect them. The video here is along the Santa Ana River in the City of Orange near Angels Stadium. The city recently had the police clear the tent city out and many of them went to the Sanctuary City of Santa Ana. I feel a lot of this due to Jerry Brown essentially opening the doors of California to every illegal and derelict and they are flocking here in droves.
I live in the city of Pomona in the far eastern edge of LA County. I live in a community called Phillips Ranch. While 50% of Pomona is crap hole, it has some real nice areas too. Phillips Ranch is a real nice area. Pomona hasn’t had a lot of homeless until recently. There have been problems with the young homeless wandering into Phillips Ranch because of an area called “the jungle”, a heavily wooded area along the main drag where they have been tenting up and doing their meth. The started a fire last summer. The city has since fenced the area off.
This is 100 times worse than East St. Louis.
Wow.
Housing prices in some places are almost back to their highs. This is due in part to the very generous interest rates provided by our soon-to-be-bankrupt government.
My in-laws just sold a condo for just less than they paid about ten years ago at the height of the market. During the downturn similar condos were going for about half of their present price.
If one is going to complain about housing prices it would probably make sense to consider the bargains along the way.
This isn’t a new phenomenon. California housing has historically been dry expensive
I think a lot of these people have been flushed (literally) out of usually more secluded areas from flooding. In particular down in San Jose, there were hundreds living in the brush and thickets along coyote creek all the way up to Anderson dam.
A few years back I had to do some bacteria sampling on coyote creek from a good sized sewage spill. My upstream (from discharge point) “background” levels were 3000-4000 units per milliliter from all the homeless bathing and crapping in it.
This recent multi day flooding and high level discharge has probably done more to clean up the Bay Area than human efforts of the last 10 or 20 years...
The other part of the story left out is that this is what happens when you let the enviro-wackos prevent development of any new housing close to jobs. At least in the SF Bay area there is lots of land, it is just "preserved" in green belts. San Mateo county alone owns thousands of acres of "parks" that it has no money to actually develop into real parks, so it is fenced off and people are kept out.
The concept of selling some of the land to developers to get the money to actually make parks out of the rest hasn't crossed anyone's mind.
Not shocking. Skid row.
You will notice, if you walk those streets is, a very large percentage of those people are mentally ill. That is true everywhere there are homeless, thy do not want to go into shelters.
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