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Coming to a City Near You: Why All of America Could See a San Francisco-Style Homeless Crisis
Epoch Times ^ | 02/05/2024 | Michael Washburn

Posted on 02/05/2024 9:10:30 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 02/05/2024 9:10:30 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I hadn’t really thought about the homeless problem in Alaska. Something tells me that largely takes care of itself, no?


2 posted on 02/05/2024 9:25:47 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: SeekAndFind

Inother words: America is rapidly becoming unfit for human habitation


3 posted on 02/05/2024 9:34:41 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: SeekAndFind

All of our social safety net dollars are going to illegal aliens now instead. Won’t see any of them on the streets, they’re living in hotels.


4 posted on 02/05/2024 9:37:41 PM PST by Golden Eagle (It is far easier to fool someone, than to convince them that they've been fooled.)
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To: SeekAndFind

We already have it in Reno. Have had it for a few years.


5 posted on 02/05/2024 9:40:15 PM PST by Reno89519 (Biden, Democrats, and Some Republicans may have surrendered, but I have not. Defend America!)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

The problem in the winter is drunk natives in Anchorage. They have money, housing, lots of liquor, and nothing to do, nothing required of them other than to get drunk.


6 posted on 02/05/2024 9:41:41 PM PST by Reno89519 (Biden, Democrats, and Some Republicans may have surrendered, but I have not. Defend America!)
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To: SeekAndFind
We need to enforce all the laws in the blue cities. Broken windows. We need Rudy.

Then we need to place the homeless in mental institutions. We are enabling them to make bad choices so it's our fault.

You don't see this crap happening in Singapore.

7 posted on 02/05/2024 9:45:53 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: SeekAndFind

Living on the streets in many northern states is not feasible during the winter.

It would be more like freezing to death on the streets.

Kind of a self-correcting problem.


8 posted on 02/05/2024 10:14:57 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: SeekAndFind

My Midwest college town has a frightening number of homeless, and most of them don’t look like drug addicts. They look like people who lost their jobs and their homes and were kicked out onto the street.


9 posted on 02/05/2024 10:23:22 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ b █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Reno89519
The problem in the winter is drunk natives in Anchorage. They have money, housing, lots of liquor, and nothing to do, nothing required of them other than to get drunk.

I'm not seeing the problem.

Not enough coffins to go around?

Regards,

10 posted on 02/05/2024 10:36:57 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

Watford city North Dakota had a homeless guy.
And ten degrees below zero weather.
The guy jumped into a dumpster and fell asleep.
When he woke up his feet were frozen and they had to amputate both of them


11 posted on 02/05/2024 11:01:03 PM PST by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism .)
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And we exacerbate the issue by inviting millions and millions of ILLEGALS into our country. America is committing suicide right before our very eyes. The politicians haven’t figured it out yet that they can insulate themselves by the ruins coming to their compounds too. They may end up being prisoners on their own estates.


12 posted on 02/05/2024 11:18:40 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: SeekAndFind

Soon it’s gonna look like “Escape from New York” where they wall off the decaying cities and tell them to fend for themselves.


13 posted on 02/06/2024 12:36:29 AM PST by Whatever Works
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

From a good source - there are three types of homeless.
There are the “urban campers”. those people have resources, family, etc. They just enjoy living in the streets (believe or not, there are a lot of them!).
There are the people who got some family problems, like hostile divorce, lost job, etc. . which forced them on the streets (yes, there are some like that on the street, the media try to convince us that all are like that, we the conservative, tend to discard them all), and then there are the mentally ill and drug addicts.

There should be different approach to these groups.
The urban campers should be banned from the streets, the poor shall be given some job and the mentally ill should be sent to hospital.
None of them really need a shelter, homelessness is a symptom, not a disease.

apparently, all of them have some money/resources from welfare, food stamps, and all those kitchens and thrifts stores. They do not really starve, what they really need is to be treated like individuals and address their underlying problems.
Unfortunately our welfare/police/lawsuits system is exactly the wrong medicine!


14 posted on 02/06/2024 1:44:20 AM PST by AZJeep
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s what happens when a nation goes into economic depression/collapse.


15 posted on 02/06/2024 4:15:29 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: SeekAndFind

Not all America.. just liberal run shxtholes that allow it. You block a road around here in protest you’d become tired tread slime, try stealing a bunch of stuff in a store and running out you’d have several folks pointing guns at you. Try car jacking you’d be blocked in and beaten severely. Breaking in to a house, even the elderly would be shooting.


16 posted on 02/06/2024 5:04:27 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Instead of new laws and ordinances, how about just enforcing what’s already on the books. I’m sure it’s not legal to urinate and defecate in public anywhere. Fine them. Lock them up. Whatever the law calls for.

Enforce the anti-littering laws, public drunkenness, no smoking within 25 feet of an entrance...there is a ton of nuisance laws that the rest of us have to live by. Set up a free needle exchange in front of councilmen and judges houses. See how they like it.

More importantly, it’s well past time to hound these “church affiliated” NGOs that are assisting the illegals to assist the homeless instead.

EC


17 posted on 02/06/2024 6:09:28 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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To: SeekAndFind

Controlled demolition


18 posted on 02/06/2024 6:09:36 AM PST by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
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Apt description.


19 posted on 02/06/2024 6:12:55 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: SeekAndFind

What happened to “sanctuary cities”?
How about States’ rights?
One size fits all legislation is why we have this problem. And the rights of homeless peeps should not infringe on the rights of the entire populace. (Well, the Constitution used to say that.)


20 posted on 02/06/2024 7:11:56 AM PST by Honest Nigerian
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