Posted on 05/28/2025 7:32:23 AM PDT by rebuildus
Grants Pass, Oregon has been known as a beautiful, predominantly conservative small city in Southern Oregon. A place that has welcomed retirees escaping California’s ongoing meltdown, and really a place for people of all ages who appreciate the natural beauty of the region and proximity to the Rogue River, which runs through town.
The charms of the area were on full display at this year’s Boatnik celebration, an annual Memorial Day weekend event organized by The Active Club, a local nonprofit organization that contributes to the youth of Southern Oregon. Sponsors include the City of Grants Pass, Josephine County, and a number of local businesses. The event is know for its speed boat races and a really cool F-15 Eagle flyover, courtesy of the Oregon Air National Guard’s 173rd Fighter Wing, based in Klamath Falls. The event honors fallen service members, and includes a wreath-laying on the Rogue River, a 21-gun salute, and the playing of “Taps” by a bagpiper.
Everyone who supports the Boatnik event should be proud!
But once this great event ended, the City of Grants Pass still finds itself facing a huge problem that must be dealt with: a “homeless”/drug addiction scourge that is threatening to destroy a city and community that so many have worked for so long to build...
(Excerpt) Read more at oldschoolus.com ...
Cut up their EBT cards
Give them a bear skin and a knife...
The ‘homeless’ problem is everywhere... Except this... It isn’t a ‘homeless’ problem.
It’s a mentally ill population problem. Most of these people are homeless by choice and by circumstance, and that circumstance happens to be that they are bat sh*t crazy and their family won’t put up with them.
In the past we had mental institutions where these people could be kept and housed... Sadly, the psychiatrist and mental health professionals that formerly ran these places to house the mentally ill, convinced the politicians that dangerous mental patients should all be let loose to roam the streets and do whatever they wanted to do... Problem solved for those who’s job it was to take care of these lunatics.
Now these psychiatrist and mental health professionals typically just consult for the government from cushy offices making the same amount of money or more, but without the need to actually deal with the lunatics themselves.
Frankly, I don’t blame them... But if you go through school and get educated enough to be a psychiatrist (not an easy task), shouldn’t you be fully prepared to deal with lunatics once you’ve finished your studies???
You’ve obviously never been in the area of Grant’s Pass.
I used to fly goods and materials into the little airport there. Specialized building materials mostly. I did it for a few years and got to know some of the locals making sure I wasn’t stealing Avgas. Very community friendly area as long as you are received into the community.
A Singaporean vendor, shopkeeper, co-workers and others I have known and worked with throughout a rewarding international business career. You can also Duck.go it if you have an ounce of ambition or think I’m lying.
Our first real Tea Party event was hosted on a ranch near Grants Pass.
Ames I think was the owners name.
300 people showed up.
Thanks to the GOP-e, the Tea Party movement was sabotaged.
“A Singaporean vendor”
LOL!
That’s a strange answer to my question.
You are somewhere around this place IIRC!
I well remember Mitch saying, we have to marginalize these Tea Party members before they get here.
We’re as far away from Portland as can be. 40 miles from the county seat, not a big town although it’s grown in the last 24 years. OR is bad because of stolen elections, all mail-in since 1995.
The city of GP tried to clear the homeless off the streets and it turned into a SCOTUS case, decision was cities can stop homeless from living and sleeping on the streets. There’s a huge fentanyl problem in this part of Oregon. We hear ODs on dispatch radio now and then, seems to be dwindling now that the border is closed.
And then the rural areas of the county.... my valley is wild and wooly and that’s why we live here.
Southern Oregon is like a different state. We’ve lived here for 24 years.
The TexasGaytor is just trolling. Best to ignore him.
Yep, his last comment reminded me of the old saying “Never argue with idiots. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
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