So has America defeated the homeless problem or just shelved it until the next election?
Do I REALLY have to say it???
Posted on 07/13/2015 6:15:08 AM PDT by The Louiswu
My wife has to take trips to San Francisco every couple of months for business and each time she comes back with the same observation, "there are a great many people who appear to be living on the street and maybe homeless. "
I have not seen this for myself yet but I began to wonder why there seems to be no or very few stories about the homeless in the news these days. I remember hearing and reading about the homeless situation in this county almost every day when President Bush was in office but now I can't remember the last time I saw something on the news or read a newspaper article on the issue of homelessness in America?
So has America defeated the homeless problem or just shelved it until the next election?
just search for “homeless tent camps” and voila!
I was homeless and on the street in Nashville TN for about eighteen months in '10-'11. Large numbers of homeless. Once Colorado did what they did the population dropped dramatically. Not many here now. And if Florida follows thru with legalization they'll all be gone from here.
Remember in 2006-2007 when Brian Williams would, literally, lead every nightly newscast with gas prices or the latest casualty figure from Iraq?
Same thing.
Downtown San Francisco is still loaded with homeless people.
Frame the debate:
If you wan people to ignore and neglect the homeless elect a democrat.
If you want people to notice and help the homeless elect a republican.
They all got jobs during the summer of recovery. A good many are insurance salesmen or community organizers.
St. Pete, Florida was trying to rejuvenate their downtown, but they had a huge and aggressive homeless population. When I was last there they’d turned it into a kind of Paris at night in Florida. When I asked a shop keeper what they’d done with the homeless he said the city was using a very aggressive policing policy and if he called they’d run them off instantly. You can’t have people in a sidewalk café being hit up for money by somebody who has stringy snot running down his face. Previous to this the police were arresting the homeless, taking them to a distant booking facility and then “discovering” they had no cause to hold them. They’d let them go and the closest place to walk was Clearwater. When I left in ‘95 Clearwater was suing over this issue. I don’t know how it was resolved.
The homeless went to the same place the unemployed went...The Memory Hole.
They only report that when it is a Republican in office at some level that they can blame it on.
Did the same thing about Reagan too.
They are all staying with Cindy Sheehan who miraculously disappeared with Obama’s election.
They are EVERYWHERE in the once Golden State:
http://articles.latimes.com/2014/feb/03/local/la-me-homeless-venice-20140204
http://www.latimes.com/local/westside/la-me-ballona-creek-20141111-story.html
http://kron4.com/2015/07/11/video-san-jose-homeless-encampment-raided/
The 2013 survey supplied this profile for Monterey County:
•The number of homeless people increased to 2,590 from 2,507 in 2011. Salinas lost 125 homeless people in the time period, going from 657 to 532. The city of Monterey saw the biggest increase, from 440 to 586.
•Since 2007, the No. 1 cause of homelessness has been the loss of a job. That was followed by alcohol or drug abuse. The rest of the causes include mental illness issues, divorce or separation, incarceration, conflict with family or housemates.
Families with children made up 21 percent of the homeless count; single adults accounted for 2,025 of the total count.
•In 2013, 16 percent of those surveyed said they had a pet, and 66 percent of those said having a pet prevented them from obtaining housing.
•Obstacles to housing included having no transportation, a need for education or training, no phone, no job opportunities.
•Means of income: 49 percent relied on panhandling, 44 percent recycling, 23 percent friends/family, 21 percent had a job, 7 percent sold found items to get by.
HOmelessness has reached epidemic proportions in Portland Maine and Boston area.
Lame Stream Media lies both with sins of commission and sins of omission.
You got that right.
So has America defeated the homeless problem or just shelved it until the next election?
Same happens on news stories about house fires.
When a Dem is in office, people who are driven from their homes because of fires..... are displaced.
When a Rep is in office, people who are driven from their homes because of fires..... are homeless.
There will not be a mention of the homeless problem in the liberal media, which has gone out of control during Obama’s awful economy, until there is a Republican in the WH. There might be a mention if a Republican actually grabs the lead in the polls leading up to Nov 2016.
The liberal press controls what they want us to hear.
BTW, as far as those claiming homelessness and begging for money on street corners in my area, they are almost always white. Very few blacks, and never Hispanic or Asian.
On a related matter, I never see whites or blacks hanging out at Home Depot or Lowes trying to get a day job. It is the Mexicans who want employment.
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