Posted on 03/03/2025 5:56:21 PM PST by grundle
14 months ago, I wrote this blog post, which I titled, “How thoughtful! Governor Newsom is trying help the other 49 states to solve their illegal immigration problem by encouraging all of their illegal immigrants to move to California. I hope his plan works!”
Now I’ve got some more good news: Barbara Lee, who is running for mayor of Oakland, California, wants to pay homeless people from other cities to move there.
The San Francisco Chronicle just reported this interesting detail about Lee’s platform:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/oakland-mayoral-candidates-differ-proposals-20192308.php
“Lee said she wants to test a guaranteed income pilot for homeless people”
As a person who does not live in Oakland, California, I think this is a great idea.
As the name of my blog says, I live in Squirrel Hill, which is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Anyway, during the past few years, I’ve been seeing quite a few homeless people sleeping and begging for money near the corner of Forbes and Murray (the heart of the Squirrel Hill business district), as well as outside the Squirrel Hill Giant Eagle (our local supermarket chain), which is just a few blocks away from that intserection.
There is actually a drug rehabilitation center at that intersection.
That’s right, folks. Someone decided to put a drug rehabilitation center in the middle of the business district, right across the street from the Squirrel Hill branch of the Carnegie library, in a very densely populated residential neighborhood, where a huge number of children walk to school every day.
I think this is a major contributing factor to why there are so many homeless people sleeping on the sidewalk so close to the drug rehab center, which is located as 5818 Forbes Avenue. I think they’re waiting for the drug rehab center to open so they can get their next fix.
And I don’t like it one bit.
So, I very much hope that Lee wins the election, and that she is able to successfully encourage every single one of these homeless people in Squirrel Hill to move to Oakland, California. I wish her the best of luck.
As an added incentive to convince homeless people and drug addicts to move to the Bay Area, the city of San Francisco already gives out 4.5 million free needles to illegal drug addicts every year.
On top of that, there’s also the fact that if homeless people and drug addicts in the Bay Area ever get arrested for shoplifting, they’ll never actually get prosecuted, and they’ll be immediately released without having to pay bail.
California, and especially the Bay Area, keeps giving homeless people, drug addicts, illegal immigrants, and criminals from all over the country more and more and more incentives to move to the Bay Area. As a person who does not live in the Bay Area, I think this is a great idea, and I hope it continues and keeps expanding.
Barbara Lee comin’ on strong....
This is a terrific idea. The sort of enlightened public policy that has made California #1 in so many categories.
In Oakland this will be urban renewal.
Is this the idiot that wears the cowboy hat. All hat, no cattle.
send all the drug addicts and criminals- Heck they love when such people pour over the border- let’s fill their state with them!
Yes, although recently she seems to have ditched the cowboy hat.
Do they get federal funds for the homeless? It also boosts the census count for representatives. They aren’t inviting in the dregs out of the kindness of their heart.
““Lee said she wants to test a guaranteed income pilot for homeless people””
what’s wrong with testing on the plethora of homeless ALREADY living in Oakland?
Perhaps the "guaranteed income pilot for homeless people" involves casting a mail-in ballot in return for the "guaranteed income."
As a tourist I always want to seek out the homeless for sightseeing. /extreme sarcasm
For the census.
Too many Asians are insane.
They excel in schooling, careers, the STEM areas...yet they pretend they are oppressed and their “brothers and sisters” are blacks and other minorities.
It’s like they WANT victim status even though they’re so successful.
I thought they were brilliant most of my life.
Now I see that many are morons.
There two type of Democrats
Cunning and evil vrs Stupid and evil. I will let readers decide which Ms Lee is
Sadly, I don’t think she needs to buy votes. Probably win in a walk.
She’s probably bitter since they stopped celebrating Jackson-Lee day.
lol!!
“you know, you’re not Asian”
I think that’s what Seinfeld says :)
And apologies, she’s “african american”
She looked asian to mee!! I think I looked at the wrong Barbera Lee on google!!..no, it was her.
I think I need glasses :)
No, that was Sheila Jackson Lee, and she died in July 2024.
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