Posted on 01/11/2019 8:15:59 AM PST by EdnaMode
When property values get low enough, someone will come
in and buy them up, then suddenly the “homeless” problem
will disappear.
Saw this happen in Atlanta in the 70s and 80s.
Now it’s called Colony Square.
14th street was hippy central and property values went
down, the property was bought up and suddenly the city
police moved all activity down several blocks and up
goes a skyscraper.
They were bums until PC called them vagrants. Then the bums made vagrant a pejorative.
Then the vagrants made vagrant a pejorative so a kinder, gentler, word was needed. We got homeless.
Has homeless achieved pejorative status? Is it time for, as the article uses, non-domiciled people?
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I love the term ‘non-domiciled.’ What about ‘unhomed’ or ‘unroofed’?
If the light bulb ever goes on with the average liberal in regards to what “their” politicians are doing directly affects them in a very negative way the dems may be in a bad spot.
I had a meeting with Gary Foster on the Sony lot about ten years ago. It didn’t go well.
A couple of years ago, I read through a book....’Citizen Hobo’. It puts everything into prospective when comparing with this current crowd. They are simply modern-day hobos. The only difference is drug usage in the mix.
I’m reminded of the preferred designation for street corner drug dealers -— unlicensed pharmacists.
I suspect that was a message....and the message was GET OUT. Or maybe payback. I wonder if he said or did something prior to the vandalism to trigger it. Could have been something as simple as rebuffing a request for money.
Wasn’t there a female television star who recently had the crap beat out of her by a homeless vagrant?
MJ legalization just makes this problem worse.
There is a song lyric that goes “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose lose”. The “homeless” are the most free people in America.
They have adjusted their lives to live in a world none of us would want to live. Yet they survive because they can pretty much do what they want, including stealing from others, or just destroying property. They have no bills, and they have no responsibilities. If they get sick, the government cares for them. If they go to jail, it is just a minor inconvenience.
The normal rules of society do not apply to them for the simply reason the progressive refused to allow anyone to hold them accountable for their action. With no restraint, why should they obey societal rules. Want to take a dump in the middle of a side walk, go ahead. No one will say anything. Want to walk through a store and take things, go ahead. Even if they call the cops nothing will happen. Want to go sit in a public library smelling like you have not bathed in months (because you haven’t) go for it.
The homeless actually have more rights then the normal tax paying citizen. Since they are not afraid of the law.
Just 50 year ago the bums would have been ran out of town before it got this bad.
Gehry designed the Experience Music site in Seattle. It looks like someone dumped the contents of a garbage can into the street.
Portland, Seattle and much of CA.
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you....unless you live in a very rich neighborhood.
“I can’t accept the idea that there is an inextricable link between crime and homelessness. It is wrong, it is not backed up by the data, and it leads to bad policy.”
IMO That’s nothing more than a politician trying to hold onto his job right there.
Open-air dwellers
“It’s the worst human catastrophe in America,”
Where’s that tiny violin? This problem could have been avoided. Entirely engineered, perhaps with good intentions, but that and $4.00 will get you a cup of coffee.Brought to you by “Progressive” policy from the compassionate and tolerant democrats.
Serves him right for trying to have a nice vehicle in california without a secure place (e.g. locked garage) to park it at home AND at work (e.g. armed security guards where use of deadly force is authorized).
I learned that lesson decades ago in ventura county. There’s a high concentration and quantity (millions) of low lifes in california.
Oh, believe me, they're not idle. Anything outside is fair game for them to steal - children's bikes, wheelchairs, walkers - you frequently see frankenstein'ed trailers following BMX bikes, loaded with even more stolen stuff, heading back to the encampment to be dumped there (and then they'll complain someone stole from their horde...)
Only need $5 for a little taste of heroin or meth, you can get that just by selling a couple garden hoses to the thrift shop. The walking dead are out each and every night.
IIRC, Paulette Perrett (was ABBY on NCIS) has been assaulted TWICE on the streets of Burbank.
And walk around in a daze wondering how did that happen idiots on the march.
Even back in the 80s and 90s, Venice Beach was one giant outdoor homeless shelter. I remember walking along the beach in the early morning and it looked disgusting — trash everywhere. Bums and drug addicts passed out on the beach and walkway, some having thrown up all over themselves. Just wall it off and turn it into an asylum.
“If they go to jail, it is just a minor inconvenience.”
Actually, as I understand it, many go to jail deliberately to take advantage of the benefits of being there.....think about it. Free food and lodging in an environmentally controlled building etc. I understand there could be some peril in being there and it’s not Holiday Inn mind you but in many cases I would imagine it’s better than where they were.
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