I don't think many people could distinguish between some of these pictures of Los Angeles and those of Caracus. They are the same.
Los Angeles, San Francisco and other domestic sh*tholes are the role models for the democRATic Socialists.
Posted on 06/05/2019 5:36:42 AM PDT by simpson96
It takes a lot of resilience to look over one’s shoulder at California. We Americans are a proud people and love our country. We know we’re wildly imperfect, but we also have seen our country overcome difficulties to become a more perfect union.
California, not so much.
One glance at the formerly Golden State is a frightening embarrassment. The latest indictment of liberal leadership is the trash heap of Los Angeles. Literally. Despite the emergence of louse-borne typhus, Los Angeles can’t seem to get its act together.
Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles Times reported a week ago on the obscene condition of downtown Los Angeles, “A mountain of rotting, oozing, stinking trash … stretching a good 20 yards along a skid row alley. Rats popped their heads out of the debris like they were in a game of Whac-A-Mole, then scampered for cover as a tractor with a scoop lurched toward them. … The trash problem is not confined to any one street, but this particular location on the 800 block of Ceres Avenue is surrounded by food distribution companies that sell to shoppers, vendors, stores and restaurants. I counted seven within a block, so you have to wonder — given the colonies of football-size rats — about the potential contamination of the food supply chain and the spread of disease.” What does the city say when confronted about the slow, or nonexistent, pace of cleanup?
A “spokeswoman for the city Department of Public Works said the backlog on service calls for trash pickup around homeless encampments sits at just under 8,400 currently. … ‘If it’s a homeless encampment, it’s a lengthier process because humans are involved and we have to meet certain protocols,’ she said, including a survey of who’s there, an inventory of personal property and
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We used to live in Southern California. I was acquaintances with 3 people who were murdered. I never thought I would ever know anyone who was murdered. Life is very cheap in California. And lawbreakers are rarely punished for their crimes. Welcome to the Democrat plan for America.
Everything they touch turns to shite.
Suppose you started a brand new city. How would you keep it clean and free of an excessive number of vagrants? How do cities that are now “clean” stay that way?
I work in NYC so spend a lot of time there. Outsiders would think that Manhattan is nothing but a large smelly landfill.
In fact, 95% of Manhattan is a beautiful place. I spend hours and hours walking through the neighborhoods, especially when the weather is nice. Much better than taking a cab around as most locations are walking distance from each other. Manhattan is a great walking town.
There are some blighted areas for sure. As you will see in any major city. But most of the city is very pleasant to walk through and is very safe. Not to mention world-class restaurants, shopping, museums, etc. Yet people who see nothing but a YouTube video of homeless folks at Penn Station figure the whole town is like that . Wrong.
Appears you could reshoot “Soylent Green” in LA for like, 5 dollars?
A country that has turned away from God.
“...survey of who’s there.”
Smokescreen term. What they really mean is, we fill out absentee ballots for them, to make sure they vote for democrats.
Yes, and if they are not thrown out of power, Democrats will make the entire USA a dystopian nightmare.
These two cities should be cited hand-in-hand as "fouled" examples of what decades of democRATic, progressive management turns metropolitan areas into.
Seattle WA and Portland OR are not far behind Los Angeles and San Francisco as examples of filthy, disgusting places to live with burgeoning populations of homeless, illegals, drug addicts and the mentally ill.
They favor these people instead of supporting their own citizens
There goals seem to be how to sh*t in your own living room.
The Scoopers on their way. NOT...
Americans no longer share a reasonable social consensus based on shared values and beliefs.
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We used to be united and proud.
There was a cohesive ethos binding the country together.
Once upon a time.
This story is simply another variation on this theme.
And yet, California seems to keep humming along just fine, despite all these problems. California companies are innovating, their markets are expanding, stocks are flying high, Hollywood is setting new records with blockbusters, and so on.
I know some people derive satisfaction and vindication reading about these stories, but we should realize a lot of this is conservative posturing, projecting and wishful thinking, and learn to take such stories with a grain of salt.
I hope people are not waiting for California to fold and throw in the towel and renounce liberalism. They have strong fundamentals and will keep prospering, our distaste for their activism and liberalism notwithstanding.
I agree. Here is another twist to it. Think of the social backdrop of the Great Depression and WWII. In some ways, we had worse social conditions, but a common worldview. It toughened the people that went through them and strengthened the communities around them.
If such a problem were to hit us now, we would not survive as a nation. Drugs have absolutely devastated entire communities and we have at least two nations now. One that helped create the crisis we see in cities and the other that is somewhat powerless to reverse it.
Environmentalism...Let’s drill overseas but not in Kalifornia...
Was touring on the west coast this past week. Drove from Seattle to Everett to tour the Boenig factory and went past numerous “homeless” camped under trees along the freeway.
Took a nice train from Sacramento to San Jose Sunday morning to catch a non-stop plane to ABQ that afternoon. The side of the train tracks are both a magnet for the homeless, and worse, a source of unbelievable volumes of trash, especially south of Oakland. Forget about separating your trash for recycling, it’s as if those living in homes next to the tracks use the back fence instead of city-emptied trash cans for removing trash. It reminds me of a trip to Mexico as a teenager with people living with trash and filth just outside the door. But then again, those living next to the tracks may indeed just be illegals from that country just continuing that practice in their newly welcoming homeland - California.
I don't think many people could distinguish between some of these pictures of Los Angeles and those of Caracus. They are the same.
Los Angeles, San Francisco and other domestic sh*tholes are the role models for the democRATic Socialists.
Yeah, I’m not sure exactly where the line is for judging a city. Is 95% clean and livable a success? Or does the horrible 5% make it a failure? What were the percentages in Dinkins era NYC which was generally considered a failure? Were there nice neighborhoods that could walked through back then? The homeless camps and piles of trash in LA probably only exist in a small area, but would you find anything like that in, say, Copenhagen? Or would that be an unacceptable embarrassment that would cause a city administration to be voted out in disgrace? What do LA residents think of the current state of their city? You hear all the time about poop maps and needles in SF but we get reports even on FR from people who live there who say that’s overblown and it’s still basically a beautiful city. I have a hard time getting a handle on the true state of these cities.
Idiots all.
That looks like one of those ‘I am not a bot’ tests.
This one would say, ‘click on the pictures that don’t have trash.’
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