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Inside Los Angeles' Skid Row, the epicenter of the homeless crisis
Fox Business Newx ^ | July 16, 2019 | Julie Limitone

Posted on 07/30/2019 2:37:08 PM PDT by buckalfa

As FOX Business' Kennedy walked through the area with talk radio host Bryan Suits, rows of tents -- some made of tarps, some made of garbage bags -- lined the trash-ridden streets, while some people wearing stained, tattered clothing wandered about, others choosing to remain inside the makeshift dwellings. A distinct odor wafted through the breeze as the two surveyed the landscape.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: california; disease; filth; homeless
They're coming to America ! Hopefully not to a street corner near you.
1 posted on 07/30/2019 2:37:08 PM PDT by buckalfa
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To: buckalfa

“They’re coming to America ! Hopefully not to a street corner near you.”

That is indeed one of the grand plans of the Democrats.

Folks, CW-II is not if, but when. Democrats are truly evil and constitute a far greater threat to the nation than China and Russia combined.

The solution is NOT going to be pretty.


2 posted on 07/30/2019 2:43:04 PM PDT by Da Coyote (eh)
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To: buckalfa

For anyone who wants a dose of liberal utopia.


3 posted on 07/30/2019 2:52:11 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: buckalfa

A distinct odor wafted through the breeze ... and everyone recognized it as pee, poop, sweat and general filth.

Skunks were seen fleeing the area holding their noses.


4 posted on 07/30/2019 2:57:14 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( Wake me when a prominent democrat actually gets prosecuted. ))))
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To: buckalfa

It’s Junkiewood.


5 posted on 07/30/2019 2:58:55 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: buckalfa
"What do the homeless need? All they need is love. Somebody to love them without reason."

Get the Beatles back together again!


6 posted on 07/30/2019 3:00:40 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: buckalfa

center, not epicenter.

Maybe “a pee center” though.


7 posted on 07/30/2019 3:18:53 PM PDT by babble-on
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Reopen the homes for the mentally ill.


8 posted on 07/30/2019 3:21:46 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: yldstrk

We will name the home for the mentally ill. the “Democrat Home for the Liberal Arts”


9 posted on 07/30/2019 4:10:29 PM PDT by okie 54
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To: buckalfa

60,000 homeless in Los Angeles living on the streets and causing multiple health problems that could turn out to be very bad for everyone, why in the hell aren’t we putting ALL of them in the Coliseum? There are plenty of facilities, USC is next door, Downtown is right down the street, UCLA is close,... Both Universities have a chance to Prove themselves by Holding their Classes and practicing what they teach at the Coliseum Daily with them. All the Gubmint employees in Social Services can spend their days there too looking after them.

This is USC and UCLA’s chance to Shine in the Spotlight by taking their Teachings directly to the Problem.


10 posted on 07/30/2019 4:21:23 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: buckalfa; All

Posting pictures would support the print coverage and make such reports for more effective.


11 posted on 07/30/2019 4:32:15 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L,J,Keslin posting for the record hoping some might read and pass around)
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To: yldstrk
Decades ago California had what they called Board and Care facilities. Sort of large halfway independent apartment buildings for the mentally ill, where they could be easily reached and help provided. They soon turned into squalid unlivable pigsties. Like “projects” around the country. Most have been torn down by now.

You have to take each person one at a time, There is no mass solution. This is what the liberals fail to grasp, because they see people as undifferentiated units of some identity or socioeconomic group.

It doesn’t work that way and never will.

12 posted on 07/30/2019 10:07:14 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: Da Coyote

and constitute a far greater threat to the nation than China and Russia combined.

Until one factors in a CW. That creates a vacuum with a nation focused on internals, the external is free to consider what the power structure is like and just maybe it would be worth the risk to meddle just enough to takeover CA, HI, AK, OR, and WA a foothold so to speak. A foothold with a good percentage of our food supply and democrats.


13 posted on 07/31/2019 1:57:12 AM PDT by wita (Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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To: buckalfa
A distinct odor wafted through the breeze as the two surveyed the landscape.

Lots of folks have no idea of what the long-unwashed smell like...once gave a "mercy ride" to one and literally too over a year before I stopped getting whiffs of him in my car...took a LOT of deodorizing/filter changes/shampoos/leather treatments to just lessen it and a long time to have it go away. A dead rat, or other rotting flesh, has a different smell but not much different in the ripeness.

14 posted on 07/31/2019 3:46:13 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

parolees and mentally ill unsupervised living on the street will not take their meds. We do need to screen for mentally ill and put them somewhere. The rest should be held strictly to the letter of the law and job trained.

Lastly, there is no right to live under the pier by the ocean. Move where you can afford to live and most people do.


15 posted on 07/31/2019 3:54:45 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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