The real trick to progressive virtue signaling is to get somebody else to pay for it. I wouldn't be surprised to see the county government put the touch on such places as Culver City - pony up or we'll dump them there. They're not going to get it from the federal government and the state is $1.2 Trillion in debt. The "surplus" they so widely tout is an accounting trick. About their only recourse is to hope that the Dems take the federal government and open the money floodgates. Their virtue, your pocketbook.
paging Snake Pliskin...
alternate headline. LA pissed off at Culver city for not allowing bums to crap on the street
True...very true...
A question: How is the money set aside for homelessness divvied up among the communities? If it is like other areas of California, the 800-lb gorilla gets most if not all the money. If that is the case, then why shouldn’t communities steer their homeless people to the gorilla?
There have always been poor and people who fall on hard times. What is different today is that the traditional safety nets of family and church are not functioning as they once did. Family dissolution means every generation is struggling, not just the younger ones who once could shack up with the folks or siblings until they got on their feet. Nowadays, the parents are managing multiples support payments and mortgages, botox and viagra expenditures. And in the past, people naturally belonged to churches where they assisted fellow parishioners when they could and felt confident they could rely on them if/when they needed it. But both families and faiths tended to want people who made poor choices in their lives to change for the better. Enter the government which made it possible for dysfunctional people to blow off both family and faith and opt for money from a nonjudgmental sugar daddy. So we have our problem and it is hardly surprising and won’t be solved without fundamental changes in our society.
Now here is a conundrum. L.A. welcomes all kinds of people to cross the international border illegally, but gets upset when people cross the freeway underpass?
Not in my neighborhood!