Posted on 07/02/2019 3:08:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Homelessness has made encampments a familiar sight across Southern California, and with people living on the streets come problems like sidewalks being used as bathrooms, rat infestations and diseases. In an interview with Fox News from Osaka, Japan, the president agreed the “filth” in American cities was “very sad.”
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti responded to Trump’s remarks Tuesday during an appearance on KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO, where he said he was actually encouraged by the president’s attention to the issue.
“Any day the president is talking about homelessness is a good day,” Garcetti said. “The only thing I would correct him on … is that he said this started two years ago. … It’s been something that’s been decades in the making, and I welcome federal help. To me this is going to require all hands. I think people are so sick of the political games. So if he (Trump) wants to roll up our sleeves and meet us, I’m ready.”
Pressed on whether he was inviting the president to walk the streets of Los Angeles, Garcetti said, “Absolutely. I would be more than happy to do that.”
Unconstitutional unless the governor requests it (Article IV, Section 4).
They can’t hold a job.
And the drug problem in turn is a mental health problem. Letting all the loonies out in the seventies and closing all the psych. hospitals is at least partly to blame. A couple of generations ago these people would’ve been locked up.
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And Chicago too.
That is Sacramento’s problem to fix.
Let the rich Hollywooders and rich techies foot the bill for a real solution.
NO! Leave it alone Mr. President.
We have foreign and domestic enemies that haven’t heard from you yet.
Bol.........
Please! Do something. The “homeless” are virtually all junkies or opioid addicts. And they’re all over the country, especially in liberal areas.
This ruins a city. I was in Asheville NC last weekend and the junkies and addicts were draped on every bench or even clear patch, and the thing that grossed me out was that patrons at a cafe I was going to go to were literally stepping over the feet of a half-naked 30ish druggie passed out in front of the establishment. I was going to call 911 but he was breathing and somebody there told me not to call. However, I didn’t go to the cafe and just went back to my hotel.
In any case, I’d never go back there again.
You are very gullible.
The climate will solve this in less 12 years anyway.
I am compassionate
Bulldozers
And gullible
Sooner, in LA, there will be a massive earthquake followed quickly by pandemic typhus and cholera epidmics.
The population will be reduced by half. LA will be totally dysfunctional
Deporting all the illegals would open up a lot of houses.
Most of the French and German people don’t want the invaders their globalist leaders are inflicting on them. I’d rather give them more time to save the West.
Maybe in the case of a small percentage that is true.
Unfortunately many American want to be invaded.
Ping
That was a rare confluence of the left and the right. The left said they were just expressing themselves and the only sane people in a capitalist system were the crazy. The right didn’t want to pay for hospitalization and thought that “community based mental health care” would be cheaper than hospitals.
First of all, it wasn’t, when you factor in police, medical, the financial impact of murders and violent crimes, etc. Secondly, it has destroyed cities.
Sadly, it was Ronald Reagan, as Governor of California, who deinstitutionalized this population. And he even said that they could work and get jobs as school playground monitors...
I thought he was an excellent president, but as Governor of California he definitely had his weak or oblivious points.
However, that said, the deinstitutionalization push started with the Willowbrook faux documentary done by one Geraldo Rivera in NY. I worked in that field and he totally twisted everything and destroyed the lives of many of the mentally ill and their families.
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