Posted on 08/24/2019 1:16:50 PM PDT by bgill
Some Austin business owners say the homeless problem is now a homeless crisis. One downtown business owner says he may start closing early to keep employees and customers safe...In June, the Austin City Council changed the homeless ordinances to allow sitting, lying and camping in more public spaces, including sidewalks. Staley says that's when one homeless man moved in. All his belongings are right here up against our patio and we can't do anything about it. We can't. The police can't, said Staley. The patio on Congress Avenue was designed as a shady spot for tourists and locals to grab a quick meal. Can you camp right next to a patio? asked Staley...If the rules don't change the Congress Avenue store might start closing at 6 p.m. instead of midnight. Staley says the safety of employees and customers is the reason why.
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Liberalism kills another city.
I dont know you had them before
We also had county healthcare back in the era before five dollar copay and TennCare
Thats public assistance medical here
This is where it all started
Not the costs
There are only a few good areas to eat at in Austin. But crowded, with long waits to get served. As I mentioned, just a few touristy strips and not much else in Austin. Whereas, in San Francisco there are thousands of restaurants, and many different neighborhood restaurant strips to choose from, and much variety of cuisine from around the world. You aren't limited to one or two Vietnamese restaurants, there are many dozens to choose from in SF. Same goes for Thai, India, Italian, etc. Probably a thousand Chinese restaurants. I just came back from Des Moines, and there were only a few Asian restaurants to choose from. The only place that has more variety than SF is NYC (some of the best food in the country). But Austin, nah.
BTW, a brother-in-law is thinking of moving to San Antonio. Currently lives near Honolulu. Hope he doesn't get disappointed as he enjoys asian food.
A couple of these closed places are “attractive nuisances” that cops must regularly patrol because they become hangouts for local kids; they’d love to re-purpose them but often have no takers. One of our county parks has ruins of one from a century ago; it was in the news more recently because while constructing a new highway interchange the bodies of former patients were discovered in a lost potters field there. The cemetery at a closed one in NY is absolutely eerie; many of the plots have numbers instead of names. When a forum commenter complained that this was a terrible way for the facility to treat the deceased, another responded that this was done according to the family’s wishes - they didn’t want it known a family member had been committed there. Another closed here in NJ when laws were passed in 1970s requiring patients that could work be paid minimum wage; they became too expensive to operate.
As more and more socialism creeps into our culture, people unable to produce become a real drag; it is no accident that assisted suicide laws and desperate attempts to protect abortion rights (which mainly targets poor minority areas) are coinciding with a whole new crop of penniless immigrants. Our elites see this imported underclass as a desperately needed replacement population, but understand many won’t be paying for their own maintenance. When ObamaCare was admittedly designed to provide health insurance for illegals in part by cutting Medicare, it couldn’t have become more clear.
Bucolic grounds
Facade is imposing
Macabre
This was the facility where I grew up
I knew an acid casualty who went there
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