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Trump Issues Warning to California Governor About Homeless Crisis
Townhall.com ^ | December 26, 2019 | Leah Barkoukis

Posted on 12/26/2019 10:13:34 AM PST by Kaslin

President Trump warned California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday that he needs to fix the homeless crisis in his state or the federal government will have to step in.

“Governor Gavin N has done a really bad job on taking care of the homeless population in California,” he tweeted. “If he can’t fix the problem, the Federal Govt. will get involved!”

Governor Gavin N has done a really bad job on taking care of the homeless population in California. If he can’t fix the problem, the Federal Govt. will get involved! https://t.co/2z8zM37PUA— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 25, 2019

In an op-ed by the San Francisco Chronicle on Tuesday, the editorial board notes that the growth in the country’s homeless population is a result of California’s problem.

“While the latest counts compiled by the federal government show that America’s homeless population is growing again after more than a decade of declines, the entire national increase and more can be attributed to California alone,” the board writes. 

Surprisingly, the editorial board also places the blame on Democrats.

“Although the state has the worst housing shortage on the U.S. mainland, resistance to dealing with it remains endemic among the Legislature’s ruling Democrats and in nominally progressive cities such as San Francisco,” they write. 

Based on a January census widely believed to underestimate the true figures, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development reported Friday that the nation’s homeless population grew by about 15,000 people to about 568,000, or 2.7%. The number of Californians without homes, meanwhile, spiked by more than 21,000 to nearly 130,000, or 16.4%. The state’s exploding homelessness was enough to overwhelm declines in 29 states, among them Washington, Hawaii, Massachusetts and other states with substantial housing pressures.

While the nation’s homeless population remains about 10% lower than it was a decade ago, California’s has expanded more than 22% in that time. With less than an eighth of the U.S. population, California is home to more than a quarter of the nation’s homeless people and more than half those who are unsheltered. (SF Chronicle)

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said last week that California’s homeless problem was at a “crisis level” and “needs to be addressed by local and state leaders with crisis-like urgency.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; gavinnewsome; homelessness
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To: reasonisfaith

I’m comfortable watching. I’m comfortable having an opinion. I’m comfortable supporting Trump even if my opinion on this differs from his.


41 posted on 12/26/2019 11:58:29 AM PST by samtheman (U.S. out of the U.N. --- U.N. out of the U.S.)
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To: Jim W N; reasonisfaith
His lawyers who obviously went to law school where they DON’T teach you the Constitution as written and originally understood and intended, may or may not know the subtle perversions of the Constitution that have taken place over the last 100 or so years.

Ever been to law school yourself? He's advised on legal matters by the likes of Jay Sekulow, Kellyanne Conway, Pam Bondi to name a few. What evidence do you have that their knowledge of the Constitution is so impoverished?

What if anything do you think any of Trump's appointees to Federal Courts know about the Constitution? Start with Kavanaugh and Gorsuch and wind through the names of > 100 judicial appointments Trump has made to the Federal Bench. What evidence do you have that their knowledge of the Constitution is so impoverished?

Your broad strokes of judgment only reveal your lack of judgment and simplistic application of what little knowledge you manifest generally on this topic.

FReegards!

1st-Annual-Freeper-Convention-1million-vet-march

42 posted on 12/26/2019 12:05:47 PM PST by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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To: Jim W N

Trump doesn’t have to do anything really. All he needs to do is crap all the liberals laws down their own throats!
EPA and CDC could fine the crap out of the state for pollution and collera.
Charge the California legislature with violating human rights by not providing adequate shelter and health care to the homeless.
I’m sure there are other creative measures to punish the hell out of them. But if Trump steps in and turn things around before the election, California would be in play! Doubt it, but never under estimate the will of Trump!


43 posted on 12/26/2019 12:36:55 PM PST by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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To: Kaslin

In theory, even for the most ardent state-sovereignty-protecting Constitutionalist, there must be some point at which a state of emergency of any type, gets so bad, and so beyond the ability of the state to handle on its own, that everyone would agree the federal government needs to intervene, even take control, at least until that emergency no longer exists.

Therefore, a warning that the feds “will” intervene if the problem isn’t fixed, and continues to get worse, is, in fact, inevitable at some future point.

The issue is, then, when is such a warning appropriate.


44 posted on 12/26/2019 12:41:48 PM PST by zencycler
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To: zencycler

The issue is, then, when is such a warning appropriate.

To me it isn’t whether this warning is appropriate now or later or at all.

To me it is focusing on a pot hole problem in San Francisco while an enemy invasion is taking place in Virginia.

Sure, set up a federal pot-hole-fixit program for Sh*t Francisco sometime at your leisure.

But right now there is a major constitutional crisis happening in Virginia.

And in Virginia Trump can and should be taking very public, very clear steps (with an announcement about federalizing the National Guard) to protect US citizen constitutional rights in that state, now under siege.


45 posted on 12/26/2019 12:46:03 PM PST by samtheman (U.S. out of the U.N. --- U.N. out of the U.S.)
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To: Uncle Sham

understood


46 posted on 12/26/2019 1:12:08 PM PST by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Kaslin

Newsome rminds me of that character from Fast Times at Ridgemont High.


47 posted on 12/26/2019 1:17:18 PM PST by semaj (We are the People)
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To: Kaslin

Donald, do not intervene!! Let them rot!!


48 posted on 12/26/2019 1:54:03 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Kaslin

Not fedgov’s jobto fixthe state’s problems.

If he can do it for zero dollars, fine, otherwise stay out.


49 posted on 12/26/2019 2:03:20 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
"Not fedgov’s jobto fixthe state’s problems. If he can do it for zero dollars, fine, otherwise stay out"

Not fedgov’s job to fix the state’s problems.

Just stop there.

If you begin the premise that the feds can fix the state's problems this time because it doesn't cost anything, you have opened a Pandora's box of unlimited federal involvement with state issues, most of which will be costly. Only the citizens of California get to vote for their representation both at the state and at the federal level. Asking the rest of us to pay to fix their state's problems amounts to taxation WITHOUT representation.

51 posted on 12/26/2019 2:41:32 PM PST by Uncle Sham
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To: Uncle Sham

You fell for it.

Nothing can be fixed for zero dollars.

GOT YA.


52 posted on 12/26/2019 3:04:01 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: cymbeline

I am a native Californian and still live in California.

I DON’T want my federal taxes used to bail out failed Democrap policies or the results of those policies.

PRESIDENT TRUMP (damn, I just love saying that) needs to allow my state to die in the cold, the wet, and the dark if necessary!


53 posted on 12/26/2019 3:53:16 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: SgtHooper

CA is going to be the next Love Canal. It will qualify for an EPA superfund.


54 posted on 12/26/2019 3:56:29 PM PST by DownInFlames (Galsd)
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To: Jim W N

Another federal bailout for CA. Responsible states and their taxpayers are about to get robbed, again. Not just no.


55 posted on 12/26/2019 4:50:32 PM PST by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: Jim W N

So, it’s okay for California to ship the homeless to other states and for untreated human waste to be dumped in the oceans by California? Neither is in the original Constitution, but at the very least the latter is Federally illegal. Should not the officials in CA be prosecuted under existing Federal law, or since it’s not ‘original’, should we let them walk on that?


56 posted on 12/26/2019 9:21:47 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Jim W N

Don’t be a concern troll - condemning what you can visualize/presume/guess that he might do is no different than what all the Dem impeachment “witnesses” did.....snowflakes do what snowflakes do...


57 posted on 12/27/2019 3:47:45 AM PST 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: Kaslin
Governor Gavin N has done a really bad job on taking care of the homeless population in California. If he can’t fix the problem, the Federal Govt. will get involved!

Empty threats accomplish nothing.

58 posted on 12/27/2019 4:00:04 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: trebb
Don’t be a concern troll - condemning what you can visualize/presume/guess that he might do is no different than what all the Dem impeachment “witnesses” did.....snowflakes do what snowflakes do...

So what do you visualize/presume/guess Trump can do about the problem?

59 posted on 12/27/2019 4:02:58 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

I don’t presume anything - I just know that President Trump always seems to have the right answer and whether it be actual action or just added leverage from publicizing the “conversation”, he tends to make things move in the right direction.

A better question might be, “Why do so many concern trolls keep presuming and lamenting the worst, despite having as much evidence such ‘concern’ is justifiable as the Dems have for impeachment?”


60 posted on 12/27/2019 5:11:49 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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