Posted on 04/30/2021 9:40:21 AM PDT by bitt
'As your safety declines, so does your compassion. Every time I have to pick up human sh-t, my liberal-ness just got lowered what one more notch,' said one Austin woman.
Voters in Austin, Texas are headed to the polls to cast their vote in a May 1 election that will decide whether the city reinstates a public camping ban.
Austin’s homeless population has grown significantly over the last decade as the city has grown, housing prices have risen, and local officials have relied on outdated and failed federal programs and policies to try to curb the crisis. The city of Austin, led by a zealously left-wing city council and mayor, Steve Adler, has followed in the footsteps of west-coast cities like San Francisco, Seattle, and Los Angeles, all of which have exacerbated their homelessness problems through bad public policy that encourages homelessness and its attendant problems of drug abuse, public disorder, and crime.
The increasing number of people sleeping on the streets in Austin became even more apparent two years ago when the Democrat-dominated city council decided to remove a decades-old ordinance banning public camping, as well as decriminalizing panhandling. Shortly after the city lifted the ban, homelessness in Austin not only reached a 10-year high but citizens and downtown businesses, many ravaged by government-mandated lockdowns, began to complain that the groups of tents set up on streets, sidewalks, in parks, and other public areas were magnets for trash, crime, drug abuse, mental health crises, and aggression towards Austinites.
The city council’s decision was rushed, made without any official input from the citizens living in the communities the ban had protected. This lack of participation from Austinites, combined with a worsening homelessness problem that even Adler admitted wasn’t fixed by lifting the ban, prompted outrage that sparked a petition to
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Get rid of the Leftists and the “Homeless Problem” will naturally and magically disappear.
In this case, Homeless = Illegals
Of course it was. They're in charge, after all, and what does election of a progressive to political office mean but a transfer of dictatorial power?
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Just one unintended consequence after another.
Watch as the rest of Texas turns blue and Austin goes red? LoL
“’As your safety declines, so does your compassion. Every time I have to pick up human sh-t, my liberal-ness just got lowered what one more notch,’
...no sh-t?! (pun intended) These dumb butts never learn. They don’t dare ever become conservative. Their “liberal-ness” gets “lowered” ONLY when it has a direct effect on them. Hypocrites every one of ‘em.
The homeless problem is ‘complicated’. Translation: You are not smart enough to address it.
“Voters in Austin, Texas are headed to the polls to cast their vote in a May 1 election that will decide whether the city reinstates a public camping ban.”
A city’s safety, cleanliness, morality, and productivity is inversely proportaional to the product of (socialists/commies on council X socialists/commies on school board x number of universities^100 power x number of NEA members)
Proof that nothing on the interwebs ever goes away: a guy with the petition bunch called me a couple of weeks ago to talk about this issue and Prop B, asking if what the anti-Prop B folks were saying about it “criminalizing homelessness” was true. He found me based on a presentation I did on Municipal Ordinances for a New Municipal Court Judges course 10 years ago.
This is uber liberal Austin. The homeless are safe from eviction. Just keepin’ Austin weird.
Years ago, we took the kids on the kiddie train in San Antonio. It was nothing but a ride through homeless camps. Horrid. How any city could allow that. So dangerous. Right there arm’s length from the children. Never again.
Which will go up the line to SCOTUS, who will rule that the citizens of Austin have no standing in the case, since they have homes and therefore are not homeless.
(Yes, it's as stupid as the rulings on the 2020 election, which means it is no longer unthinkable.)
Sh&t happens when you make stupid decisions.
If I read the numbers in the article correctly, the city spent $73.4 million on the approximately 2500 homeless people. This averages out to $29,360 per homeless person. I wonder how much actually got spent on the homeless people and how much went to all the bureaucrats and non-profit employees for providing “programs” and “services.”
America is dividing ever further into the haves and have-nots.
Predicted in scripture
Daniel 2:43
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