Posted on 07/03/2021 4:57:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Gentle readers, will your vacation travels bring you to Los Angeles this summer? You’ll want to visit Universal Studios and Disneyland, surely, or maybe take a stroll down the beach in Malibu or Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. And you’ll want to see the wildlife at the Los Angeles Zoo, which at last has reopened after being shut down during the pandemic. But if it’s truly exotic life forms you wish to see, you can’t go wrong with a day trip down to Venice Beach, the zoo that never closes, where you’ll be treated to a spectacle that would have had Marlin Perkins cowering in his Land Rover
The Venice area of L.A., just south of Santa Monica, has undergone a transformation over the last 25 years or so, going from amusingly seedy to boho-chic as actors and other Hollywood types started moving and driving up prices. A three-bedroom house a block from the beach can be yours for just $2.4 million.
The seediness never entirely gave way to the chic, but a more sinister transformation has been in progress for about the last three years, one that has taken seedy to new heights (or lows, if you prefer). Before you splash out $2.4 million for your beach retreat, you may want to make sure you won’t be sharing the property with one or more of the local homeless, who seem to have multiplied in the area lately. This has caused alarm and consternation among those who, having spent so lavishly to buy homes in the area, would prefer not to share the space with the feral drug addicts who have laid claim to much of the famed Venice boardwalk.
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That's why throwing money at it doesn't work.
“We spend so much on the homeless, we can’t understand why there are still so many of them.”
My jaw drops at such an insipid statement
The “homeless problem” has become a big business. Those invested in it have a business model, and the last thing they want is to go out of business.
To author- Can you understand how the past leader of BLM has several mansions?
I was getting dressed in my Seattle hotel room while listening to the news. A woman was complaining to the interviewer about the homeless problem. She said, “We provide them food, clothing, shelter and medical care.” She wailed, “Why do we still have a homeless problem?” I paused tying my tie and went into the room to watch the interviewer hand her her a$$. Instead, he nodded and made sympathetic noises.
Clueless doesn’t begin to describe liberals.
DUH...What could be the problem?
“That’s why throwing money at it doesn’t work.”
They don’t throw money at it. The carefully distribute it amon friends and family.
The sad part is you can’t vote out the madness because the RATs have so corrupted the vote in California there is no way to get rid of them.
“Clueless doesn’t begin to describe liberals.”
Are you referring to the ones getting rich off the citizens’ tax receipts?
You have tried spending more money, you got more homeless.
Now try spending less.
Poor houses and work farms.
No one I have found can attribute this statement to the verifiable source if it’s not Abraham Lincoln:
Baltimore sun article said:
The following quotation, a favorite of many people, is chiseled into the stone entrance of the New York Daily News skyscraper in New York:
“God must have loved the common people: He made so many of them.”
But there is no proof that they are Lincoln’s words.
Spend money on solar panels, wind mills, electric cars, bike lanes, etc. and you get more of them.
Spend money on the homeless and they expect a different result?
While causality is not a Leftist asset, its absence is its entire agenda.
Gee why are there so many ???
BLM members say in my leader's house are many mansions. Isn't that part of their pagan scriptures? Or their budget at least. Like every knee shall bend to the image of George Floyd, led by Nancy Pelosi in the Capitol Rotunda?
I like the Vlad the Impaler solution.
Agree than indiscriminately throwing money at the problem isn't working, but begs the question: what is the answer?
I would guess that addiction treatment of some type is part of it, but that costs money too.
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