Posted on 07/05/2022 2:32:13 PM PDT by martin_fierro
access-list 101 deny any any port homelessness
It might work.
The more money that is thrown at the homeless, the more homeless people there will be.
“Where has it gotten us, in the end?”
Do they use Public Transit to get to work and back?
Is there a way to San Jose?
If subsidize something, you will get more of it. If you tax something, you’ll get less of it.
Maybe there is a solution in there.
PERFECT........
Feed the feral cats & you GET MORE FERAL CATS
Exactly. This approach of throwing money stupidly at the problem is a waste of time and money, though I am betting Cisco and and their woke staff is as pleased as punch with themselves.
What is the solution?
It would be a four pronged approach, and not a single bit of it would be simple or easy, save one.
First and easiest: Close the border. Build a wall. A good one. from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific. Build it. Arm it. Staff it. Be serious about it. What, it will take $100 Billion? Take the paper we are sending to Ukraine, and we would be nearly halfway there. The money we would save by controlling the borders would easily make up the cost of building it and manning it.
Second, stop the insane spending and idiotic fiscal policy. Cut government bureaucracy. We could get rid of 90% of the government, and citizens in the real world wouldn’t notice a thing. Not a thing. Get a flat tax. Get rid of the EPA and Department of Education, just to name two. Get rid of subsidies and entitlements and rework that whole damn system to a baseline level, taking care of people who really need it because they are infirm or cannot work, not taking care of people who are happier not working.
Third, get industry going in this country. Slash the Federal Register, gut zoning laws and building codes in a way that allows safety in building and use, but doesn’t mandate all the BS we see now in building codes. Kill the regulation. Open up every avenue of energy use including nuclear, from Thorium Reactors to Pebble Bed and modular reactors. Drill for oil and gas. Allow coal mining and coal burning. Get the cost of energy down. Change tax laws and regulation. Exploit our natural resources, which can be done responsibly. When we entered WWII, we were woefully underprepared. FDR gets all the credit, but that socialist POS had to have his arm twisted by industrialists, primarily William Knudsen who is virtually unknown today to allow industry to make money off government contracts. FDR and his socialist pieces of crap wanted to completely control industry (which chokes it) but Knudson convinced FDR to allow industry to make as much profit as they could, against the wishes of nearly everyone in the FDR administration, specifically Frances Perkins and the execrable Harold Ickes, both of who had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the profit motive. But it worked. We armed ourselves and nearly the entire free world by allowing people to make profits, large profits. We made more than could be used, and there are still quantities of surplus that can be purchased today. WE NEED TO DO THAT TODAY. The engine is still there. It is covered with dust and cobwebs. The people who built the industry and who know how it runs are largely gone, but the foundation still exists in the remnants of a Capitalistic system, but...it is still there. All we have to do is unleash it, because the desire to make money will churn the water wheel of that engine, just like it did in WWII.
Fourth, removing environmental BS, red tape and idiotic zoning to allow people to build housing that can even be afforded. I am NOT talking about “affordable housing” because that is idiocy, bureaucratic stupidity, and taxpayer money. Making it profitable, and even possible to build housing at all that can be moved into. You do that by allowing entities to build housing that is not under rent control and is there NOT TO PROVIDE HOUSING UNDER SOME GOVERNMENT CONTROL OR SUBSIDY-but housing that allows the people building to MAKE money, which is what will increase the supply of housing and bring the cost down.
Until we can get people back into working, by not only creating industry, but by getting rid of this sick, pathetic work ethic we have in this country now...no amount of housing will be sufficient.
When people can work, and a work ethic is restored, we can find the people who absolutely should not be on the streets due to severe mental illness and get them off the streets. Institutionalize them, if need be. Restore laws on vagrancy and property rights. Make it disreputable and undesirable to be a vagrant, instead of offering enticements, which is exactly what is done. Force people back into working for a living, not living off a government stipend.
It’s kind of surprising that that level of density hasn’t caused the Earth to wobble and spin out of orbit. Must be evenly distributed.
I used to do that stuff for a living. It’s been three years now since I retired, and I’m amazed at how much I’ve forgotten.
Cisco, ask Poncho.
Far and away the problem with homelessness is not homes. It is nearly all mental illness and drug addiction. Many of these folks have very little internet on keeping a place to live.
It is so sad. I was in Portland a few weeks ago and saw the despair. These poor people are essentially throw aways now.
Oh, Cisco....
LOL
bicycle is what I would use.
Weather is pretty good there, so I’d tend to go that route most days.
Apparently getting a parking spot is tough.
Here’s what I shoulda posted:
You’re kidding, right?
If they built the buildings in Fresno would the homeless show up?
They probably could have built twice the number of units at the same price.
Fascinating how this story is published today and CSCO stock price achieved a 52-week low. Must be a coincidence.
They could have, and we both know the answer to the first question: the bums would not show up, they like living on the streets with no responsibilities.
Mental illness, low IQ, contempt for work, inability to organize their lives...the list is endless. But over and over, what happens is that they are given a laundry list of freebies...which they either trash or leave.
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