Posted on 09/23/2015 12:41:21 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Los Angeles. This is the LA Times: "LA to Declare 'State of Emergency' on Homelessness, Commit $100 Million -- Los Angeles elected leaders," as opposed to the unelected leaders, "announced yesterday that they would declare a 'state of emergency' and devote up to $100 million" toward housing and other services for homeless people. I know. I mean, there's all kinds of lines here just waiting. Why don't they disguise themselves as immigrants? Why don't they go pitch their tent or their shopping cart, whatever, near the border like they're immigrants.
"The proposal, which was presented at the City Hall press conference attended by city council members and Mayor Eric Garcetti's coincides with a Garcetti proposal late Monday that aims to free up nearly $13 million in newly anticipated excess tax revenue for short-term housing initiative." What is this excess tax revenue? Newly anticipated. That tells me they don't have it yet. That tells me they are anticipating collecting more tax revenue than they thought, but that they don't have it yet, but it doesn't matter because they're gonna commit this.
Now, what stuns me about this are two things. How does this happen in a city that is run by compassionate, caring, concerned, and high taxing leftists. Furthermore, not just the city, in a state-run by compassionate, concerned, big spender, high taxing leftists, how does this happen? Why isn't California a utopia? You can't blame the Republicans. They aren't even a factor. The Republicans can't mount enough votes to even get noticed on anything, much less stop something. No, no, no, folks, I'm not asking a rhetorical question. I'm damn serious here.
How does this happen? You've got a perfectly run city by liberals, you've got a liberal Hollywood, you've got liberalism running that town and all the supposed benefits of it -- compassion and caring and concern and anti-discrimination, whatever it is that comes under that umbrella -- how in the hell can you have a record number of homeless? See, I only thought homelessness happened with Republican presidents, and furthermore, I thought it only got reported with Republican presidents. What's the LA Times even doing reporting this? I know, I know, it's a rhetorical question. It's so bad, they can't ignore it.
It is bad. It's causing the closure of emergency rooms along with illegal immigration. The hospitals can't stay in business. You know, federal law, you gotta be treated when you show up in the emergency room. You know how many hospitals have closed in southern California alone in the last number of years because of illegal immigrants and nonpayers visiting the emergency room? They can't afford it anymore.
Liberalism can't be afforded, period, but it doesn't mean they don't give up trying, but how can this situation even exist? How can there be a record number of homeless? Why is a hundred million dollars needed when you've got people that believe in utopia running the place? And why are they doing this now? Seriously. Why now? Why all of a sudden do they profess this massive concern about the homeless?
Well, if you read deeply enough into this story, you will find the answer to that question. And it is a quote from a man named Cedillo. That's his first name? Cedillo. Cedillo. Councilman Gilbert Cedillo says it's not a skid row problem. It's a problem that's proliferated throughout the city. "If we want to be a great city that hosts the Olympics and shows itself off to the world, we shouldn't have 50,000 homeless people sleeping on the streets." And there is your answer.
They're gonna bid for an upcoming Olympics, and they know they're not gonna get it if there are 50,000 homeless people on the streets. You know, you people don't need to do all this. You need to take lessons from New York City in 1992. They had the same problem. I was there. I saw it happen. You know what they did? They simply bused the homeless down to the Battery Park area for the week the Democrat convention was in town. There's no way the homeless were gonna be able to walk back up to Madison Square Garden in that period of time.
They didn't have to spend any more money. They didn't build any more housing. They just shifted 'em. They just moved 'em from the Garden down to the Battery Park area, Wall Street and so forth, right? (interruption) That's right. That's right. That's right. General Dinkins, Mayor Dinkins, general, the mayor for life, David Dinkins, just swept 'em up. 'Cause they knew that C-SPAN cameras and network cameras were gonna be there. But seriously now, folks, with all attempt at humor aside. How does this happen? How do you have, during the Obama administration, a Democrat-run city, a Democrat-run state for decades, how do you have this homeless problem? Aren't they the ones that know how to solve these things? Record tax revenues collected in California. Why do they have this problem still?
Now, conservatism is the answer to this, and conservatism can answer the questions I'm asking. They're not addressing the problem and never have addressed the problem and they're incapable of addressing the problem. You know why? Because the problem, the actual solution to poverty and homelessness is not found in liberalism. It's found in conservatism. It's found in economic growth. It's found in capitalism. It's found in self-reliance. It's found in self-help.
You're gonna have a much greater success rate if you teach people how to get out of poverty, if you motivate them to get out of it rather than promise you're gonna take care of 'em, 'cause you can't, and you end up with empty promises and circumstances like this. At the end of it all, you still have the homeless and you still have the problems but liberals get all the credit for having great intentions and big hearts. And the people you're trying to help are worse off than ever, but you're not supposed to point that out.
Bush’s fault of course.
I blame FDR and LBJ.
If we’ve already got “record homelessness”, why the hell does Barry keep importing more?
It’s the weather. If you gotta be poor, this has got to be the best place to be poor.
Only if you have no intention of ever working for a living.
Because THEY won't be homeless. He'll take enough of our assets to make sure of that. The Party needs the permanent votes.
If we’ve already got “record homelessness”, why the hell does Barry keep importing more?
Because he’s EXPORTING them to red States
I had that exact thought when stepping around a homeless man in San Diego.
But if a Republican is elected they will blame him/her within 24 hours.
Because Democrats need VOTES and what better way than importing more of them
I gotta plan. Have a “Get out of town lottery.” Give every homeless person a lottery ticket to win the $100M if they agree to leave California and never come back. Give the winner the $100M. Problem solved.
Because they are future Democrat voters. Who cares if they work or contribute. They’ll be voters.
Only if you send them to Mexico. Or points South.
for libtards, more homelessness just means there needs to be higher taxes, and bigger government.
Liberalism is playing out as a huge failure but libtards don’t want to hear that. They’ve become too much of fanatics towards their cause to listen to the damage they’ve helped cause. They’d rather let this country go broke than admit the failure we all see playing out when they are in charge.
The major problem is, too many of these fanatics are in charge of too many things in this country and places of influence these days (the media is a good example of this). Since liberalism has been a huge failure (all one has to do is point out the massive debt we have getting to this point) they will eventually drag America down with them.
Many here understand this. I write this for those liberals/progressives that come to read here so they take a good look at the damage of what they believe plays out in the real world. There is no one else to blame for what is happening in California but on liberalism. Same for Detroit and other statist bastions where liberals and progressives ran the show for decades.
Now, you libs/progs want to bring those failures to the rest of America. This is your wake-up call, this is the reality of what you believe. You can continue to let the devil blind you to reality or come to understand the failures and help us get America back to the Constitutional Republic it is supposed to be before the libs/progs tried to do their best to undermine it for the last century or so. America can be strong again but the liberal/progressive statist ideas for this country need to be purged and get government back to the Constitution that is was intended to be.
CGato
I was in Chicago last winter and saw a homeless guy.
It was, like, 17 degrees.
I almost gave him grudging respect.
Almost.
I’ve lived in Los Angeles for some 43 years and NEVER remember seeing any Asian so-called homeless.
We were in Seattle over the weekend. Shocking number of homeless and just friggin’ nutcases in the downtown/port area. But the town is pretty clean. Of course, you can’t walk a block without getting behind somebody who’s smoking a joint.
Couldn’t get back to the Alamo City soon enough.
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