Posted on 08/21/2019 7:51:54 AM PDT by knighthawk
PORTLAND, Ore. – In the summer of 2019, Fox News embarked on an ambitious project to chronicle the toll progressive policies have had on the homeless crisis in four West Coast cities: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland, Ore. In each city, we saw a lack of safety, sanitation and civility. Residents, the homeless and advocates say they've lost faith in their elected officials' ability to solve the issue. Most of the cities have thrown hundreds of millions of dollars at the problem only to watch it get worse. This is what we saw in Portland.
He doesn't know his name and the layers of dirty clothes he's wearing hang awkwardly off his body. Disheveled and scruffy, the man, who looks like he could be in his 60s, spends most of the day shuffling around the city. He walks up to a woman holding a styrofoam to-go box, snatches it from her and throws it on the ground, spilling bits of rice, chicken and peas on the sidewalk. He laughs for a second but his mood quickly turns. He spots a city worker with a broom and shouts the N-word at him before demanding he cleans up the mess.
"He's out of his mind," the worker told Fox News, with a sigh. "Watch. He'll do it again. He does it every 15 minutes."
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In every election, the walking dead drones mindlessly pull the lever by the D and now they are surprised by the inevitable results.
Deal with it. And don’t move here.
FWIW...there’s a move on to RECALL the OREGON Governor...
Oh, the Portlanders do complain, but they support the politicians and policies that attract even more bums. It must suck to be them...on the one hand, complain about the bums. On the other hand, get politicians to Bri g in more bums. Sounds like textbook cognitive dissonance.
The mayor of San Francisco is blaming “big business” for the homeless problem...too many high paying jobs driving real estate values up. Sounds like a great problem to have.
The REAL reason we have homeless has very little to do with housing and real estate values. There are two core problems 1) drug abuse, and 2) mental illness - each and EVERY person deemed “homeless” falls into at least one of these categories, often both. These local governments exacerbate both problems by 1) encouraging drug abuse with needle programs and non-enforcement of drug laws (or any laws for that matter) and 2) refusing to institutionalize and treat the mentally ill that are dangerous to themselves and others.
Until we start talking about the REAL problems, there will be no solution.
“How much bigger must the “homeless problem” get before they stop electing democrats to run the cities and enact common sense legislation to put the crazies where they belong?”
Nothing will stop them from voting Dem. Republicans are evil, racist, no class losers. It would shatter their self image to vote Republican, voting Dem allows them to feel oh so superior.
So they’ll let the problem grow, until they can’t take it anymore, then they’ll move. They’ll find a nice, clean, well run Republican city, move in, and vote Dem.
"If you fund it, they will come"
Before government handouts, the less fortunate used to have to pay for their food. It wasn't always in coin. In the missions, you pay by attending a religious session. Other homeless (we used to call some of them "hobos") would do odd jobs for their food. Further down the reputation scale, you had "tramps" who would work when forced, and "bums" who wouldn't work at all. Being called a "bum" carried with it undesirable social baggage, and so you didn't have a lot of them. (We won't talk about "bindlestiffs", the criminals of the drug-free homeless.)
The growth of the drug-fueled culture cheapened the social effect -- some of the victims of chemicals thought their chemical millstones was "cool". And, I suspect, those druggies are the source of much of the feces and urine that now decorate the landscape of our cities. Those who still have working brains take more care of their waste.
I don't have answers.
Most of them are so out of it they wouldn’t understand the threat.
We probably need a penal colony like Australia used to be. Greenland?
Freaking locusts.
Puerto Rico. We want Greenland’s resources for ourselves, not China.
Yes, that formula has been in play a long time. California Colorado, and New Mexico come to mind. It’s happening today in Texas and Arizona. We are just starting to see cracks here in Idaho now. HUGE numbers fleeing here from all those Democrat trashed cities.
I have a plan. Throw LA completely open to the homeless. Free booze, free drugs, free food, free money, camp anywhere, poop anywhere, no police, and free transportation in from anywhere on the coast. That would solve the homeless problem in Portland, San Francisco, and Seattle.
Yes, of course it's a silly plan. It's also what they're doing.
I used to think the homeless problem could not be solved.
That view changed one day back in the 1990s.
Bill Clinton was visiting the local city (which had homeless on _every_ corner).
In the twenty four hours before his visit they all disappeared—like magic.
The point—if city leadership wants to fix the problem they will fix the problem.
Yep...they own it. BE Happy commies! I’m really surprised none of these cities haven’t started an ad campaign telling their brain dead residents that homelessness is good! Trump’s against it so stand up to the orange facist!
I agree...but, the current Democrat, Governor of California should be thrown out of office...today!!!
> In the twenty four hours before his visit they all disappeared—like magic. <
Interesting. Now here’s the big question. What were the streets like twenty four hours after Clinton’s visit? Because I wonder if the cops just didn’t (temporarily) move the homeless to a part of town where Clinton was sure not to visit.
Sort of like squeezing a balloon. As soon as you let go, the balloon reverts back to its former shape.
Some of those Hallmark movies are hilarious.
Rifftracks worthy in a few cases.
What was interesting is that they didn’t return at all—for nearly a year.
There was no media coverage of what happened to them (but I bet it wasn’t very pleasant)... :-)
If I had to guess—I think the cops picked them up in the middle of the night and transported them far out of the town...and weren’t very nice about it.
When I was in Winston-Salem, the Bush/Dukakis debate was at Wake Forest. The day before the debate, the downtown area was overrun with aggressive panhandlers. These were the Reagan/Bush 6 million homeless coming into town to set up the optics for the narrative
Bleeding heart liberals are now reaping in the whirlwind what they sowed in the wind.
Too bad for them.
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