Posted on 05/13/2024 12:26:02 PM PDT by knighthawk
California Governor Gavin Newsom was called out by a reporter after he continued to dodge questions about blowing the state's $24 billion spending on the homeless.
The Golden State's budget deficit is at least $45 billion, a shortfall so large it prompted Newsom to propose painful spending cuts impacting immigrants, kindergarteners and low-income parents seeking child care in a state often lauded for having the world's fifth-largest economy.
California spent $24 billion tackling homelessness over five years but didn't track if the money was helping the state's growing number of unhoused people, a damning report says.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“For $24 BILLION he could have built condos for all of them..................”
But... as we all know... the money was never really intended for the homeless.
Precisely correct! 👍👍
Now, now...there must be an obscure or perhaps archaic definition of “tackle” that reads as follows: To increase or foment.
Called out by who? Certainly not corporate media.
I just posted on Newsom’s X post.
He wants to take the guns away from Americans.
The poor, uneducated, Hispanic, renters with single Moms are where the violent crimes are.
https://bestneighborhood.org/conservative-vs-liberal-map-los-angeles-county-ca/
https://crimegrade.org/violent-crime-los-angeles-ca/
https://bestneighborhood.org/race-in-los-angeles-county-ca/
https://bestneighborhood.org/housing-data-in-los-angeles-county-ca/
https://bestneighborhood.org/household-income-los-angeles-county-ca/
https://bestneighborhood.org/educational-achievement-in-los-angeles-county-ca/
https://bestneighborhood.org/demographics-in-los-angeles-county-ca/
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/sanfranciscocitycalifornia
San Francisco:
Foreign born persons, percent, 2017-2021 34.1%
White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent 39.2%
Asian alone, percent(a) 34.4%
Hispanic or Latino, percent(b) 15.4%
Black or African American alone, percent(a) 5.2%
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/newyorkcitynewyork/POP645221
New York City:
Foreign born persons, percent, 2017-2021 36.3%
White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent 31.9%
Hispanic or Latino, percent(b) 28.9%
Black or African American alone, percent(a) 23.4%
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/detroitcitymichigan/POP645221
Detroit:
Foreign born persons, percent, 2017-2021 5.7%
White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent 10.1%
Black or African American alone, percent(a) 77.9%
Hispanic or Latino, percent(b) 7.8%
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/losangelescitycalifornia/POP645221
Los Angeles
Foreign born persons, percent, 2017-2021 36.2%
White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent 28.1%
Hispanic or Latino, percent(b) 48.4%
Asian alone, percent(a) 11.7%
Black or African American alone, percent(a) 8.6%
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/orangecountycalifornia/POP645221
Orange County, California:
Foreign born persons, percent, 2017-2021 29.4%
White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent 38.0%
Hispanic or Latino, percent(b) 34.0%
Asian alone, percent(a) 23.3%
Black or African American alone, percent(a) 2.3%
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/jacksoncitymississippi/POP645221
Jackson, Mississippi, the most conservative city in the U.S.
Foreign born persons, percent, 2017-2021 1.3%
White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent 14.5%
Black or African American alone, percent(a) 82.8%
Hispanic or Latino, percent(b) 1.5%
Asian alone, percent(a) 0.3%
Philosophical Question?
About 90% of the homeless are people with drug or psychological problems. The 10% that are economic victims deserve help. If the other 90% will not accept help with their drug problems, or psychological problems what is societies duty to them?
For myself I would offer help and if they refuse it, it is not our problem. At this point we just isolate them from society via mental institutions and foreced drug rehab.
You get more of what you pay for, donchano./sarc
100 💯 success
Yeah, but he had the best of intentions. Pay no attention to the various kickbacks and contracts to his friends and family.
Gruesome Newsom is the biggest POS ever to set foot in the former Golden State.
..................and Calif spent 30 billion on illegals last year and then Jan 1 gave them free medical care (another 3 billion) Projected state deficit? 54 billion.
LA has a plan to build small houses for the “unhoused.” , think studio. Cost over 800,000 per.
$24 billion could build many homes.
Just handing out the money directly would have helped hundreds of thousands.
called out, not investigated, not prosecuted, not jailed, called out,
There were results.
The State was strengthened.
The middle class was made poorer.
Both are wins for Deep State.
California taxpayers, if you weren't already wondering about whether or not the Harkles are tax dodgers and if CA is paying for their security, you should now...
“Unhoused people”?
That’s like calling illegal aliens “newcomers”.
24 billion are just the state matching funds to the US taxpayer funds.
From the link...
...In some cases, it’s difficult to know exactly what’s holding up these projects. Communications involving the governor’s office are exempt from the California Public Records Act...
Bold is mine.
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