DO NOT let your local officials tell you they don't have the power to fix it. Hold their feet to the fire.
Burn the camps. With DEW technology. That’s what they did in Paradise and Lahaina. Burn then.
(Am I serious or facetious? Still deciding.)
I used to commute by bus from a very wealthy suburb (CT).
The bus station in the suburb had a bench and a small shack for waiting for the bus.
A homeless guy set up camp on the bench and moved his stuff into the shack.
...for two days...
Before the bench and the shack were gone.
The homeless guy was gone as well.
It was amazing what the suburb officials could do—and how quickly they could move when properly motivated.
P.S. The bench and shack were not owned by the town. They were actually owned by the state. The town didn’t care. They acted immediately. The state probably did not even figure it out for months.
There are other interesting stories from that town.
The locals are heavily engaged in local politics—and do not tolerate excuses or explanations. When they demand action they are in the face of town officials—and the officials have been trained to act first and analyze later.
They can’t fix it and if the Federal Government starts cutting back on spending, the economic pain will only increase among more & more people & businesses.
Since 1960 federal & state governments have completely obliterated any rational budgeting. Receipts to outlays are horrible at every level.
What is also ironic is globalisation took off, warfare took off, quota hires took off, immigration took off, grievance group pandering took off, at the same time as who cares about a budget? lets just “spend & print.”
I am thinking some of these cities will wait until they get some good typhus and dysentery epidemics going on before they will do anything.
“There have been times when the homeless campers “really creep me out,” she said. But she also wants “to be sure they have somewhere they can go where they feel safe.”
...How about your house you dumbass. this is the mentality we’re dealing with. No common sense or logic.
I talked to a neighbor who had just gotten back from a big city near here. He was trying to get his brother off the streets. He failed. the brother likes being homeless and begging for money. He said he can make more money begging than holding a job. And it is Tax Free money!
I never saw a bum on the streets around here till the vagrancy laws were done away with. Now they are everywhere.
I’m sick to the teeth with the homeless scum. Vagrants. That’s all they are.
Jail: the cure for homelessness.
The CASUAL CRUELTY that Fed, city, and state governments have shown is sorrowing and indefensible.
Many of these ILLEGAL ALIENS (arrest me!) were duped into seeking a better life from forces WITHIN their own “shit-hole” countries. “Cartels” — (predatory criminal rackets) — “Private-Pubic Partnerships” — NGOs — and others who sold them a bull-roar bill of particulars, so they’d pony up CASH they didn’t have to feed the crooks at all levels IN and OUTSIDE the U.S. for passage. Many got killed along the way because ALL these PARASITES — lots of them U.S. Gov “officials” — were only in it to cash in — whatever the cost to poor, stupid innocents.
And now we (America) are overwhelmed with broke, uneducated, unskilled, non-English-speaking. homeless and hopeless DERELICTS, who we-all are somehow now being guilt-tripped into feeling sorry for, and PROVIDING for all this “wretched refuse” tossed-up onto our shores. And lots of them are sick, some are criminals, some insane, and some (more than we know) are dedicated terrorist WARRIORS come here to DESTROY us.
They — the ILLEGAL ALIENS — should have staged revolutions back in their own countries and thrown off the crooks and communists who wrecked their countries, and FIXED their own cursed shit-hole countries. BUT THEY DIDN’T. And now they’re here, and all the rest of us are somehow expected to care and provide for them.
Never forget — DEMOCRATS DID THIS, led by their Criminal In Chief, JOE BIDEN.
“I’m warming up the bulldozer,” said Mayor R. Rex Parris, a Republican, of Lancaster, California, an exurb 62 miles north of Los Angeles.
"Well, yes. I have always voted Democratic. What does that have to do with anything?"
As for alcohol addiction, Grants Pass might be allowed by Oregon to ‘dry’ up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dry_communities_by_U.S._state
Why this is just rabbit food juice with some ethanol!
Yup, it’s water, kale, parsley, cilantro, lemongrass and 3% ethanol!
Rabbit Food Cocktail (TM) is the only alcoholic beverage I can sell you unless you buy a ten-year city purchase permit for $250.
I’m getting out of this freaking hellhole!
Need a bus ticket?
They still need to revamp their policies. For me, it starts with building more prisons to get the worst offenders off the streets.
I have no issues making civil libertarians more squeamish. They're part of the problem.
Where do I buy pot?
Can’t you see the tents?
The DEA cracks down on pot dispensaries within fifty miles of a homeless encampment.
Hi, I’m a social worker for the city.
The city is going to clear this encampment soon.
Do you have friends or relatives you can stay with?
The city will help you buy a bus ticket if you need one and pay $10 toward it.