AUGUST 10, 2024
VOLUME 69
POLITICALLY INCORRECT, CENTER-RIGHT PERSPECTIVE ON CURRENT NEWS EVENTS
THE BIG HOMELESS LIE
If I gave you a pen and paper and told you that you had thirty minutes to come up with a plan on how to fix the homeless problem, most people would come up with a pretty darn viable plan. However, I think there is something else going on here, and why this problem continues to exist. It’s called milking the taxpayers.
The Feds (US Dept of Housing and Urban Development) allotted 3.16 billion dollars to the homeless problem, covering over 7,000 projects. California alone has devoted 24 billion dollars to the problem over the past five years. In my opinion, this is the core of the problem; The state didn’t consistently track the spending vs. the outcomes. I highly doubt if the federal auditors did any better.
This is a virtual river of money, and thousands of people are dipping their buckets into it, and by the time it gets down to actually doing something for the problem, the money has mysteriously disappeared. This is no longer a lifeline to struggling people, it is an administrative gimmick to milking the system.
A couple of office workers from a city office decide they need to make an appearance in the homeless war zone on Monday morning because the local news agency is going to be nosing around. They take off their loafers and put on their work boots, grab a safety vest and a hard hat, and off they go in a city vehicle. They know all of the buzz words; they have their clip boards and cameras. They talk some shit to the reporters, jump in the city car and head to Applebee’s for lunch on the taxpayers dime, then mosey on back to the office and write some more bullshit reports that go in never to be seen again file.
Meanwhile the poor folks that live in the neighborhood being overran by the feral people are calling the city day and night about drugs, theft, and feral people shitting on their driveways an pissing on their lawns. They complain to no avail about the growing piles of trash piling up in the streets, and the open fires polluting the air. They are afraid to leave their homes.
The cities response is pretty much zero, these poor folks are on their own. But if these poor suckers don’t pay their taxes the city will come down on them like wild dogs on a bleeding carcass. Oh yeah, don’t even think about building that storage shed without a permit (the one you’re trying to protect your stuff in) the city inspectors will show up out of nowhere, make you take it down or you pay a fine. All of this while some guy is breaking out your car windows and police are nowhere to be found.
The people at the federal level hold a press conference and announce they are awarding 3.16 billion dollars to fight the homeless problem. Answer a couple of bogus questions from the left-wing press, and they’re done. It never crosses their minds again until next year, then they up an ante a little. These people are the biggest liars and fakes that ever breathed. They use your tax dollars and then feed the public a bunch of bullshit. Nothing is ever accomplished unless you count all of the leftist city administrators skimming the tax dollars and taking lavish vacations. (if you don’t believe this happens, you weren’t paying attention to the Fani Willis saga)
There is a reverse incentive going on. If you fix the problem, the money stops, people get laid off, people start losing their city and county cars and gas cards. You can’t let the gravy train run out of coal boys and girls, we have to keep that damn thing running down the track. How do you expect us to pay for our big homes and boats and stuff? Don’t you think it’s a bit ironic that the governments are paying big dollars to fix a problem that continues to get worse by the day, while the people they are paying to fix it are getting fat and wealthy from the whole deal. Meantime, there are 980 alcohol and drug fatalities per 100,000 among unhoused people. Many of these states do little to curtail the flow of drugs and alcohol into homeless encampments. In 2022, 92 homeless people were murdered in L.A. and I would be willing to bet not one arrest was made. The real truth is nobody considers the homeless to be actual humans, they are vermin that nobody really wants to come in contact with.
A HUMANE SOLUTION IS NEEDED
Is this an environment you would be willing to exist in? Not me. Do you feel this is a humane situation for human beings to live in? Me neither. Surprisingly, these folks seem to function fairly well in this chaotic mess. Human beings require some sort of organized sanitation system or disease and death occur. This has to be a breeding ground for all sorts of unpleasant maladies.
Considering that the number one cause of homelessness is addiction, in my mind the only thing that makes sense is rehabilitation camps. The cities and states have access to vast amounts of open land they could utilize to create these camps. Make no mistake, these camps would have to be secure enclosures to prevent escapes. Inside the camps would be small living spaces on specified lots so each person could have their somewhat private area. Each lot would have waste receptacles that would be emptied weekly. A large building centrally located with showers and restrooms, cleaned daily by resident workers. Another large building with dining facilities. Last but not least an administration building with classrooms for rehabilitation classes and minor medical care.
This is a very brief description of what I envision, but you get the picture. The goal is to offer the residents a safe place to live, in a more orderly manner, and professional help to rebuild their lives. It would also help them escape the horrors of addiction which put them in the position in the first place. Put them back on a healthy diet to improve their overall health.
This approach works. See below.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/25/rhode-island-opioids-inmates-219594/
You are always going to get the naysayers complaining about putting people in rehab camps, but it’s one hell of a lot more humane than what is going on now. It’s proven to save lives and allow people to return to productive lives. There isn’t an abundance of abandoned prisons to utilize, but rehab camps are cheap compared to what is being currently spent and is having zero affects.
Our current governments are so corrupt and full of money-grubbing politicians my hopes of anything happening like this are pretty dim. But make no mistake,doing anything is better than doing nothing.
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