Footage Of Homelessness In California Shows Devastating Effects Of Democrats' Policies

January 18, 2018, 01:09 PM

jimmy123x

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
Downtown Tacoma and Seattle are the same way. I've posted about it before. Three years of working downtown in Tacoma near the dome has given me a completely different perspective on homelessness. There's homeless, and then there's these people. They're two-legged raccoons at best.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. /Rutger Hauer

I've never been to CA. But I visited Seattle about 5 years ago. It was down right gross. Right down town where all of the tourist attractions are like Pike's Market, there are TONS of homeless people, entire families of homeless people, all over on the sidewalks, all asking and begging for money.

January 18, 2018, 01:17 PM

HayesGreener

This is how you build a shithole.

January 18, 2018, 01:17 PM

chellim1

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Originally posted by Scoutmaster:
Goebbels lives. CA politicians extract all kinds of money for themselves, the needy get the leftovers. And the masses keep supporting the lie, believing that all evil is caused by conservatives.

How could anything be caused by conservatives?
I thought they all left... well except for you, Scoutmaster

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown

"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor

January 18, 2018, 01:21 PM

RGRacing

Mpls is moving them out for the SB - Filled in all the pot holes - as if this is the way it is all year - LOL. Hope they clear out the pan handlers on all the exits as well.

But we have a great stadium for every sport.

Go Vikes - hope there isn't any BLM freeway closures, love to see that - Already settled a couple strikes - Maybe some other agendas before it's all over.

January 18, 2018, 01:36 PM

TomV

I see this everyday while Working and passing through Oakland/Berkeley/Richmond.

It is amazing the amount of TRASH that they collect and generate. And the vast numbers of bicycles, I assume they just steal a new one when it is convenient.

Lots of tents and shelters being built from pallets.

January 18, 2018, 01:48 PM

Rey HRH

That looks like some third world shithole country.

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.

January 18, 2018, 01:52 PM

Sig2340

The Grapes of Wrath, 2018.

The footage is eerily similar.

You see homelessness of people with no sense of personal or community responsibility. Their areas are littered with waste, their "tent" is in poor condition, and the few people seen in these areas are filthy. It looks like a third world shithole like Iraq or failed African states. I bet these are people I'd class as losers, criminals, drug addicts, illegals, and the mentally ill. No useful education, no marketable skills, and no ability to re-enter the social system in America.

In other areas you see people who have not lost a sense of personal dignity or basic social responsibility. It reminds me of Mother Joab cleaning up the hit they were given in the Department of Agriulture camp. The clue were the bags of trash stacked neatly by the side of the trail. They not only dispose of their trash appropriately, they took the time to obtain the bags (which are probably given away). Those areas are, for the most part, neat and clean. One even had created a walkway to their tent so they weren't tracking soil into their abode. You also see laundry drying on lines. This says something about those people. These I suspect are people with a limited education (e.g., high school, or close enough for a GED), few marketable skills, and above all no "stake" with which to try to make another go at living the second world level life of poor.

The first are those we once institutionalized and tried to keep safe from harm or harming us. The latter are people the "safety net" of social welfare programs were intended to reach. Why are those programs failing to help those who can be helped? I suspect it has to do,with the massive waste of resources on the former class.

During the first great economic depression of the 20th century these assemblages of homeless were called Hoovervilles. I propose we call the 21st century version Obamaoases (Obamaoasis, singular).

I think it captures the hallucinatory effect of the person lost in the desert without water in a way similar to the hallucinatory effect the Obama had on people who believed the socialist utopia he promised.

January 18, 2018, 01:58 PM

radioman

Rite Aid called. They want their shopping carts back.

(On a more serious note, Portland is the same way. Can't go into some areas. Cops won't even move them any more.

Right to Dream, or whatever they're calling it now)

January 18, 2018, 02:00 PM

ensigmatic

First time I was in California, many, many years ago, I noticed the prevalence of public toilets.

Now, we have those here in Michigan, but they're generally limited to public places the public visits in numbers, such as parks, beaches, rest stops and the like. These were just all over the place.

So I asked about it. Was told "To accommodate the homeless." And found that was but one of many things they did there to "accommodate the homeless." "But doesn't that tend to attract such people?" I asked. My guide, an out-of-stater, himself, gave me a sidelong glance and replied "Yeah, it does."

California is not just not part of America, at least not America as I understand it to be, but it's not even part of the same reality in which I exist.

January 18, 2018, 02:21 PM

YooperSigs

Nice bike trail! Or was. The only way I would ride it now would be if I had something belt fed mounted on the handlebars.
I hope all our SF members now in Kalifornia can GTFO.

January 18, 2018, 02:28 PM

oldfireguy

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Downtown Tacoma and Seattle are the same way.

California, Oregon, Washington and coming your way. Just keep voting the same bastards in office.

January 18, 2018, 02:56 PM

P220 Smudge

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:
But I visited Seattle about 5 years ago. It was down right gross. Right down town where all of the tourist attractions are like Pike's Market, there are TONS of homeless people, entire families of homeless people, all over on the sidewalks, all asking and begging for money.

Oh, it's worse now. We took my son to the Seattle Aquarium last year and everything between parking and the door was homeless tents. I told my wife we weren't bringing our son into that kind of squalor anymore.

When we moved here in 2010, the parks in Seattle were already a huge homeless conversion zone I wasn't exactly comfortable with. Now the parks are homeless neighborhoods.