Homeless living on Seattle's sidewalks are now adding whimsical landscape art
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Imagine living there and seeing that every day, dreading leaving your house because you will inevitably be confronted with "change... change..." everywhere you turn.
Someone asking you for change is the least of your concerns. More like "stepping on a used needle" or "your kids watching homeless people do drugs/have sex"
Homelessness is usually followed by mental illness. There have been many subway attacks in NYC lately, caused by people who should have been institutionalized. I didn't worry as much over the needles and human shit, working in SF, more of that man whispering to himself, hoping he wouldn't punch me in the head as he walked by.
That's the thing really isn't it. Let's close the mental health institutes cause we can freely distribute the drugs and psychiatry has advanced! It's cruel to lock these people in cells! Budget cuts budget cuts. So okay, now they're just left to rot on the street, not getting any help at all. Good going progressives, you sure helped people improve their lives.
It was Reagan that shut down all the mental hospitals in the 1980s.
Then had that ineffectual "war on drugs"/DARE programme while Iran/Contra was assisting cocaine to flood into the country, iirc.
Now, the hard drugs scene isn't even about cocaine any more, it's shifted right to the methamphetamines, and opiates (mostly from prescription origin, notice that it's been prescription drugs that the celebs have been offing themselves with for the past couple decades .. and even before that, when Johnny Cash was a pill-popper enabled by his doctor way back in the 1950s, ffs) .. .and that crap has come from corrupt pharmacists willing to feed the market (and gee, it tends to be pakis ... spreading opiate addiction for the chinese ...)
So, I wonder when all this social experimentation actually started, now.
I think it is progress and I was informed by reliable leftists that progress is great no matter what.
See: South Park: Night of the Living Homeless