Can we talk about the US homeless EPIDEMIC? And how government has done everything to make it WORSE
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I know we're all aware of the problem. But this shit is reaching epic proportions while our country has been locked up for a phony virus. How long can it get worse, how long can government pander to the media with imaginary platitudes, and when does it finally blow up in everyone's face? What happens then?
Here is Venice California which has always been a kitschy beach enclave, the sidewalk dwelling homeless caught an entire 2 story building on fire - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DdMyBlHFww
This is Olympia Washington - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgnSaPTN-Lw
A month ago during Newsom's stay home lockdown, this guy drove around LA just filming what it looks like - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpYblez-UBE
Absolutely outrageous.
And what do we get in response? Dr. Jill Biden puts out cardboard placards on the white house lawn with Valentine message hearts. We cannot let these people destroy our country.
I also just watched a video of some Americans I watch from time to time who live modest lives in Mexico - it was beautiful. Functioning, clean, normal[ish]. Trying to find covid testing sites so that they could enter America, their own fucking country - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4vVcaZUOg8
When do we come to the realization that we are running out of time to salvage the USA project which has gone off a cliff?
Thanks for the videos! Extremely interesting
In my tinfoil hat moments (which is pretty much a constant state of being these days), I think this is all according to plan. They let this stuff explode, so it drives their citizens out into the other States. They know damn well the majority of them are still going to vote Democrat wherever they land.
I've long thought that we need to get back into the business of having mental institutions, for many of the same reasons you listed. There are people that are persistently mentally ill, and no amount of social programs are going to help them because they are utterly incapable of properly taking care of themselves. They need support and supervision, and having some bread line where they can go an get a meal or a free clinic where they can go and get their meds (that they either don't take or sell off for money so they can go get their own drug of choice) doesn't cut it.
The other two examples you listed are just more instances of mental issues. Dude is a sex pest and won't stop doing lewd things in public? That's not being a piece of shit, that's a mental health problem. Drug abusers and addicts are the same thing, if it's progressed into a psychological dependency. Jimmy doesn't need to go down to the methadone clinic on the regular, he needs inpatient care to detox from the heroin and then he needs psych help to get over the issues that drove him to that point.
The long and the short of it is that the state of mental health care in this country is abysmal. I'm not saying that we need to go back to the days of Nurse Ratched and abusing mental health patients just so the doctors can see if some novel treatment has any effect. I'm saying that we need places where the people who need help and treatment can go to be housed for long-term (and even potentially permanent) situations and receive modern health care.
Most homeless are men, therefore the government will not care.
Yup. They go back to their big houses with armed security on the gate and the don't give it a second thought.
It's going to get far, far worse. Once they end the rent moratorium millions will owe 1+ year of back rent. Expect both evictions and clogged small claims courts as landlords get their money for properties they got taxed for and had to pay mortgage for throughout.
Don't you know 1 out of 10 homeless are women? That's not a bug, it's a feature!
It's like fixing the roads. Politicians prattle about it during election season but that's about it.
So when Portland or Seatlle or wherever just becomes basically a human zoo, with nothing but homeless and rioters and a few well-wishing do-gooders helping them, what then?
"Come, come to the freedom areas of antifa, where you can do and be as you like, buy what you like, all the normies are gone ..."
Smells like someone's setting up a big trap for a bunch of rats.
Have you seen The Expanse? In that series, the UN runs the world and everyone is jobless through automation and poor in their UBI. Nice and docile.
I can think of only one argument against it and that is that it could easily be abused. How would you prevent government from labeling dissidents as mental defectives, and then using that to justify locking them away for life?
What The Ghost Of Christmas Present said with derision and mockery, I instead say with saddened curiosity: Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
Canada just recently had a big project for homeless, 110 million dollars, to buy them homes. Not workhouses. They still won't be productive. No guiding care, no instruction, no job path. Just homes. Shelter is important, of course, especially in Canadian winters (as Montreal knows, since it was kicking homeless out of shelters due to COVID restrictions and watching them die on the street of cold, better dead than a cough, I guess), but it ultimately wouldn't "save" anyone. 110 million in jobs paying 10k/year would actually get people on their feet, but workhouses have such negative views that we can't just bring on homeless and give them work.
Nope, no workhouses. No make-work projects .. and even if they did come up with some, the yobbos in government would come up with the bright idea "hey, we need some immigrants in on this ..."
Didn't Elon Musk get in trouble for wanting to hire locals instead of migrant labor?
Definitely part of the big plan.
Poor people become dependent for life. And drive blue people into other states.
Now you guys care about the homeless? You right wingers never cared for them in the first place...
Yeah, right wingers cared so little that their Churches provide food for the homeless. Ronald Reagan really started the decay in the 1960s with defunding and closing mental hospitals, though honestly I view Ronald Reagan as a snake not worthy of praise. Democrats and Republicans are apathetic to homelessness (in many cases for good reason), but the difference is that Democrats pretend to care by protecting the homeless' right to rot in their own filth in the streets. Homeless Advocates have done significant damage to the homeless population in the last few decades by simply forcing governments to not even attempt to tackle the problem.
The homeless need help, but it requires them to be taken off the streets by force. They need to be forced into rehabilitation communities, get them off drugs by force, provide medical care to the truly mentally insane without the ability for them to refuse. We need to do everything homeless advocates oppose. Homeless advocates are satisfied with the homeless rotting their own filth on the streets, and that is why they should be treated as enemies of the state.