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'California Is the Future'

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7 ups, 10mo,
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I travel all over the country. I have witnessed first hand the amount of degradation the homeless inflict on any area they inhabit.

The squatting on private property, obstructing businesses, overtaking recreational areas, the massive piles of trash, the excrement, the needles, the harassing conduct, the thievery, the vandalism, the sense of entitlement, and the violence.

The homeless in all the areas I have been are the most OVER served demographic. Yet, all the good and services provided and money thrown at the issue has not mitigated the problem or reduced the numbers living in the streets. The volume increases.

This seems to NOT be the model to continue following in the effort to eradicate homelessness.

Austerity measures? If need be.

🤔 I'm not sure I have heard any complaining from the homeless about their plight or situation...I e. clamoring for housing. I have heard complaints about the quality, quantity, or menu choices of the free meals they are provided. Even seen much of the food items discarded unopened and/or untouched. Not isolated incidents, recurrent widespread happenings.
7 ups, 10mo,
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I used to live in southern CA where homelessness is rampant and as far as you can see in every direction. The real problem is not at all a homeless problem, it is a massive drug abuse problem. In southern CA, the homeless people are not poor or just hit "hard" times, they are all 100% drug addicts and have burned every bridge they have. Until groups that truly want to help address it as a drug problem, the homeless population will continue to rapidly increase.
7 ups, 10mo,
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I absolutely agree. People still think it is a single mom who couldn't make the rent or some poor troubled mind that can't live independently.

To add to the validity of your statement - their families are not making any efforts in getting them off the streets.

Best estimate - half a million in California alone
8 ups, 10mo,
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consider the drug addicts strewn all over southern California have already strained or broken all their family and friendships relationships to be where they are. Most are beyond help because of the damage already done to their brain, but what they need is drug rehab, not another soup kitchen.
6 ups, 10mo,
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I cannot disagree with anything you are saying with the exception of the drug rehab.

Drug rehab is rarely successful. And the few successes are rarely sustained.

Not saying no junkie gets clean. I am saying the rate of sobriety will be so low that it won't make a noticeable difference in the population.

A few out, a few thousand in.

There is some reason they are provided free needles, free narcan, and $600+ cash per month yet someone with a life threatening allergy can't get a free EpiPen.

Why? It can't be concern for people's well being.

Perhaps self annihilation? Provide them with all the tools to permanently remove themselves from society? Provide narcan just to make it look good?

You know the most common first words of a person revived after administered narcan?

"What did you do that for".

They're angry that you ruined their high. And, as is their right, they get up and leave. Not every single one, yet so often you'd say "everybody" in casual conversation.
1 up, 10mo
I think if all the money is being wasted keeping drug addicted homeless people addicted, then it could be wasted on a permanent home solution in a health care facility like an asylum. Homeless people are dangerous to themselves by abusing drugs, and are dangerous to others including society. They are detrimental to the environment and create hostility in communities around them. They need an asylum to live in where they are not allowed to use drugs, and receive healthcare for drug addiction.

Is there hope for the junkie? Idk. Some of them are just trying to die. Maybe voluntary assisted suicide as an option? Idk… we all hope it will get better, but all the money in the world won’t help if junkies can’t stop using drugs. So the only thing that worked in the past was asylum for the troubled, still that backfired, lots of innocent people died. And we’re not junkies. But homeless facilities with permanent drug rehab, or oversight on drug use might not be a bad idea. If drugs are administered to old people why not have a homeless care facility….. but I totally also agree the regular people need free access to life saving medications like the Epipin or insulin…. So many other health care options that bankrupt the poor and middle class.
3 ups, 10mo
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6 ups, 10mo,
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As long as CA continues a co-dependency attitude toward drug use and mental illness, this will go on. Truly helping those in need does not involve assisting in life-threatening behavior or lifestyles.
4 ups, 10mo
Yup... Kommifornia has the largest homeless population
3 ups, 10mo
Yes California politicians are enablers. The people any rehab will tell you need to cut you off unless you get clean.
6 ups, 10mo,
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The federal government also awarded California first place in a number of other categories:

It had the country’s highest homelessness rate, with 44 people out of every 10,000 experiencing homelessness.
It had the largest increase in its homeless population of any other state from both 2020-22 (6.2%) and 2007-22 (23.4%), whereas Florida — a state often in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s crosshairs as he spars with its Republican governor Ron DeSantis — saw a 5.6% decrease from 2020-22 and notched the country’s biggest decrease from 2007-22 (46%).
California had nine times more unsheltered people than Washington, the state with the next highest number (115,491 people compared to 12,668 people).
5 ups, 10mo,
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They just smoke their weed and pretend nothing is happening until it is them living on the streets.
2 ups, 10mo
Many of the non metropolis areas do not operate the same way. LA, SF, Sacramento have destroyed the states urban centers. They are total disasters that if you took a tour would not believe it was the United States. Unless you are from New York or Chicago then it would seem like home.
0 ups, 10mo,
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Why would anyone need to smoke 99% high concentration THC? What is wrong with the states that allow such a thing? Why would anyone want to be high longer than 4 hours? I understand the pain relief benefits from disease, but even then 9-15% THC should do.
1 up, 10mo,
1 reply
people stoned out of their minds are easy to control.
0 ups, 10mo
6 ups, 10mo,
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Most states don't offer what I depicted in the attached meme and you and yours act as if it is 'normal' and 'acceptable'. Look at New York...another state run into the ground due to Democrat failed policies.
6 ups, 10mo,
2 replies
California ( which some say has a quarter of the entire homeless population within its borders) subsidizes homeless people to the tune of $600+ per month cash money in addition to every other freebie you can imagine.

I believe this only serves to fuel the problem instead of solving it.
5 ups, 10mo,
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Yes, and just can't wait until the reparations flow in for black (non) victims. I wonder if the Hollywood stars who happen to be black will qualify for the handout? 🤔
5 ups, 10mo
Will Smith will certainly owe some portion of his to Chris Rock for slapping him.

I wonder who decided giving drug addicts $600+ a month cash was a good idea.

You give them the needles, the narcan, and the money to buy the dope. If it seems this is on purpose that's because it is.

The question is WHY ?
3 ups, 10mo
1 up, 10mo,
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NYC is the richest city on Planet Earth, an its economic driver.
Remember Gerald Ford, anyone, and why he was told to sit down and shut his stupid mouth up in regards to trying to shut us down? Cost his blundering ass the election.

California is the world's 5th largest economy, and one the USA depends on. Remove NYC and Cali, and the USA becomes coast to coast tumbelweeds.
1 up, 10mo,
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1 up, 10mo
.... and with Walmart as our culture
2 ups, 10mo
California has 12% of the population but 30% of the homeless population so other places have homelessness but not at the ratio California has.
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