You live in LA? San Fran area? Because I have to say that the price they were paying is enough for me to never consider living there even though it is really nice.
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San Diego was in the 80's when I was a child. I was not robbed personally. There were people being detained for robbery / drugs at the border to Tijuana. I remember vividly because my parents were trying to shield me from it.
GO NOLES!!!
So what would you do with the ones in prison? Let them out? Many people in prison are repeat offenders or habitual criminals. How can you sincerely tell the population that they are safe if you have no prison system, no police and no prosecution? That's a recipe for more crime. Add all these prisoners to a growing number of homeless people and that equals trouble for people.
They are homeless and people so they are homeless people. Do they need help? Yes some do but some are there by their own actions.
I guess we should call felons "someone who had a interaction with law enforcement" ? Sounds silly doesnt it?
That's your reality. That's not the reality for everyone. If a guy that lives there and works at a major hotel chain tells me to be careful and avoid certain streets there is a problem.
Again I think homelessness was being called a cancer which it is, no matter what group it is. The people involved are not the issue.
According to the VA in 2022 there was around 33k homeless vets in the US. Total homeless people in the same time frame was 582k. Vets make up around 5% of that so probably not the largest group.
VA.gov | Veterans Affairs
Apply for and manage the VA benefits and services you’ve earned as a Veteran, Servicemember, or family member—like health care, disability, education, and more.
To be clear Gary said cancer, not homeless, people or even crime. Im not sure how you got to him referring to people as cancer. But if you want to be offended go ahead. Homelessness is a cancer on society one that we have all failed to fix.
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Seems to me that if your not living in the middle of this, and I mean it’s at your doorstep, your place of business, and you have to experience the public defacation, urinatiion, open drug use etc, how can you make an accurate description of what the taxpayers, homeowners and business owners are going thru 24/7
You can’t
Don’t say you visit the areas, see it on the news, talk about it on message boards and then try to say that your feeling what these people affected by it are!
The only way to get something done about it is move the camps into the wealthy politicians neighborhood!
Let’s hear from someone who lives in this mess daily, and are getting no relief!
You can’t
Don’t say you visit the areas, see it on the news, talk about it on message boards and then try to say that your feeling what these people affected by it are!
The only way to get something done about it is move the camps into the wealthy politicians neighborhood!
Let’s hear from someone who lives in this mess daily, and are getting no relief!
Thank you for telling us what he meant when we could all clearly read what he wrote.
I'd say, " Salt of the earth"...
People that kill, rape, steal and hurt innocent people are cancers to society and need to be removed from society, one way or another. I don't give a ____ if they're homeless or live in the Taj Mahal.
I live in Florida most of the time and we have homeless here living on the streets, in the woods ect... I travel to many cities across the US frequently and see it in LA, San Diego, Atlanta, New York, Chicago its real because ive seen it progress over the years. What they need to do is leave the country and come back as a migrant, they would get better assistance that way.
Like I said if you want to be offended go ahead. Clearly we all cant see that because not everyone agrees. He said the cancer is spreading. If you got that people are a cancer from that I dont know what to tell you.
Ok, here’s a question
We all agree there’s a homeless situation in America
And resources are thin
So why are millions of people being let into the country, taking up resources that could be applied to the homeless?
I don’t get it
We all agree there’s a homeless situation in America
And resources are thin
So why are millions of people being let into the country, taking up resources that could be applied to the homeless?
I don’t get it
Same could he said with the money being sent to Ukraine..
So, you support Putin and his goal of reestablishing the USSR? Interesting.
Are they literally at your front door?
I specifically stated those affected by this 24/7
Are you saying la is 100% affected by this?
When you open your front door is that the first thing you see?
Are they pooping, peeing, littering,doing drugs on your front porch?
I am not, so I cannot say what it’s like on a daily basis for those who are
I have no clue what it’s like
Nobody can unless we are in that situation
I have no clue what it’s like
Nobody can unless we are in that situation
Nice way to make it sound like its the systems fault and not the individuals. I was always told you sleep with dogs you get fleas.
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That's a relief. I would be insulted if he thought I was from there.He could probably tell that you aren’t from around here.
Again not what he said. Why spend abroad when we have pressing needs here? Your good at putting words in peoples mouths.
The US had a very big hand in the invasion and could have done more to prevent it. Instead we provoked a country into a proxy war. If were going to help Ukraine we should help them by putting him down for good like we did all the others.
I support taking care of own first and foremost.
When I see hundreds of thousands of illegals flooding our border and the administration doing diddly poo to stop it.. and when billions upon billions is being sent to another country, when we have our own issues here, it should piss you off..
It’s sad that it doesn’t.
75 billion could go along way here, right? But no, send it to Ukraine
The American military budget is $790 billion PER YEAR.
$75 billion in military aide to Ukraine is peanuts.
It's a great deal to pummel Russia and Putin. He's an enemy to the free world and he hates America.
@GeddyLee09
It’s Costing Peanuts for the US to Defeat Russia
The cost-benefit analysis of US support for Ukraine is incontrovertible. It’s producing wins at almost every level.
The American military budget is $790 billion PER YEAR.
$75 billion in military aide to Ukraine is peanuts.
It's a great deal to pummel Russia and Putin. He's an enemy to the free world and he hates America.
@GeddyLee09
It’s Costing Peanuts for the US to Defeat Russia
The cost-benefit analysis of US support for Ukraine is incontrovertible. It’s producing wins at almost every level.cepa.org
75 billion would go a long way to help the homeless crisis wouldn’t it? 75 billion would go a long way to secure the border. Would it not? 75 billion into our school systems sure would help..
But let’s send it to Ukraine
Not sure why your calling me out but... I'm not sure you fully understand how Defense budgets work. 10% of the annual budgets isn't peanuts its more than 5 member countries pay into NATO every year. That's money that could be going to facilities, cyber programs, new technology or maintenance of existing equipment. Is the safety of Ukraine worth the lives of US troops? Since the answer is yes then go and do it. Get rid of him now while he's weak. Don't continue to pour money into another war of attrition. There's more to the US spending money over there than the safety of the Ukrainian people. If that was the concern Russia wouldn't have attacked them.The American military budget is $790 billion PER YEAR.
$75 billion in military aide to Ukraine is peanuts.
It's a great deal to pummel Russia and Putin. He's an enemy to the free world and he hates America.
@GeddyLee09
It’s Costing Peanuts for the US to Defeat Russia
The cost-benefit analysis of US support for Ukraine is incontrovertible. It’s producing wins at almost every level.
Exactly. It’s still money being spent.. so if that money can’t technically go towards our border or the homeless. It’s still money that isn’t being spent on things you mentioned, facilities, programs etc
I don't agree with him at all but... Ukraine was part of Russia during the Warsaw Pact. They truly believe its theirs and many Ukrainian people believe they are Russian.
The US having troops in Ukraine would be the equivalent of Russia having bases in Mexico. Wouldn't go over well. However, Putin is a destabilizer and wants to take down an independent nation which should be stopped. If we don't take him down while we have the chance he will continue his antics.
The American military budget is $790 billion PER YEAR.
$75 billion in military aide to Ukraine is peanuts.
It's a great deal to pummel Russia and Putin. He's an enemy to the free world and he hates America.
@GeddyLee09
It’s Costing Peanuts for the US to Defeat Russia
The cost-benefit analysis of US support for Ukraine is incontrovertible. It’s producing wins at almost every level.
Our money is going to the corrupt government of Ukraine and is defeating no one. The article was from November. How's the war coming along nearly half a year later? 100% the money would be better served here in the US.
GO NOLES!!!
True idiocy on display!
Reality? 1. The unvaccinated that haven't caught Covid possibly have genetic immunity?
2. Those that caught Covid and survived have acquired immunity?
3. /4. The vaccinated that continue to catch/or not catch Covid.
The long term effects for all 4 remain unknown.
Is it? You can find all kinds of videos of business owners fed up with the problems that you think are hyperbole
Brain, cmon
What I said is if your not affected with this problem, in your face 24/7 then you cannot say it’s not bad
Because you live in la doesn’t mean your impacted by this like others are, la is a huge city
How can you not understand what I’m saying
Why not just answer the damn question, when you open your front door are the encampments in your face
Don’t try to act like your at ground zero when your not!
You and Brian jumped on folks using the word cancer to describe this situation
Fair enough, but what if someone whose little children have to see this, wade thru this on the way to school?
You stand with the encampments but what about the people directly affected by this? Do they deserve it, is it fair to them?
I learned a ton about the homeless in my 5 years living in Seattle and the best I can tell there are different versions. In the PNW there were those that chose the “lifestyle”, liked living off the grid, traveled up and down I-5 and squatted in different cities depending on the weather. Seemingly enjoying the freedom of picking up with no ties and obligations. And then there were those who were incapable, for whatever reason, of living what most of us think is a typical existence. I am pretty sure which category most if not all homeless vets fit under.
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Homeless people can’t exist in a vacuum. The system that allows it to perpetuate is the cancer. The ambivalence or even acceptance is the cancer. There are reasons some cities or areas experience a higher level of “unhoused” people.
It is systemically ignored if not widely accepted. How about investing some of that ridiculous amount of taxes levied to offer shelters, programs and solutions? I have never seen government do less with more than my time on the left coast.
Russia is getting slaughtered in men and materiel not to mention their economy is crumbling.
20,000 Russians killed in Ukraine since December, U.S. says
The Kremlin’s forces have suffered more than 100,000 killed or wounded since December alone, the U.S. now estimates.
www.google.com
I wasn't talking about homeless, but I can see how everyone thought that.
Been out doing hot laps in my car all day or I would have clarified that much earlier.
"Sorry about that, Chief".
I was talking about California liberalism. That's all.
