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California has no pride nor a backbone; it takes some balls to say "NO" to the various people begging for "help".
Not sure what you would do, or accomplish by just saying "no" or how that will solve the problem.
They will kill you when their life depends on it because they are lacking alternatives. Republicans are constricting the resources as if they could kill off the homeless before the homeless kills off Republicans.
jazz_music saysThey will kill you when their life depends on it because they are lacking alternatives. Republicans are constricting the resources as if they could kill off the homeless before the homeless kills off Republicans.
"Republicans"? In Santa Cruz? What are you smoking?
millions of unemployed and unhoused people living as refugees
Stopping the policies attracting bums from all over the country into small enclaves would be a start.
Republicans have a program, and it is a new economy of for-profit prisons. These prisons have taken our unprecedented population of prisonersI'm surprised you're not for a program where anyone with a 5-year or more sentence is just shot in the head instead. The USA could learn a lot from certain other countries!
While you hear a lot about homelessness in Los Angeles and San Francisco, homeless encampments in San Jose California, are apparent a mere 5 blocks from where I live. In what is called the heart of Silicone Valley, a turn of phrase that always puzzled me when the giants of the tech industry, Hewlett/Packard, Steve Jobs, and Steve Wozniak, Apple, all came out of Palo Alto.
To understand the problem, I went to Mabury Street and interviewed Rachel Figuero on Sept. 8.
She is an older woman who has been living on the streets “Two and a half years” after her “mother passed away.”
After her husband died “…everything just kind of fell apart,” she said.
I asked her “What has the government done to help get you off the streets?”
AND she told me ABOUT “a survey,” which asked questions like, “were you ever the victim of violence on the street?” Do you feel your life is being threatened? Questions like that.
Figuero believes the answers were used to assign her certain percentage points that result in a score, they use to determine the need and eligibility of the homeless person.
In the California State Budget for 2019/20, “The Budget includes …$1 billion for homelessness.”
1 billion? What were they doing with all that money? Buying more of them?
To put that 1 billion number in perspective, California spends $3.5 billion on health care services for prisoners. Perhaps THAT would be preferable.
WATCH my LATEST VIDEO on Homeless OVERPOPULATION:
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