Now this is Journalism! This is Conservative-speak.

This fabulous article is so freaking eye-opening! Here is THE TRUTH! THE FACTS!

I knew they were telling us that the 'homelessness' problems in the West Coast Cities were supposedly from 'housing prices', and I believed it. But now with the expose of KOMO about what the real problem and cause of 'homelessness' in Seattle is, and then this article -

Wow! It's even more a Liberal made, escalated and perpetrated 'problem', what Liberal policies have wrought, than even I thought!

BTW, these City-Journal website/people are great if you want THE TRUTH, THE OTHER SIDE, THE WHOLE STORY on a given subject after listening to the Lib Narrative, Lib Rhetoric.

Seattle Under Siege

Record numbers of homeless people are occupying the city’s public spaces, despite massive government spending to fight the problem.

[www.city-journal.org]

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Soon we'll be adding to "Democrats - The Party of ... "

Democrats - The Party of the Homeless

Democrats - The Party of Drug Addicts

Another Victim Class, Minority Class for the Identity Politics Libs to put on The Lib Plantation to get their Votes.

How much longer will it be before the Libs are Ballot Harvesting the Homeless/Drug Addicts ballots to get their Lib votes.



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Cool pictures...

Homeless crisis on the West Coast

[www.cbsnews.com]

The U.S. homeless population increased in 2017 for the first time since 2010, driven by a surge in the number of people living on the streets in Los Angeles and other West Coast cities, including San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, Portland and Seattle.

California declared a statewide emergency due to a hepatitis A outbreak linked to homeless encampments

The Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles is home to the nation's largest concentration of homeless people. Poverty, despair and drugs are endemic. According to the annual count released in May 2017 by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, the 2017 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count indicates a 20 percent jump in the city of Los Angeles. The county had a homeless population of 57,794, up 23 percent from last year's count.

San Francisco's average rent on a 1 bedroom ($3000) has eclipsed NYC/Manhattan as the priciest housing in the country. L.A. isn't much cheaper. And, small wonder, there's homelessness!

Even with a minimum wage of $15 an hour, you could still find yourself sleeping on the streets, or renting out a closet in someone's house.

A calculation - To live in NY or CA you need to make at least $32 an hour just to pay rent. To comfortably live you probably need to make a good $40. In Mississippi
The poorest State in nation you probably can pay the rent with $15 an hour. To live comfortably about $20 to $25.

But but but its the libs she whines



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People can make their Prius into a stealth camper Prius Stealth Camper Build, living, dometic, car, Boondocking Urban Camping Vanlife.

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A calculation - To live in NY or CA you need to make at least $32 an hour just to pay rent. To comfortably live you probably need to make a good $40. In Mississippi
The poorest State in nation you probably can pay the rent with $15 an hour. To live comfortably about $20 to $25.

Only if you're an entitled Millennial can you not live on $15 an hour anyplace because ROOMMATES.

In the generations before the Millennials, we had menial jobs making minimum wages and we lived fine because -

We had a ROOMMATE for years before we could finally afford our own STUDIO. Then we had a STUDIO for years until we got a better job/promotion/pay raise or we got married and could afford a dinky One-Bedroom Walkup. Then after years of scrimping and saving, you and your husband could afford to put a down payment on a tiny 900 square foot two-bedroom ranch house where you raised your three kids. In other words - WE DID NOT SPEND; WE SAVED!

Yes, we 'made it', but we struggled and sacrificed and WORKED HARD. And there's absolutely no reason that everyone can't do the same when they find themselves in a $15 an hour job.

So don't tell me NOBODY can live on $15 an hour because they can, except what they - and you apparently - call 'living on' means: LIVING ALONE in some expensive a*s fancy city in some COOL APARTMENT, owning the latest model CAR, having CABLE TV ($100/mo), CELLPHONE ($100/mo) GOING SHOPPING all the time, buying the latest clothes galore, expensive sneakers, designer clothes. Buying TECH all the time, going OUT TO EAT all the time, picking up FAST FOOD all the time, going out to MOVIES all the time, TRAVELING ALL THE TIME (so you can take selfies to post on social media to validate yourself)

We did absolutely none of that. If these spoiled brat entitled Lib Millennials can't live on $15 an hour, try living the way we did (SAVING INSTEAD OF SPENDING) and the way the rest of the world did until CAPITALISM raised everyone's living standard and made many people PROSPEROUS and made AMERICA the greatest Country in the World!



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People can make their Prius into a stealth camper Prius Stealth Camper Build, living, dometic, car, Boondocking Urban Camping Vanlife.

Wow, I enjoyed that video! My opinion of Prius cars has gone up; I'll stop equating them with "CoExist". That guy and others who live out of their vehicles/vans are resourceful, as are a lot of Millennial guys. They're smart/cool with tech, science. I'm sure the homeless-because-of-housing-prices/temporarily homeless, etc. are neat, quiet, respectful, law-abiding people.

The homeless problem are the drug addicts, criminals, which the City Journal article explained how the cities/politicians are welcoming them and enabling them, while making money off them. The drug addicts are given a free pass, being coddled, when what they need is Tough Love. The end of the video shows how Rhode Island is handling their drug addict homeless problem and it's working for them.

This photo looks like a real 'homeless' encampment that is full of happenstance homeless people rather than drug addict criminals - it's neat and tidy, not squalor and hopelessness.

[www.cbsnews.com]

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This is a good article about the homeless/drug addicts -

Western U.S. Cities Run Rampant With Squalor

[www.thenewamerican.com]

According to the Los Angeles Times, the population of Skid Row has increased more than 75 percent in the last seven years. Today, police estimate that as many as 55,000 men, women, and children are living on the streets in downtown Los Angeles. Reasons for that vary, but include a lack of affordable housing in California, a culture of rampant drug use, an epidemic of mental illness and, of course, illegal immigration.

In 2018, the City of Los Angeles documented a drop in the homeless population, but the city’s annual count of homeless individuals still showed that over 52,000 people live on the streets of L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti, who was considering a presidential run, believes that the federal government needs to step up.

“It’s time for the federal government to step up too,” Garcetti said at the kick-off to 2019’s annual “homeless count” in Los Angeles. Garcetti suggested that Washington, D.C.’s homeless problem was worse than L.A.’s per capita. “[The homeless are] right next to the White House, right next to City Hall.”

“This is something where every government leader needs to put down partisanship and produce results.”

And even when low-income residents of Los Angeles can find a roof to live under, there’s a good chance that the place is infested with rats and the accompanying fleas. If Bubonic plague were ever to make a comeback, Los Angeles could be ground zero for it.

Los Angeles was once considered a paradise. Now, for many, it is a foul-smelling place bereft of hope. If homelessness in America had a capital, this would be it. But it’s far from the only place where squalor is spreading.

If you head north on I-5 from Los Angeles, you’ll eventually wind up in San Francisco, where Tony Bennett famously left his heart. Nowadays, the crooner’s ventricles must compete for space among discarded drug paraphernalia, increasingly aggressive panhandlers, and human feces in the streets.

Financial manager Bill Blain documented at Zero Hedge what he saw on a recent visit to the City by the Bay: “I found it quite shocking the number of folks sleeping rough on the sidewalks, the smell of weed and drug impedimenta everywhere, the filth, the mental illness and degradation on view just a few meters from the financial center driving Silicon Valley. It’s a city where the destitute seem to have become invisible to the Uber hailing elites.”

Last year, NBC Bay Area conducted an unofficial survey of a 153-block area of the city. The survey found trash on every block, more than 300 piles of human feces on 96 of those blocks, and more than a hundred used drug needles just lying on the streets of the city.

San Francisco is one of the wealthiest cities in the world. It is now, also, one of the most disgusting.

But that’s not where the disgust ends. Another 650 miles up I-5 is the City of Portland, Oregon, a hotbed of progressive politics, Antifa thugs, and filth.

“Our city has become a cesspool,” said Daryl Turner, the president of the Portland Police Association. “Livability that once made Portland a unique and vibrant city is now replaced with human feces in business doorways, in our parks and on our streets.”

According to Turner, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has told police officers to look the other way on certain crimes committed by homeless persons.

Completing the trip up I-5 brings us to Seattle, Washington. Seattle’s homeless problem has been described as the worst in the United States per capita. King County, where Seattle is the principal city, has the third-highest population of homeless people in the United States — only Los Angeles and New York have more.

Similar scenes of squalor abound in Seattle. Trash collects in heaps under highway overpasses, where the homeless gather to escape the city’s famous rain.[/b]

Two building booms are happening simultaneously in Seattle. In one, high-tech towers are sprouting up all over the city, representing wealth and new business. The other features blue tarp, tents, and the accompanying clutter and stench of the unwashed and underfed communities of still more homeless persons.

In Seattle and the other cities, the homeless tend to gather in communities; encampments of their own making. By banding together, the homeless feel a sense of security in being among others in similar circumstances. In 2017, the Seattle City Council voted to allow three more encampments of up to 100 residents each.

“Permitted encampments are not, in my view, a long-term strategy to end homelessness,” said then-Seattle Mayor Ed Murray. “But planned, organized encampments have less impact on our neighborhoods and provide a safer environment than what we see on our streets today.”

All of these cities have several things in common. They are all places of great wealth. They all throw millions of dollars at their homelessness problem with little to no result. And all have been governed by leftists for literally decades.

Here's what I learned: just help the homeless when you can. it's that simple.

Being judgmental to the homeless is just prompting God to be judgmental of you.

Some people are born to nice families and get to live privileged lives, but some are born as drug addict babies and never get a good education or even the understanding of what true love is. It's never too late to help someone less privileged learn new ways or get some relief from severe suffering.

When I met a young man, just turned 18, who was homeless tell me that he was selling his body just for food and occasionally shelter, of course I had to help him without condemnation. His adopted parents had kicked him out of the house the day he turned 18. When he became homeless, he had no medical insurance and so could no longer afford his medication. When he was off his medication, his chronic anger vanished and he became a normal man. His parents never gave him another chance, though. He was born to a crack addict who gave him up for adoption. He had chemical problems as a baby which is why his parents put him on pharmaceutical drugs as a child, but when he got off them, his emotions stabilized.

aside from drug addicts, I met several people who were just disabled in wheelchairs and with disease who were homeless. Some people are just down and out like that, no drugs at all. And not everyone who appears mentally ill IS. Some homeless people have severe head injuries...their chronic injuries led to them losing their jobs and homes.

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Being judgmental to the homeless is just prompting God to be judgmental of you.

hmmm... was that comment directed at me; are you possibly insinuating, or stating, that I am 'being judgmental of the homeless'?

Because - My CRITICISM of the way in which the Liberals are handling the Homeless Situation in the West Coast Cities DOES NOT EQUATE TO my 'being judgmental of the homeless' themselves.

I personally - meaning my own words/opinion, not the articles and videos I posted - was not judging the HOMELESS PEOPLE THEMSELVES.

I WAS CRITICIZING the way in which the Liberals are addressing the homeless situation in the Liberal West Coast Cities. So I hope my expose of HOW THE HOMELESS SITUATION IN THE WEST COAST CITIES IS BEING PROLIFERATED, MISMANAGED, PROFITED FROM BY THE LIBERALS was not misconstrued as me personally being 'judgmental' of 'the homeless' themselves.

Cause gee - that sounds like a Lib tactic... to Judge me and label me as Judgmental of the 'homeless people' because I am discussing/debating/informing others of the 'homeless situation'in the West Coast Cities.

So now in Lib World - we (meaning Conservatives) are not allowed to discuss (or even say the words) the 'homeless situation' because that makes us 'prejudiced' or something! Wowser!

And btw there can be no discussion or debate or criticism of my opinion unless one has watched the Komo video and read the City Journal article I posted ...



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KOMO Video -

Seattle is Dying

[www.rawfoodsupport.com]

City-Journal Article -

Seattle Under Siege

Record numbers of homeless people are occupying the city’s public spaces, despite massive government spending to fight the problem.

[www.city-journal.org]

First three paragraphs of the article - please read the whole thing to understand the Homeless Situation in the West Coast Cities.

Seattle is under siege. Over the past five years, the Emerald City has seen an explosion of homelessness, crime, and addiction. In its 2017 point-in-time count of the homeless, King County social-services agency All Home found 11,643 people sleeping in tents, cars, and emergency shelters. Property crime has risen to a rate two and a half times higher than Los Angeles’s and four times higher than New York City’s. Cleanup crews pick up tens of thousands of dirty needles from city streets and parks every year.

At the same time, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal, the Seattle metro area spends more than $1 billion fighting homelessness every year. That’s nearly $100,000 for every homeless man, woman, and child in King County, yet the crisis seems only to have deepened, with more addiction, more crime, and more tent encampments in residential neighborhoods. By any measure, the city’s efforts are not working.

Over the past year, I’ve spent time at city council meetings, political rallies, homeless encampments, and rehabilitation facilities, trying to understand how the government can spend so much money with so little effect. While most of the debate has focused on tactical policy questions (Build more shelters? Open supervised injection sites?), the real battle isn’t being waged in the tents, under the bridges, or in the corridors of City Hall but in the realm of ideas, where, for now, four ideological power centers frame Seattle’s homelessness debate. I’ll identify them as the socialists, the compassion brigades, the homeless-industrial complex, and the addiction evangelists. Together, they have dominated the local policy discussion, diverted hundreds of millions of dollars toward favored projects, and converted many well-intentioned voters to the politics of unlimited compassion. If we want to break through the failed status quo on homelessness in places like Seattle — and in Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, too — we must first map the ideological battlefield, identify the flaws in our current policies, and rethink our assumptions.

If you dont know that homless incorpate all walks of life
You know nothing!

Maybe if you take that first walk around the block
and visit a homless camp you can stop telling lies
about people, They do not all wear same Jacket my dear.
you must have very little exposer tothe real world?



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It’s easy to stigmatise the homeless right Jennifer?

People from all walks of life who have had the misfortune of becoming homeless, From the unemployed to those who have just been released from prison, to the mentally ill, alcohol, and drug addicted. It’s a real mix, and it’s all out on the streets for anyone walking through to see. The sights, smells and sounds are all very confronting. It’s easy to stigmatise the homeless, but for the most part they are decent people who have found themselves in this situation for reasons outside their control. They deserve to be given support, not treated like criminals.

I say it again Loud If you dont know that Homless camps are made up from all walks of life you know nothing, must live a shelterd life from the real world!
but then again its so easy to stigmatise!

I did read the article Jennifer. I watched a few minutes of the KOMO video but it's an hour long, so I pass. I understand your point. I was trying to interject another aspect, which is compassion on an individual level. Even if you come across a drug addict, maybe they didn't have a fighting chance in this life UNTIL AND UNLESS a healthy person helps them, as in the example I gave.

I help the homeless in southern california when I can.

There are a couple of Bible passages to think about. Tell me, did the Libs alter the Bible and put their Lib agenda into these passages? Honest question. I am open to reading any solid proof that Jesus did NOT actually say these things. If the Libs didn't alter Jesus's words, then maybe the two sides shouldn't look at each other as so black and white.


Matthew 25

34“Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35‘For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; 36naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.’ 37“Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something to drink? 38‘And when did we see You a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You? 39‘When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ 40“The King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.’

41“Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels; 42for I was hungry, and you gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me nothing to drink; 43I was a stranger, and you did not invite Me in; naked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me.’ 44“Then they themselves also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not take care of You?’ 45“Then He will answer them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ 46“These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Now previously in Matthew 19, Jesus has the following conversation:

The Rich Young Ruler
16 And someone came to Him and said, “Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may obtain eternal life?” 17 And He said to him, “Why are you asking Me about what is good? There is only One who is good; but if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.” 18 Then he *said to Him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “You shall not commit murder; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; 19 Honor your father and mother; and You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 20 The young man *said to Him, “All these things I have kept; what am I still lacking?” 21 Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be [a]complete, go and sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” 22 But when the young man heard this statement, he went away grieving; for he was one who owned much property.

23 And Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I say to you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”