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Aloha, Mark
Aloha, Mark
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Legalizing hard drugs will help solve the problem. I hear that drug arrests are WAAAAY down. That shows it's working already.There are no homeless. There are only people who would rather do drugs than have a job and a roof over their heads. Yes there is tremendous government waste and corruption, but it has nothing to do with the condition of the great majority of the people on the streets. Redirection of government money isn't the solution. Even if people fall on hard times, in a normal world families take care of each other. The sad fact is that addicts are on the street because their families don't want them. They are persona non grata because of their addictions and the associated stealing, lying, and trauma they bring into their family's lives. The scourge on our country is addiction, not a lack of housing.
This. Is. Stunning.Let's say you were immortal and born on the same day as Jesus. And let's say you were paid $1 million every single day of your immortal life, from the day you were born until today. You would still not have even your first trillion dollars. You'd be about three-quarters of the way there, that's it.
You bring up a great point about cost vs. benefit. I've worked with different NGOs and non-profits related to prevention and safety. Most of the actual workers and administrators were good folks who were frugal with funds and tried to use them wisely. Others who we worked with but without particular insight would say things like, "Even if we save just one person it is worth it." No, no it's not always, or even usually. (And I'm talking about virtually any type of prevention / safety programs.)What's it gonna cost?
The CA example......
That is a sad fact my friend.Interesting read this morning. Seems while America's homeless are dying in the cold our tax dollars are going to migrant shelters in Mexico.
Jay Inslee - "Hold my beer"Portlandia can do better than L.A.
Column: Spending $800,000 for a single unit of homeless housing is a red flag for L.A.
Spending $800,000 for a single unit of homeless housing? L.A. has to do betterwww.yahoo.com
Rrrrrright......
Like spend more?
Aloha, Mark
Hey, give us a break.Jay Inslee - "Hold my beer"
Comment 1: Nature finds a way.Interesting read this morning. Seems while America's homeless are dying in the cold our tax dollars are going to migrant shelters in Mexico.
Why can't they do this to the junkers parked on the streets surrounded by garbage piles that grow every day? bubblegum! Roust who ever is living there and making the mess, and when their safe, torch the whole thing! The city won't clean up the crap piles that go with the homeless' junk vehicles, but I bet they'd clean up burned out cars?This happened in Raleigh Hills over the weekend. I drove by the aftermath this morning.
Police looking for arsonist who lit car on fire in Fred Meyer parking lot
Richard Samson's car was torched to nothing but scrap metal while parked at the Fred Meyer on Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway.www.kgw.com
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I bet they'd clean up burned out cars?
Oh yeah, I go down 33rd drive. I just live over near Prescott and NE 60th. The reason they don't run them all out...they did go in there and clean them off the dirt they contaminated for all time tough....is there's some sort or border there between city of potland and Port of portland. Word had it that they were pointing fingers at each other saying the other was responsible for clean-up.You must not go down 33rd.
Looks like the Iraqi hwy on most days.
Yup. That's what I did. But truth to tell, all three of the West Coast states are turning into dung piles. Portland may be a cesspool, but Seattle is equally a urine pit. There are now spillover homeless camps along I-5 in Vancouver, WA as well. ODOT won't clean them out on the Oregon side, and now WaDOT won't take care of Washington's rights-of-way either. Garbage strewn everywhere on both sides of the I-5 bridge. It all goes back to the governors of the West Coast states and their moronic "progressive" policies. Given that this crap (literally) is their version of progress, I'm looking for true sanity in Idaho.I would definitely be moving out of Portland!