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[Patooka]

You hand wave away the the grotesque waste as if it’s no big deal.

You wave away the destruction of human lives as though it's no big deal, under the thin pretense of protesting "waste" that you cannot prove was wasteful.

Gibberish.

Agreed. So stop doing it.

 

[Elixir]

Why you defend this shit

… why you make this shit up …

Homeless Industrial Complex is a mental disorder afflicting right wing dullards.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Well obviously only a straight white guy can do ANYTHING.
Because if anyone else gets a job, SWG gets his panties in a wad.

If a SWG is wearing panties, then I question whether he is really S or a G. Just sayin'.

I believe transvestites are more common than transsexuals.

Or maybe the issue is with the W part. I think it's one of the cases where Chinese doesn't put the gender in the word and thus is prone to translation errors.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Supposedly, J. Edgar Hoover as well. You just never know what "floats somebody's boat".

The part I don't understand is why anyone would care.
If there's a mental image I don't need it's J. Edgar Hoover in ladies undies.
Tom

Yeah, total so-what. It doesn't strike me as likely to fit well, but that's their problem.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

The homeless industrial complex rakes in billions of dollars but hasn't made a dent in solving "the homeless problem",

Homeless services provided by the city of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority are disjointed and lack adequate data systems and financial controls to monitor contracts for compliance and performance, leaving the system vulnerable to waste and fraud, an audit ordered by a federal judge has concluded. The audit by the global consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal found that the city was unable to track exactly how much it spent on homeless programs and did not rigorously reconcile spending with services provided, making it impossible to judge how well the services worked or whether they were even provided. “Billions have been squandered on ineffective bureaucracy while lives are lost daily. This is not just mismanagement; it is a moral failure.”

LA Times

A corrupt and immoral bureaucracy.

Your summary does not match the article, which is about the absence of data on program success, not evidence of program failure. Fixing that problem will require more spending, not less. Data does not collect itself.

Sorry, but absence of data of success is a pretty strong indication of evidence of failure. If they had success to point to they would do so.

Unfortunately, it's a basically intractable problem. One side tries to do something about it by throwing money at it, the other tries to throw them in jail. Neither approach improves the situation one bit. While there are economic homeless they mostly avoid being an issue and thus nothing is done, plus or minus. The ones that cause the issues are drugs or mental. And neither of those is solved by either throwing money at them or throwing them in jail.

 

[thebeave]

Supposedly, J. Edgar Hoover as well. You just never know what "floats somebody's boat".

The part I don't understand is why anyone would care.
If there's a mental image I don't need it's J. Edgar Hoover in ladies undies.
Tom

Yeah, total so-what. It doesn't strike me as likely to fit well, but that's their problem.

Loren, its a good think there's not a limited supply of Picard face palms, as you would have made me run out a long time ago.

 

[Elixir]

The homeless industrial complex rakes in billions of dollars

It does? Does Elon get a big cut? Who gets the money? Who pays the money? Can I “rake in billions”?

Or is this just Swiz parroting some RW bullshit he heard on NewsMax?

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Defend what?

You hand wave away the the grotesque waste as if it’s no big deal.

I certainly don't endorse everything LA has done to and about the homeless. I believe all citizens of this nation should enjoy equal protection of the law, regardless of their socioeconomic status. Not arrested, beaten, and robbed by their own supposed government just for being unusually poor.

Such drama. Most of these people are drug addicts and mental patients and the rest is just a lifestyle choice.

Lifestyle choice when people don't make enough to keep a roof over their head?

No, it's a lifestyle choice when people are on the road sufficiently that they decide that maintaining a residence isn't worthwhile. It's a lifestyle choice when people kit out a vehicle sufficiently to live out of it.

 

[TSwizzle]

Fifth (or is it fourth?) largest economy in the world has to borrow billions to cover healthcare costs for illegal immigrants;

Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking lawmakers to approve an extra $2.8 billion in funding to Medi-Cal to keep program solvent through June. The request comes days after he told lawmakers that he took out a separate $3.4-billion loan to pay for Medi-Cal costs through March. In February, the Newsom administration said the cost of expanding coverage to all income-eligible immigrants, regardless of residency status, had ballooned to $9.5 billion in state and federal funding, which was more than $3 billion over June estimates.

LA Times

Oh Gavin, please run for president!!

 

[Elixir]

In 2022, California remitted $692 billion in federal taxes. More since.
The Shithole of Trumpistan isn’t going to miss the $9b they borrowed, even if they never pay it back.
But without the nearly a TRILLION that they remit to the now hopelessly corrupt fed ANNUALLY, the Shithole and its flag waving toothless Trumpsucking patriots will go broke. That’s why they are able to borrow a tiny fraction of what they pay.

Yes Gavin, do run; if every State provided such surplus, we wouldn’t need federal income tax!

 

[Shadowy Man]

In 2022, California remitted $692 billion in federal taxes. More since.

When a statement like this is made what is the source of taxes being referred to? Because you seem to be distinguishing between these taxes and income taxes by California residents in your final sentence.

Just curious.

The Shithole of Trumpistan isn’t going to miss the $9b they borrowed, even if they never pay it back.
But without the nearly a TRILLION that they remit to the now hopelessly corrupt fed ANNUALLY, the Shithole and its flag waving toothless Trumpsucking patriots will go broke. That’s why they are able to borrow a tiny fraction of what they pay.

Yes Gavin, do run; if every State provided such surplus, we wouldn’t need federal income tax!

 

[Elixir]

When a statement like this is made what is the source of taxes being referred to?

The sum of personal fed income and CA based Corporate/business taxes.

 

[bilby]

Fifth (or is it fourth?) largest economy in the world has to borrow billions to cover healthcare costs for illegal immigrants;

Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking lawmakers to approve an extra $2.8 billion in funding to Medi-Cal to keep program solvent through June. The request comes days after he told lawmakers that he took out a separate $3.4-billion loan to pay for Medi-Cal costs through March. In February, the Newsom administration said the cost of expanding coverage to all income-eligible immigrants, regardless of residency status, had ballooned to $9.5 billion in state and federal funding, which was more than $3 billion over June estimates.

LA Times

Oh Gavin, please run for president!!

Don't you ever get bored with invitations to outrage?

All we ever see from you are posts that boil down to "I am angry, and you all should also be angry, because of this propaganda invitation to outrage I found in the Trump dominated media".

And they always turn out to be nothingburgers.

 

[Derec]

Trump has fuckall to do with Goodhair's decision to give away taxpayer funded healthcare to illegals.

 

[TSwizzle]

"Homelessness keeps increasing and increasing and increasing since I’ve been living here and it honestly just comes down to our politicians who are doing nothing about it," said Nissan employee Khaled Ghrewahti.

Fox

The crux of the story is that "homeless" people have trashed an RV storage lot. The "homeless" that were interviewed can't understand why the government doesn't just give them a home.

 

[Elixir]

The "homeless" that were interviewed can't understand why the government doesn't just give them a home.

Perhaps you should explain to them that you’d rather spend 4x the cost of a home to put them up in jail. That should clear up their confusion.

 

[Politesse]

"Homelessness keeps increasing and increasing and increasing since I’ve been living here and it honestly just comes down to our politicians who are doing nothing about it," said Nissan employee Khaled Ghrewahti.

Fox

The crux of the story is that "homeless" people have trashed an RV storage lot. The "homeless" that were interviewed can't understand why the government doesn't just give them a home.

Why don't they?

 

[Politesse]

Because of eye rolls. Got it.

 

[Elixir]

Because of eye rolls. Got it.

Swiz is wealthy. He has money to burn, on jails.

 

[Politesse]

California Republicans are a uniquely and fascinatingly stupid faction. Today my social media feeds are lit up with a story about "Gavin Newsom stealing cattle ranching land at Point Reyes", with all the usual chuckleheads lining up in the comments to be all "impeach!" and "probably selling it to his Chinese friends".

The governor, of course, has nothing to do with the actual situation, nor any power to rectify it. Indeed, it would male more sense to blame President Trump, given that the dispute concerns federal land.

Also, these morons are quick to embrace socialism when it specifically concerns cattle...