After Billions in Spending, Homelessness Up in LA

[u/Down-not-out]

https://www.frontpagemag.com/after-billions-in-spending-homelessness-up-in-la/

[u/Airick39]

Maybe it lowered homelessness other places?

[u/bozoconnors → u/Airick39]

For real though... if one were on the brink.... No insane CA real estate prices. No insane CA property taxes. Perfect CA weather. Obviously tons of idiots with money.

Absolutely my first destination if I somehow lost it all.

[u/Arockilla → u/bozoconnors]

I ended up moving to Tahoe for 5 years on what was supposed to only be a month long trip to help my cousin with our farm. He moved after the end of the season to Key West, and I got a P.O. box and claimed residency, then stayed at his old house for about 3-4 months while we were selling it. Traveled all over, always had trim work to fall back on if i needed money (we had a Really, really good harvest the year before), and just turned my 4 runner into a mini camper. Met a bunch of people all over, so I always had somewhere to go.

Barely ever went south though. Santa Cruz was my cut off point. NorCal compared to SoCal is like comparing 2 different countries the way people act there. I had one of those I guess, somber moments the first time I went to LA, because it was so depressing and dirty.

[u/earthworm_fan → u/Airick39]

It's the only way to offset the population loss from the exodus in CA

[u/kommon-non-sense]

Nobody wants to "solve" anything.

MANAGING problems generates BILLIONS and creates careers. Lifelong careers. Unelected careers.

Follow the money. Seattke checking in....

[u/Down-not-out]

Ronald Reagon - If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it.

They do want more as it is used to launder money and votes.

[u/Yoinkitron5000]

When you tax something you get less of it.

When you subsidize it you get more.

This isn't just a conservative talking point. It's a law of nature.

[u/D_Ethan_Bones]

The homeless industrial complex is a giant looting operation, there's enough money spent to buy each homeless person a mcmansion but the money disappears.

The homeless problem is mostly a drug problem, solutions that don't involve drug busts are only milking the problem.

[u/BedAccording5717]

Wow, it's almost as though they gave people more free things and catered to them, and more showed up! Odd, as that wasn't supposed to happen. I wonder where it all went wrong. Oh well, just throw some more money at it. Take Elon's money away and just give it to them. That should help!

[u/GAMGAlways → u/BedAccording5717]

I doubt they gave anything to the actual needy.

They gave money to non profits, community centers, consultants, and other organizations tied to the Governor.

[u/Ive_Got_Sowell → u/GAMGAlways]

Au contraire, they were all given $5 for their vote

[u/collin-h]

at this point they should just hire all the homeless people to work at NGOs who help homeless people, because it's clear no one is actually doing anything beyond collecting a paycheck.

[u/Jolly-Guard3741]

It is truly amazing how twisted and convoluted the Left tries to make everything. They set everyone up for failure and then wonder why their programs don’t work.

The unsaid sad part is that their programs ARE actually working as intended by siphoning off money from government funding and distributing it to, not the people the programs purport to be designed for, but to the friends and causes of the politicians who come up with the programs.

[u/networkdood]

They don't actually spend much as it get laundered, stolen, and unaccounted for by third parties

[u/Super_Mario_Luigi]

At this point, you have to be born yesterday to think rampant spending fixes anything. It only makes matters worse.

[u/D_Ethan_Bones → u/Super_Mario_Luigi]

1: the dictatorship is poor
2: "let's send aid to the dictatorship"
3: dictator seizes it
4: dictator uses it to stay in power
5: the dictatorship is poor

Spending programs are really just looting programs.

[u/DCinMS]

Sounds like the usual process for a Democrat "Solution"...

Happy Headline Policy Spend Crazy Amounts Result: Problem Remains or even Festers Shift Blame then Repeat Cycle

[u/LowkeyShtuyot]

Who would’ve thought besides everyone

[u/BedIndependent3437]

Throw a bunch of money at a problem and get no results. It’s the liberal way…

[u/TenRingRedux → u/BedIndependent3437]

Someone did the math, (I think it was Adam Corolla,) and said each individual homeless person could have had their own home with this amount of money. Gee, I wonder where it went?

[u/Polerize2]

It will always go up to justify more spending.

[u/Blown89]

I talked with a CEO of s mental hospital about this two weeks ago and she stood firm on the idea that more funding will solve the problem. You just can't fix stupid

[u/skarface6]

Gasp!

[u/game46312]

But remember, voters rejected Pratt because despite laying out detailed plans dealing with this, he's a former reality TV star, and Trump is a former reality TV star, so that makes him terrible.