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| With medieval conditions in California, Gov. Newsom looks back to the old Poor Laws |
| 2020-01-16 |
| [American Thinker] California was once called "the Golden State." It has a mellow climate; its agricultural industry was "the fruit basket of America"; San Francisco was "the City that Knows How"; Los Angeles was the "City of Dreams"; and the Sierra mountain range, one of the most beautiful in the world, was a summer and winter pleasure paradise. That's the California in which I grew up. The current California isn't quite so nice. The climate is still lovely, but the agricultural industry has been struggling because of environmental concerns over the Delta Smelt, a small fish. Regularly occurring droughts, which are part of California's natural cycle, are proving devastating, mostly because California has refused to upgrade its water system in the last 60 years, even as the population almost doubled. The new plan is to limit people to 55 gallons a day, which gives them a choice on many days between cleaning their clothes and cleaning themselves. Punishing taxes and regulations routinely drive businesses (AKA employers) out of the state. Those are all bad things, but what people really know about California today is that it has a homeless problem ‐ 156,000 homeless people, to be specific. Tucker Carlson spent a week looking at the way in which San Francisco, once one of the world's most beautiful cities, has seen its quality of life collapse under the weight of the homeless. Los Angeles has vast tent cities that have become breeding grounds for medieval disease, while Sacramento is overrun with rats. But fear not! Governor Gavin Newsom has a plan. He wants to amend the California constitution to mandate that all cities and counties must provide housing and shelter enough for every homeless person within the region: |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 A plan? Is it glorious and designed to last 5 years? |
| Posted by: charger 2020-01-16 16:40 |
| #7 A new homeless shelter just opened in Datona Beach. Read the article to see how it sure is costing a lot and that money (salaries, benefits) is going to county employees. It is a racket... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-16 15:08 |
| #6 More graft-enabling in mind. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-01-16 14:49 |
| #5 I have no problem with providing shelter for the homeless: I'd put them in tent cities out in the boondocks surrounded by concertina wire. They would be provided with food, water and port-a-potties. Somehow I suspect Governor Newsom has something more elaborate, not to mention more expensive, in mind. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-01-16 14:48 |
| #4 When Jesus said "the poor will always be with you," he wasn't saying "so go ahead and make more of them with legalized drugs, non prosecution of crimes by certain classes of people and closure of mental health inpatient facilities." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-16 12:30 |
| #3 Electricity rationing. Water rationing. Need some good ol price fixing next. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-01-16 12:22 |
| #2 But fear not! Governor Gavin Newsom has a plan. You know who else liked plans, and lots of them? |
| Posted by: Raj 2020-01-16 09:10 |
| #1 Soviet central planning! Someday it might work. Someday we'll all win big in Vegas! |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-01-16 06:03 |