Homeless explosion
The link is just one, quick random sample I found. I want to ask my fellow Gulchers something. Do you notice an explosion in the homeless population in your region lately? Around the Sacto area in in NorCal it has absolutely exploded this year. It has always been present here. But, now they are everywhere. I live in a nice community but even last night I found several hobos camping along a nearby office building in an upscale location. Both of my offices are surrounded. One of the offices is next to an old Arby's that just closed so no there's nothing by the office - just a closed eatery and a big park. It's actually nice and quiet with lots of trees, but the hobos have come in, bigtime. They're just infiltrating the entire region, spilling into every neighborhood. My young son has grown accustomed to transient hobo camps along the river by our house. It's just part of his world. I never saw that when I was kid.
Anybody else seeing this? We've got little commercial zones with artisan-type shops and on Saturday morning they're lined with people in sleeping bags. I've never seen it like this... The news media has simply not mentioned a peep, either.
Anybody else seeing this? We've got little commercial zones with artisan-type shops and on Saturday morning they're lined with people in sleeping bags. I've never seen it like this... The news media has simply not mentioned a peep, either.
When the government statists went one step further with the major corporatists as partners and changed the rules of banking and how they valued the repossessed housing also went under for lack of cash on hand their depositors went under or ended up owing another bank.
Their cars, trucks, and now used up valueless tickets to the big games, their tail gate partying all disappeared Along with what was once a paid for house.
Sure it was a scam all along. Wrangel just gave himself a huge pay raise still owing taxes. Dodd became a CEO at a million plus a year, that list is 537 people long but add the bonus baby bosses of Freddie Mac And Fannie Mae.
And the people? They voted for their oppressors one more time then twice more then three times more and are going to do it again.
Now people don't do a Steinbeck rendition of the Depression they just traipse from welfare office to food banks and some do look for work. No problem buy an air ticket to Beijing.
Sorry....no more hay carts. - but take heart ...you can't vote for them one more time. The odds are certainly longer than Power Ball you'll get something for your last two dollars.
After a few weeks, he found a hopeful alternative and moved out, with the knowledge that he would not be allowed to come back, a second time.
When his new situation fell through, he promptly moved into a homeless shelter in the nearest big city, 70 miles away.
My suggestion is that many of these homeless are "kids" who, otherwise, would be living with their parents. Those parents have wised up and said "NO"...hence, the homeless explosion.
Those, along with the souls who fell prey to the government's "American Dream Team" are probably why the apparent explosion of this particular population of people.
Jan
The toughest part is watching his mother's distress as we work through the hard parts. She's come around to working with me on it, but it's like quitting smoking...it only takes a momentary weakness to throw it all away.
We have a long time friend who is seriously enabling her son, to the point of nearly destroying her great marriage, and have been using it as an example of what can go wrong, if you're not strong.
I have a disabled son (10-yrs old) and if I can just get him independent it will be a fantastic victory for the family. It's on my mind all the time. I hope your son gets his life together...
I wish you and your family the best.
It is all over the country, i get emails each week from another do gooder asking for a donation of sleeping bags. We have a nation with citizens who can't fins jobs so the best thing the illustrious one can do is bring in more people who have no knowledge of the 21st century and give them what they should be giving to our own citizens.
If I were a TV producer, I could base a sitcom on his previous life and title it either "The Park", or "Me, My Wife and Irene".
Hopefully, this new "independence" will be what he needs to get his life straight, again.
We're seeing those stories now and I see No Republican President. The term is meaningless they are nothing more than the right wing of the left as the former Democrats are left wing of the left of the Socialist Party.
As a bit of history their flag was designated back in the fifties as one blood red banner with a single white star in the center.
Gotta get out of the dark ages and join the real world it's the 21st century and you are stuck i the past.
That being so, it remains that homelessness is the natural state. Homes are exceptions that we take for granted.
We glorify the great Nineteenth Century for its Laissez Faire, but read about the consequences of the Panic of 1837 and the Panic of 1857. Even before then, in the 1700s, as a consequence of the Revolution, people traveled by foot and camped for the night, going from town to town looking for work. No one called them "homeless" or worried about them... or what their sons thought of them... It just was. And it was the normal state of affairs.
In Ragged Dick a "Horatio Alger" story, our young hero is lucky enough to have a haycart to sleep in, while his pals sleep in doorways. Ragged Dick is 12. Laissez faire.
Would Ragged Dick be suitable for children, say 10-12 years old?
Jan
dependents rather than producers. . I see this as a sure sign
of the decline of the nation. . for many, charity is heartfelt
and warm;;; for others, it is a political ploy. . between them,
we are destroying the u.s. ... IMHO. -- j
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they hold are in English! GOD help America,
please!
I assume that hobos are jobless, and base my thoughts about them on that. Many of them are really socially challenged, and many are nuts. In general, a growth in their ranks can be seen as a lagging economic indicator.
However Port Townsend WA on it's outskirts had a hobo camp. There was a well worn trail from there to the Welfare Office, the Food Bank and any place that was passing out anything.
I did the census in 2000 and covered that area. No one else would go near it.
They all split so I went to the offices mentioned and they refused to cooperate even knowing their budgets rest on the census so I went to a neighbor and found out the number was 12 to 15 and one of them was named Velvet on his good days. So they weren't jobless they worked for the government as moochers in some cases in others were as suggested 'nuts.'
I'm the least political person you'd ever meet. I don't even know how to speak "Political Crap" (which is obviously a proper noun?). I don't even vote.
Hell, I work with engineers who are socially challenged. If you don't work with any of us, feel fortunate.
But I never sunk to the depths of Socilogy
The one thing, Micheal, I have learned more than anything else - as an Objectivist, engineer, father of a child with autism...The most valuable, precious thing to a man, by far, is what's between his ears. It's also more fragile than many know.
Happy Turkey Day. I'm between basting as I type this.. Do like me. Drink good wine. Eat too much!
I work closely with a child that has cerebral palsy Age seven and 1/2 in Size Child 3-4. She came with a cleft palate. But in her own fashion she has worked out how to communicate basics. Some take weeks and months and years. She learns the same new thing over and over until something clicks and then remembers but has only a sound or a gesture. I am Uncle Bear to the rest of the family That took one year. When I arrive she brings me one of hers and does that for no one else. So..she is Osita.
Sometimes even hardened soldiers can learn to be somebody else.
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The thing about the feces problem is the bathrooms in the building were open at the time. The city even went so far to provide porta pots outside and they still crapped on the sidewalks or hallways.
Of course this is my perspective from what I see. Maybe others see something else.
After all is said in done isn't that precisely where they get the idea drugs are the way to go for problems? the magic cureall. I'd start with getting rid of teachers who are to lazy or otherwise unable to do their jobs and schools that are drug stores.
Are more people becoming addicts? Sure. Percentage of a growing population that is dumbed down chemically.
Many of these childhood drugs are just poorly disguised amphetamines.
One does not solve a problem by disregarding an integral part that is failing. That applies to parents, taxpayers as well.
Without the votes for school budgets, the NEA and the Department of Education would have no hold, no leverage and no position. Leave the teachers out of it? NO I put them dead in the X Ring.
Medicine about the time her high school classmates finished A BA or were in a Masters program. They had a lot of catch up to do. They went to work with a Masters mine went on to second doctorate in Psychiatry and now specializes in anorexia, bulemia and the like. She was a graduate of that affliction herself age 12 to 14 and still managed to learn enough to GED at age 15.
Had we left her in a public school she would have probably ened up ....a teacher or a social worker.
I'm sure some of those State politicians moved to Washington DC and said...look at those states pissing away that money and moved to have it canceled.
I suspect the population of homeless has grown somewhat but I think some of the perceived growth is simply a migration to the best handouts. I have nothing other than logic to make that statement though. It will be interesting to see what others have to say.
Yo ho ho, the wind blows free,
Oh for the life on the rolling sea!
If we account for the liberal progressive financial climate here then it's more than possible our homeless have move on to your area for the warmth.
Thankful I haven't ended up in that situation myself.