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.
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http://www.channel3000.com/news/issue...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.