- Oct 31, 2012
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The moral crisis of Skid Row, LA's most notorious neighborhood (nypost.com)
California, and especially LA, has become the homeless capital of the world.
The primary reason?
Over the past 30 years, activists and political leaders have successfully shifted public policy regarding addiction and disorder away from a so-called punitive model that relies on prohibition, incarceration and abstinence, and moved toward a “harm-reduction” approach that takes widespread drug use as a given and attempts to reduce rates of infection and other negative effects. In other words, instead of treating drug use like a crime, they are instead focusing on giving them free housing and clean needles, etc.
Couple that with a state having outrageous taxation and real estate prices that no one can afford, and what you are left with is a mass exodus from the Democrat controlled state into other ones, while the homeless population explodes exponentially that is left behind.
The situation is so bad it looks like the governor will be recalled.
But as Californians move to other states, especially like Texas, they will no doubt vote for the same types of people that destroyed the state they are fleeing from
Leftism is really a metastasis, and with the democrats now in full control of elections across the country, and on the verge of adding some 20 million democrat voting illegals, and God only know what else to rig elections, it is worth while looking at what the entire nation will now become. The only difference, being, there will be no where else to run.
California, and especially LA, has become the homeless capital of the world.
The primary reason?
Over the past 30 years, activists and political leaders have successfully shifted public policy regarding addiction and disorder away from a so-called punitive model that relies on prohibition, incarceration and abstinence, and moved toward a “harm-reduction” approach that takes widespread drug use as a given and attempts to reduce rates of infection and other negative effects. In other words, instead of treating drug use like a crime, they are instead focusing on giving them free housing and clean needles, etc.
Couple that with a state having outrageous taxation and real estate prices that no one can afford, and what you are left with is a mass exodus from the Democrat controlled state into other ones, while the homeless population explodes exponentially that is left behind.
The situation is so bad it looks like the governor will be recalled.
But as Californians move to other states, especially like Texas, they will no doubt vote for the same types of people that destroyed the state they are fleeing from
Leftism is really a metastasis, and with the democrats now in full control of elections across the country, and on the verge of adding some 20 million democrat voting illegals, and God only know what else to rig elections, it is worth while looking at what the entire nation will now become. The only difference, being, there will be no where else to run.