Trump's DC Occupation Costs 4 Times More Than It Would Take to House City's Entire Homeless Population

[protectionist]

We need protection from trump , moron.

You are a complete idiot..Trump is who is protecting YOU.
Before he called out the Natl Guard, crime was rampant in DC.
Now it's calm & peaceful. You're welcome.

 

[protectionist]

Looked it up. Nation security is his main focus. The tools ( strategies for success ) a president utilizes to get this done are ;1. Balancing the interests of competing groups of the American public. Let's rate this one a total failure. He recently called Democrats the enemy. 2. Crisis management - another failure , trump creates crises instead of solving them. 3. Policy leadership - another failure. He axed health care for millions of Americans and offered nothing in return. The only infrastructure he's claiming credit for is the projects Biden got pushed through. Plus he's denying the environmental crisis and weather change exist..making things worse by undoing protections and funding. 4.Communication , failure again. Most Americans are simply tunning him out rather than try to listen to his childish gibberish. Really needs someone to speak on his behalf that knows how to communicate. So.much for getting things done. Not effective at all. End result - Epic Fail !

No, we rate it as total success (see post # 201)

Democrats ARE the enemy. Even aligned with Iran.

Trump has solved many crises.

You want healthcare ? No problem. Join the military.

Biden ignored everything. Paid zero attention to the country (while it was disintegrating around him) and only was interested in his bagman (Hunter Biden) going around the word and collecting millions$$ for the Biden family coffers. Worst president in US history.

Weather changes are unproven. Global warming ?Ask those protesters in Minnesota.

End result - not ended - current protection us from the worst threat to America ever (jihadist lunatics seeking nuclear weapons)

You are lost in fogs of leftist propaganda.

 

[Stann]

You are a complete idiot..Trump is who is protecting YOU.
Before he called out the Natl Guard, crime was rampant in DC.
Now it's calm & peaceful. You're welcome.

It was fine before trump started all this insanity.

 

[protectionist]

It was fine before trump started all this insanity.

It was chaos & Trump settled it down.

 

[Hollie]

Trump has said one of his goals in DC is to do something about the homeless population. The problem with thinking on the right is that they believe that the most punitive actions are solutions for problems. Oftentimes, their punitive "solutions" cost more and are less effective than the so-called soft liberal policies they say are the problem.

Trump's DC Occupation Costs 4 Times More Than It Would Take to House City's Entire Homeless Population​

Last week, when Trump federalized Washington, DC's police force and deployed the National Guard to occupy its streets, one of his main orders was to "end vagrancy" by destroying homeless encampments and arresting and forcibly relocating the people taking shelter there.

But according to an investigation published on Wednesday by Hanna Homestead of the National Priorities Project, in collaboration with The Intercept, deploying the National Guard and "getting rid of the slums" is costing far more than it would cost to simply provide housing to every homeless person in the city.

Last week, when Trump federalized Washington, DC's police force and deployed the National Guard to occupy its streets, one of his main orders was to "end vagrancy" by destroying homeless encampments and arresting and forcibly relocating the people taking shelter there.

But according to an investigation published on Wednesday by Hanna Homestead of the National Priorities Project, in collaboration with The Intercept, deploying the National Guard and "getting rid of the slums" is costing far more than it would cost to simply provide housing to every homeless person in the city.


Governors from six US states have sent troops to Washington to help Trump's effort, swelling the ranks to nearly 2,100 who will soon be on patrol.

According to previous reporting, National Guard deployments cost the US government $530 per guard member each day. Using that figure, Homestead estimated that it would cost just over $1.1 million.

She added that "the number of troops will likely continue to grow. And with no deadline for the DC deployment, those costs could add up for months or even years."

According to the most recent data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), there are about 5,600 people experiencing either sheltered and unsheltered homelessness in DC on a given night. Operating an affordable housing unit for each one of them, the data shows, costs about $45.44 per person, per day, on average in DC.

Providing affordable housing to every homeless person in DC would cost an estimated $255,166, which is 4.3 times less than the cost of Trump's military deployment.

Trump's DC Occupation Costs 4 Times More Than It Would Take to House City's Entire Homeless Population | Common Dreams

Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, DC costs more than 4 times as much as it would cost to simply house every homeless person in the city, according to researcher Hanna Homestead.

www.commondreams.org

Draconian measures cost draconian money. And we get told how we cannot force the government to spend to provide housing for the homeless. Yet the same people who declare how it's wasteful to spend money to provide housing to the homeless, but cheer the more costly use of troops to take them off the streets.

This is why you do not elect right-wing politicians if you want real solutions.

Thus is why you don’t interfere in the black gangbanger wars. Let them settle their differences with street and drive- by shootings.

 

[Stann]

It was chaos & Trump settled it down.

It wasn't a conservative measure , it wasn't cost effective and they couldn't keep it up. It was part of trump's extremist agenda.Based on emotions and hatred not on.reason. That's why it was ineffective. The status quo remains unchanged even after all that chaos.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

It wasn't a conservative measure , it wasn't cost effective and they couldn't keep it up. It was part of trump's extremist agenda.Based on emotions and hatred not on.reason. That's why it was ineffective. The status quo remains unchanged even after all that chaos.

Reducing crime in the nation's capital. Extremist?

 

[protectionist]

It wasn't a conservative measure , it wasn't cost effective and they couldn't keep it up. It was part of trump's extremist agenda.Based on emotions and hatred not on.reason. That's why it was ineffective. The status quo remains unchanged even after all that chaos.

Totally false. DCwas overflowing with crime. Trump called in th Guard, and the thugs disappeared. Ho hum.

 

[Stann]

Totally false. DCwas overflowing with crime. Trump called in th Guard, and the thugs disappeared. Ho hum.

Keep believing those propaganda points.

 

[protectionist]

Keep believing those propaganda points.

What you said is evemn too far-fetched to be propaganda.

 

[westwall]

Keep believing those propaganda points.

They aren't propaganda. The actual citizens who live there tell us this.

YOU are the propagandist.

 

[Stann]

What you said is evemn too far-fetched to be propaganda.

I read the government assessment of the situation. Did you ?

 

[EdwinAMartin]

Totally false. DCwas overflowing with crime. Trump called in th Guard, and the thugs disappeared. Ho hum.

they just ignore the long term costs so they can make fake cost claims. They also leave out a whole lot of other costs, like higher insurance rates, medical stuff, Federal prison costs for locking up the violent feral hood rats for years, and other expenses that don't show up because these tards are stupid and can't see any of them.

 

[protectionist]

I read the government assessment of the situation. Did you ?

Which "government" ? Biden or Trump ?

 

[Stann]

Which "government" ? Biden or Trump ?

You have got to be kidding. The Senate Homeland Security report for one. There are others if you need me to post them all I will consider it. But if you keep coming back with bs like this I won't.