Jobless in America - Tent Cities

So what is YOUR solution, dear? Anyone can virtue signal.

Prepare yourself for more homeless, this time another invasion from Central America happening NOW. Scary! This is why we need a wall.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...al-American-migrants-march-US.html#newcomment

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/fo...epublican-candidate-california-governor-says/

Force homeless people into institutions, Republican candidate for California governor says

April 3, 2018
Angela Hart

The Sacramento Bee
Posted with permission from Tribune Content Agency
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Republican gubernatorial candidate Travis Allen says he'd build state-run institutions and force homeless people to live in them against their will, if necessary.
"We need state-run mental institutions where people can actually go, (where) the indigent can go and get the help that they need," Allen said at a housing forum last month. "What we're doing is not working."

Allen, currently in the state Assembly, is pushing the idea as part of his platform in public debates, interviews and newspaper editorial board meetings. On the campaign trail, he's pinning the blame, in part, on Gavin Newsom and Antonio Villaraigosa, both Democrats and former mayors of San Francisco and Los Angeles, respectively.
In Los Angeles, "there's a six-block radius that looks like a third-world war zone," Allen said, referring to Skid Row. "On the streets of Gavin Newsom's San Francisco, there's...drug users shooting up on the streets and...human waste."
Allen, who represents a conservative Orange County stronghold that includes Huntington Beach, says tackling homelessness is too great a task for cities and counties alone, so the state must intervene — an unusual position for a Republican running on smaller government. Allen insists the plan would not cost taxpayers more — an assertion refuted by experts.

It is based on America's former practice of housing mentally ill patients in state-run institutions, an approach phased out across the U.S. beginning in the 1960s and 70s. Institutions for decades were seen as a drain on public resources and widely viewed as ineffective and inhumane. As the federal government steered states toward community-centered mental health treatment, it also slashed funding for care, which experts say led to an increase of homeless people on the streets with untreated mental illness and substance abuse problems.
Allen says part of the reason California has more homeless people than any other state is because it ended institutionalization. He said he'd bring institutions back with a robust offering of mental health services, substance abuse treatment and job-training.
"If you cannot provide a roof over your head in California, and you're a California citizen, a roof will be provided for you," Allen told The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board last week. "You will no longer be allowed to sleep out on our sidewalks, under our bridges or on the side of our freeways in California."

Homelessness: One of Capitalism's Many Inevitable Products

Actually, the fear of homelessness helps capitalism maintain its power. In the days of industrial capitalism, the unemployed were used by the ruling capitalist class to signal to the workers that they were lucky to have their jobs, and if they rebelled, they could be unemployed. Now, after the 2007-8 recession, as we move further into post-industrial capitalism, the homeless are a warning to those potentially rebellious workers unhappy with their loss of wages, lack of stability and benefits, and to students of the zero generation: zero jobs, zero hope, zero possibilities, zero employment, who are in debt for their schooling. The message is: Accept the declining status quo or end up homeless.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/42746-homelessness-one-of-capitalism-s-many-inevitable-products

Unemployment rates have been the lowest in decades because the economy is booming again, manufacturing is coming back as well as trillions of dollars stashed overseas. Foreign companies are investing in American workers by expanding in the US. Small businesses, which employ most people, are hiring again thanks to the tax breaks they recently got. They are expanding their businesses, something they were unable to do under the onerous regulations of the previous administration.

PilgrimsProgress said:

Unemployment rates have been the lowest in decades because the economy is booming again, manufacturing is coming back as well as trillions of dollars stashed overseas. Foreign companies are investing in American workers by expanding in the US. Small businesses, which employ most people, are hiring again thanks to the tax breaks they recently got. They are expanding their businesses, something they were unable to do under the onerous regulations of the previous administration.

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Don't forget there are small lies, big lies and statistics.

19 times Trump called jobs numbers ‘fake’ before they made him look good

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ey-made-him-look-good/?utm_term=.62b1bd8f0093

Different ways to look at unemployment:

The unemployment rate counts only people who say they want a job and have looked for one in the last month — meaning that millions of Americans who dropped out of the labor force during the aftermath of the 2008 recession do not count as unemployed by the standard definition.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/...e-wasnt-real-here-are-some-other-options.html

I assume you are in favor of keeping illiterate, unskilled peasants out of our country since we have to take care of our own unskilled, illiterate mobs who need jobs. I agree with that.

How many Americans know Cesar Chavez hated illegals because they undercut the wages of American farm workers? I was surprised when I discovered that. How many people heard of Operation Wetback? Pres. Eisenhower saw how American farm workers were losing their jobs due to illegals undercutting them so had them deported.

Three million more people have jobs. Just heard that we are close to getting a better deal with NAFTA. A Canadian official said it was better for America.

America first!

PilgrimsProgress said:

I assume you are in favor of keeping illiterate, unskilled peasants out of our country since we have to take care of our own unskilled, illiterate mobs who need jobs. I agree with that.

How many Americans know Cesar Chavez hated illegals because they undercut the wages of American farm workers? I was surprised when I discovered that. How many people heard of Operation Wetback? Pres. Eisenhower saw how American farm workers were losing their jobs due to illegals undercutting them so had them deported.

Three million more people have jobs. Just heard that we are close to getting a better deal with NAFTA. A Canadian official said it was better for America.

America first!

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I heard Superman can make the world spin backward and go back in time. Why don't you contact him, dear?

In 2010, the W Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard opened a public bathroom next to the subway station. After replacing three sinks, three mirrors, and five toilet seats in three and a half months, and spending an average of $250 a day on paper products, the hotel closed the facility, officials said.

Elevator doors coated in urine have stuck shut. Mentally ill and high passengers have assaulted bus drivers and other riders. Riders’ feelings about the safety of buses and trains have had a direct effect on ridership. More than 1 in 5 current passengers has been harassed on the train. In a 2016 survey, 29% of former riders told Metro they stopped taking transit because they felt unsafe.

Sim said she saw a man pull down his pants, squat over the edge of a platform and defecate onto the train tracks at Union Station. She said she has sat in urine on the subway, “hopscotched through peoples’ feces” on sidewalks, and endured verbal and sexual harassment on the train.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-metro-homeless-20180406-htmlstory.html