Liberal Hellhole LA Has ‘Epidemic Levels’ of TYPHUS FEVER

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  1. Sahba*

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    https://www.chicksonright.com/blog/...lhole-la-has-epidemic-levels-of-typhus-fever/

    And to think that only a few years ago I walked these streets buying from street side vendors - the downtown market has been impacted as well.
    (Skip a few minutes into video as it's slow getting started)

    I don't think that I need to connect the obvious dots here on how the following...

    - unfettered illegal influx
    - sanctuary status
    - thwarting of the rule of law (state & federal)
    - onerous regs, taxation & economic dampers
    - (add your own here)

    The lie of 'liberal progressivism' has devastated many of our Democratically run towns, cities and states. Recently I drove by my old apartment in Venice, Ca & wasn't even able to pull to the side of the curb due to the shanty strips along the road, spilling out past the curb.

    Many of these people need our help & there are more than enough helping hands and beds; not only tax funded but charitable entities of faith & volunteerism. Hardly any seem to want to abide by the drug & alcohol free requirements in receiving help. Obvious assaults & drug illegalities are largely just ignored by the authorities, within this subset. Legitimate arrests would improve things - no doubt about that!

    Yes, It doesn't take long for liberalism to unravel a couple centuries of progress. Venezuelan status can be achieved in the blink of an eye under the tenets (or lack thereof) of the incoming Dems, their platforms & "ideals".

    It struck me that other day that perhaps I'm worrying too much over 2020. It took X-Ceo Schultz entering the race as an Independent for it to crystallize for me. The dems have NO message; not a positive one! Schultz by comparison has an inspiring story of pulling himself 'up by his bootstraps' in a capitalistic system where personal ingenuity & sweat equity was rewarded & allowed to flourish (btw, how many employees does Starbucks have...?). Now I hope he looses to Trump; however it is an uplifting & inspiring message that the Dems obviously recognize as being problematic for them. (What think U on the future of your town, state & nation under progressive, ideological policies?)
     
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    I'm shocked by the OP's lack of compassion and have a first hand knowledge of Skid Row since I was a psychiatric social worker at Cardinal Manning shelter [run by the Society of St Vincent de Paul/ archdiocese]. Parochial middle/ high schools would sent students to spend the weekend in the shelters to learn our responsibility to care for others. The footage is an area within the shadows of the skyscrapers yet a world away. Just about every Christian/ Jewish denomination runs shelters and social service programs. Some people refuse to enter shelters and prefer to sleep on the sidewalks and down by the river. "Free spirits" but mostly mentally ill and substance abusers. Lots of vets from Viet Nam war. Poor folks migrate to California and we are trying to help them.

    The first week that I worked on Skid Row I would drive home crying over what I saw.
     
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    Gosh, OP - why do you think that homeless people flock to warm weather areas such as L.A. and not the Republican cities in Idaho? Let's think on that ... hmmm ... homeless .... warm weather ....

    Boy - this is tough. Let me know if you're able to figure it out, OP.
     
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    Not that I agree with the OP, bit there are plenty of cold weather places like Seattle and San Fransisco that have horribly cold weather climates, they have HUGE homeless problems.
     
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    You are right. It can snow in Seattle though not too often. Because San Francisco stays above freezing doesn't mean it is balmy.
     
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    What?

    I though this lawlessness only exists in Europe.
    How can the authorities let someone put a tent up on the sidewalk in downtown LA?!
    Preposterous.
     
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    The climate in SF and Seattle is very mild compared to Cody, Wyoming. I just think it disingenuous for the OP to complain about disparities in homelessness in urban, warm weather centers as compared to the colder "Red" states.
     
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    They could stay in Mexico where it is even warmer, you know. :lol:
     
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    Mexico has about a million U.S. ex-pats. Many who couldn't afford to retire in the States.
     
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    Not to mention that all those swell places to live in middle America give their in- need residents one-way bus tickets west...
     
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    Left Wing "compassion" always seems designed to kill the weak and vulnerable.
     
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    Please elaborate.
     
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    The passion of compassion is used to justify tyranny and schemes that usually end with more mass misery and death.

    "One has often been struck by the peculiar selflessness of the
    revolutionists, which should not be confused with 'idealism* or
    heroism. Virtue has indeed been equated with selflessness ever
    since Robespierre, preached a virtue that was borrowed from
    Rousseau, and it is the equation which has put, as it were, its
    indelible stamp upon the revolutionary man and his innermost
    conviction that the value of a policy may be gauged by the
    extent to which it will contradict all particular interests, and that
    real value of a man may be judged by the extent to which he
    acts against his own interests and against his own will.

    Whatever theoretically the explanations and consequences of
    Rousseau's teachings might be, the point of the matter is that the
    actual experiences underlying Rousseau's selflessness and Robes-
    pierre's 'terror of virtue* cannot be understood without taking
    into account the crucial role compassion had come to play in the
    minds and hearts of those who prepared and of those who acted
    in the course of the French Revolution."
    ON REVOLUTION, Hannnah Arendt, Penguin Classics, 2006.
    https://archive.org/stream/OnRevolution/ArendtOn-revolution_djvu.txt

    The "progressive" movement has ultimately driven a large part of humanity to embrace drugs and death.
    It has always had the stench of rank nihilism about it.
     
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    It is snowing in Seattle right now
     
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    So you admit liberal policies cause so much damage that the end result is tears? Thanks for being honest
     
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    Not sure what you are suggesting citing Rousseau. What to do with large numbers of homeless Americans? Any thoughts?
     
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    Since you live close by, what do you suggest to solving the problem?
     
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    Issue guns and shoot the freaking rats and then force Democrat politicians to pick up the dead rat carcasses.
     
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    I had typhus fever many years ago. Sand fleas are common. And if you have pets you have fleas.
     
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    Seattle and SF both rarely get below freezing.
     
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    flea borne typhus has been considered endemic to Los Angeles/Orange counties for the past 30 years.

    It has nothing to do with the number of homeless, but its a great opportunity to express partisan animus.
     
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    The biggest reason we have so many derelicts on the streets is illegal drug abuse

    They are not all herion junkies but have destroyed their lives in a variety of ways involving getting high
     
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    It is amazing since Seattle is way further north of Chicago and Boston. The Pacific ocean modifies arctic air masses. San Francisco is surrounded by water on 3 sides and rarely drops below 40F at night.
     
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    There's drug abuse all over America
     

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