Shit isn’t just hitting the fan in California…it’s hitting
the sidewalks. In huge quantities. Along with garbage and drug paraphernalia.
Homeless
encampments have been silently expanding like cancer cells across the formerly
Golden State. The streets of cities such as San Diego, Los Angeles and San
Francisco are littered with the tragic detritus—and broken lives-- of the
progressive welfare state.
In
Orange County, workers in hazmat gear recently removed 250 tons of trash, 1,100
pounds of human waste and 5,000 hypodermic needles from just one homeless camp
located a few miles from Disneyland, outside of Los Angeles. The sheer volume
of human fecal matter littering the streets of these cities has led to a
hepatitis outbreak infecting many hundreds of people. Residents are being
warned which streets to avoid.
Los Angeles raised taxes last year
in order to build more housing for the homeless and provide a “roving toilet
program.” Those being “evicted” from the Orange County homeless camp have been
offered the choice of a bed in a shelter or a month-long motel voucher, medical
aid, drug treatment, job training, storage for their belongings, and housing
for their pets at the county animal shelter. Wow. I hope authorities remember
to put a nightly mint on their pillows.
Roughly half a million people in
the United States are homeless. California is host to fully 25% of them, the
largest number of any state, according to a survey by the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development. The problem stems from a host of legislation
signed by Democratic governor Jerry (“Moonbeam”) Brown over the past few years.
New laws have so diminished the penalties for drug possession, use and other
“petty” crimes, that the police often don’t bother wasting their time making arrests.
Moreover, treatment is no longer mandatory for those abusing drugs or
experiencing severe mental health issues.
San Francisco may be one of the
prettiest cities in the world, but, a recent survey of 153 of its blocks,
conducted by NBC Bay Area, revealed that all of them were littered with trash,
41 of them were strewn with hypodermic needles and 96 were defiled with piles of feces.
Dr. Lee Riley, a University of
California at Berkeley disease expert, compared downtown San Francisco to slums
in developing nations. He said, “The contamination is…much greater than
communities in Brazil or Kenya or India.” Various national surveys show that
the “city by the bay” harbors more homeless folks than any place else in
America. The stupefyingly high cost of living, caused by draconian
environmental regulations, astronomically high tax rates, and other punitive
progressive policies are largely responsible for this crisis. The city also
sports the highest rate of property crime in the entire country.
Leftists are well on their way to
doing to the erstwhile “Land of Milk and Honey” what they’ve done to the
U.S.S.R., Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea, among others. California has gone
from being the “Golden State” to a national disgrace in just a relatively few
years.
Progressivism: “Now I am become
Death, the destroyer of worlds.” Or at least hope, health, dignity, decency and
culture.
To the beat of the song “Lights,”
by Journey:
When the blight comes down on my city
The bum swills wine by the bay
Ooh I want to pee there in my city
Oh, oh, ooooh, ooooh
So you think you're homeless
Well my friend I'm homeless too
And I want to take a crap on the sidewalk, by-the-way
Poo-oo-oo, poo-oo-oo
It's sad, oh there's been mornings
Out on the road without booze
With unpunctured arms
Ooh, my, my, my, my, my, my
When the blight comes down on my city
The bum swills wine by the bay
Ooh I want to pee there, in my city
Oh, Oh, ooooh, ooooh
When the blight comes down on my city
The bum swills wine by the bay
Oooh I want to pee there, in my city
Oh, oh, ooooh, ooooh
Oh, oh, ooooh
(My apologies to Steve Perry, Neal Schon and the boys. Perhaps they're grieving, too.)
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