By William Corden
Our own Vancouver has what we think of as major homeless and drug problems but after seeing this video (the guy who produced it has done some wonderful travel videos from all over the world and he’s mucho apolitical) … well it’s just a little pinprick compared to a gaping wound. Even he admits he’s never seen anything as bad in all of his travels.
And it’s not just L.A. , it’s just about every major city in the US…. San Fran, Seattle, Chicago etc. and then the civic/state politicians howl like a wolf at the moon when somebody tries to fix the problem.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that 99% of the homeless are hopelessly addicted or mentally ill. If each state is being given responsibility for education, then they should also take on responsibility for dealing with the homeless problem. They already have the laws on the books to deal with druggies, mental illness and vagrancy but they just won’t apply them because they’re scared of blowback.
Think of it, you’re scared to deal with the 3% of the population who cause 99% of the problem, so you penalize the 97% by imposing punitive fees and administrative taxes.
It’s not that they don’t have the resources or the ability to do something about it (after all the Feds can call up every single individual over 18 years of age for the draft, then house, train and feed them…. that’s about 153 million people!)
It’s just that this broken system of democracy allows anti-social behaviour to trump society’s right to a safe environment.
There has to be a completely new federal department set up with powers to protect the interests of the functioning part of society
I have to be careful in saying that Vancouver’s problem is minor compared to the bigger picture because the incompetents/wokes who get paid to deal with the problem will consider it a compliment and say “Look how well we are doing”
