A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America (Los Angeles: low income, extended stay)

[waltchan]

Originally Posted by Chicano3000X

Because homelessness and poverty started with Obama..

The original years of more homelessness started in 2001 when George W. Bush became president, and income inequality widened even quick.

[MojaveCovfefe]

Originally Posted by waltchan

The original years of more homelessness started in 2001 when George W. Bush became president, and income inequality widened even quick.

It started way before that, around the time their messiah Reagan closed down the mental hospitals and kicked them all out on the streets. Didn't see schizophrenic bums talking to themselves at 7-11s and intersections before then

[MarciaMarshaMarcia]

Originally Posted by MojaveCovfefe

It started way before that, around the time their messiah Reagan closed down the mental hospitals and kicked them all out on the streets. Didn't see schizophrenic bums talking to themselves at 7-11s and intersections before then

Yes, this is when & where it actually started. It was very subtle...services for those who had been institutionalized would be available “in the community, outpatient”, only it never happened that way. Then other states followed California’s “example”.

This happened when Reagan was governor of California. I won’t even go into what his line of thinking & true motivations were when guiding (?) the entire country, except to say that it laid the foundation for today’s massive problems in the USA, homelessness being one of the most noticeable.

[DKM]

Originally Posted by MojaveCovfefe

It started way before that, around the time their messiah Reagan closed down the mental hospitals and kicked them all out on the streets. Didn't see schizophrenic bums talking to themselves at 7-11s and intersections before then

Deinstitutionalization started way before Reagan. He just put the nail in the coffin.

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by DKM

Deinstitutionalization started way before Reagan. He just put the nail in the coffin.

There have been homeless throughout history.

It is worse now and while I liked Reagan the change he implemented was not smart or helpful at all.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by DKM

Deinstitutionalization started way before Reagan. He just put the nail in the coffin.

It started when he was governor. Although anyone who would have been governor at the time would have signed that bill, which had full bipartisan support and not much opposition.

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by majoun

It started when he was governor. Although anyone who would have been governor at the time would have signed that bill, which had full bipartisan support and not much opposition.

True and not really unusual then. Both parties created the current problem and neither is truly trying to solve it.

[BlinkingBlythe]

Originally Posted by Chicano3000X

That's his line of thinking until he's at the receiving end of life's boot..

Thats what I love about people like that: They are the first to cry and fawn when forced to eat their own dog food

[Tall Traveler]

Originally Posted by YoungTraveler2011

8 years of Obama, this is what you get.

Black median wealth went from $10,700 when Obama was elected to $1700 when Trump was sworn in....now that's deplorable.

[2nd trick op]

Originally Posted by waltchan

The original years of more homelessness started in 2001 when George W. Bush became president, and income inequality widened even quick.

Originally Posted by MojaveCovfefe

It started way before that, around the time their messiah Reagan closed down the mental hospitals and kicked them all out on the streets. Didn't see schizophrenic bums talking to themselves at 7-11s and intersections before then

Reagan and Bush may make convenient targets for the usual suspects, but those of us who were around in the Seventies (I was in my twenties at the time) can also recall the constant do-gooder whining about "inhumane conditions" in mental institutions -- and a clamor for liberal release policies which did not come from conservatives.

Our society can now afford something a bit better due to the expanded economy, but the fact remains that there is a substantial portion of the population who are not capable of fully rational behavior. I have a 31-year-old nephew who is one of them, and the only thing that stands between him and the cruelty of the street is a church-based support network and a pair of loving parents, the younger of whom will be sixty next year.