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As long as Republicans go out of their way to keep their lily white suburbs exclusive to themselves, shutting out people without means the situation will not change.
Amazing, Republicans don't want a penny going to the poor, but they have NO problem spending $50k/yr (or whatever the current cost is) to house criminals that wound up there because there aren't enough good paying jobs or help in the first place. You pay five figures to lock someone up, but don't want a dime to go to help them out?
And I DON'T mean "handouts". In spite of what you claim, the vast majority just want a decent paying job.
A perfect example is one of our snob, elitist suburbs gave a tax break to some financial outfit to build a call center out in this suburb, off of any bus route instead of building it the city where it is needed.
A perfect example is one of our snob, elitist suburbs gave a tax break to some financial outfit to build a call center out in this suburb, off of any bus route instead of building it the city where it is needed.
Talk about tax breaks for the rich?
Or cities that refuse to implement public transit because they believe that the degenerates will get in and cause crime? Always a republican stronghold.
Democrats support giving assistance to the poor. And homeless people will naturally flock to liberal cities to take advantage of government programs for the poor.
If you lost your job and became homeless where would you go?
City A.) a city that supports welfare, supports food stamps, supports aid to the poor, and supports free healthcare.
City B.) a city that opposes welfare, opposes food stamps, opposes government aid to the poor, and opposes free healthcare.
Its only natural for homeless people to flock to liberal cities.
CA is responsible for their problems with homelessness: https://www.capsweb.org/blog/califor...0%99s-homeless and my bet is the others have the same issue, making choices not in the best interest of their citizens.
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Originally Posted by neko_mimi
I should have known that liberals would just blame their homeless problems on republicans. Nothing is ever their fault.
Had to be either the fault of the GOP, Trump, Trump supporters or Russia/Putin.
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Originally Posted by orlando-calrissian
Why are you taking pleasure in the fact that there are homeless people in the first place? It doesn't matter who controls the city, the homeless problem should be addressed. This is why identity politics is BS, everything is just a blame game.
Also, since Democrats tend to support offering more social services, wouldn't it follow that those who require the services would go to a place that provides it?
And name a major city that isn't a majority liberal.
And, the first major step in addressing is the deportation of illegal aliens. That will free up both jobs and housing.
Democrats offering sanctuary to criminals probably is the biggest attraction.
What I have seen is the ones that are intent on serving and protecting illegal aliens are having the most difficulty.
If citizens are being left unserved, you reduce services across the board so that there is enough to go around getting the basics met.
I don't get it. Over the last 50 years poor and disenfranchised groups have turned to the Democratic Party. Hence, cities usually vote democrat because cities had become the areas with the highest concentration of the poor and disenfranchised. They then vote democrat. The democratic party did not make the people poor and disenfranchised.
I am on neither side of the political divide, both sides have points that I agree and disagree with and my agreement and disagreement varies with the circumstances. However, one of the most absurd arguments I read is linking the problems of cities to the Democratic party. Rather, the problems of cities is why the people vote for the Democratic Party in the cities. I mean, if the people of Flint, Michigan put a Republican in office....how would it change things for the better? What are they going to do for tax revenue as the main thing in the Republican tool kit is tax cuts. How are tax cuts going to help when a large number of people are unemployed and or poor? School of choice? How is that going to help when kids are going to school hungry? Vouchers....same thing.
It's easy to work miracles with money, meaning a tax base of middle class white folks.
Democrats support giving assistance to the poor. And homeless people will naturally flock to liberal cities to take advantage of government programs for the poor.
If you lost your job and became homeless where would you go?
City A.) a city that supports welfare, supports food stamps, supports aid to the poor, and supports free healthcare.
City B.) a city that opposes welfare, opposes food stamps, opposes government aid to the poor, and opposes free healthcare.
Its only natural for homeless people to flock to liberal cities.
The crazy thing is how does the word get around? The homeless population in my nearest major city, Seattle, actually are not from the area. They grey hounded over here from other Western states. Is there like a homeless forum, serious.
Duh. The homeless people of other parts of the country deliberately migrate to those places because of the social programs. But you can't expect the working population of individual cities to sustain the huge influx of homeless from the entire country all at once. So you see homeless people on the streets.
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