Re:Los Angeles’ homelessness crisis
by jernfrost on Monday February 26, 2018 @03:13AM
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Isn’t the problem that republican controlled midwestern states chase all their homeless people out to democrat controlled big cities? They are not willing to pay anything to help the homeless. They are not even willing to look at them. They want it to be somebody else’s problem. I think that is a problem with having open borders between states but not equal social programs. It leads to a race to the bottom.
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This is a very curious comment. Troubling, too.
The answer you’ve offered up for confirmation reflects a perspective that is as bad as the one you’re demonizing.
Re:Los Angeles’ homelessness crisis
by newfoundglory on Monday February 26, 2018 @03:38AM
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Not exactly - the bigger problem is that all the republicans controlled midwestern states are shitty economies and so people move to places where they hear that people can get jobs (functioning liberal states) and when that doesn't work out they end up homeless in the new city. (Various polls of homeless people in Seattle have found that most of them were already in the area immediately before they became homeless).
Not sure you made it a Republican/Democrat thing when I can think of several high unemployment/poverty Democrat states and low unemployment/poverty Republican states.
Re:Los Angeles’ homelessness crisis
by WillPostForFood on Monday February 26, 2018 @05:16AM
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Not surprisingly, facts don’t back that up, at all...