I'm reminded of "Armageddon" after a meteorite strike for some reason. That and "olympus has fallen"Every time I see this one come up I think, "San Francisco has fallen, long live San Francisco!"
(But first I check to see if San Francisco is still there.)
San Francisco Has Fallen
- Thread starter VicBee
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I wish we'd stop using the term "homeless". The homelessness is a byproduct of substance abuse and mental health issues for 90+% of these people. I know, putting responsibility on them instead of the evil system that make living sheltered unaffordable seems cruel, but addressing the real issues is the beginning of resolving them. But how to address substance abuse in America?
https://nida.nih.gov/research-topic...an 106,000 persons in,drugs from 1999 to 2021.
100,000 deaths per year! The US has the highest consumption and death rate from substance abuse in the world.... Yet, instead of addressing supply, we decriminalize and legalize. Let's face it, Americans love their drugs and, as a consequence, we have a percentage of people who will snap (a bit like gun ownership really).
The other key issue is mental health:
https://nida.nih.gov/research-topic...dults have co,37.9% also had mental illnesses.
How to address mental health issue related to substance abuse in a country unwilling to even provide affordable healthcare to its healthy population. And yet, imagine the cost of providing mental and substance abuse support for nearly 8 million people! Would make military spending seem affordable...
Our government solution? Leave it to the cities and counties and states to manage; allocate annual funds to feed the hundreds, if not thousands, of non profits dedicated to dealing with human misery, and move on.
The problem is now far bigger than any government can resolve humanly. We should expect more drug use across the entire age spectrum (legalization), more cases of substance abuse and mental breakdowns, more vagrants on the streets incapable of managing their lives through the fog of drugs and demons.
Have a good day!
Isn't crony capitalism redistributing to the top grand?
Yeah it must Musk and Bezos fault.
Oh? Did they not get their corporate tax cut from 35 to 21% in 2017? Have they not lobbied for policies that allow such cuts? Did the American public not get robbed of 14% of that revenue to expand the social safety net? After all, you appear to know the issue is lack of government funded services.
Or we could, you know, just kill the peddlers or cane the users like Utopia Singapore in our pursuit of pristine streets.
No drugs and no vagrants (no firearms and minimal crime) on the streets of a 6 million people city state, and no one complains about it. Incomprehensible,right?
Amazon and Tesla employment data:
https://explodingtopics.com/blog/amazon-employees
https://www.statista.com/statistics/314768/number-of-tesla-employees/
Employers can ask for, but in the end it's government that gives.
freedom is scary that way, NIMBY's be damned. Plenty other countries w/o a drug problem. N. Korea doesn't have a drug problem. China doesn't have a drug problem. Iran doesn't have a drug problem....much of the middle east doesn't either.
Amazon and tesla hiring the homeless now?
There goes "freedom" bantered about again... Freedom to carry a firearm vs freedom to walk the streets without fear?
Freedom to spew Nazi hatred versus freedom from racial violence.... Freedom is a double edge sword and I never place freedom above all else.
You don't need to grab straw men to make a point if you don't know about your counter argument. Both China and Iran have drug problems.
Amazon is definitely employing people who would otherwise be vagrants.
therein lies the rub. I'd rather not give tacit nod at ridding ourselves of the "undesirables" for shiny streets for those with agoraphobia.
says guy who gets irked when crony capitalism is pointed as the culprit yet bemoans the defense budget pushed by lobbyists to favor a few, critiques the meager social safety net while ignoring industry pushing tax cuts in lieu of welfare cuts, and looks down on the homeless while looking the other way to RE speculators driving up rents.
oh ok, then SF has no homeless issue and the problem is solved then.
You mean vagrant junkies? I'd give them an option, the government will help you clean up, you must make the effort to rejoin society as a contributing citizen. If you refuse or cannot, you will be sent in assisted living for the rest of your life. Living on the streets or run down vehicles would be forbidden. Illegal drug sales would lead to the death penalty. But that's just me.
Nope, you got me wrong.
Amazon isn't the government's welfare office. It operates within the parameters of the law. If elected officials decide to change the law then Amazon will modify its business practices accordingly. But it's definitely not gonna let the Democrat henchmen unions run the company.