Bamby
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It's all the Supreme's fault....
In a new ruling, the Supreme Court effectively mandated continued legal tolerance for homelessness across major cities on the West Coast of the United States.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that Americans have a right to sleep on the streets and that it amounts to "cruel and unusual punishment" under the Constitution to levy fines based on such behavior.
That court -- a repository of stupidity and radicalism, the Mos Eisley of our nation's federal bench -- decided that writing a $25 ticket to people "camping" on the sidewalk is precisely the sort of brutality the Founding Fathers sought to prohibit in stopping torture under the Eighth Amendment.
You could start by encouraging outrageously invasive, monopolistic and even bogus "businesses" to concentrate in one area, driving up the real estate prices to the point that no ordinary human who isn't endowed with $200,000+ salaries and stock options can afford a place to live.
You could then expect those very people you displaced to make your coffee, hamburgers and staff stores for you -- while they have no way to afford a place to live.
And then, when they can't afford a place to live, can't take a shower (as they have no place to live), can't wash their clothes (ditto) and shortly begin to stink like an ape, they get fired -- so now they not only have no place to live they have no job either.
What percentage of people who you do that crap to do you think might decide that drowning their emotions in a bottle (whether pill or liquor) or, perhaps, shoving a needle in their arm might be a decent option to dull the pain you inflicted on them? It's not like you want them to take one of the other options available to them -- like walking into said business, dragging the owners, directors and "high fautin" employees out by their hair and eating them in the middle of the street, right?
It never ceases to amaze me to hear all the rich scolds out there, who never have to deal with any of this, have never been homeless, have never slept a single night in their own car that was a complete piece of crap and had about a half-gallon of gas in it because they had nowhere else to go fail to recognize that they caused it with their own intentional acts and, that for everyone on the right side of the bell curve of humanity when it comes to skills and intelligence there are an equal number of those on the left.
But here's the problem: Cities that have attempted to provide increased housing for the homeless, despite some early successes, have seen their problems return. Cities like Seattle and Los Angeles have attempted to build new housing. It's been an expensive failure.
Really? How many such "new housing" developments, on a per-person basis, have gone up and at what cost? How many are inhabitable today? How many can be paid for with no more than 25% of one's after-tax income if their income is limited to doing a minimum-wage job? An effective zero. At the same time how many of such minimum wage jobs exist, especially in places like Seattle and LA where they hiked the minimum wage to $15 and myriad businesses both closed and automated, firing said workers, in response?
Under these circumstances many such people decided to say "oh **** both you and myself!" and destroy only themselves, which again I remind you was not their only option; they could have decided to murder every last one of the dickwads that created these conditions under which everyone who is a citizen on the left side of the curve was forced out of employment and housing either by elimination of their job entirely or the importation of millions of illegal invaders who took what remained while at the same time not only the acquisition (sale) cost of a home but the other fixed costs of housing, including property taxes, utilities, appliances, maintenance, bridge tolls, medical care and other "mandatory" costs have skyrocketed.
So now, having decided to destroy themselves while leaving those who largely imposed these conditions on said persons alone now Shapiro proposes to issue tickets and either fine or jail them for becoming the victim of a scheme put in place by those who he trumpets and supports on a daily basis while they have financially raped these individuals to within an inch of their lives!
IMHO the Supremes got this one right, but I'll go even further: Were I to ever be on a jury where someone in such a circumstance marched into one of those high-fouting corporate offices where such abuses were rooted, or a politician's office in which policies were passed and promoted, dragged some random person in there out by their hair and held a BBQ in the street I hereby promise to vote NOT GUILTY -- and not by reason of insanity either.
By reason of just retribution.
In a new ruling, the Supreme Court effectively mandated continued legal tolerance for homelessness across major cities on the West Coast of the United States.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that Americans have a right to sleep on the streets and that it amounts to "cruel and unusual punishment" under the Constitution to levy fines based on such behavior.
That court -- a repository of stupidity and radicalism, the Mos Eisley of our nation's federal bench -- decided that writing a $25 ticket to people "camping" on the sidewalk is precisely the sort of brutality the Founding Fathers sought to prohibit in stopping torture under the Eighth Amendment.
You could start by encouraging outrageously invasive, monopolistic and even bogus "businesses" to concentrate in one area, driving up the real estate prices to the point that no ordinary human who isn't endowed with $200,000+ salaries and stock options can afford a place to live.
You could then expect those very people you displaced to make your coffee, hamburgers and staff stores for you -- while they have no way to afford a place to live.
And then, when they can't afford a place to live, can't take a shower (as they have no place to live), can't wash their clothes (ditto) and shortly begin to stink like an ape, they get fired -- so now they not only have no place to live they have no job either.
What percentage of people who you do that crap to do you think might decide that drowning their emotions in a bottle (whether pill or liquor) or, perhaps, shoving a needle in their arm might be a decent option to dull the pain you inflicted on them? It's not like you want them to take one of the other options available to them -- like walking into said business, dragging the owners, directors and "high fautin" employees out by their hair and eating them in the middle of the street, right?
It never ceases to amaze me to hear all the rich scolds out there, who never have to deal with any of this, have never been homeless, have never slept a single night in their own car that was a complete piece of crap and had about a half-gallon of gas in it because they had nowhere else to go fail to recognize that they caused it with their own intentional acts and, that for everyone on the right side of the bell curve of humanity when it comes to skills and intelligence there are an equal number of those on the left.
But here's the problem: Cities that have attempted to provide increased housing for the homeless, despite some early successes, have seen their problems return. Cities like Seattle and Los Angeles have attempted to build new housing. It's been an expensive failure.
Really? How many such "new housing" developments, on a per-person basis, have gone up and at what cost? How many are inhabitable today? How many can be paid for with no more than 25% of one's after-tax income if their income is limited to doing a minimum-wage job? An effective zero. At the same time how many of such minimum wage jobs exist, especially in places like Seattle and LA where they hiked the minimum wage to $15 and myriad businesses both closed and automated, firing said workers, in response?
Under these circumstances many such people decided to say "oh **** both you and myself!" and destroy only themselves, which again I remind you was not their only option; they could have decided to murder every last one of the dickwads that created these conditions under which everyone who is a citizen on the left side of the curve was forced out of employment and housing either by elimination of their job entirely or the importation of millions of illegal invaders who took what remained while at the same time not only the acquisition (sale) cost of a home but the other fixed costs of housing, including property taxes, utilities, appliances, maintenance, bridge tolls, medical care and other "mandatory" costs have skyrocketed.
So now, having decided to destroy themselves while leaving those who largely imposed these conditions on said persons alone now Shapiro proposes to issue tickets and either fine or jail them for becoming the victim of a scheme put in place by those who he trumpets and supports on a daily basis while they have financially raped these individuals to within an inch of their lives!
IMHO the Supremes got this one right, but I'll go even further: Were I to ever be on a jury where someone in such a circumstance marched into one of those high-fouting corporate offices where such abuses were rooted, or a politician's office in which policies were passed and promoted, dragged some random person in there out by their hair and held a BBQ in the street I hereby promise to vote NOT GUILTY -- and not by reason of insanity either.
By reason of just retribution.