This is rich, as California recently passed a homeless funding package of $12B, 43X times more than was spent on the recall. And this is to deal with their estimated 160K homeless, of which ~114K are unsheltered.
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/07/19/governor-newsom-signs-historic-housing-and-homelessness-funding-package-as-part-of-100-billion-california-comeback-plan/
https://www.usich.gov/homelessness-statistics/ca/
▪️If $280M could really end homelessness for “tens of thousands” then the $12B CA is spending over the next 2 years should be able to end it for over a million, which is far more than their entire homeless population. Does anyone really think CA homelessness will disappear in 2 years?
▪️No, because the real problem with the CA homeless is mental illness and/or drug addiction. Even the LA Times admitted that 67% of LA’s unsheltered homeless suffered from at least one of these (after previously citing a bogus report that it was just 29%).
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-07/homeless-population-mental-illness-disability
▪️OD naively assumes in this meme that it only takes ~$10K/person and a homeless person’s issues disappear. Nonsense. There is no “ending homelessness” in CA without tackling the mental illness/drug addiction issue.
▪️Remember, CA has a unique homeless issue compared to the rest of the country, as they have by far the most unsheltered homeless, 51% of the entire US! These are, on average, a much different group than the sheltered homeless and require a different approach.
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2020-AHAR-Part-1.pdf
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
It’s really incredible they’re trying this approach after 4 years of posting “Ridin’ with Biden” memes.
It’s funny to see the left use the same conspiratorial rhetoric as the right did a year ago regarding the jobs numbers being downwardly revised. So many on the right, who knew nothing of how the jobs numbers are calculated or why they revise them, were convinced the downward revisions were a conspiracy to help Biden win.
If people want to have a debate about the birth death model or the survey methods, ok, but that’s not what’s happening here. Most people are under the delusion that the BLS report is the govt reporting every job created and lost, and are thus easily swayed it’s rigged when it suits their political ends.
