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Welcome to the future of the United States - we are feverishly working to achieve 3rd world status as fast as possible.
The West is not responsible for the Overshoot
cmdrdataleak saysThe West is not responsible for the Overshoot
If we are not responsible for the mess in our own backyards, who is? China ? Can we pin this on the illegals somehow ?
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men [...] that provided unskilled manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state, and local governments.
Incidentally, I think bringing back something like this could bring benefit to some slice of the homeless population:
This kind of degradation and squalor only happens when a society is too fractured or addled to have pride in itself.
Turning the mood on its head - and no doubt attracting much comment for the hypocrisy of commenting about a luxury ski trip and then poverty – I have to comment on the contrast between the skiing and spending some time in San Francisco.
I hope my American hosts will forgive me for raising this, but the squalor we saw in The City was frightful. San Francisco has always been one of favourite US cities, but the degree of homelessness, mental illness and drug abuse we saw on this trip was truly shocking. Walking round SF on a Sunday Morning and we saw sights we couldn’t believe. This must be one of the richest cities in the world – home to 4 of the 10 richest people on the planet according to Wiki. I asked friends about it, and they shrugged it off.. “The City has always attracted the homeless because of the mild weather,”.. “It’s a drug thing”.. “its too difficult”… “you get used to it..”
Well, I didn’t.
I found it quite shocking the number of folk sleeping rough on the sidewalks, the smell of weed and drug impedimenta everywhere, the filth, mental illness and degradation on view just a few meters from the financial centre driving Silicon Valley. It’s a city where the destitute seem to have become invisible to the Uber hailing elites. We found ourselves hopping on one of the beautiful F-Route Trolley Buses to find nearly every seat occupied by someone lugging around their worldly possessions around in a plastic bag. It was desperately sad.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-05/bill-blain-what-we-saw-san-francisco-was-frightful