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Conditions On San Francisco Streets Like "Slums Of Mumbai, Delhi,... & Manila"
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The fabric of our society is literally coming apart right in front of our eyes, and yet our leaders seem absolutely powerless to fix it... If we continue on this trajectory, what is our nation going to look like in a few years?
Tue, 06/25/2019 - 16:25
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Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
Once upon a time, some of the most beautiful cities in the entire world were on the west coast, but now those same cities are degenerating into drug-infested cesspools of filth and garbage right in front of our eyes.
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San Francisco is known as the epicenter for our tech industry, and Los Angeles produces more entertainment than anyone else in the world, and yet both cities are making headlines all over the world for other reasons these days. Right now, nearly a quarter of the nation’s homeless population lives in the state of California, and more are arriving with each passing day. When you walk the streets of San Francisco or Los Angeles, you can’t help but notice the open air drug markets, the giant mountains of trash, and the discarded needles and piles of human feces that are seemingly everywhere.
If this is what things look like when the U.S. economy is still relatively stable, how bad are things going to get when the economy tanks?
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In San Francisco, the homeless population has grown by 17 percent since 2017, and when a UN official recently walked the streets she was absolutely horrified by what she witnessed…When Leilani Farha paid a visit to San Francisco in January, she knew the grim reputation of the city’s homeless encampments. In her four years as the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Adequate Housing, Farha has visited the slums of Mumbai, Delhi, Mexico City, Jarkarta, and Manila. The crisis in San Francisco, she said, is comparable to these conditions.I have never been to Mumbai, Delhi, Mexico City, Jarkarta or Manila, and so I will just have to take her word for what the conditions are like there.
But how can this be happening in one of the wealthiest cities in the entire country?
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Sadly, to a large degree San Francisco has done this to itself. Every single day drugs are openly bought and sold at “an outdoor market of sorts” right in the heart of the city, and authorities know exactly where it is happening…To drill down on the epicenter of the crisis, a recent New York Times inquiry set out to find the dirtiest block in San Francisco. After asking statisticians to compile a list of streets with the most neighborhood complaints regarding sidewalk cleanliness, the Times landed on a winner: Hyde Street’s 300 block, which received more than 2,200 complaints over the last decade.They could shut down the drug dealing if they really wanted to do so.
A visit to the block yields a harrowing sight of drug addicts and mentally ill residents, many of whom are part of the city’s overwhelmingly large homeless population. During the day, drug users host an outdoor market of sorts, selling heroin, crack cocaine, and amphetamines along the sidewalks.
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And anywhere the illegal drug trade is thriving, you are also going to have a lot of property crime. At this point, no city in America has a higher rate of property crime than San Francisco does…San Francisco is the nation’s leader in property crime. Burglary, larceny, shoplifting, and vandalism are included under this ugly umbrella. The rate of car break-ins is particularly striking: in 2017 over 30,000 reports were filed, and the current average is 51 per day. Other low-level offenses, including drug dealing, street harassment, encampments, indecent exposure, public intoxication, simple assault, and disorderly conduct are also rampant.Meanwhile, things are not much better in Los Angeles. In fact, many would argue that L.A. is in even worse condition.
The homeless population in the city has risen 16 percent since last year, and it is taking over neighborhood after neighborhood. Los Angeles was once one of the most beautiful cities in the entire world, but now it is rapidly being transformed into a hellhole…If someone predicted half a century ago that a Los Angeles police station or indeed L.A. City Hall would be in danger of periodic, flea-borne infectious typhus outbreaks, he would have been considered unhinged. After all, the city that gave us the modern freeway system is not supposed to resemble Justinian’s sixth-century Constantinople. Yet typhus, along with outbreaks of infectious hepatitis A, are in the news on California streets. The sidewalks of the state’s major cities are homes to piles of used needles, feces, and refuse. Hygienists warn that permissive municipal governments are setting the stage — through spiking populations of history’s banes of fleas, lice, and rats — for possible dark-age outbreaks of plague or worse.Skid Row is the epicenter of the homeless problem in L.A., and I highly recommend that you do not go down there to check it out for yourself.
It is hard to believe that people are actually living this way in America in 2019. This is what one reporter witnessed during his visit to the neighborhood…If you want to know how bad the homelessness crisis has gotten in California, just turn to 4 squares miles east of Main Street in downtown Los Angeles. The area, known as Skid Row, has long been inhabited by the city’s poorest residents. These days it resembles something akin to a nightmare.This is where the rest of the country is headed if we are not very careful. Bad policies have bad consequences, and our leaders have been taking us in the wrong direction for a very long time.
Residents sleep in tents surrounded by discarded needles and feces, their belongings tucked into trash bags and shopping carts. Some shade themselves with tarps or use nearby light poles to connect to power. Others have contracted typhus from rats scurrying across the sidewalk. One resident was even found bathing in the water from a broken fire hydrant.
And instead of getting to the root of our problems, most of our politicians seem to think that engaging in bizarre social experiments will somehow solve our problems.
For example, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is convinced that we can solve the homeless problem by building tiny housing units in the backyards of private homeowners…As part of this mission, the city is pursuing a pilot program, made possible by a $1 million Bloomberg Philanthropies grant, that would help homeowners install backyard units on their properties. In exchange for a $10,000 to $30,000 stipend, homeowners would be able to charge a small rent to homeless tenants, who would pay their share through vouchers or their own income. The city also plans to institute a matchmaking process that pairs owners and tenants.So if you live in Los Angeles, soon you will be able to bring the needles and piles of human feces from Skid Row into your own backyard.
“Our homeless crisis demands that we get creative,” the mayor said. If the backyard pilot works, he added, the idea could be adopted anywhere.
Meanwhile, homeless people keep dropping dead night after night in Los Angeles. Just check out these staggering numbers…A record number of homeless people — 918 last year alone — are dying across Los Angeles County, on bus benches, hillsides, railroad tracks and sidewalks.Year after year, this homelessness crisis is only getting worse.
Deaths have jumped 76% in the past five years, outpacing the growth of the homeless population, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis of the coroner’s data.
The fabric of our society is literally coming apart right in front of our eyes, and we can all see what is happening, and yet our leaders seem absolutely powerless to fix it.
If we continue on this trajectory, what is our nation going to look like in a few years?
Just something to think about…
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THANK PEOLOSI, SCHUMER, DEBLASIO, THE DEMOCRATS AND RINO'S FOR THE COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF OUR CITIES!
AND STOP BRINGING MORE FOREIGNERS HERE!
Seattle suburb where Bezos, Gates both live running out of money...
The Seattle suburb where Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates both live is running out of money
Published Tue, Jun 25 2019 12:21 PM EDTUpdated Wed, Jun 26 2019 10:09 AM EDT
Catherine Clifford@CatClifford
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Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are the richest people in the world, worth $119 billion and $107 billion respectively, according to Bloomberg.
Amazon is headquartered in Seattle and Microsoft is just outside the city, and both billionaires have homes in the nearby small town of Medina, Washington.
With a population of just over 3,000, Medina is the seventh richest zip code in the U.S. with a median home value of $2.77 million, and the town has a median household income of $186,464 in 2017, the most recent data available. (By comparison, the 2017 median household income in the U.S. was $60,336.)
Yet Medina is running out of money — and the irony is lost on no one.
So how is the home of the richest people on the planet coming up short?
The problem is, even though Medina home values are increasing, the city’s income is not rising at the same speed, the city says.
“You may find it hard to imagine that the City doesn’t have enough income to sustain current service levels, particularly in this economy. While property values continue to rise, the City’s tax revenues don’t rise in tandem,” reads a June 2019 Medina city newsletter.That’s because by law, the local government cannot increase the amount of tax revenue it collects by more than 1% each year without the residents voting to approve a larger amount.
The property tax rate in Washington state is set as a rate, not a percentage, Medina’s director of finance Julie Ketter tells CNBC Make It. For Medina, the property tax rate is $7.92925 per $1,000 of assessed value.
Of that, only $0.63486 goes to the city of Medina, Ketter says. (Another $2.42782 goes to local schools, $0.12266 goes to the port, $1.21906 goes to the county, $0.37441 goes to the library, $0.21762 goes to emergency medical services, $0.09660 goes to a flood fund, $0.20700 goes to regional transit and $2.62992 goes to the state school fund.)
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Need more proof that Washington’s tax system is as messed up as it gets?
Even the richest town in the state can’t make it work, writes columnist Danny Westneat. https://st.news/2RuZXMS
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‘We are in dire straits’: Even Washington’s wealthiest town can’t make our backward tax system work
The town of Medina is basically a golf country club surrounded by tech gazillionaires and old Seattle money. Yet even it is having a budget crisis, due to this state's broken tax laws.
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The most expensive home in Medina is assessed by the King County Assessors office as being worth $131,239,000, Ketter tells CNBC Make It. This home — presumably Gates “Xanadu 2.0,” which has 24 bathrooms and a trampoline room — has a $1,040,627 total property tax in 2019. Of that, $83,318 will go to the City of Medina.But comparatively, the majority of the homes in Medina are not as expensive: The median value of a home in Medina is just over $2 million, Ketter says.
Therefore, in 2019, Medina will bring in only $2.8 million in property taxes, the City says. A 1% increase of that is an additional $28,000, which is not enough to cover rising expenses. “Fire services alone increased by nearly double that amount in 2019,” the newsletter reads.
To fix the budget shortfall in Medina, the town will vote in November to lift the cap on property taxes enough to “provide funds to continue current service levels without significant cuts,” the newsletter reads.
The proposed increase of property taxes in Medina would increase the property tax by 20 cents per $1,000 of assessed value, Ketter says. For a $2 million home, that would be $400 per year in 2020 and an increase of $589 per year in 2025, Medina says.
The city, if it continues to operate without raising property taxes, will have a deficit of $500,000 by 2020 and a deficit of $3.3 million by 2025, the City says. “We’re on an unsustainable path,” the newsletter says.
The fiscal problem in Medina is illustrative of a larger taxation issue in the state of Washington, which doesn’t have a personal or corporate income tax. In 2001, a rule limiting the increase in revenue brought in from property taxes to 1% per year was voted in. The state’s supreme court overturned the law and then it was brought back again in 2007.
The cap is so restrictive that it can cripple local budgets. “Need more proof that Washington’s tax system is as messed up as it gets? Even the richest town in the state can’t make it work,” Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat wrote of Medina on Friday. “The town of 3,200 is discovering what King County, Seattle and countless other municipalities around here have been screaming for nearly two decades: the math doesn’t work anymore.”Westneat continued: “I hear some really important people live in Medina. Maybe now that it’s their town that’s said to be in ‘dire straits,’ these questions will finally get some traction.”
Representatives for Bezos and Gates did not immediately respond to CNBC Make It’s request for a comment.
Correction: This story has been updated and corrected to reflect that Microsoft’s headquarters is outside of Seattle.
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Failed liberal policies have 'encouraged' the homeless crisis in California: Zeiter
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Attorney & community activist Jennifer Welsh Zeiter gives her take on the massive homeless problem in California.
The governor says CA is the blue print for America. Isn’t the NWO grand??
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Bubonic Plague ‘Likely’ Already Present In Los Angeles, Dr. Drew Says
If your city is broke and you are doing stuff like then these politicians need to be in prison