What a travesty. As a commercial and residential general contractor I could have completed the 39 prefabricated units, complete with foundations and utilities for well under $1 million dollars 😞 what we have here is bureaucrats loading their pockets!!!!
Because, you obviously don't contribute to their political campaigns. It's all Smoke and Mirrors! These are career politicians who have 1 AGENDA! (They just want and need to stay in office)
GOP!?! The Dems have been in charge of not only California, but Los Angeles for as far back as I can remember. If the GOP were in charge, there would be zero homeless people on the streets of our cities because they would round every homeless person up and stick them in huge tilt up buildings in the middle of the antelope valley. They would keep them there until they could prove that they can assimilate into society. Easy fix. You just don’t have to worry about their rights. Once we get over that, the rest is easy
For that kind of money they could have relocated them to Michigan and bought them a 60,000 dollar home and they could have put the rest in their pockets to live off of.
Those tiny homes don't cost millions...that's the contractor overcharging for cheap plywood and plastic windows, California homes arnt 500k either,.. its GREED at the root of the problem
It cost more for labor than it does for the actual building material. A 500k home built by journeyman would only be around 150-200k in building supplies. It’s because legitimate unionized carpenters get paid 40 bucks an hour. Every house you see out there the prices has been doubled because of labor. Simple as that.
I'm brazilian and have always wanted to visit Los Angeles. Have to say I got disappointed when I finally went there this year. I didn't feel safe walking on the streets, or the subway, I would go back to the hotel before it was dark... there's a lot of drugged people there... I never would've imagine Los Angeles like that. We, brazilians, tend to think it's all beautiful and safe in countries like the US, but apparently it's not. I think we're really going through a global scale inequality catastrophy. Los Angeles is a great example of this. Having so many homeless people in a city where so many wealthy people live is so strange. This needs to be fixed.
@@LHRTWwhy do Chinese and lndonesians immigrate to US? They have a better life in their countries. They did go there for studying as the universities used to be good.
There was another documentary where this man and his girlfriend were building these tiny houses from donations that were only $1000 each. Something is wrong with this housing issue
Yea, the politicians are getting kick backs and or own portions of the companies building it. So they jack prices up and go over budget and over time so they can keep stripping money away from the people.
@┏┳┛ The housing market has nothing to do with what a business pays an employee, and if they raised the wages, they would be able to afford a place to live
@┏┳┛ When was minimum wage actually raised last you rich people keep making excuses to raise the prices regardless of any raises if any. The housing marker goes up regardless of whats going on, and its seems no one learns from the last few times the housing market goes up. Evedently you guys still dont learn from the CRASHES that always follow the constant hikes
@@paulm4176 and you listen to the establishment and MSM. Who’s the real clown here? The guy who likes the outsider that Washington hates, or the one who trust the same people who lied about 9/11, NSA spying, WMD’s, Libya, Syrian gas attacks, covering up for Chinas lab leak, Russian collusion... the list goes on.
@@Tyler_Owen23 You have no idea what your talking about. I don't know anybody who trust the establishment. Remember before trump the republican party were the ones who were pro government don't forget or are you to young to remember.
Three options for these people 1) Make them work 2) Go to rehab 3) institutionalize them Most are drug addicts, have mental health issues, or are just plain lazy. I live in SoCal and deal with them on a daily basis.
Good luck doing that with the shocking amount of California red tape, zoning laws, permits, licensing, taxes/fees, and regulations.... I’d like to see you try to build ONE house.
They should investigate the city & county governments that are in a deal with these contractors is more like it. They are all embezzling & commiting fraud
it wasn't the shacks that cost millions, it was the environmental studies, the transportation studies, the waste disposal studies, the construction studies, the paint color selection team studies, the landscaping studies, the contractor selection studies, the ongoing maintenance studies etc etc etc etc... that cost millions.
Each little home should cost 30k max I don’t know why the taxpayers are being charged up to 100k for one little building. Homedepot sells sheds the size of these for 2k add another 10k for electrical, and other necessities and you got a good little building
@@skylangford6083 both sides are corrupt at the end of the day, we really need a new system to keep the politicians in check because what we have now is not working.
what is human rights? human rights are immune from gun violence, gang culture, homeless, .... all those things are basic human rights. if those are not being protected, the nation has no right to lecture foreign countries about human rights.
When will people realize that politicians can not resolve ANY problem, they have proven this time and again. To even consider constructing tiny homes at such a cost is clearly due to inefficiency and bureaucracy. This problem could be solved if done right, by the right people and tools. The money is there however when incompetently led and spent it has become a national problem. Learn from the military of its heyday, from the engineers, cut through the crap, no favors for friends or lobbyists.. 100 years ago we could build amazing structures in record time, today we spend $540USD on one tiny home?? Find 100 retired army engineers, give them free hands to rebuild former schools or abandoned military bases, hire the security counselors and rehab therapists. Leave the bureaucrats and politicians out of the equation and you will see it done, and done for a lot less.
well, that's what happens in capitalist economies trying to mix with democratic-type governments. besides being an undemocratic system itself it's built on extreme inequality, thus the one's with all the money buy up puppets in every tier of government to protect their interests (lobbying, donations, junkets, general surreptitious kick-backs, etc) Want that to change? Dismantle and replace capitalism. But no one seems to want to do that because it's also infected the working class minds with conspicuous consumption, and cheesy status competitions. So, stop complaining, start organizing for revolution.
@@YourMom-vl2sp *correction of your correction* "Californians" do not stay in a danger zone that is Skid Row and other parts unless they want to join the homeless population. Thus why Texas with less regulations, attracts these types. How are they originally considered as folks going back home?
@@ticktockbam Right!!! They would of been better off buying 39 Tuff sheds and than hiring local electricans and plummers for hookups, and I do know people who actully live in tuff sheds they can be fixed up quite nice
I lived in Los Angeles California for 26 years and this has been going on the whole time that I was there so for someone to think that it just started you are wrong and public officials have been knowing about this growing problem for a while. Now that it has gotten so out of control they want to try to cover it up with a little help from here and there but it's not working.
Whoever came up with this dollar figure for tiny homes must have been the same person that decided while I was in the air force that our simple toilets cost $3,000 a piece 🤯🤯
5 million for 39 houses and 66,000+ homeless so 8 billion dollars to build those little homes for everyone😂 "I don't look at the money" WE CAN SEE THAT👀
You look at the country as one but each state has its own set of rules and budgets. The state of California has huge mismanagement and because of this people suffer.
I'm a former homeless vet. Yes, people go through hard times. My demon is booze. But the second one expects the city or anyone else to fight for their lives more than themselves it's already off to a bad start. You have to want to live, to survive, to break free. I personally know many who choose to stay. Our lives are our own responsibilities, but everyone needs help at times, but a hand up is not a hand out. It's a step not a perm solution.
Big picture here is that drugs and really dysfunctional childhoods have robbed these souls of the will to care, or find themselves important enough to change.
I too am upset by The Cost, these Tiny Homes are a temporary bridge for getting the reluctant unhoused off the street, here they have communal kitchen, medical and mental health care. They get help getting resources not tapped into ie VA benefits, SSI or SSA, Cal Fresh etc. We can't prorate into the number of homes, it is a much larger complex, they have access to showers, laundry facilities, computers and all the staff it takes to run and keep everyone safe 💜☮️💜
Anyone with any sense whatsoever has to wonder where that $5.4 million went. How can that mayor say that with a straight face? I've never understood liars...l mean politicians.
Me and my friends recently visited Venice Beach and was shocked at how different Venice Beach was in person compared to what we’ve seen on websites. It was straight out of a movie. Couldn’t believe how bad things were out there.
I was appalled at HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME, it was dirty, smelly and sketchy...could not believe how its been overrun by the homeless and made me realize how lucky I am to not live in CA
As one who grew-up in Venice in the 1960s I can tell you it has always been full of BUMS. That's what we used to call them as kids. The difference now is the Politicians pander to this behavior and like anything else you do so it has grown and grown. That is the problem...a soft attitude and easy money for bureaucrats/charities has grown this segment of the population. Stop all that and it would shrink back down to a few hundred alcoholics sleeping in doorways.
This is one of the craziest things I've ever seen. Ever. I'm from Canada, and our largest cities like Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver did have an uptick in problems like these and temporary camp sites set up around town during Covid, but NOTHING like the scale we see here. I heard that there are up to 100,000 homeless in LA. I also watch the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and see the wealth and prosperity that too exists in that city. Trying to reason through that disparity gives me the most sickening feeling.
5.4 Million dollars to build outdoor closets? Someone made bank. Follow the money and find the corruption. If he had a dollar every time someone said they knew how to solve the homeless crisis he would be a millionaire? He said, laughing all the way to the bank.
A guillotine only costs between $600-$1200 right? How much is the sharpening stone? Not much right? It'll be a community guillotine, in terms of what's good for one, will be good for all.
Don’t know who pocketed more than 100k for the 138k for each container?! This is insane! I say each should cost less than 30k including materials! The sheds at Costco cost less than 5k. No way these would cost more than 30k IMO.
This was a huge problem BEFORE the pandemic. It's been a growing problem for the better half of the last decade. Also the vast majority are not ''down on their luck" poor people. It's a massive addiction crisis, which often leads to additional crimes to support their habit wherever they decide to make camp. Constant theft, public urination/defecation, drug use and bio-hazardous waste, and sometimes far worse crimes (homicide, for instance) tend to go where the homeless go. Some of ya'll want 'more shelters' for them, but they're expensive to build and even more expensive to maintain/police. Most have a no alcohol/drugs policy for a reason, and it still doesn't stop them from doing it and causing more violence and chaos. Almost no hotels want to house them, because they tend to ruin the rooms and ruin the reputation by allowing people covered in scabies and smelling like poop to live there, or constantly scream and smash up the rooms at night when they get drunk or fall victim to their mental illnesses. I can recognize homeless in my area I have seen on the streets since I was in high school, and I'm in my mid-30s now. Whatever the money is currently going to, it's not working.
The lady at the end saying " I don't know how a country like this let these people live like this " .. Most of these people are lazy and don't want to work. Imagine nobody working and expect the Government to provide for all of us, we would be in deep 💩 . Use common sense lady, if your stuck in a hole there's always a way out, you find it, not sit and wait to be rescued
Jesus said the poor you shall have with you always. That was not an indictment or curse but actually shows how those with the power to create wealth do with their money 💰.
@Katj Hill Scientology is one of the biggest property owners in the states which they are represented. They not only buy the building for their "churches" but also buy the surrounding buildings purely on a basis of paranoia and keep them empty to keep away prying eyes. This is very well documented.
Anyone who is "one paycheck away from being homeless" needs to turn off their cell phone, quit smoking, and start eating nothing but beans and rice and apples for a year or two and start saving money. Then they will be 9 paychecks away from being homeless. But you fools won't. You will keep spending every dime of your paycheck each month on crap you don't need. I own a home, but I eat like a beggar so I can have more money to save and to pay my home off. That way I won't end up homeless and living in a tent and doing drugs "cuz i'm so depressed about my bad choices".
@@glassdogangle What do you want , a round of applause? You know what you should do is take off your MAGA Hat & Throw it in the 🗑🚮 ! That might purge you of your obvious 😏 ignorance. 🤔
Jesus allegedly said that we had him for only a brief time but that the poor we have always. And that how we treat the poor is how we treat him. So the poor are our hope for redemption. Not even in a religious way but within ourselves. They are our path to inner peace within this life. Help is needed. Are you in?
I'm in Gus. I have no religion but I have a heart and after seeing this video I understand the scope of this crisis. We hear about the border crisis way more than homelessness because it is more embarassing for us to admit.
@@Chad_Max Not really. States now control most of those payments and since Clinton’s time they have cut them back more and more. In the Southern states have almost eliminated them, hence the drift by the poor to warmer less racist states. Your summary is a bit lazy.
@@5cary_hours Absolutely. Majority of them REFUSE public service, shelters, and temporary housing because they CHOOSE to stay on the streets to do DRUGS. This was the case in the Santa Ana River. After being forced to leave, there were 14,000 needles, 400 tons of debris and nearly 6000 pounds of human waste and other hazardous waste that were cleaned out. These people choose this lifestyle to stay high. Homelessness is not a housing problem nor an income problem.
@@5cary_hours this may come as a shock to you but some of them made the choices that they are where they are today...ever hear of a little thing called personal responsilbity or is that RAYYYCCISSS now also
@FaMiLy One no, her problem is that she probably doesn't vote. Left wing and far right are outvoting the center anywhere they dominate, so politicians are catering to their voting pool; extremists.
@@FeliciaQueen17 I simply guessed that you don't vote, it was just a guess so it doesn't matter if I'm right or wrong because that's what it means to guess. You should not post comments if you get offended so easy.
@@infinteuniverse Who's offended? And no, you didn't guess, you assumed. Maybe you should stop assuming you know anything about someone that you literally know nothing about at all. Maybe you should have asked me instead of 'guessing'.
The US needs to ban foreign investors, particularly from China from investing and buying properties here. It's Chinese billionaires that are buying all these houses and complexes as ways to park their cash and grow it. That's why rents are sky rocketing in LA even though the quality of life goes down there every year. Insane traffic, potholes everywhere, crime.
I just came from LA and the amount of homeless is crazy, i live in the bay area and i see few homeless, even san francisco, but nothing compare to LA, what i saw there was way more than what i have seen here in san francisco
Atherton California is the richest town in California, and thus America. These shacks cost more per square foot than luxury houses do in Atherton. And the mayor has the nerve to defend the cost. Absolutely insane.
The Mayor is Incompetent of Handling This!!!!!! Go Away, and get someone in there that will fix it. I lived in La for 20 years and this makes me sick. I saw very little tense up before I left early 6 years ago and he was just elected mayor. Disgraceful
Well, I live in Tucson, AZ and my mortgage for my 4 bedroom house is $750 a month. You can't even get a tiny studio with that in LA. What do they want people to do? I'm single and I make about $1400 every two weeks. I couldn't survive on that in LA. What choices do they have? A lot of those homeless people do work. Knott's Berry Farm, just like Disney, gross billions of $ a year, yet they pay their employees minimum wages, and many of them sleep in their cars while the CEOs take luxurious vacations in exotic places. Nothing wrong with that?
@@sarag7262 You are so right. I locked in my rates, mind you, I was working for Jack in the Crack at the time. I just managed to save a bunch for my down payment so the interest rate was low thus the low monthly payments. What people supposed to do? Why is the rent so high?
No one with money will travel to Los Angeles! I think they should take the southern California border down and put a new border right around and give it to Mexico.
Complaining about spending 5.4 million to house the homeless. How much did that LA football stadium cost to build?? Can we start getting priorities in order and stop voting for the same failed Democrats over and over?
if one unit cost $500,000 then I feel like a more cost effective solution is to buy them existing homes, of course then the pocket lining would not be taking place
I remember seeing the homeless people when I went to L.A., while living in Southern California and it was sad during the 1970's and it was bad then, especially in the area around the bus station. I now live in Arkansas and we have our share of it here too and where I live you don't see it since I am in a rural area.
I've been watching this crises for about 6 months now. The city has not only built these tiny home communities but has also offered to put the homeless in hotels for free. Many of the homeless refuse both of these offers because they want to stay on the streets to drink and do their drugs at will, they don't want services other than the free food they are given daily, free showers and in some cases a community with a view of the beach. I've heard of a number of these "homeless", brag about how much they love it and how much money they are saving as they are receiving government benefits but are paying no rent. They can't even fill up the tiny home communities that are already built because "rules". No drinking, no drugging, but three free meals a day, showers, bathrooms, laundry facilities and social services to help them get mental, substance abuse treatment or government benefits if they qualify.
People have given up... Our capitalist system is rigged... The American Dream is increasingly available only to an elite few. It's only going to grow as more and more jobs get replaced by automation and off shoring. The housing market continues to become more and more out of reach for the "Average American", and anyone with out a college degree is going to have to work 4 different jobs with no benefits 90 hrs a week just to be able to survive.
Utah had addressed their homeless by putting them in rooms, offering no strings attached. Offering drug n alcohol ok l rehab to t hose interested, and if not you still keep room. And food. They can shower and look for jobs if wanted. Did hard alcohol I lies not penalized. It worked!!
A half a million each little 64 sq. ft dwelling? Someone is getting rich off of this and it's not the homeless. Tents add re going to go through the roof when rental moratoriums are lifted.
Or Michigan, idk about Detroit but in lansing I barely see homeless, and the people who stand at the intersections are waiting on drug drops, they’re not homeless just posing....i see it often
Garcetti is a weasel. He said if I had a penny everytime he hears someone say I can fix the homeless problem he be a millionaire. Dude you are a millionaire living in a 5 million dollar mansion.
is that mansion not payed by the tax payers? i mean i know in my country a mayor get their house for free. pretty big house as well though not something we normal people can afford. but that doesnt mean that a mayor itself is a millionaire. i know for 1 thing that mayors in my country are not millionaires. yes they get a good annual pay. but not enough to call them selves millionaires.
@LSPD-Officer-Rhonson the great state of Florida I got a 2/2 on a half acre I'm glad I left California Florida is way better my property is in south florida btw
This started in 2000, this is what happens when you let the rich run amok. I'm from San Diego. I'll never get to see my home town again. I was homeless with my toddler working full time living at a campground and many other various situations until getting out of Cali into a desert town, right where the rich want me, out of the way.
Yeah it's rich people buying up property as an "investment" or "safe haven" for their often ill gained money. It's crazy that the average person is allowing this to continue for so long. You need organized groups to riot and demand change. Go against the system, demand better treatment and fair opportunities.
It’s not a homelessness problem. It’s a drug addiction problem, and if they themselves don’t want to stop shooting up, no one can save them. It’s hard, but possible. Please understand only themselves can save them.
There are an abundance of vacant buildings, and shopping centers. Could these be re-purposed? As shopping malls become vacant, these could become communities with in-house support services staffed by university students in return for tuition. Just a thought.
I think drug rehab centers and mental health clinics are what the city really needs in order to solve at least 95% of its homeless population. There's a common denominator amongst the homeless population: drug and mental problems.
@@norton2 I think the whole nation needs a complete shift of focus around drug addiction. These people need to be treated like patients, not criminals.
Future generations are either going to look back at this and think we were heartless for doing nothing about this. I feel great shame for this country.
Doing nothing is voting for politicians that are known for not addressing these issues only because they are part of the political party of their choice. How long has Garcetti been in office?
Past 12 months USA has gifted $160 Billion in military aid, foreign aid while the homeless numbers are doubling every year Past 26 years over $1 Trillion USA has spent in fighting foreign wars in Middle East, wars that have no impact on US. When USA ran away from Afghanistan, they left over $2.5 Billion in weapons and other hardware, all fu7nded by US tax payers Way to go Uncle Sam
What a travesty. As a commercial and residential general contractor I could have completed the 39 prefabricated units, complete with foundations and utilities for well under $1 million dollars 😞 what we have here is bureaucrats loading their pockets!!!!
Yes!! There's no way 39 tiny homes just with two beds in them coats that much
Because, you obviously don't contribute to their political campaigns. It's all Smoke and Mirrors! These are career politicians who have 1 AGENDA! (They just want and need to stay in office)
I agree!!!!
GOP!?! The Dems have been in charge of not only California, but Los Angeles for as far back as I can remember. If the GOP were in charge, there would be zero homeless people on the streets of our cities because they would round every homeless person up and stick them in huge tilt up buildings in the middle of the antelope valley. They would keep them there until they could prove that they can assimilate into society. Easy fix. You just don’t have to worry about their rights. Once we get over that, the rest is easy
Why would you do it for a million when you could make 5 million? That’s dumb
Those little 64 square feet "homes" cost $138,461 each. Someone got ripped off.
Yeah the tax payer got ripped off
right? my first thought too. never going to solve a housing crisis spending like that.
My 10×20 Tuff Shed cost me three thousand with electric and water hook ups..There is something wrong in California & our Country
Yes the taxpayer.
For that kind of money they could have relocated them to Michigan and bought them a 60,000 dollar home and they could have put the rest in their pockets to live off of.
Those tiny homes don't cost millions...that's the contractor overcharging for cheap plywood and plastic windows, California homes arnt 500k either,.. its GREED at the root of the problem
More than you obviously know. Speaking from a multiple business owner's perspective
The market is crazy because the economy is just that strong with higher salaries, but the issue is the average salary hasn’t caught up with inflation.
It cost more for labor than it does for the actual building material. A 500k home built by journeyman would only be around 150-200k in building supplies. It’s because legitimate unionized carpenters get paid 40 bucks an hour. Every house you see out there the prices has been doubled because of labor. Simple as that.
Location location location, the same house I’m Mississippi would be $20 bucks
@@plmedia01 exactly
The Mayor is such a liar, 5 million for 39 units? Someone is making big bucks off this crisis. I mean $128,000 per unit is crazy, even for LA.
I'm brazilian and have always wanted to visit Los Angeles. Have to say I got disappointed when I finally went there this year. I didn't feel safe walking on the streets, or the subway, I would go back to the hotel before it was dark... there's a lot of drugged people there... I never would've imagine Los Angeles like that. We, brazilians, tend to think it's all beautiful and safe in countries like the US, but apparently it's not. I think we're really going through a global scale inequality catastrophy. Los Angeles is a great example of this. Having so many homeless people in a city where so many wealthy people live is so strange. This needs to be fixed.
Visit Chicago please. That’s one of the most beautiful cities in the US
Yeah, you’re too late. The major US cities were great places 20 years ago. Glad I traveled back then.
@@razoreater616more immigrant workers needed to fix it. What si needed is 10m immigrant workers from China India and Indonesia to fix it.
@@LHRTWwhy do Chinese and lndonesians immigrate to US? They have a better life in their countries. They did go there for studying as the universities used to be good.
@@blinoldluv Chinese fleeing to US as Chinese USSR is going to collapse
There was another documentary where this man and his girlfriend were building these tiny houses from donations that were only $1000 each. Something is wrong with this housing issue
Yes, seen here:
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LA‘s politicians & „officials“ made sure that those houses had to disappear.
Yea, the politicians are getting kick backs and or own portions of the companies building it. So they jack prices up and go over budget and over time so they can keep stripping money away from the people.
@┏┳┛ The housing market has nothing to do with what a business pays an employee, and if they raised the wages, they would be able to afford a place to live
I do agree that the politicians are the cause also
@┏┳┛ When was minimum wage actually raised last you rich people keep making excuses to raise the prices regardless of any raises if any. The housing marker goes up regardless of whats going on, and its seems no one learns from the last few times the housing market goes up. Evedently you guys still dont learn from the CRASHES that always follow the constant hikes
The homeless crisis has been a long going issue way before the pandemic.
You’re right. Even 20 years ago, when I first saw it in person , the situation was deplorable.
@Daniel Rodriguez Not everyone has the money to give.
@@FascinatingMr I used to be homeless myself. I know first hand of this problem. It is a broken system based off of capitalism that is the issue.
I go all over the country, and most cities are looking alike! Outta control homelessness, outta control housing market, two deadly combinations.
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5,000,000 dollars for 39 units. It could have been done a lot cheaper than that.
They’re liberals. They do meth but not math
@@oliverb5798 and you listen to trump.. Enough said...
@@paulm4176 and you listen to the establishment and MSM. Who’s the real clown here? The guy who likes the outsider that Washington hates, or the one who trust the same people who lied about 9/11, NSA spying, WMD’s, Libya, Syrian gas attacks, covering up for Chinas lab leak, Russian collusion... the list goes on.
@@Tyler_Owen23 You have no idea what your talking about. I don't know anybody who trust the establishment. Remember before trump the republican party were the ones who were pro government don't forget or are you to young to remember.
@@paulm4176 do you like Biden?
Three options for these people
1) Make them work
2) Go to rehab
3) institutionalize them
Most are drug addicts, have mental health issues, or are just plain lazy. I live in SoCal and deal with them on a daily basis.
It's hard for homeless everywhere. Even here in Hawaii. It's like Michael Jackson was saying. They dont really care about us!
Offer the homeless people a job to build these houses
You would have to train. But with the budget they had, they can afford to train i guess.
HOLY SH1T! There is at least one person in the world that agrees with me. Cheaper and a much better solution.
Good luck doing that with the shocking amount of California red tape, zoning laws, permits, licensing, taxes/fees, and regulations....
I’d like to see you try to build ONE house.
most homeless already get a chack, i say charge them 30% of their monthly check to live in them
You need to teach them first. Most don’t have that skill.
They should investigate the company making those homes for fraud!
They should investigate the city & county governments that are in a deal with these contractors is more like it. They are all embezzling & commiting fraud
@@debrafrogner Fair point; them too.
Debra Frogner Sounds like this is in Jakarta or Manila. But this is in LA.
it wasn't the shacks that cost millions, it was the environmental studies, the transportation studies, the waste disposal studies, the construction studies, the paint color selection team studies, the landscaping studies, the contractor selection studies, the ongoing maintenance studies etc etc etc etc... that cost millions.
@@marzsit9833 Thank you for sharing.
Each little home should cost 30k max I don’t know why the taxpayers are being charged up to 100k for one little building. Homedepot sells sheds the size of these for 2k add another 10k for electrical, and other necessities and you got a good little building
Because you have every department within that city or state government that its hand out expecting their piece of the prize.
Not even 30K. A little house like that would cost at least about 5K max. It doesn't even have utilities besides electric and a/c.
Thank you!!!
its not the price of supplies that expensive its the land they stand on . land is supper expensive in California because the climate is desirable
Umm even with building material prices 10 grand with labor.
39 homes cost $5.4 million dollars??????? What a joke! That is outrageous. Don’t they have competitive bidding?
30 tiny homes 50 million dollars ,what?,there must horrendous problems with these bureaucrats,there must be massive mismanagement going on.
This just really comes to show you how these politicians recycle money for themselves to the advantage of the lowest class who need help.
@J P Wentworth Yeah forget about those who were laid off because of the pandemic
And worst of all, the lazy, sleepy, sheepish woke residents voted for it and unanimously I might add.....
Yep. Im voting demonrat 😊till this changes. They'll get it right ✅ on the 12th try I hope.
@@skylangford6083 both sides are corrupt at the end of the day, we really need a new system to keep the politicians in check because what we have now is not working.
@@NewJerseyJets agreed!
HALF A MILLION FOR 40 SHEDS AND 80 COTS?!?!?!?!?! WTF!!!!
Money that 40 families could have used to purchase a permanent home with!
The pillows were filled with gold plated feathers, of course.
5 million
The bigger picture it's a safe space.
They could have put trailers on that property for far less.
@D Legionnaire Not funny.
Put them in a line executive them
Not enough trailers. During the pandemic they stopped making them
Dodgers parking lot has a bunch just sitting there empty, hum I wonder who paid for those trailers...
what is human rights? human rights are immune from gun violence, gang culture, homeless, .... all those things are basic human rights. if those are not being protected, the nation has no right to lecture foreign countries about human rights.
When will people realize that politicians can not resolve ANY problem, they have proven this time and again. To even consider constructing tiny homes at such a cost is clearly due to inefficiency and bureaucracy. This problem could be solved if done right, by the right people and tools. The money is there however when incompetently led and spent it has become a national problem. Learn from the military of its heyday, from the engineers, cut through the crap, no favors for friends or lobbyists.. 100 years ago we could build amazing structures in record time, today we spend $540USD on one tiny home?? Find 100 retired army engineers, give them free hands to rebuild former schools or abandoned military bases, hire the security counselors and rehab therapists. Leave the bureaucrats and politicians out of the equation and you will see it done, and done for a lot less.
Mayor looks real nice in those expensive tailored suits he wears. That's all he's worried about. He dgaf
The Mayor should be presentable be nice
He's an effeminate gangster stealing funds for his donors.
well, that's what happens in capitalist economies trying to mix with democratic-type governments. besides being an undemocratic system itself it's built on extreme inequality, thus the one's with all the money buy up puppets in every tier of government to protect their interests (lobbying, donations, junkets, general surreptitious kick-backs, etc)
Want that to change? Dismantle and replace capitalism. But no one seems to want to do that because it's also infected the working class minds with conspicuous consumption, and cheesy status competitions.
So, stop complaining, start organizing for revolution.
@@rasheeda1303 Better to have an intelligent mayor solving problems than one trying to be pretty for the cameras. Garcetti is downright creepy.
It's quite ironic too after seeing this.
$300 Million Every Year To Smear China From 2022 To 2026!
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I was on the street in LA .. most are not from California..
So what's your point.
Most of Texas are Californians. So why are homeless more convenient in LA than it is in Texas? 🤔
@@brett19890 correction. Most "Californians" that move to Texas are not Californians. They are just moving home 🤣😂🤣
@@YourMom-vl2sp *correction of your correction* "Californians" do not stay in a danger zone that is Skid Row and other parts unless they want to join the homeless population. Thus why Texas with less regulations, attracts these types. How are they originally considered as folks going back home?
A lot of people from Kentucky, i heard
That's over $138,000 for essentially a storage shed with AC not including the cost of the land.
No kidding and only 39 of them wow who's building em I'm from Canada I'd build one for 20 000 ffs
Bruh, those little houses shouldn't cost more than 5,000 USD each.
@@ticktockbam Right!!! They would of been better off buying 39 Tuff sheds and than hiring local electricans and plummers for hookups, and I do know people who actully live in tuff sheds they can be fixed up quite nice
Not one celebrity or politician is going to heaven.
I lived in Los Angeles California for 26 years and this has been going on the whole time that I was there so for someone to think that it just started you are wrong and public officials have been knowing about this growing problem for a while. Now that it has gotten so out of control they want to try to cover it up with a little help from here and there but it's not working.
Whoever came up with this dollar figure for tiny homes must have been the same person that decided while I was in the air force that our simple toilets cost $3,000 a piece 🤯🤯
I was thinking about this 🤔
Same thing I was thinking. I bet there are kick backs involved. The builder in with the mayor or something
These little houses no way could they ever cost that much to build they are so small
Lol i hear someone's piggy banks being filled up
It costs that much because for every homeless person there is another 20 "very concerned" that have to have a chunk of that pie
5 million for 39 houses and 66,000+ homeless so 8 billion dollars to build those little homes for everyone😂 "I don't look at the money" WE CAN SEE THAT👀
Money laundering
How could a country allow people to live like this? It's simple when the cost of living exceeds your income, you wind up having nothing.
"you will own nothing and you will be happy"
Gen Y and Gen Z
No one owes you anything in life. Stop trying to act like you are someone's responsibility pass 18 y/o.
Drugs
You look at the country as one but each state has its own set of rules and budgets. The state of California has huge mismanagement and because of this people suffer.
@@z_styles If that’s his attitude, he won’t be homeless lmao
Five million for 39 tiny homes when the property was given free. This is criminal activity. There is no other way to put it.
its sad how those people are struggling with poverty😭😢💀
I'm a former homeless vet. Yes, people go through hard times. My demon is booze. But the second one expects the city or anyone else to fight for their lives more than themselves it's already off to a bad start. You have to want to live, to survive, to break free. I personally know many who choose to stay. Our lives are our own responsibilities, but everyone needs help at times, but a hand up is not a hand out. It's a step not a perm solution.
Big picture here is that drugs and really dysfunctional childhoods have robbed these souls of the will to care, or find themselves important enough to change.
Once the eviction moratorium ends.. homelessness will become worse.
Rock on brother, Semper Fidelis from this former active duty Marine!
@@lyshondavis5839 so true
I too am upset by The Cost, these Tiny Homes are a temporary bridge for getting the reluctant unhoused off the street, here they have communal kitchen, medical and mental health care. They get help getting resources not tapped into ie VA benefits, SSI or SSA, Cal Fresh etc. We can't prorate into the number of homes, it is a much larger complex, they have access to showers, laundry facilities, computers and all the staff it takes to run and keep everyone safe 💜☮️💜
Anyone with any sense whatsoever has to wonder where that $5.4 million went.
How can that mayor say that with a straight face? I've never understood liars...l mean politicians.
1 billion dollars was announced back in April to combat homelessness in LA over the next fiscal year. So get ready for more of the same thing.
Me and my friends recently visited Venice Beach and was shocked at how different Venice Beach was in person compared to what we’ve seen on websites. It was straight out of a movie. Couldn’t believe how bad things were out there.
I was appalled at HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME, it was dirty, smelly and sketchy...could not believe how its been overrun by the homeless and made me realize how lucky I am to not live in CA
Super sketchy gotta be ready to throw hands or run at any moment smh
@@lotusgrl444 Because the Hollywood Walk of Fame is the whole state of California?...
As one who grew-up in Venice in the 1960s I can tell you it has always been full of BUMS. That's what we used to call them as kids. The difference now is the Politicians pander to this behavior and like anything else you do so it has grown and grown. That is the problem...a soft attitude and easy money for bureaucrats/charities has grown this segment of the population. Stop all that and it would shrink back down to a few hundred alcoholics sleeping in doorways.
Fox News just had a segment tonight about VB... it's gotten much worse since you commented. Very sad.
This is one of the craziest things I've ever seen. Ever. I'm from Canada, and our largest cities like Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver did have an uptick in problems like these and temporary camp sites set up around town during Covid, but NOTHING like the scale we see here. I heard that there are up to 100,000 homeless in LA. I also watch the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and see the wealth and prosperity that too exists in that city. Trying to reason through that disparity gives me the most sickening feeling.
So the land was free but the units were $141,025 EACH?? $5,500,000 for 39 SHEDS??? Jesus
5.4 Million dollars to build outdoor closets? Someone made bank. Follow the money and find the corruption. If he had a dollar every time someone said they knew how to solve the homeless crisis he would be a millionaire? He said, laughing all the way to the bank.
Yup
A guillotine only costs between $600-$1200 right? How much is the sharpening stone? Not much right? It'll be a community guillotine, in terms of what's good for one, will be good for all.
Could not agree more. Somebody’s cousin got this bid.
Most of those tiny homes were built for free by Habitat for humanity. I helped build at least two. So it shouldn't cost too much
A mini house shouldn’t cost more than $10k
your free labor and they're making bank
Over $2000 a sq foot, insanity! Wtf is going on in LA??
Don’t know who pocketed more than 100k for the 138k for each container?! This is insane! I say each should cost less than 30k including materials! The sheds at Costco cost less than 5k. No way these would cost more than 30k IMO.
This was a huge problem BEFORE the pandemic. It's been a growing problem for the better half of the last decade.
Also the vast majority are not ''down on their luck" poor people. It's a massive addiction crisis, which often leads to additional crimes to support their habit wherever they decide to make camp. Constant theft, public urination/defecation, drug use and bio-hazardous waste, and sometimes far worse crimes (homicide, for instance) tend to go where the homeless go.
Some of ya'll want 'more shelters' for them, but they're expensive to build and even more expensive to maintain/police. Most have a no alcohol/drugs policy for a reason, and it still doesn't stop them from doing it and causing more violence and chaos. Almost no hotels want to house them, because they tend to ruin the rooms and ruin the reputation by allowing people covered in scabies and smelling like poop to live there, or constantly scream and smash up the rooms at night when they get drunk or fall victim to their mental illnesses. I can recognize homeless in my area I have seen on the streets since I was in high school, and I'm in my mid-30s now.
Whatever the money is currently going to, it's not working.
But this is the very socialism that they all voted for
The lady at the end saying " I don't know how a country like this let these people live like this " .. Most of these people are lazy and don't want to work. Imagine nobody working and expect the Government to provide for all of us, we would be in deep 💩 . Use common sense lady, if your stuck in a hole there's always a way out, you find it, not sit and wait to be rescued
This really pulls at my heart. I wish no one had to be homeless..
Drama queen. Think about solutions and not your feelings.
Jesus said the poor you shall have with you always. That was not an indictment or curse but actually shows how those with the power to create wealth do with their money 💰.
Get all those empty buildings from Scientology and convert them into housing.
@Katj Hill no one is joining Scientology these days that has Google.
There are reportedly many empty Scientology buildings around the world - just another of their money wasting scams.
They're are abandoned buildings could be turned into shelters..
@Katj Hill Scientology is one of the biggest property owners in the states which they are represented. They not only buy the building for their "churches" but also buy the surrounding buildings purely on a basis of paranoia and keep them empty to keep away prying eyes. This is very well documented.
@@pattytracey3131 what about church 😂😂 stfu mind your own business you are nothing but pure hatred
Many Are Just One Paycheck Away From This Plight.
So so true i say that too
So true, I pay $1141 for a single apartment over a garage. Does not include utilities or garbage pick up, I'm 70
One paycheck away from being a deadbeat Meth user?
Anyone who is "one paycheck away from being homeless" needs to turn off their cell phone, quit smoking, and start eating nothing but beans and rice and apples for a year or two and start saving money. Then they will be 9 paychecks away from being homeless. But you fools won't. You will keep spending every dime of your paycheck each month on crap you don't need. I own a home, but I eat like a beggar so I can have more money to save and to pay my home off. That way I won't end up homeless and living in a tent and doing drugs "cuz i'm so depressed about my bad choices".
@@glassdogangle What do you want , a round of applause? You know what you should do is take off your MAGA Hat & Throw it in the 🗑🚮 ! That might purge you of your obvious 😏 ignorance. 🤔
That’s real of Los Angeles.😕😢
Keep voting blue! Our country is an example for the rest of the world!🤬🤬🤬🤬Who is voting for another 4 years of this crap???
Jesus allegedly said that we had him for only a brief time but that the poor we have always. And that how we treat the poor is how we treat him.
So the poor are our hope for redemption. Not even in a religious way but within ourselves. They are our path to inner peace within this life. Help is needed. Are you in?
I'm in Gus. I have no religion but I have a heart and after seeing this video I understand the scope of this crisis. We hear about the border crisis way more than homelessness because it is more embarassing for us to admit.
No
@@Chad_Max Not really. States now control most of those payments and since Clinton’s time they have cut them back more and more. In the Southern states have almost eliminated them, hence the drift by the poor to warmer less racist states. Your summary is a bit lazy.
No
Nobody wants to pay these people a living wage
Are you dumb? You think these people are homeless because they can't afford to rent an apt or buy a house?
@@jakeleigh9039 you honestly believe these ppl are homeless by choice???
@@5cary_hours Absolutely. Majority of them REFUSE public service, shelters, and temporary housing because they CHOOSE to stay on the streets to do DRUGS. This was the case in the Santa Ana River. After being forced to leave, there were 14,000 needles, 400 tons of debris and nearly 6000 pounds of human waste and other hazardous waste that were cleaned out. These people choose this lifestyle to stay high. Homelessness is not a housing problem nor an income problem.
@@5cary_hours this may come as a shock to you but some of them made the choices that they are where they are today...ever hear of a little thing called personal responsilbity or is that RAYYYCCISSS now also
I feel bad for them, it’s also a huge drug issue. It’s become a dumpster fire here.
Also lots of these folks are physically and/or mentally disabled.
Another Detroit?
Hollywood should pay their taxes
In California the government will help a homeless drug addict get free housing more than someone with a job struggling to pay their mortgage/rent.
I am a native Los Angelinos but with the high rent & the horrid homeless condition, I left and I don't regret it. I can't and won't live like that.
@FaMiLy One no, her problem is that she probably doesn't vote. Left wing and far right are outvoting the center anywhere they dominate, so politicians are catering to their voting pool; extremists.
@FaMiLy One Lol. It's nice to know that you assume that you know me when you don't.
@@infinteuniverse Oh look, another one that assumes to know me when you don't.
@@FeliciaQueen17 I simply guessed that you don't vote, it was just a guess so it doesn't matter if I'm right or wrong because that's what it means to guess. You should not post comments if you get offended so easy.
@@infinteuniverse Who's offended? And no, you didn't guess, you assumed. Maybe you should stop assuming you know anything about someone that you literally know nothing about at all. Maybe you should have asked me instead of 'guessing'.
The price of rents and houses keep going up. Its sad plus everything else going up on top of that
Unless you got a stable career or jobs.
I’m assuming they are there because California has warm weather, but I wish they had money to move.
@@p1smith580 many people with stable jobs, had moved for some reasons I forgot?
The US needs to ban foreign investors, particularly from China from investing and buying properties here. It's Chinese billionaires that are buying all these houses and complexes as ways to park their cash and grow it.
That's why rents are sky rocketing in LA even though the quality of life goes down there every year.
Insane traffic, potholes everywhere, crime.
@@8MunchenBayern8 i didnt know that thanks i just saw your comment
I just came from LA and the amount of homeless is crazy, i live in the bay area and i see few homeless, even san francisco, but nothing compare to LA, what i saw there was way more than what i have seen here in san francisco
The warm-weather attracts the homeless from other states
@@jamesricker3997 how can homeless from other states even go to LA ? lol 😆
@@niceandflyy
Train hop, or some state send them out there.
Crazy
Don't travel to LA. Got it
5 million for 38 huts?? L.A has to be the worst city in the US to live?
Atherton California is the richest town in California, and thus America. These shacks cost more per square foot than luxury houses do in Atherton. And the mayor has the nerve to defend the cost. Absolutely insane.
"If I had a dollar for every time somebody said 'I know how to fix homelessness' I'd be a millionaire"
Googled his net worth... 3 million dollars lol
You can buy a tool shed for $1,200.at Home Depot.
The Mayor is Incompetent of Handling This!!!!!! Go Away, and get someone in there that will fix it. I lived in La for 20 years and this makes me sick. I saw very little tense up before I left early 6 years ago and he was just elected mayor. Disgraceful
I lived in LA in the '70s
Never saw a tent no not one
The problem is that people think helping homeless is communism.
This is what America is going to look like if we don't make changes. A house that costs 80,000 to build shouldn't be sold for over 1, 000,000
Small home each "$100.000+" wow, i can smell corupt from that...
Well, I live in Tucson, AZ and my mortgage for my 4 bedroom house is $750 a month. You can't even get a tiny studio with that in LA. What do they want people to do? I'm single and I make about $1400 every two weeks. I couldn't survive on that in LA. What choices do they have? A lot of those homeless people do work. Knott's Berry Farm, just like Disney, gross billions of $ a year, yet they pay their employees minimum wages, and many of them sleep in their cars while the CEOs take luxurious vacations in exotic places. Nothing wrong with that?
@@sarag7262 You are so right. I locked in my rates, mind you, I was working for Jack in the Crack at the time. I just managed to save a bunch for my down payment so the interest rate was low thus the low monthly payments. What people supposed to do? Why is the rent so high?
All these homeless people in our country, and the government keeps wanting to let more people in.
Trillion of dollar for war but no money for homeless
The number of homeless people sleeping on the street in Santa Monica was just mind-blowing to me.
It's getting worse too.....america is a failed state.
@@JohnGalt1960 more like blue states are failed states
can you take a video and upload next time you drive through there?
Mental health and sobriety is the homesless solution
Left Hell-A in 2017. Very sad to see continued deterioration of a once beautiful city.
No one with money will travel to Los Angeles! I think they should take the southern California border down and put a new border right around and give it to Mexico.
Complaining about spending 5.4 million to house the homeless. How much did that LA football stadium cost to build?? Can we start getting priorities in order and stop voting for the same failed Democrats over and over?
if one unit cost $500,000 then I feel like a more cost effective solution is to buy them existing homes, of course then the pocket lining would not be taking place
I remember seeing the homeless people when I went to L.A., while living in Southern California and it was sad during the 1970's and it was bad then, especially in the area around the bus station. I now live in Arkansas and we have our share of it here too and where I live you don't see it since I am in a rural area.
Where in Arkansas do you live? i live in Little Rock its a bit dangerous too
@@aLexGeNeSiS01 I'm in Fort Smith. Just happened to see your comment.
Without a doubt, the greatest richest most advanced nation in the world. lol
It's not across America, it's across Amfrica.
2:02 39 mini home $5.4M would be $135,000 each one WTF
Why is he paying his friends to build these little homes?
Nepotism?
Capitalism is a dirty business
5 million for 39 fancy shacks. someone got rich off this deal. this is the problem
They always do, it's called politics.
It’s like we’re on the Titanic and there are people making sure the silverware gets cleaned.
Make it nicer to be homeless in LA. Then, there will be less homeless people in LA. Commonsense!
How beautiful is American capitalism. Cook them in boiling oil, you find yourself, no time wasted. 😭😭😭
I've been watching this crises for about 6 months now. The city has not only built these tiny home communities but has also offered to put the homeless in hotels for free. Many of the homeless refuse both of these offers because they want to stay on the streets to drink and do their drugs at will, they don't want services other than the free food they are given daily, free showers and in some cases a community with a view of the beach. I've heard of a number of these "homeless", brag about how much they love it and how much money they are saving as they are receiving government benefits but are paying no rent. They can't even fill up the tiny home communities that are already built because "rules". No drinking, no drugging, but three free meals a day, showers, bathrooms, laundry facilities and social services to help them get mental, substance abuse treatment or government benefits if they qualify.
People have given up... Our capitalist system is rigged... The American Dream is increasingly available only to an elite few. It's only going to grow as more and more jobs get replaced by automation and off shoring. The housing market continues to become more and more out of reach for the "Average American", and anyone with out a college degree is going to have to work 4 different jobs with no benefits 90 hrs a week just to be able to survive.
@@nothingleft2lose- I can understand that what you described is also in play here. I don't disagree.
@@nothingleft2lose- automation i said from day 1 no good its to save money and replace peoples jobs with machines
Utah had addressed their homeless by putting them in rooms, offering no strings attached. Offering drug n alcohol ok l rehab to t hose interested, and if not you still keep room. And food. They can shower and look for jobs if wanted. Did hard alcohol I lies not penalized. It worked!!
I just don’t know why all the big hearted human beings commenting don’t bring at least one of the homeless into their own house??? Strange.
A half a million each little 64 sq. ft dwelling? Someone is getting rich off of this and it's not the homeless. Tents add re going to go through the roof when rental moratoriums are lifted.
homeless magnet because of the weather. Not easy being homeless in nebraska.
And Los Angeles has so many resources compared to that of Omaha.
I live in nyc but I'm from omaha and if I were homeless, I'd rather be homeless in omaha
@@nicolemonrue
Really why is Omaha better?
@@sherifnabil9663 I heard Omaha is famous for it's Buffet.😉
Or Michigan, idk about Detroit but in lansing I barely see homeless, and the people who stand at the intersections are waiting on drug drops, they’re not homeless just posing....i see it often
$558,000 for a shed with a couple beds? I smell a Fraud Rip off!
How about stop raising rent to 2000
Garcetti is a weasel. He said if I had a penny everytime he hears someone say I can fix the homeless problem he be a millionaire. Dude you are a millionaire living in a 5 million dollar mansion.
is that mansion not payed by the tax payers? i mean i know in my country a mayor get their house for free. pretty big house as well though not something we normal people can afford. but that doesnt mean that a mayor itself is a millionaire. i know for 1 thing that mayors in my country are not millionaires. yes they get a good annual pay. but not enough to call them selves millionaires.
Those politicians are getting their pockets really fat...... what a shame!!!
Most of what's going on including stuff like this is not American makes me wonder who's running the show.
TRUE OR DRUG HABITATS.
How sad is this?
I was almost homless in LA I sold what I had and moved to FL and I'm a homeowner now
😮😱😱😱
@LSPD-Officer-Rhonson the great state of Florida I got a 2/2 on a half acre I'm glad I left California Florida is way better my property is in south florida btw
Watching this and being reminded of the situation makes me want to avoid Los Angeles at all cost.
This started in 2000, this is what happens when you let the rich run amok. I'm from San Diego. I'll never get to see my home town again. I was homeless with my toddler working full time living at a campground and many other various situations until getting out of Cali into a desert town, right where the rich want me, out of the way.
So sorry to hear that i think more and more people are becoming homeless and i see it too it breaks my heart
@The other 1.
I respect that. I had to move far out of Cali State too last year to escape proverty.
@@josephfuquay9587 so sorry you had to move because again cost of living so high
Yeah it's rich people buying up property as an "investment" or "safe haven" for their often ill gained money. It's crazy that the average person is allowing this to continue for so long. You need organized groups to riot and demand change. Go against the system, demand better treatment and fair opportunities.
I’ve been in the area a few times myself. Unfortunately, this place is well on its way to becoming a third world environment. This has to stop.
Maybe Trump can run for Gov of California!
@@johnames6430 I doubt it. Besides, he’s going to be busy facing charges in NY for tax fraud.
Isnt capitalism so adorable?
It’s not a homelessness problem. It’s a drug addiction problem, and if they themselves don’t want to stop shooting up, no one can save them. It’s hard, but possible. Please understand only themselves can save them.
There are an abundance of vacant buildings, and shopping centers. Could these be re-purposed? As shopping malls become vacant, these could become communities with in-house support services staffed by university students in return for tuition. Just a thought.
I think drug rehab centers and mental health clinics are what the city really needs in order to solve at least 95% of its homeless population. There's a common denominator amongst the homeless population: drug and mental problems.
@@norton2 I think the whole nation needs a complete shift of focus around drug addiction. These people need to be treated like patients, not criminals.
Future generations are either going to look back at this and think we were heartless for doing nothing about this. I feel great shame for this country.
Agree
Doing nothing is voting for politicians that are known for not addressing these issues only because they are part of the political party of their choice. How long has Garcetti been in office?
2030
You will own nothing and you will be happy
~ World Economic Forum
Thank you. I read about it. It's scary, by 2030 30% of land will be owned by the Federal Government that's twice the size of Texas.
Past 12 months USA has gifted $160 Billion in military aid, foreign aid while the homeless numbers are doubling every year
Past 26 years over $1 Trillion USA has spent in fighting foreign wars in Middle East, wars that have no impact on US.
When USA ran away from Afghanistan, they left over $2.5 Billion in weapons and other hardware, all fu7nded by US tax payers
Way to go Uncle Sam
Oh, the advantages of living in a Western democracy over an Eastern dictatorship...