Most homeless choose to live that way...like he said..we can smoke dope all day...Many do not....there is help for those who really want it...substance abuse will rob your life of everything.....Those that aren't addicts..there is help out there..
Yes, vague, unspecific "help" for vague, unspecified people who "choose" to live in abject poverty in an area where multinational companies are making billions of dollars in profits annually. Much more plausible than actually taking these people seriously and risking your piece of mind.
Most turn to substance abuse because their homeless, not the other way around. Many more are not substance abusers at all. Your just using drug as a excuse to not care.
I agree that not all homeless folks are addicted to drugs ... but it doesn't take many to ruin any well intentioned efforts to help them all ... we set up a homeless camp locally and it was great for a couple of weeks ... then the drunken fist fights started ... within two months we had murders almost every night ... the area is still fenced off because of HIV tainted needles everyplace ... our community will never do this again ...
Russ Crawford - Exactly. Some people can't/don't want to live any other way. To each their own. Look at the mess. They won't even pick up after themselves.
Ohhh nooooo! the grammar police. welcome to the internet. Were I dont give a fuck about spelling or grammar. Doesn't make my statement any less true, companies don't even go green unless it's for profit.
You touched them, you got to keep them!! There is no law forcing these people to California. They are NOT the responsibility of any business. California INVITED them and California is who is responsible!! Naming off the names of rich corporations is not where the blame belongs. Look in the mirror!! That is where the blame belongs.
@@PingPong-bv8ye Not at all. In fact more so!! The California homeless are catered to as we watched the homeless moved into hotels and provided with drugs and alcohol this year due to the Dempanic. This is what the Globalist have in store for you and me. Homeless until we wander around and die as they support the trafficking of Fentanyl and other drugs while taking our jobs over to 3rd World Socialist countries unimpeded by EPA and OSHA rules, Human Rights and Child labor or threat of union contract while banking their profits offshore. Since at least the 1980s, California, Oregon and Washington ran ads telling runaway teens to move to the coast. And they also push taxpayer paid Socialism freebies that encourage more homeless to move to the coast.
Empathy works. Stop treating homeless people as if they are your problem. These people are dealing with their own situations and need the help of others.
When I was 9 years old me and my friends use to build huts in the creeks down below. TBH our buildings were better than these shitholes. Hopefully these guys get back on their feet.
why don't they make the connection that this kind of catastrophic homelessness mainly occurs in the most progressive cities with the most progressive policies?
I am sure that there is a percentage of people with mental problems that end up on the streets and need help But, I wonder what the percentage is of people who are drug addicts alcoholics etc that actually cause their own homelessness. There are resources available for many people that don't get used for the intended purpose such as, Welfare money being used for drink and or drugs instead of rent. My question is. Are we responsible for making sure that these people (The ones that abuse the available resources) are housed? While I have sympathy for those that cannot help themselves, I find it hard to have sympathy for those that could help themselves but do not. Is there a difference between people who are chronically homeless because of personal choices and those who are housed but choosing to live on welfare rather than working? I guess what I am saying is. There are probably a number of people who live on the streets that do not have to. I am sure that they would not "choose" the streets but, They are also not choosing to avail themselves of what help is out there. At what point do we say, Hey, YOU need to do the right thing as apposed to WE need to do the right thing? I guess I am big on personal responsibility. It seems to me that we have gone too far in society and look for excuses in everything. We no longer hold individuals responsible for their own behavior and choices, We look for "A reason" why and use it as an excuse.
Each state is responsible for its own enforcement, since the benefits come through Medicaid, the state-administered distributor of the federal and state funds to "Welfare" (SSSI) recipients. This is in addition to the SSI benefits they may get, and the EBT (Food Stamps) and HUD-8 Housing Voucher they may receive. There's a five-to-eight-year wait for Sec 8 Housing coupons. Which means "fill out the form and call us in like 5-8 years if you make it." Shelter systems are badly planned and totally overburdened. Jobs are all in fucking China and East India. They're slaves, you know. That's who America's outsourcing our jobs to. Once someone is in the HUD system, they get quarterly or semi-annual visits from HUD and their local counselor. It works if you're patient and work with it. It's worked for a woman my wife and I rescued from the streets of NY after 9/11,. She's from Mississippi and she's been out here since 10/3/11. All you gotta do is stick with the system and take the best advantage of everything you get and don't bitch about what you can't get right now because eventually you will.
Warren Levine Thanks for filling me in on how the system works Warren. As you know, I am new to the States and don't know all the ins and outs yet. The system doesn't seem to work very well for housing does it.I guess there are some who just fall through the cracks but, the ones that make poor choices make it harder for us to support the ones who need the help and are willing to make the right choices. Maybe if our government didn't put such heavy tax burdens on companies they wouldn't feel the need to outsource so much? I think you and I are probably on different ends of the "Climate change" debate, but I feel that there are some taxes that are just incentives for a company to outsource just to stay afloat. There has to be a reason why companies are running away. If we can get them to stay Stateside and employ more Americans, it can only be good. It won't help the chronically unemployable like addicts etc but it sure will help a lot of others.
Diana Anderson US companies are not being taxed as hard as you think. The biggest-earning companies paid the LEAST in taxes because of the loopholes created by the legislators they paid to put into office with their unlimited campaign donations. They send our jobs overseas, and the East Indians and Chinese they send our jobs to get full access to our systems, sell the information around, even to Russia and former Soviet Republics, and there goes the American customer's security buying online. Supreme Cunts say "Corporations are People" (Citizens United) so they can create SuperPACs and give unlimited (and sheltered) money to political campaigns. Also insider trading tips, because sitting members of Congress have an insider-trading exemption, allowing them to become millionaires with a click or two of a mouse at the right time, Congressman legislates tax loopholes and other holes in regulations wherein those companies can make tax-free money, and that keeps the entire fucking merry-go-round turning. Now, jobs: Walmart has two employees making $12 an hour with full benefits. Total expense $24 an hour (+ bennies). They fire them and take on THREE part-time workers making $8 an hour with NO benefits. They're still paying the same $24 an hour in wages, but they're paying no benefits, AND they can say that Walmart is creating new jobs. This country is running a fascist system. The companies and the government need to be overthrown and replaced. The system needs to be replaced. Bottom line: I'll take Canadian or British or Israeli socialism any fucking day of the week. And I haven't even got to healthcare yet. That's a whole 'nother mafia. (Think RICO, only the government's the godfather.)
When a work colleague said that the only homeless are because people wanted to be homeless I had hard time not laughing in her face. Sleeping in open doorways. Hassled by the police, drunks and rude teenagers . The chance to freeze to death or die from heat stroke. Compassion seems to have become a dirty in America lately.
This guy is out of contact with reality! If you lost your job to new technology and is over the age of 40- it may be next to impossible to get another job!
There is clearly a horrible vagrancy problem in the Bay Area. I've taken public transportation in San Jose and commuted amongst the homeless for two years. I've read many of these articles and they tend to blame the tech companies for inflating home prices, but it's not solely their fault. The land owners and builders are not catering to people of lower-socioeconomic status and so these people are priced out of the area and displaced. Most of them have mental problems, but the stories I've been reading have focused on individuals who have skills that can be used elsewhere. This video obviously shows people who have substance abuse problems and this producers are using them to push their story. These kind of contrarian pieces exploit the stories of people in their saddest moments and use them to sell papers (or get views). Many people go to Silicon Valley to get away from developing countries. By creating these shanty towns, vagrants are hurting the community, the environment, and themselves. People who condone this behavior are participating in a selfish charity-- you're giving because it makes you feel/look good but does nothing to solve the larger problem. The way they angle the stories (from the Mercury News and Telegraph) is pernicious and incites class antagonisms in a relatively peaceful place.
The homeless flock to the Bay Area because that is where all of the government services and handouts go. It's like feeding stray cats. Once they know where the food is at they will stick around forever.
▶ Inside the Nation's Largest Homeless Encampment "Jungle" th-cam.com/video/pQn1z2HBIrA/w-d-xo.html ~Pub Dec 2, 2014 via @MotherJones ++++ ▶ Connect @Peta_de_Aztlan ++++
No solution will work as long as liberals only talk about band-aiding the symptoms. The cause, namely where these people are being exported from, and exporting them back with a past due invoice is the first step. The second step is distributing them to every town and city, so everywhere has an equal per capita burden of homelessness on a scale that is manageable economically.
The Silly Hillbilly you’re as dumb as u sound. We have 200,000 incarcerated citizens in California and a prison population cap, you can’t just arrest another 150,000 homeless people here
Most homeless choose to live that way...like he said..we can smoke dope all day...Many do not....there is help for those who really want it...substance abuse will rob your life of everything.....Those that aren't addicts..there is help out there..
Yes, vague, unspecific "help" for vague, unspecified people who "choose" to live in abject poverty in an area where multinational companies are making billions of dollars in profits annually. Much more plausible than actually taking these people seriously and risking your piece of mind.
Most turn to substance abuse because their homeless, not the other way around.
Many more are not substance abusers at all.
Your just using drug as a excuse to not care.
I agree that not all homeless folks are addicted to drugs ... but it doesn't take many to ruin any well intentioned efforts to help them all ... we set up a homeless camp locally and it was great for a couple of weeks ... then the drunken fist fights started ... within two months we had murders almost every night ... the area is still fenced off because of HIV tainted needles everyplace ... our community will never do this again ...
Russ Crawford - Exactly. Some people can't/don't want to live any other way. To each their own. Look at the mess. They won't even pick up after themselves.
To be fair, Tech companies don't care about other people unless it's for a tax right off.
Learn grammar.
Ohhh nooooo! the grammar police. welcome to the internet. Were I dont give a fuck about spelling or grammar. Doesn't make my statement any less true, companies don't even go green unless it's for profit.
I’m in the Bay Area and I’m starting to realize everywhere that has trees and bushes have people living in them getting high
You touched them, you got to keep them!!
There is no law forcing these people to California.
They are NOT the responsibility of any business.
California INVITED them and California is who is responsible!!
Naming off the names of rich corporations is not where the blame belongs. Look in the mirror!! That is where the blame belongs.
January 1st 2020
Have you changed your mind I'm what you just said ?
@@PingPong-bv8ye Not at all.
In fact more so!!
The California homeless are catered to as we watched the homeless moved into hotels and provided with drugs and alcohol this year due to the Dempanic.
This is what the Globalist have in store for you and me. Homeless until we wander around and die as they support the trafficking of Fentanyl and other drugs while taking our jobs over to 3rd World Socialist countries unimpeded by EPA and OSHA rules, Human Rights and Child labor or threat of union contract while banking their profits offshore.
Since at least the 1980s, California, Oregon and Washington ran ads telling runaway teens to move to the coast. And they also push taxpayer paid Socialism freebies that encourage more homeless to move to the coast.
Empathy works. Stop treating homeless people as if they are your problem. These people are dealing with their own situations and need the help of others.
Do you know the way out of San Jose?
This is old news. The Jungle was cleaned out a long time ago. The chasm between the haves and have-not's was too blatant to continue.
Not anymore
When I was 9 years old me and my friends use to build huts in the creeks down below. TBH our buildings were better than these shitholes. Hopefully these guys get back on their feet.
why don't they make the connection that this kind of catastrophic homelessness mainly occurs in the most progressive cities with the most progressive policies?
@Christine LaBeach it's nowhere near as bad
Ya California - give me a house, give me money food and health benefits I don't deserve or want to work for. I'll give you my vote !!
VIDYMAE we have 17 million workers in California, more people than you have in your whole state buddy
My my how times have changed in one year
2:27 in the video..."A fool and his money are son parted."
People need help homeless all very sad 😭😭 😭
The preacher @ 3:26 looks like Jim Jones.
I thought the same exact thing. He looks like he would be willing to profit from this situation.
hombre1968 your time stamp is the end of the video 🙄
I am sure that there is a percentage of people with mental problems that end up on the streets and need help But, I wonder what the percentage is of people who are drug addicts alcoholics etc that actually cause their own homelessness. There are resources available for many people that don't get used for the intended purpose such as, Welfare money being used for drink and or drugs instead of rent. My question is. Are we responsible for making sure that these people (The ones that abuse the available resources) are housed? While I have sympathy for those that cannot help themselves, I find it hard to have sympathy for those that could help themselves but do not. Is there a difference between people who are chronically homeless because of personal choices and those who are housed but choosing to live on welfare rather than working? I guess what I am saying is. There are probably a number of people who live on the streets that do not have to. I am sure that they would not "choose" the streets but, They are also not choosing to avail themselves of what help is out there. At what point do we say, Hey, YOU need to do the right thing as apposed to WE need to do the right thing? I guess I am big on personal responsibility. It seems to me that we have gone too far in society and look for excuses in everything. We no longer hold individuals responsible for their own behavior and choices, We look for "A reason" why and use it as an excuse.
Each state is responsible for its own enforcement, since the benefits come through Medicaid, the state-administered distributor of the federal and state funds to "Welfare" (SSSI) recipients. This is in addition to the SSI benefits they may get, and the EBT (Food Stamps) and HUD-8 Housing Voucher they may receive. There's a five-to-eight-year wait for Sec 8 Housing coupons. Which means "fill out the form and call us in like 5-8 years if you make it." Shelter systems are badly planned and totally overburdened. Jobs are all in fucking China and East India. They're slaves, you know. That's who America's outsourcing our jobs to. Once someone is in the HUD system, they get quarterly or semi-annual visits from HUD and their local counselor. It works if you're patient and work with it. It's worked for a woman my wife and I rescued from the streets of NY after 9/11,. She's from Mississippi and she's been out here since 10/3/11. All you gotta do is stick with the system and take the best advantage of everything you get and don't bitch about what you can't get right now because eventually you will.
Warren Levine Thanks for filling me in on how the system works Warren. As you know, I am new to the States and don't know all the ins and outs yet. The system doesn't seem to work very well for housing does it.I guess there are some who just fall through the cracks but, the ones that make poor choices make it harder for us to support the ones who need the help and are willing to make the right choices. Maybe if our government didn't put such heavy tax burdens on companies they wouldn't feel the need to outsource so much? I think you and I are probably on different ends of the "Climate change" debate, but I feel that there are some taxes that are just incentives for a company to outsource just to stay afloat. There has to be a reason why companies are running away. If we can get them to stay Stateside and employ more Americans, it can only be good. It won't help the chronically unemployable like addicts etc but it sure will help a lot of others.
God can help them
Diana Anderson US companies are not being taxed as hard as you think. The biggest-earning companies paid the LEAST in taxes because of the loopholes created by the legislators they paid to put into office with their unlimited campaign donations. They send our jobs overseas, and the East Indians and Chinese they send our jobs to get full access to our systems, sell the information around, even to Russia and former Soviet Republics, and there goes the American customer's security buying online. Supreme Cunts say "Corporations are People" (Citizens United) so they can create SuperPACs and give unlimited (and sheltered) money to political campaigns. Also insider trading tips, because sitting members of Congress have an insider-trading exemption, allowing them to become millionaires with a click or two of a mouse at the right time, Congressman legislates tax loopholes and other holes in regulations wherein those companies can make tax-free money, and that keeps the entire fucking merry-go-round turning.
Now, jobs: Walmart has two employees making $12 an hour with full benefits. Total expense $24 an hour (+ bennies). They fire them and take on THREE part-time workers making $8 an hour with NO benefits. They're still paying the same $24 an hour in wages, but they're paying no benefits, AND they can say that Walmart is creating new jobs.
This country is running a fascist system. The companies and the government need to be overthrown and replaced. The system needs to be replaced. Bottom line: I'll take Canadian or British or Israeli socialism any fucking day of the week. And I haven't even got to healthcare yet. That's a whole 'nother mafia. (Think RICO, only the government's the godfather.)
Warren Levine , So eloquently put... Made me laugh and hurt my shoulder! You need to shut up and quit making me laugh!!!
Homelessness causes
1. Drugs
2. Govt regulations
3. Nice weather
4. Bad choices
5. No plan
6. Choice
Patre' Mixon choices
You feel that way January 1st 2020
Banana Republic in DC translates to Banana Republic's life for the people.
It's the only free place tbh it's kinda peaceful a bit unpredictable but it's cool
Marco antonio zolis
And DEM don’t care! Quit voting for them! The Gov don’t care
Note that there is absolutely nothing like that in Russia...
Oh yes there is
When a work colleague said that the only homeless are because people wanted to be homeless I had hard time not laughing in her face. Sleeping in open doorways. Hassled by the police, drunks and rude teenagers . The chance to freeze to death or die from heat stroke. Compassion seems to have become a dirty in America lately.
SHAMEFUL
If a man don't work he don't eat. GET A JOB OR MOVE 🤔
Drugs
isaac powell many homeless people here have jobs
You're one of the reasons for socialism
This guy is out of contact with reality! If you lost your job to new technology and is over the age of 40- it may be next to impossible to get another job!
Irony nations most profitable businesses and next to worst homeless
That guy looks like michel from gta v
There is clearly a horrible vagrancy problem in the Bay Area. I've taken public transportation in San Jose and commuted amongst the homeless for two years. I've read many of these articles and they tend to blame the tech companies for inflating home prices, but it's not solely their fault. The land owners and builders are not catering to people of lower-socioeconomic status and so these people are priced out of the area and displaced. Most of them have mental problems, but the stories I've been reading have focused on individuals who have skills that can be used elsewhere. This video obviously shows people who have substance abuse problems and this producers are using them to push their story. These kind of contrarian pieces exploit the stories of people in their saddest moments and use them to sell papers (or get views). Many people go to Silicon Valley to get away from developing countries. By creating these shanty towns, vagrants are hurting the community, the environment, and themselves. People who condone this behavior are participating in a selfish charity-- you're giving because it makes you feel/look good but does nothing to solve the larger problem. The way they angle the stories (from the Mercury News and Telegraph) is pernicious and incites class antagonisms in a relatively peaceful place.
The homeless flock to the Bay Area because that is where all of the government services and handouts go. It's like feeding stray cats. Once they know where the food is at they will stick around forever.
▶ Inside the Nation's Largest Homeless Encampment "Jungle"
th-cam.com/video/pQn1z2HBIrA/w-d-xo.html ~Pub Dec 2, 2014 via @MotherJones
++++
▶ Connect @Peta_de_Aztlan
++++
H1bVisas baby!!!
Guess again
No solution will work as long as liberals only talk about band-aiding the symptoms. The cause, namely where these people are being exported from, and exporting them back with a past due invoice is the first step. The second step is distributing them to every town and city, so everywhere has an equal per capita burden of homelessness on a scale that is manageable economically.
Can do without that panting
Role model for the country! You goddamn libtards fuck shit up, we dont want your role model!
murica.
Song is gay story touching
I no how to solve tha homeless problum! Juss make it illeegul, then thay kin arest um an put um in the hoosegow! Problum solved
The Silly Hillbilly you’re as dumb as u sound. We have 200,000 incarcerated citizens in California and a prison population cap, you can’t just arrest another 150,000 homeless people here
They should have been more careful blame other people for their problems
Yup this no joke I been to Places like tha crazy shi happens