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The Folly of Socialism, Bernie Sanders, CA, WA, and OR
A friend of ours who sells antiques at our local flea market
recently moved here from just south of Beverly Hills, CA. He’s another example of someone who couldn’t
wait to move away from “that socialist, anti-gun, high tax hell hole.” He likes to tell us how overcrowded area
jails are…to the point where people, including illegals, are no longer even
charged with crimes if they are lesser
felonies or misdemeanors with fines of less than $1,000.
Meanwhile, we had watched Bernie Sanders deliver a half-hour
presentation on Fox News from Pennsylvania.
It was apparent the room was packed with his supporters and anti-Trump
people who seemed poorly educated when it comes to the math necessary for
“Medicare for All” and other socialist policies Sanders offers. [Mind you, I like Sanders but many of his
theories won’t hold water due to affordability or access-even in Great Britain,
veterans have extreme wait times to see a doctor].
In the past I did a comprehensive study of health care
[which had been offered to the Democrats and never acted on for a glaring
reason it is likely to fail to this day-it lacks Tort Reform, a key
ingredient I feel is necessary to the success of any reform package…if you’re
going to relegate doctors to a capped compensation package, which is what would
happen under the Democratic health plan, you need to cap sky-high lawsuit
proceeds and that is unlikely to happen under Democratic leadership as their
mantra for decades has been “If you can’t legislate, litigate.” Too many lawyers make up the Democratic
party…another failing is their plan never includes the elimination of Workers
Compensation, or the inclusion of dental, eye exams or hearing plans – all essential…and
they ignore how many workers in the insurance industry would be laid off!
Democrats today seem to operate in a paroxysm of ignorance and
intolerance…acting as if Middle America and their values no longer exists or
that we’re completely ignorant as to the premise of how many of their platforms
fly in the face of mathematics or our heritage. They
seem unable to grasp their inability to care for the homeless already here, let
alone the illiterate hoards massing at our borders waiting to attach themselves
to our welfare system.
Millions
of people are moving away from our major cities on the west coast because of
the hellholes that they have become. A former Seattle police officer that
was recently interviewed by a reporter from KOMO News was
very honest about the fact that he would never want to raise a family in
Seattle because of the hellhole that it has become. Every night he saw
the worst of Seattle firsthand, and he finally felt forced to quit because city
officials would not allow him to effectively do his job. An explosion of
homelessness in our major west coast cities has fueled a wave of crime, drugs
and human degradation unlike anything we have seen before, and in many cases
our law enforcement officials have their hands tied and are literally being
prevented from cleaning up the streets.
Right
now, more than half a million people are homeless in the United States.
Because of their ultra-liberal policies, some of the major
cities on the west coast have become magnets for drug addicts, serial
criminals, sex offenders, illegal immigrants and people that have simply heard
about all of the “free benefits” that are being offered. As a result, the
streets of those cities have become a showcase for the social decay that is
sweeping across our nation.
San Francisco:
According to one report, it is home to more than 28,000 homeless people, and
that would make San Francisco the city with the third largest homeless
population in the United States.
As
all those drug addicts aimlessly wander through the streets, many of them use
those streets as their own personal toilets. Over the past 8 years, more
than 118,000 reports of human feces in the streets have been filed with city
authorities…
Since
2011, there have been at least 118,352 reported instances of human fecal matter
on city streets.
New
mayor, London Breed, won election by promising to clean things up. However,
conditions are the same or worse. Last year, the number of reports spiked to an
all-time high at 28,084. In first quarter 2019, the pace continued with 6,676
instances of human waste in the public way.
In
addition to endless piles of poop, the drug addicts are also endlessly
committing property crimes in order to pay for their drug habits.
Each
year, there are more than 6,000 property crimes per 100,000 residents in San
Francisco. That is about four times the rate of property crime that New
York City has reported.
Mayor
Breed would like to get a lot of these homeless people off of the streets, but
finding a place to put them has been problematic. Residents of one
wealthy liberal neighborhood are currently fighting like mad to
keep a proposed homeless shelter away from their gated mansions…
A
wealthy liberal neighborhood in San Francisco whose residents cast the most
votes for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election is fighting against
a proposal to build a new homeless shelter near their gated mansions.
Mayor
London Breed has sponsored legislation to fast track a homeless shelter that
would house 200 people. However, wealthy liberals living in the affected area
have set up a GoFundMe to stop the project which has already hit $80,000 of its
$100,000 target.
Things
are certainly not any better in Los Angeles.
According
to the same report mentioned above, L.A. has nearly twice as many
homeless people as San Francisco…
Los Angeles has the second
largest population of people exploring homelessness, according to a new report.
The LA area contains 55,200
homeless people, according to data released by the Bay Area Council Economic
Institute.
The
homeless population in L.A. has surged 75 percent in
six years, and this has happened during a time when the economy has been
relatively stable.
Millions
of people are leaving California and never looking back because of the utter
hellhole the entire state has become.
Further
up the coast, the city of Seattle is experiencing similar issues. Not too
long ago, a veteran Seattle reporter named Eric Johnson produced an hour-long
documentary entitled “Seattle Is Dying”,
and if you have not seen it yet I would strongly recommend taking the time to
watch it.
Since
it was first released, it has been viewed almost 2 million times on
YouTube…
In
the past two weeks, Seattle Is
Dying has garnered 38,000 shares on Facebook and nearly 2
million views on YouTube. The report has clearly resonated with anxious,
fearful, and increasingly angry Seattle residents. Exhausted by a decade of
rising disorder and property crime—now two-and-a-half times higher than Los
Angeles’s and four times higher than New York City’s—Seattle voters may have
reached the point of “compassion fatigue.” According to the Seattle Times, 53
percent of Seattle voters now support a “zero-tolerance policy” on homeless
encampments; 62 percent believe that the problem is getting worse because the
city “wastes money by being inefficient” and “is not accountable for how the
money is spent,” and that “too many resources are spent on the wrong approaches
to the problem.”
One
of the moments in the documentary that really touched me was when a concerned
resident described how drug addicts have been leaving needles and human waste
in the graveyard near his home. The homeless have erected tents all
around the graveyard, and he can clearly smell urine whenever he walks down the
streets.
He
would like to fix things, and he is fed up enough that he has decided to run
for city council. But he is facing an uphill battle, because Seattle has
been entirely taken over by socialists. The following comes from Mac Slavo…
The
entire video is about an hour long, but it is pretty easy to see where Seattle
continues to go wrong. A heavy tax burden, regulations that push out
businesses, and a power-hungry group of totalitarian sociopaths have been
slowly eroding the city. The decay of Western civilization can be seen up and
down the entirety of the West coast. Some say it’s by design, others disagree. But
the commonality is that all of the cities are being pushed into poverty by
illusions and lies of socialists. Calling Seattle anything other than a
leftist’s paradise would be inaccurate. The city has all of the laws the
socialists want, yet it’s killing itself because of it.
In
life, the decisions that we make have consequences,
and San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle are now experiencing the
consequences of decades of incredibly foolish decisions.
Socialism
does not work but those who attended Bernie’s speech this week unaware-perhaps
a week in one of these cities or Venezuela might provide some valuable lessons
for them.
Yours in Self Reliance,
Bruce ‘the Poor Man’
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3 comments:
I too watched Bernie on Fox. He is a nice guy & the audience certainly was stacked in his favor and anti-Trump [they obviously haven't looked at their paycheck this past year] but even I didn't think about the mayhem a Medicare of All plan would create due to our lack of Tort Reform and come to think of it, you're right, the Democratic party seems to be comprised of only lawyers and they do a whole lotta of suing as it is the only way they get their way!
It is no surprise to me that we have so many foreign doctors practicing medicine here. Once other nations impose universal medicine and place caps on what a doctor can earn, those doctors come here where they can earn more. Also, our medical schools cost a helluva lot more than foreign universities and discourage American attendance so many attend schools in other countries and then return here to earn bigger dollars.
One a few paragraphs you point out more flaws about Medicare for All than any of the so-called major media. So few journalists know how to ask hard hitting questions or have a grasp beyond sound bites-hats off to you. Too bad you're not working for Fox or have a big staff!
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