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Soldev wrote: ↑Tue Jun 19, 2018 3:24 pm We MUST keep Texas Red now and forever or we will fall to the socialists who are bent on the destruction of our nation through the erosion of our rights as Texans and Americans.

Rob72 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 19, 2018 3:35 pm Oreagon has about the highest "welfare" reimbursement, as relates to cost of living, of the contiguous 48 states. I personally know a family of 5 that moved from OK to OR specifically for that reason.

Soldev wrote: ↑Tue Jun 19, 2018 3:24 pm In Los Angeles it is common to find a homeless person sleeping in your front and/or back yard in the morning.
You will find homeless encampments every few blocks, along streets with large sidewalks and under nearly every freeway underpass.
Every neighborhood within the city of Los Angeles has this problem and there is no end to it.
The homeless leave their garbage and human waste everywhere. They open the street lights, expose electrical wires just to charge their phones.
The streets are not safe for children or pets, there are usually syringes, urine and feces littering the gutters and sidewalks.
Smaller cities surrounding Los Angeles don't seem to have this problem because they illegally pick them up and transport them to Los Angeles, or they have the law enforcement threaten them into moving out of their city.

I lived in Los Angeles from 1980 to 2017 and saw how it changed into the mess it is now.
I volunteered with the Los Angeles Fire Department CERT program and even ran for office in one of the neighborhood councils and won.
After years of hearing police reports (directly from the Senior Lead Officers) during public safety committee meetings about the homeless epidemic and crimes being committed by them I had enough of it. I sold my house and moved to Houston and I don't regret it.
Even after losing all my families belongings in the flood during Hurricane Harvey I still don't regret it.

The 3 main reasons the homeless are there are for the weather, drugs and support programs (free food).
I will never go back to California, even for a vacation, that place is not America, it is a third world slum.
There are 3 classes of people there: The Working Poor, The Homeless Poor and the Rich.

I cringe every time I see Democrats in Texas trying to push that same socialist agenda that ruined California.
Even though I may have been born and raised in California I have been and always will be a conservative.
My pro gun, pro 2nd amendment, conservative stance made me an outcast in the People's Republic of California especially after the last presidential election, all of us who supported President Trump were forced into hiding our beliefs and most of us ended up fleeing the state.

We MUST keep Texas Red now and forever or we will fall to the socialists who are bent on the destruction of our nation through the erosion of our rights as Texans and Americans.

If you think I am over exaggerating the problem, here are two recent news stories that prove my point:

Fox 11 Los Angeles News Report from February 23, 2018
Garbage created by homeless encampments is overwhelming the city budget


Los Angeles Article From February 1, 2018
L.A.'s homelessness surged 75% in six years. Here's why the crisis has been decades in the making
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html

The Investigate Unit spent three days assessing conditions on the streets of downtown San Francisco and discovered trash on each of the 153 blocks surveyed. While some streets were littered with items as small as a candy wrapper, the vast majority of trash found included large heaps of garbage, food, and discarded junk. The investigation also found 100 drug needles and more than 300 piles of feces throughout downtown.

Portland, Oregon, has continued to experience rapid urban decay in recent years, and the consequences for businesses and residents have been dramatic. In 2016, Columbia Sportswear, a major retailer, relocated a considerable number of its staff to downtown Portland. A little over a year later, in a scathing opinion piece in the Oregonian, the company’s CEO voiced his regret over the decision. Employees reported repeated criminal offenses, “daily defecation” in the store’s front lobby, and fears of physical violence. One female employee ran into moving traffic to escape a transient individual, screaming that he was going to kill her.

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Judith Arnell closed her jewelry store after customers felt unsafe entering her shop. She noted that vagrants would frequently defecate on the front steps of her business. Fed-up small-business owners took their concerns to Portland’s Democratic mayor, Ted Wheeler, who offered owners training on how to secure their stores—and then promptly blamed Department of Housing Secretary Ben Carson for not doing enough to support affordable housing.