Stop Pulling the Wagon

SACRAMENTO – CALIFORNIA’S  CAPITOL

   HOMELESS UP 52% IN TWO YEARS

For the record:  All the following numbers are taken from Google.

The State of California under (failed) Governor Newsom is facing a $60 Billion Dollar or more deficit depending on what current numbers are being “floated” from the State Capitol. 

California’s State Capitol City of Sacramento is facing a $50 Million Dollar (or more) Budget deficit thanks in part to the $60 Million Dollar renovation last year of a dilapidated hotel to house 134 of the Cities multi-thousand homeless.

San Francisco, California’s once “Jewel” on the Pacific is facing a Budget deficit of $1.4 Billion Dollars with rampant crime and homelessness.

Los Angeles is staring at a $476 Million Dollar Budget deficit as it is inundated with crime, illegal immigrants, homeless encampments and a shrinking tax base.

The above four entities all have one thing in common.  They are all under proudly “Blue” mis-management, WOKE, wedded to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion principles in a race to the bottom.

Silly me.  I grew up thinking that government’s (City, County, State, Federal) Primary Mission and Responsibility was to provide we Taxpaying Citizens with a Safe and Clean environment and to spend the Taxpayers hard earned dollars in a way to accomplish this mission with restraint in a responsible manner just as a family has to live within a budget. 

Was I gullible or was I just wrong?

Turns out these, sometimes well meaning, folks too often turn into teen agers with keys to Mom & Dad’s new car, a credit card and a bottle of Jack Daniels finest.  Hello National Debt of  $34+ Trillion Dollars, invasion over open borders, rampant unchecked crime, mushrooming homeless encampments, heavily in debt students joining the cause of Terrorists, crippling inflation and loss of worldwide respect.

Some near 5 years ago (August 2019) I wrote a “spoof” article titled “Momma Tried”.  Over the years it has been one of the most commented on articles I have ever written.  Don’t have a counter on how many times it has been read and don’t keep track of more than a very small percentage of comments received but have gotten many, many thousands of comments submitted with 95% + being positive .  While the article was satirical in nature the underlying premise is that the homeless destruction of some of our cities could be stopped with a few simple, common sense steps rather than the mega-million dollar pork barrel projects government keeps implementing with little or no accountability of where the money is going.  Last year California State “lost track of” some $24 Billion Dollars “earmarked” for “Homeless solutions”.  The money has “vanished -poof” and there is no accountability for it.

A copy of my original article is printed below or you can find it anytime by typing Momma Tried in the search box and hitting enter.

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MOMMA TRIED

Recently while watching a documentary on prisons and prisoners, I saw a prisoner with “MOMMA TRIED” tattooed across his chest.

It got me to thinking. And, no I am not talking about the unfortunate homeless living on the streets.

I am talking about the City Administrators of these cities, like San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland and, yes, sadly Sacramento and too many others.

Yesterday, I heard on the news that San Francisco was going to provide elevator operators in buildings because the “homeless” have been using elevators as public toilets.

I am ashamed to admit that in a moment of anger I would like to take these so-called “Administrators” and “Guardians” of their citizenry, and have “MOMMA TRIED” tattooed across their foreheads.

Their first duty is to provide the citizens of their city with safety in a clean, healthy environment – not hold meetings and talk about grandiose plans which will cost a gazillion more taxpayer dollars and in the end not produce the desired result. I have heard on the news that the State of Washington has spent a Billion (with a “B”) Dollars on homeless plans and the situation on the streets of Seattle are, if anything, worse.

Here is a two step plan to clean the streets:

First, provide Charter Buses to relocate these poor, miserable people living in filth and degradation to new, clean and prosperous locales. May I suggest places like Marin County (home of Nancy Pelosi), Malibu, Brentwood, Beverly Hills, Hollywood and other places filled with those smart, politically connected folks who believe they have all the answers for all problems. Be sure they arrive with a nice box lunch, map of the area of their new “home” and a crisp new $100 bill.

Second, using scrapers, loaders and dump trucks, remove the debris and trash from the streets. Then Fire Hose the remaining human waste and filth into a containment location (similar to the ones required on construction sites) and have it “sucked” up and disposed of in a sanitation facility. Preferably one in Marin County etc..

After completing these steps put up signs (in multiple languages) that henceforth the streets will be water-blasted on a regular basis for public health and safety reasons on an unannounced basis as needed. Then do it.

Problem solved at far less cost than all those “solutions” provided by those “Administrator” meetings.

Sorry about the “MOMMA TRIED” tattoo crack. Most of those Administrators foreheads are probably too narrow for it anyway.

Bob Bandy – (August 2019)