Los Angeles streets - a pathetic situation

[ravip]

Homeless People Are Without Toilets and Going in the Streets. We Asked the Mayor of LA Why...

Statistics estimate 36,000 people are homeless in Los Angeles, but the city isn’t providing bathrooms to most of them. As the NBCLA I-Team has found, the tons of human waste landing on city streets are creating an urgent public health threat.

In one act caught on camera, a homeless man is seen waking up on South Hope Street. He unbuckles his belt, walks over to the front door of a business, pulls down his pants, and defecates right on the door mat in broad daylight.

Full article Note: This story contains graphic phrases and imagery.

 

It is indeed very sad and shocking to see the reality, how a pandemic or disaster of this magnitude could affect a human beings life. Also, the stark reality is that the worst blow is dealt to the poorest of the poor. The idiom, Necessity knows no law is seen in real. Trillions of $$$ are spent on weapons and other high handed activities, just so that a country could occupy a certain 'status' in the world community - but that same people on the high-horse, willingly ignore the poor and homeless.

Whatever said and done, the COVID-19 brought an important lesson right in front of us humans face, but will we ever learn? Or will we go back to our normal activities at the end of all this pandemonium?

The continuous lament of Maria Janossy is disgusting, to say the least, and displays the status of the human mentality, however 'developed it is supposed' to be - “We are not in a third world country” (sounds very familiar here-in...)

 

[observer90210]

The west with it's media loves to feel good and stigmatize the homeless issue in third world countries, but the west tends to forget that such "third world situations" on the issue exist right at their own doorsteps.

 

And no matter where in the world, it is a very sad thing to see as nobody gets into such a situation,  plainly by choice.

Edited April 21, 2020 by observer90210

[Kwasaki]

Reminds of what American Presidents say which make me cringe " God Bless America".

[mauGR1]

Undoubtedly a rich country like America can do much better than this.

[KhunBENQ]

Until recently I didn't know what Skid Row is. Heard it here and there in song text or so.

Then I saw a documentary about it and learned that I haven't seen it all (seen some of the worst neighborhoods in Frankfurt and Berlin, Germany).

[pgrahmm]

We were tooling down I-5 last year & going through Sacramento my wife pointed to wall to wall tents close to the freeway and said, "look - campers".....

I didn't correct or inform her about what she'd really seen....

The problem has been festering for a long time.....

[DogNo1]

The homelessness in California is shameful but the trillions spent in foreign aid and military aid is quite a complicated subject.  Check out some of the videos of Victor Davis Hanson at the Hoover Institution, Hillsdale College and others for well-rounded discussions of these subjects.  The reality is that Americans are damned if we do and damned if we don't provide huge amounts of military aid and financial assistance.  I like Donald Trump's contention that we should take care of Americans first but it's never going to be simple.  I fault the Dems for the homelessness and sanctuary cities but, of course, both parties bear responsibility to differing extents.  Perhaps it helps to compare 19th and early 20th century America to get some perspective.  It would help more if both parties worked together to make America a decent, liveable country.  I think that another Trump term offers the best possibilities for improving America.

[riclag]

6 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

Reminds of what American Presidents say which make me cringe " God Bless America".

 Individual states are responsible for the well being  of their people in each state! How many billions needs to be thrown at this by the federals,state, local governments  and private enterprise!

Why are they homeless,many reasons ,drugs,alcohol dependency, lack of jobs ,mental disease . 

I was homeless for 2 years to embarrassed and to proud to ask for help, in between jobs!

https://crosscut.com/2019/10/whose-responsibility-homelessness-crisis

Edited April 21, 2020 by riclag

[timendres]

Was a problem in San Francisco long before COVID-19 came along. They even mapped it on Google Maps.

 

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3xdae/more-people-pooping-in-san-francisco-than-ever-all-time-high-vgtrn

[PatOngo]

6 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

Reminds of what American Presidents say which make me cringe " God Bless America".

Or...……………..Make America Great Again! Tell us Don de don don, is it working?

 

 

 

 

Edited April 21, 2020 by PatOngo

[daveAustin]

Think it's impossible to sort this in our monetary society no matter how rich a given state. He could have at least gone in the plant pot, but!

 

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Trillions of $$$ are spent on weapons and other high handed activities, just so that a country could occupy a certain 'status' in the world community

Emphasis of a certain niche of society remaining on-high...

[riclag]

1 hour ago, PatOngo said:

Or...……………..Make America Great Again! Tell us Don de don don, is it working?

 

 

 

 

I can remember sunset blvd near the hollywood walk of fame  back before this POTUS was in office. Oh, those dirty side streets off of them with there sleeping bags , trash,drunks laying around during mid day!

Looks like your from the twilight zone,At least thats what your avitar says. 

Your hatred for my POTUS is showing! Sad! Your boogiman has nothing to do with the states  and local government and how they run their government! But if he did there wouldn't be any sanctuary cities,for sure. 

The Presidents administration specifically HUD has initiated opportunity zones in the inner cities that help the homeless and disadvantage!

Edited April 21, 2020 by riclag

[LomSak27]

The article is about homeless in LA and lack of portable toilets. it has nothing to do with the Wuhan virus. Making up a connections where non existed?! They call that fake news. 

 

(-Published February 18, 2020 • Updated on February 19, 2020 at 7:35 am-)

 

 

 

[LomSak27]

5 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

Until recently I didn't know what Skid Row is

 

The original meaning has changed a lot. It is a reference to a particular place that certain cities had.

 

The term "skid row" or "skid road," referring to an area of a city  where people lived.  Loggers would transport their logs to a nearby river by sliding them down roads made from greased skids. These were NOT good areas of town and so the term,, a slang term was created.

 

Obviously Los Angeles would never have had a skid road. Portland, Seattle, Vancouver BC ; now they would have.

[riclag]

"The World Health Organization, or WHO, recommends at least one toilet for every twenty people in populated areas like Los Angeles. But most of the city’s hundreds of encampments are nowhere near a public toilet".

The city is trying to discourage people from living in the streets ,putting portapotties  would encourage it.

[riclag]

"Proposed LA Rules Affecting Homeless People Will Fail"

https://invisiblepeople.tv/proposed-la-rules-affecting-homeless-people-will-fail/

 

 

 

[CharlieK]

8 hours ago, ravip said:

“We are not in a third world country”

I would suggest that America is just that to most Americans. A Third world country with a first world economy. 

[torturedsole]

19 minutes ago, riclag said:

"Proposed LA Rules Affecting Homeless People Will Fail"

https://invisiblepeople.tv/proposed-la-rules-affecting-homeless-people-will-fail/

Nothing worse than being homeless, directionless and destitute.  

 

 

Edited April 21, 2020 by torturedsole

[timendres]

1 hour ago, CharlieK said:

I would suggest that America is just that to most Americans. A Third world country with a first world economy. 

So, you have spent considerable time traveling across the vast nation. Meeting "most Americans". Looking at the issues of LA, SF, NY, or any major city, and considering that America, is like heading down to the slums of Klong Toei and considering that Thailand.

[metisdead]

This homeless situation in California is not directly related to the Covid-19 pandemic and is closed.