{"id":5301,"date":"2015-09-23T18:09:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T18:09:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-23T18:09:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T18:09:35","slug":"record_homelessness_in_los_angeles_but_nobody_blames_the_democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/09\/23\/record_homelessness_in_los_angeles_but_nobody_blames_the_democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Record Homelessness in Los Angeles — But Nobody Blames the Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Los Angeles. This is the LA Times: “LA to Declare ‘State of Emergency\u2019 on Homelessness, Commit $100 Million<\/a> — Los Angeles elected leaders,” as opposed to the unelected leaders, “announced yesterday that they would declare a ‘state of emergency\u2019 and devote up to $100 million” toward housing and other services for homeless people. I know. I mean, there\u2019s all kinds of lines here just waiting. Why don\u2019t they disguise themselves as immigrants? Why don\u2019t they go pitch their tent or their shopping cart, whatever, near the border like they\u2019re immigrants. <\/p>\n

“The proposal, which was presented at the City Hall press conference attended by city council members and Mayor Eric Garcetti\u2019s coincides with a Garcetti proposal late Monday that aims to free up nearly $13 million in newly anticipated excess tax revenue for short-term housing initiative.” What is this excess tax revenue? Newly anticipated. That tells me they don\u2019t have it yet. That tells me they are anticipating collecting more tax revenue than they thought, but that they don\u2019t have it yet, but it doesn\u2019t matter because they\u2019re gonna commit this. <\/p>\n

Now, what stuns me about this are two things. How does this happen in a city that is run by compassionate, caring, concerned, and high taxing leftists? Furthermore, not just the city, in a state run by compassionate, concerned, big spender, high-taxing leftists, how does this happen? Why isn\u2019t California a utopia? You can\u2019t blame the Republicans. They aren\u2019t even a factor. The Republicans can\u2019t mount enough votes to even get noticed on anything, much less stop something. No, no, no, folks, I\u2019m not asking a rhetorical question. I\u2019m damn serious here. <\/line><\/p>\n

How does this happen? You\u2019ve got a perfectly run city by liberals, you\u2019ve got a liberal Hollywood, you\u2019ve got liberalism running that town and all the supposed benefits of it — compassion and caring and concern and anti-discrimination, whatever it is that comes under that umbrella — how in the hell can you have a record number of homeless? See, I only thought homelessness happened with Republican presidents, and furthermore, I thought it only got reported with Republican presidents. What\u2019s the LA Times even doing reporting this? I know, I know, it\u2019s a rhetorical question. It\u2019s so bad, they can\u2019t ignore it. <\/p>\n

It is bad. It\u2019s causing the closure of emergency rooms along with illegal immigration. The hospitals can\u2019t stay in business. You know, federal law, you gotta be treated when you show up in the emergency room. You know how many hospitals have closed in southern California alone in the last number of years because of illegal immigrants and nonpayers visiting the emergency room? They can\u2019t afford it anymore. <\/p>\n

Liberalism can\u2019t be afforded, period, but it doesn\u2019t mean they don\u2019t give up trying, but how can this situation even exist? How can there be a record number of homeless? Why is a hundred million dollars needed when you\u2019ve got people that believe in utopia running the place? And why are they doing this now? Seriously. Why now? Why all of a sudden do they profess this massive concern about the homeless? <\/p>\n

Well, if you read deeply enough into this story, you will find the answer to that question. And it is a quote from a man named Cedillo. That\u2019s his first name? Cedillo. Cedillo. Councilman Gilbert Cedillo says it\u2019s not a skid row problem. It\u2019s a problem that\u2019s proliferated throughout the city. “If we want to be a great city that hosts the Olympics and shows itself off to the world, we shouldn\u2019t have 50,000 homeless people sleeping on the streets.” And there is your answer. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re gonna bid for an upcoming Olympics, and they know they\u2019re not gonna get it if there are 50,000 homeless people on the streets. You know, you people don\u2019t need to do all this. You need to take lessons from New York City in 1992. They had the same problem. I was there. I saw it happen. You know what they did? They simply bused the homeless down to the Battery Park area for the week the Democrat convention was in town. There\u2019s no way the homeless were gonna be able to walk back up to Madison Square Garden in that period of time. <\/line><\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t have to spend any more money. They didn\u2019t build any more housing. They just shifted \u2019em. They just moved \u2019em from the Garden down to the Battery Park area, Wall Street and so forth, right? (interruption) That\u2019s right. That\u2019s right. That\u2019s right. General Dinkins, Mayor Dinkins, general, the mayor for life, David Dinkins, just swept \u2019em up. ‘Cause they knew that C-SPAN cameras and network cameras were gonna be there. But seriously now, folks, with all attempt at humor aside. How does this happen? How do you have, during the Obama administration, a Democrat-run city, a Democrat-run state for decades, how do you have this homeless problem? Aren\u2019t they the ones that know how to solve these things? Record tax revenues collected in California. Why do they have this problem still? <\/p>\n

Now, conservatism is the answer to this, and conservatism can answer the questions I\u2019m asking. They\u2019re not addressing the problem and never have addressed the problem and they\u2019re incapable of addressing the problem. You know why? Because the problem, the actual solution to poverty and homelessness is not found in liberalism. It\u2019s found in conservatism. It\u2019s found in economic growth. It\u2019s found in capitalism. It\u2019s found in self-reliance. It\u2019s found in self-help. <\/p>\n

You\u2019re gonna have a much greater success rate if you teach people how to get out of poverty, if you motivate them to get out of it rather than promise you\u2019re gonna take care of \u2019em, \u2019cause you can\u2019t, and you end up with empty promises and circumstances like this. At the end of it all, you still have the homeless and you still have the problems but liberals get all the credit for having great intentions and big hearts. And the people you\u2019re trying to help are worse off than ever, but you\u2019re not supposed to point that out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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