California’s Request for Federal Funding
to Combat Homelessness Rejected
by Trump Administration
American Greatness,
by
Eric Lendrum
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
9/20/2019 7:17:26 AM
As the homelessness crisis in California escalates, state officials requested increased federal funding to combat the issue, only to be rejected by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, as reported by ABC.
The request letter was signed by Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) and “mayors of the state’s 13 largest cities.” The letter points out California’s recent increase in spending on welfare programs, and claims that the “[Trump] Administration has proposed significant cuts to public housing and programs like the Community Development Block Grant.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
seamusm 9/20/2019 7:22:09 AM (No. 184726)
Newsom's request for federal dollars is a brazen refusal to admit the problem of homelessness is overwhellmingly one of California's own makiing. 'Make your own bed, Guv!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
RCFLyer98 9/20/2019 7:28:37 AM (No. 184731)
What with California's very liberal policies and laws, needles for the druggies, need I say sanctuary cities even sanctuary state, etc., they have made their bed . . . now sleep in it. Maybe the very rich do-gooder elites, of Hollywood, San Fran and other California cities, can and should bail them out!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
PChristopher 9/20/2019 7:34:14 AM (No. 184739)
They tell him to stay out and then ask for more money. These boys are sharp. Frankly, I'd suspend their statehood and give the whole 'state' a good shaking out before I wasted one more federal dollar on the place.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Daisymay 9/20/2019 7:34:20 AM (No. 184741)
Don't Cha Just LOVE Trump! He has the guts to tell California to clean up their own mess. Why should citizens in the rest of this country have to send money to an INCOMPETENT Governor and the Mayors who have allowed their City become a Cesspool? Answer, they Shouldn't!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Socio 9/20/2019 7:58:23 AM (No. 184767)
Good, they made the bed and can damn well sleep in it.
However California is known to charter one way buses load them with homeless and send them to other States ( usually red States) so it would not surprise me if they start doing it again out of spite if for no other reason.
If you have ever experienced surges in homeless population where it seems like out of no where you have panhandlers on every corner your town, you probably got a couple bus loads. We get these sudden surges 2-3 times a year where I live (in a red State).
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
TLCary 9/20/2019 8:01:32 AM (No. 184770)
"The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan."
... must have been from California.
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Hee-Hee
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Clinger 9/20/2019 8:23:07 AM (No. 184787)
Seriously California? I think I'll take a pass on nationalizing the cost of bad decisions made by states. The states fail to be crucibles of ideas and learning if they are not allowed to reap the benefits of success and/or pay the price for failure.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Zarin 9/20/2019 8:52:50 AM (No. 184818)
Very short article - but yeah, the Dems want money to hire more bureaucrats & paper pushers who will 'work' in useless government & 'non-profict' charities. Dr. Carson sent them a letter : “over-regulated housing market, its inefficient allocation of resources, and its policies that have weakened law enforcement.” IOW - no money for you until you stop rent control, the graft & stop tying the hands of the cops to go after the 'homeless' criminal.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mobyclik 9/20/2019 8:53:48 AM (No. 184819)
The governor is like the person that invites you out to dinner at an expensive restaurant and then expects YOU to pay the tab. Way to go Sec. Carson and President Trump.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/20/2019 9:15:49 AM (No. 184847)
So many on this site predicted this outcome several years ago and even described the guvnor going to the President with hat in hand. Socialism and the inherent stupidity that causes its disasters only has one path. Other states like Illinois that are drowning in debt should heed the warning, the US Treasury may have once been Obama's piggy bank but it's now closed so pay for your own mistakes.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
qr4j 9/20/2019 9:28:03 AM (No. 184857)
California makes me think of a teenager who trashes the car his parents gave him and then wants his parents to pay to have the car fixed. Good parents tell such a kid to go earn the money to fix his own damned car.
Right now, we have "good parents" (i.e., responsible people) in charge at the White House. California: You wrecked the car. Now you fix the car.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
NancyD 9/20/2019 9:29:25 AM (No. 184859)
Typical democrat liberal fool. The Gov wants to use other peoples money to pay for THEIR mistakes and omissions. Pathetic. Go Trump! Love him!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
stablemoney 9/20/2019 9:38:13 AM (No. 184872)
Ca. has the tech companies and Hollywood. Raise their taxes. Ca. should pay for the spending made in Sacramento. Ca. could divert all the money they spend on Trump hate and spend it on the homeless.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
cor-vet 9/20/2019 9:39:21 AM (No. 184873)
Maybe Newsom can get Aunt Nancy to ask PDT for money. After all, she knows (air quotes) what's on his mind.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 9/20/2019 9:49:19 AM (No. 184893)
Whatever problems California "works on solving" they will have more and more of.
Land use restrictions, road building limits, high taxes, restrictive building codes, high taxes and did I mention that they have really high taxes?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/20/2019 10:16:17 AM (No. 184917)
Of course. But along with that all the bogus feel good stuff that did away with vagrancy laws should go away, too.
I could not decide to set up a tent on my own front lawn and accumulate a bunch of stuff there. I could not get away with stealing a grocery cart. The list goes on and on. But I’ll bet that somewhere there is feel-good federal law that says we must not impinge on the rights of the homeless, or something to that effect.
Pogo was right.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/20/2019 10:19:38 AM (No. 184920)
I am amazed that those who are smart enough to hang out at Lucianne don’t know the difference between Californians and California Democrats. Tar us all with the same brush. Can’t be ignorance…can it?
States don’t make bad decisions. Politicians do.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Moritz55 9/20/2019 10:54:08 AM (No. 184956)
Oh no! Does this mean California won’t go for Trump now?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Avanti1 9/20/2019 11:05:02 AM (No. 184969)
#18
I agree that Californians are not a monolith but, like everywhere, are composed of individuals.
I also believe that California voters are responsible for California's problems, not their politicians. If California voters had not elected them, the politicians would not be in power.
Let me quote the great Thomas Sowell:
"The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy them, and only in the short run."
California is having a rendezvous with reality and, as always, reality is winning.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
edgar 9/20/2019 11:30:36 AM (No. 184996)
Open borders have consequences.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/20/2019 12:22:04 PM (No. 185035)
Re #20, all well and good. But there is the pesky matter of “majority rules”…
Right now the Dims are in the majority at 40+% of the registered voters. The Republicans are in the mid-20%; the fastest growing category are the No Party Preference. The latter are totally unpredictable.
Now, if you or anyone else knows how to overcome a majority party in any state, I’d love to hear it. And so would a great number of other California Republicans (about 5 million at last count, as I recall).
It is facile to say “well, you voted them in” when one doesn’t know the hard facts or ignores them.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/20/2019 12:27:43 PM (No. 185041)
#20 may find this interesting. The latest voter registration statistics from the California Secretary of State. Scroll down.
https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/ror-odd-year-2019/historical-reg-stats.pdf
When any intelligent person attempts to evaluate what has happened in California, they would need these numbers.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 9/20/2019 12:32:38 PM (No. 185046)
How's that staunch resistance campaign going?
Maybe, if CA's 52 House members pushed hard for USMCA, they could negotiate a deal with a guy who is ready, willing and able to negotiate nearly everything. After all, they are mostly all democrats now, except 7 Republicans, and the cities who need the help are run by democrats.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 9/20/2019 2:20:17 PM (No. 185123)
Californication, you broke it; you fix it!
Signed,
The Fed Up Nation
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Bohallx 9/21/2019 9:18:54 AM (No. 185520)
In most of the United States at least 60% of the citizens turn out to vote in Presidential elections, and ordinarily more than 50% of the citizens turn out to vote in gubernatorial and senatorial elections.
In California, normally less than half of the citizens turn out to vote in Presidential, gubernatorial and senatorial elections, and far less than half turn out for other elections.
It's not the voters who are fully responsible ..... for any of this...... it's the NON VOTING CITIZENS
It's pretty obvious that California has become a failed state.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Avanti1 9/21/2019 3:28:30 PM (No. 185799)
#22 & #23
Please reread my Post #20. It references "California voters" and makes no mention of majorities or minorities.
My post is both valid and clear as it stands.
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California is flush with money. They have caused their own homelessness problem by encouraging it. Why should American taxpayers bail them out?