One has to wonder why Cursitor Doom might think that. I'm decidedly unsympathetic to the noxious rodents who infest this group, but since they do include Cursitor Doom he might not have noticed the connection.
Here the whole thing is political. Almost every homeless person qualifies f or housing benefit, which pays for a modest flat on a sink estate. They're not all mentally well enough to get through the process though, & the benef it system likes to play games with people. Reality is the govt could give t hem free housing of a much cheaper nature if they wanted to sort the social issue out, just a minimal room & toilet & timeshared shower. We have lots of homeless because, despite protestations to the contrary, the government chooses to have it that way.
Homelessness is approaching a billion dollar industry in SF. The money goes to "providers", fat-cats who run non-profits, lawyers, politicians, landlords, psychologists, therapists, all sorts of well-housed prople. Numbers run like $100K/year per homeless person. It's like the gourmet cheese business, where the homeless people are the cows.
Now people who are "housed" in vehicles will get free RV parks. We can put up billboards all over the Americas, "Free RV parking and services in San Francisco."
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s for housing benefit, which pays for a modest flat on a sink estate. They' re not all mentally well enough to get through the process though, & the be nefit system likes to play games with people. Reality is the govt could giv e them free housing of a much cheaper nature if they wanted to sort the soc ial issue out, just a minimal room & toilet & timeshared shower. We have lo ts of homeless because, despite protestations to the contrary, the governme nt chooses to have it that way.
for housing benefit, which pays for a modest flat on a sink estate. They'r e not all mentally well enough to get through the process though, & the ben efit system likes to play games with people. Reality is the govt could give them free housing of a much cheaper nature if they wanted to sort the soci al issue out, just a minimal room & toilet & timeshared shower.
It is called a poorhouse, and Britain used to have quite a few of them.
the government chooses to have it that way.
"Care in the Community" seems to be cheaper than institutionalising non-vio lent lunatics - your "not mentally well enough to get through the process".
Poorhouses and lunatic asylums do have their weak points - the UK governmen t's choice to phase them out wasn't entirely irrational.
Well, we pay sales taxes mostly, plus a few small extra assessments on property taxes to reduce liberal guilt. The income tax is the same across California.
We're pretty happy here, because we avoid the seedy parts of town.
There is just so much money here it's astonishing. Of course it can't last.
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No, and I have no plans to. But wherever I may be in the world, I'll always be British and identify as such. Except when I'm travelling on my second passport for safety reasons, but that's another matter.
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Cursitor Doom clearly has no shame about trashing the UK by presenting hims elf as British. His ignorance and his passion for right-wing misinformation are faults which do show up in a small (if vociferous) fraction of the UK population, but he isn't representative. Neither is Boris Johnson, but you' d have to be nuts to take on the job of leading the Conservative Party and being Prime Minister at this particular moment, and complaining about the n ature of the lunacy that lets him take on the job would be a bit churlish.
For the UK - which doesn't have a lot to export - negotiating after leaving the EU is likely to leave the politicians doing the negotiation having to cope with hurry-up calls from a starving population.
Boris Johnson wouldn't worry. He has a lot of fat reserves to work through and is happy to lie to people who are less well-padded, but saner negotiato rs would be put under pressure. Though most of them would have bailed out s ome time ago, and presumably immigrated to countries where sanity in politi cians was more highly valued.
The only people who have a genuine financial interest in remaining in the EU are the chronic welfare recipients in its member states and prospective member states. I'm guessing you're one of them.
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