Ex-LA Sheriff Alex Villanueva Discusses The Homeless Industrial Complex
Here’s a video where Ex-LA Sheriff Alex Villanueva discusses how the Homeless Industrial Complex racket works there.
Five people a day die on the streets of LA in the gutter like a dog. Five a day. Like, five on drugs from overdosing overdosing on drugs, from illnesses that are treatable. But if you’re not being treated, like, for example, you’re insulin dependent type one [diabetes]. Without insulin you die. That’s what happens, because these are people are not in a state of mind to actually accept and seek medical care for a problem, so it goes untreated they die, or they overdose and they die, or they do both and they die. I think in 2020-2021, they registered, I think, over 1,800 deaths of that type on the street, which is mind-boggling, but it’s consistent.
“If you don’t pay attention, people are going to die. So the people, the activists, they want to get in the way. ‘Don’t touch them, you’re criminalizing poverty!’ or this or that. Yet they have no answer. And their solution is just to let people die on the street. That’s not a solution.”
“The [homeless] count is getting bigger, not smaller.”
“There’s a perception in the entire nation that, if you’re homeless and you like to use drugs, go to LA. Until that train stops, it doesn’t matter what you do locally in LA. You can’t defeat 49 other states sending all their homeless their derelicts their drug addicts to LA.” I don’t know, a lot still seem to be going to San Francisco. And we need to do more to spread the word to Austin’s drug addicted transients in hopes they move there.
When he started trying to clean things up, he got immediate pushback from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. They had “no desire whatsoever” to work with him.
“They’re not doing anything about it because the homeless industrial complex is alive and well. Look at the career arc of Holly Mitchell, supervisor. Karen Bass, mayor. Community organizers. Now they’re running non-profits. Now they’re receiving contracts from the county, from the city. Now they’re in public office. Those two in particular prime example of it, and that’s the wave of the future.”
“You’ve got a whole community of people that are in the 501c3s, the non-profits, and uh Boards of Directors, CEOs. The amount of money is pouring into the nonprofits is just incredible. There’s no governance, there’s no oversigh, there’s no accountability on the results. They just keep shoveling money at them, and the problem keeps getting worse and worse.”
“This has become a system for people to to get in and get involved, and actually build a career and build a path to politics. The top 10 CEOs of non-profits eight hundred thousand dollar a year. They were making more than twice what I was making as sheriff, and the size of my operation dwarfed all of them probably combined. But that tells you the influence the money involved.”
“From 2011 to 2021, L.A. County spent 6.5 billion dollars on homeless initiatives. The homeless count went from 39,000 to over 80,000. it doubled in size.”
“It’s engulfing every corner of life in L.A County.”
It’s been a scam since day one, a self-perpetuating mess.
Personally, I blame all the bleeding-heart do-gooders that open their hearts and pocketbooks up to let these people take advantage of them, and the biggest damn mistake ever made was allowing them to get at the damn public fisc. That’s outright criminal, and our damn politicians ought to be scourged out of public life for it being allowed to happen.
Most of the “homeless” are self-created human wreckage. It’s painful to observe, it’s even more painful when it’s a family member, but… There isn’t a damn thing you can do from the outside to fix the problem, except to quit enabling them and making it easier for them to avoid confronting their demons. Most of these people are a damn mess, with personal lives and histories that would make decent people gag. The ones I’m intimately familiar with all got to where they are through being lousy human beings, who wound up where they are because they’re dysfunctional as all hell. Trying to help them will usually just pull you into their orbit, decaying into the black hole of their self-destruction. Occasionally, they’ll pull out of it, but… Usually not. Don’t get your hopes up, if one of these sorts are your friends or family members before they fell into it all.
The majority of them made choices, to get where they are. Poor ones. Undoing that for them? Impossible, and effectively just a useless gesture.
I have a two-step solution to homelessness: One, ban Narcan across the board. You wouldn’t be able to get it, period. Not even for “first responders”. Make narcotics lethal, again…
Two? Free hot and cold running Fentanyl in the streets. After about the first two months, bang, zoom… No more homeless problem. All you need to do is clean up the bodies and their former filthy camps.
That’d solve the homeless “crisis”, which we’ve created through our own “compassion” that really, truly… Isn’t at all “compassionate”.
I forget who originally said it, but there’s a phrase that goes something like this:
“If you tax something, you get less of it. If you subsidize something, you get more of it.”
We’ve been taxing the living daylights out of productive people for the last 60 or 70 years, and there are now a whole let less of us.
We’ve been subsidizing, and subsidizing quite heavily, the non-productive parasites in our society. And not just the alcoholics, drug-addicted, chronically unemployed (embrace the healing power of “and”, there), but also the bureaucratic-state employees who not only don’t produce wealth, but actively stop its production. They are both now huge voting blocs for the collectivist/statist/authoritarian left-wing in this country, and we won’t be getting rid of them any time soon. And as noted, “Thar’s money in (grifting taxpayer dollars ostensibly for) them thar poor people.”
I honestly can’t see a solution, since the parasites are mingled in with normal people. A civil war won’t do it, unless enough rational people leave the urban hives and we can let them disintegrate without taking the rest of us with them. I’ve already left.
[…] County Sheriff Alex Villanueva. He was recently interviewed about homelessness in Los Angeles.. (HT) There is a brilliant sensationalism in the presentation of the interview that makes me want to […]
[…] Diaz-Canel? His five years in numbers, and UN finally admits Cubans are going hungry BattleSwarm: Ex-LA Sheriff Alex Villanueva Discusses The Homeless Industrial Complex, Ninth Circuit To Berserkley – No, You Can’t Ban Natural Gas. Not Yours, Has The Ukrainian […]
It’s been a scam since day one, a self-perpetuating mess.
Personally, I blame all the bleeding-heart do-gooders that open their hearts and pocketbooks up to let these people take advantage of them, and the biggest damn mistake ever made was allowing them to get at the damn public fisc. That’s outright criminal, and our damn politicians ought to be scourged out of public life for it being allowed to happen.
Most of the “homeless” are self-created human wreckage. It’s painful to observe, it’s even more painful when it’s a family member, but… There isn’t a damn thing you can do from the outside to fix the problem, except to quit enabling them and making it easier for them to avoid confronting their demons. Most of these people are a damn mess, with personal lives and histories that would make decent people gag. The ones I’m intimately familiar with all got to where they are through being lousy human beings, who wound up where they are because they’re dysfunctional as all hell. Trying to help them will usually just pull you into their orbit, decaying into the black hole of their self-destruction. Occasionally, they’ll pull out of it, but… Usually not. Don’t get your hopes up, if one of these sorts are your friends or family members before they fell into it all.
The majority of them made choices, to get where they are. Poor ones. Undoing that for them? Impossible, and effectively just a useless gesture.
[…] Battleswarm Blog has transcribed some excerpts. […]
“And their solution is just to let people die on the street. That’s not a solution’
What? It’s totally a solution. You might even call it a final solution.
I have a two-step solution to homelessness: One, ban Narcan across the board. You wouldn’t be able to get it, period. Not even for “first responders”. Make narcotics lethal, again…
Two? Free hot and cold running Fentanyl in the streets. After about the first two months, bang, zoom… No more homeless problem. All you need to do is clean up the bodies and their former filthy camps.
That’d solve the homeless “crisis”, which we’ve created through our own “compassion” that really, truly… Isn’t at all “compassionate”.
I forget who originally said it, but there’s a phrase that goes something like this:
“If you tax something, you get less of it. If you subsidize something, you get more of it.”
We’ve been taxing the living daylights out of productive people for the last 60 or 70 years, and there are now a whole let less of us.
We’ve been subsidizing, and subsidizing quite heavily, the non-productive parasites in our society. And not just the alcoholics, drug-addicted, chronically unemployed (embrace the healing power of “and”, there), but also the bureaucratic-state employees who not only don’t produce wealth, but actively stop its production. They are both now huge voting blocs for the collectivist/statist/authoritarian left-wing in this country, and we won’t be getting rid of them any time soon. And as noted, “Thar’s money in (grifting taxpayer dollars ostensibly for) them thar poor people.”
I honestly can’t see a solution, since the parasites are mingled in with normal people. A civil war won’t do it, unless enough rational people leave the urban hives and we can let them disintegrate without taking the rest of us with them. I’ve already left.
The LA County Board of Supervisors consists of five women and no men.
Anybody see a connection here?
[…] County Sheriff Alex Villanueva. He was recently interviewed about homelessness in Los Angeles.. (HT) There is a brilliant sensationalism in the presentation of the interview that makes me want to […]
[…] Diaz-Canel? His five years in numbers, and UN finally admits Cubans are going hungry BattleSwarm: Ex-LA Sheriff Alex Villanueva Discusses The Homeless Industrial Complex, Ninth Circuit To Berserkley – No, You Can’t Ban Natural Gas. Not Yours, Has The Ukrainian […]