Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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What so many don't realize about the Scandinavian systems - which I happened to recognize within three days of being in Denmark (then Sweden and Finland) back in the early 90s - is that their heavy taxation and basic trust in the Govt spending all those funds well and fairly is because they are very homogenous cultures. In just a couple of days of being there, you recognize that. The populations are 95%+ from Scandinavian countries and Germany - so, they share similar values and upbringings. That's why their system would never work in America - we do not have anything close to a homogenous culture of values and trust. The Scandi countries, like pretty much all others with high citizen tax burdens, tend to control immigration very tightly because their whole system doesn't work if there are more "takers than producers". In the last decade or so, they have learned some hard lessons when they permitted far more than normal immigration numbers and from extremely dissimilar countries where the values are very different plus the new people don't speak the language so have limited work opportunities. Therefore, they live on Govt welfare. It is an experiment that has not gone well and now they have significant problems. |
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A few years back a group of business people from New Mexico, The New Mexico Amigos, among whom I have some friends and acquaintances, visited several coastal cities in California. In San Francisco they were briefed not to touch the soles of their footwear when they returned to their hotel rooms from walking the streets as they could get Hepatitis from stepping in human remnants of excrement, other body fluids and waste from the large homeless population among whom many are infected from needles passed around and otherwise. I think they were told to be careful where they stepped in San Diego as well.
Homelessness and Hepatitis A-San Diego County, 2016-2018 - PubMed Homeless people defecating on LA streets fuels horror hepatitis outbreak, as city faulted | Fox News
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Newsom is the Cali Governor so, he could engineer that one time thing of paying to move them for awhile but, he has no impact on local municipal governance, how they allocate their money and where the homeless will travel to. Back to San Fran if the public bennies are worth it. When I lived in NC, it was known amongst many city mayors in the state that Asheville provided some of the most generous homeless benefits so, they often gave bus tickets to Asheville for the homeless in their towns. Guess how much the homeless population in Asheville grew because of that? Aaah, the Law of Unintended Consequences...it can be an arse-kicker. |
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