Isn't it time to stop spending on homeless and to insist, instead, that they begin adulting?

Two articles on my timeline, one directly followed by the next (in just the tiniest bit of irony) that are yet ANOTHER illustration of Portland wasting millions on the homeless.

Article one: KATU - Portland Mayor Keith Wilson said the city is on track to reach his goal of adding 1,500 shelter beds for the homeless.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1F6VgQ3uZS/



Followed by Article two: Willamette Week - Data released by Mayor Keith Wilson’s office last week shows that most of his new emergency shelter locations are struggling to reach 50% occupancy on any given night.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AYSZhU3Uz/



Hopefully... one day... the leftist morons running government on the left coast will wake up one morning and discover that they've failed to do anything but waste billions on a problem they've completely misread and have to get off their concept that throwing truckloads of money at ANY issue, let alone the proven failure of their efforts on the homeless... will, not, work.

Continuing to do the same things, over and over, while expecting a different outcome, is insane.

And the left's example of THEIR insanity continues to vaporize billions with nothing to show for it.

Earlier this month, a report from Portland State shows that the TriCounty area of Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas has spent over $730 million dollars on the homeless during the last 2 years.

And during that same time frame? Homeless numbers have skyrocketed over 61%. And of that number, 73% were living in that area before they became homeless, meaning the homeless destination resort Multnomah has built accounts for roughly 1 out of every 4 homeless uprooting from other areas around the country to join the Portland touristas.

PDX City Councilor Eric Zimmerman admits this area is the worst in the country for the homeless blight. And the hundreds of millions they've already wasted isn't enough.

“We’re the 51st out of 51. So we’re including territories now in terms of access to mental health. That is a failure. But that’s not something that right now the city of Portland can solve. I need the state,” Portland City Councilor Eric Zimmerman said. “We, the city of Portland, can work on the affordability, getting our communities more dense, getting more apartments and homes built. But that won’t help if a huge part of our population remains sick and untreated.”

As expected, there's no mention of the primary root causes of homelessness: self-accountability, self-responsibility and a desire to end their own homelessness.

Providing shelter without demanding these requirements does not solve the issue of homelessness... it enables it and increases it.

A blind squirrel could see it in a minute.

But the leftists allowing this insanity at ever-increasing costs to those paying the bills for this obvious failure?

They've got a Homeless Industry(tm) to support, and By God, they intend to support it. Costs be damned, results be damned.

Thoughts on the election

As expected, leftists are playing this as a repudiation of Trump.

It isn't, of course, but that's how they're playing it.

For years now, I've made the claim that the primary motivator for the left is hatred.

As a result, leftists elected a communist/terrorist/hamas supporter as mayor in New York.

In Virginia, leftists elected a psychotic with visions of assassination and murdering children dancing in his diseased brain... not to mention a governor who refused to condemn/demand the removal of the nutjob who is now going to be the top lawyer in the state... a very white woman that Obama urged people to vote for as opposed to the black lieutenant governor who was running against her... showing his race baiting horseshit of demanding that black men vote for the Pole Dancer since she magically turned herself into an African-American for purposes of the election.

In Maine, they now support a nazi SO nazi that he has the SS death's head tattooed on his right pec. 

If a Republican had a tat like that? leftist howling over SecWar Hegseth's Christian tattoo would be barely a whisper in comparison.

THAT'S the variety of hypocrisy we've come to know and despise from the democrats.

And in New Jersey, they elected a governor who shared Governor-Elect Spanberger's love of the mental case now AG Elect in Virginia.

This, of course, illustrates the massive gaps between leftists who would cheerfully vote for a brick if it had a "D" after it's name and those who actually care about this country.

The five examples here are yet another proof of that.

Someone by the name of Jefferson once said "the government you elect is the government you deserve."

And those who voted for these outcomes DEFINATELY deserve the governments they elected.

As for this being some sort of referendum  on Trump?

It isn't.

I'm not saying that because I'm GOP.

I'm saying that for a more simplistic reason... Simplistic but accurate.

Mamdani, for his part, bought votes.

Free buses. Government stores (which have and are failing everywhere it's been tried... mainly because of shoplifting and other criminal activities these monuments to leftist stupidity have been tried) additional billions to be spent on his illegal alien voter base, and the ever popular "defunding the police."

It's sad that the "Never Forget 9/11" vote forgot and elected tis communist/terrorist/hamas supporter into this position of responsibility.

On his watch, crime will explode. As will drug use and homelessness.

But the basis for my conclusion is simple: in November of 2024, Trump picked up only 30% of the vote in NYC.  The Pole Dancer?

67%.

There was no way there'd be a different outcome.

Both the Virginia and New Jersey Soviets also went to the Pole Dancer by substantial margins.  

To expect any other outcome in these elections from the one we picked up is delusional.

As old as the old saw "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink" may be, it still holds true today.

In this election, the only thing that really shined through was the institutional hatred of the left.

In spades.