... this one blew my mind.
(T)he San Diego Convention Center had been used as a homeless shelter due to the lack of conventions because of the pandemic.
Since I don't read or watch the local news, I had no idea we had done this. Consider this verification number 189,620 proving that our political leaders have no idea how anything works.
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| It really looks like this. It's spectacularly beautiful. On the inside, it's well-designed and just as attractive. |
Way back when, I bought a run-down house so I could scrape the lot and build a custom home. The place was a rental with a pack of low-income people inside. Some of them were drug addicts. In the six months we owned the place before it got razed, they paid the rent once. I looked into eviction law and discovered that in San Diego, the tenants have all the rights.
We played nice with the druggies to avoid court and told them the bulldozer would be arriving at a certain date. They didn't know the law, so they didn't turn it into eviction proceedings. Instead, they were grateful that we didn't press the rent issue and that we didn't smash the place while they were gone and destroy all of their stuff.
They utterly ruined it. If we hadn't intended on flattening it, we'd have flattened it after they left anyway. We weren't angry and I wasn't surprised, it's just what drug addicts do.
Most of the homeless are addicts. According to this documentary from Seattle, it's not a bad bet to say that nearly 100% of them are drug users. On what planet does it make sense to bring drug addicts into your most expensive fixed asset? It gets even better. Now that the addicts have been relocated, they're going to use it as housing for some of the invading illegal aliens.
The Biden Administration is partnering with San Diego to turn the city’s convention center into a temporary shelter to support unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the United States.
They're using our best asset for bring money into the city like it was an ordinary barn.
Or maybe it's more like a giant toaster oven.
ReplyDeleteJust a little while ago, we were talking about how more government activities should devolve down to the local level so that the people being affected by them could find out what was going on and could have some influence. We both agreed that this would be a good thing.
And now, you write . . . "I don't read or watch the local news". As if this is a perfectly reasonable thing.
Seriously, KT? You spend apparently hours every day rage-surfing the internet, looking for third- and fourth-hand information about people thousands of miles away so that you can scold them for their perceived inadequacies, but then can't be bothered to actually pay attention to what is going on in your home town?
San Diego county is more populous than twenty states. There must be thousands of things going on there that you can get nearly direct information about, and that can potentially directly affect you. And you are saying that you routinely ignore them in favor of pontificating about everyone else's business but your own?
And personally, I would be a lot more interested in hearing more or less first-hand about what you can see happening in your own city, than about your rants based on things happening in distant places that you have no better information about than I do.