The Starbucks thing

I have no idea.

Do you?

 

This traffic/homeless problem was solved in April 1998. Nobody would listen.

 

"Know"? No. A pretty good idea. Yes.

 

OK, you're probably right. But the story you linked said Santa Monica has enacted this and that, and it still doesn't work. Do you think homeless should be living at the library? That's what has happened.
I have a good friend who's father was the pastor at a prominent Lutheran church in SM since it was founded. My friend was still on the board of trustees after her father's death, but the church has changed so much, she can't even go there anymore. According to her, they sectioned off half of the sanctuary and given it over to "homeless UCLA students."

I'll leave with that.

 

Please feel free to share them.

 

No one should be living at the library.

There's money being appropriated at the local, county, state and federal level to ease this kind of problem.

But California beach communities have been fighting the same battle since the beginning of the steam age.

 

Because every dollar SM spends on making it better for homeless people makes SM an even more desirable location for additional homeless people.

 

That certainly seems plausible. And a Catch-22.

But the homeless are already a constant in the beach cities, and have been since the railroads started bring them west. They're already here.

So given the choice between housing them in a shelter that provides some range of services and letting them take over the library, or accost people on the street, or stab you in the neck at a restaurant, we're gonna go with "there's no solution?"

 

You asked why they won't enact any of the solutions. I told you what I suspect ... the people doing the paying see whatever's being proposed as throwing good money after bad.

 

I understand that.

But having never tried it, how would they know?

 

Starbucks barista prints racial slur on a Mexican customer's drink | Daily Mail Online

 

Good example of what dq and I have been talking about here.

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