Always

Always they are there, always.  The conservatives believe, they so earnestly believe that the homeless could not possibly be victims.

Rather, the homeless are shiftless people who have chosen their fate.

They are to blame.  They are irresponsible loafers, who, as our police chief  famously claimed, collect $500 a day.  

He never explained why the very next day, the same people are on the street corner begging again.  I guess five hundred dollars doesn't go as far as it used to.

Always, we hear the negative, hateful reaction.  "Get a job you bum",  the common response to the dirty, skinny, hopeless people, holding a sign, looking embarrassed they are begging.

And, empirical evidence must be ignored: the homeless are not mentally ill (many are), they are not veterans (many are), they are not children (many are); the right adopts the same attitude they do with climate change, with evolution:  it doesn't exist...

And the homeless numbers keep going up.

The economy is about to come under a  huge attack, from conservatives who are dead set to drastically cut government spending, which they know might spark another recession, and give them a chance to gain Congressional seats.

Cons do not give a damn.  Cons care only about their ridiculous ideology, that has failed constantly.

We in California saw Prop 13; and when the Great Recession hit, property values plummeted, and so did local government.  Widespread layoffs of city workers, teachers; etc., still fuels the California recession.  We in California saw the "Law and Order" campaign, "cracking down" on criminals (peace demonstrators at the time), forcing judges to give determinate sentences, the "war on drugs" that filled prisons with non-violent "criminals", whose only crime was enjoying some weed; and mindless tax cuts, that ruined the best public university system in the world.  The list of conservative "ideas" that resulted in ruining the economy is practically endless.

And what do they now blame for our recession?  Government spending and taxes of course!

We were supposedly  left in California  with a supposed "anti-business" climate, that has spawned countless technology innovative businesses.

Recently, Governor I can't remember three things Perry, of Texas, ran an ad in California trying to get entrepreneurs to move to Texas.

Texas shares one thing with California, years of conservative leadership has broke it.  There are jobs there supposedly, mostly minimum wage.  Texas is becoming a hell-hole (always was in my opinion), and a conservative "show place" of leading rates of poverty, high school dropouts, and misery.

Move to Texas Perry pleaded, and starve to death.  The tragic  thing is  that  climate change is already destroying Texas with droughts, hurricanes, and tornadoes.  And, it will only get worse.  Fracking has polluted the water, drought has destroyed millions of square acres (yet another con idea).

So, as always, the poor go hungry, the number of poor increases, and the cons now are eager to cut government spending, so more can go without, more can suffer.

Always..