Trump pushing for crackdown on homeless camps in California: report

[luckytxn 2,265]

On 9/10/2019 at 4:26 PM, elmcitymaven said:

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/460742-trump-pushing-for-crackdown-on-homeless-camps-in-california-report

 

Look, I am a Los Angeles resident. I have lived here since 2008, and I have seen homelessness get out of control. I have been in the same neighborhood on the Westside for 9 years, and it's a neighborhood that up until 4 years ago I never saw a homeless encampment in. Now I have a guy in a van living across the street from my condo. A nice enough guy, keeps to himself, but nevertheless a guy in a van. And we don't have it bad -- not even 2 miles away, there is an active thieves' market for stolen bikes and you name it under the 405 overpass. There's excrement in the street, needles in the gutter, prostitution and disease. And I live in a safe, "good" neighborhood!

 

You don't have to tell me that what is going on here in California in relation to homelessness is messed up (I would use stronger language but #familyfriendlyVJ) and unsustainable. But running roughshod over the Tenth Amendment is NOT the way to do this. I would have the same reaction to a Democratic administration doing this. We have certain powers that are reserved to the states, and amongst those are the "police powers" -- the health, welfare and safety stuff. This is 100% police powers at issue here, reserved to the state of California. California needs to fix this. It can get help from the federal government to do so. What we do not need is the feds coming in and doing it for us directly. I won't reach for the sobriquet "death camps" that my non-fiance has called the proposed fed camps for homeless, but really. REALLY. I listen to and read stories about the camps at the border right now, and it gives me pause to consider what a Homeless Trumpcamp would look like.  

 

I'm asking my friends on both sides of the aisle (and all the other sides that feed into the aisles): please consider what something like this does for setting a precedent. Even if you think the outcome would be great, consider what this does to the Constitution. There are ways to get moving on homelessness that do not involve the feds coming into a state and taking over operations that are reserved to the states. Imagine Obama sending in the feds to start running the lunch programs DIRECTLY in Tennessee, literally setting the menus (not just nutritional requirements to conform with) and saying nope, no pizza ever for you, Timmy, only salads, we have an obesity epidemic, you know. 

 

Thank you for listening to maven's TED Talk on the Tenth Amendment. I will be leaving work early today to go home and start drinking hard, gonna pour one out for the Tenth, yo.

Well if the Feds are allowed to pretty much make any laws and become our babysitter now then so what if interfere where they see fit on this? We get what we ask for. Obama ran roughshod over state rights and if Trump does also then so be it.