Comments by "Scott Charney" (@scottcharney1091) on "With nowhere to go, homeless encampments return to Venice Beach" video.

  1. Harm reduction works.
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  2. I've only been there briefly, but I loved it. This situation is sad, but it's not impossible to rectify.
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  3. Note that people make this partisan, while Mississippi is also losing people.
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  4. Decades of neoliberal capitalism will do that. Some people saw this coming as early as the 1980s. The rich countries started doing to themselves what they did to the rest of the world for centuries.
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  5. Stop shouting.
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  6. Other state governments are known to ship them there.
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  7. Unemployment is actually pretty low.
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  8. This has very little to do with DC.
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  9. Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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  10.  @colinthomas867  One has nothing to do with the other. This is a case of parasitic landowners and a compliant city building expensive housing for uber-yuppies at the expense of the working class.
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  11.  @helenofirvine  The housing crisis is real.
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  12.  @helenofirvine  Deinstitutionalization started in the 70s and was finalized under Reagan. We've seen the results ever since.
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  13. Note the de-institutionalization that began in the 1970s but was finalized by Reagan & company.
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  14. They're not living well on the beach, and you know it.
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  15. That's ignorant.
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  16. While I would love to see the problem pushed onto the ruling classes (the capitalists who only build unaffordable housing, and the government that complies with that situation), I don't want to see people used as a weapon.
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