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good evening and welcome to tucker
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carl's tonight we want to begin by
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noting something obvious because this is
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the obvious show
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if you live in the united states you may
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have noticed that many of our public
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spaces have become permanent homeless
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encampments you see trash filled tents
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blotting out what were once green and
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tidy public parks you step over vagrants
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drooling unconscious on the steps of
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train stations on the way to work you
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watch as junkies smoke meth without any
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embarrassment at all and then yell at
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pedestrians on the sidewalk maybe at
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your children everywhere at every
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intersection there are beggars
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it's what we used to imagine india was
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like but this is not calcutta this is
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new york and san francisco and austin
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texas
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so the question is what happened and the
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short answer is our leaders did this
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no matter what they tell you
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homelessness is not an act of god it's
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not the result of economic collapse in
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this country america did not run out of
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housing
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instead a determined group of
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well-funded ideologues decided to make
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it easier to live on the streets in this
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country while doing drugs therefore many
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more people now live on the streets
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while doing drugs
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see
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not complicated
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in 2005 an unemployed alcoholic called
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basil humphrey enrolled in a rehab
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program in boise idaho when humphrey
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refused to stop drinking the rescue
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mission kicked him out those were the
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rules and he spent months sleeping
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outside as so many do
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eventually local authorities ticketed
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him for camping on public property that
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was the law
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the story would have ended there except
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that a huge corporate law firm in new
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york city called latham and watkins took
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an interest in the case on the other
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side of the country now typically latham
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and watkins represents wall street banks
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and prominent democratic office holders
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but the firm wanted to change vagrancy
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laws to increase homelessness why did
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they want that we don't know but the
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firm filed a lawsuit on bazel humphreys
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behalf against the city of boise that
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suit made it to the ninth circuit court
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of appeals in 2018 the court declared
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that cities have no right to criminalize
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homelessness in fact the court ruled
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cities have an obligation to provide
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free housing to the homeless at public
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expense
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the supreme court later upheld that
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ruling the case was known as martin vs
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boise and it had exactly the effect that
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latham and watkins intended
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city officials across the country no
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longer had an obligation to protect the
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public and public spaces from drug
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addicts who decided to live in them
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at the same time politicians suddenly
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had access to a massive new source of
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cash
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taxpayer money many billions in taxpayer
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money for something called homelessness
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prevention
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now what does homelessness prevention
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well of course it's the opposite of what
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they call it as always
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here's seattle's interpretation of
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homelessness prevention
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a handful of seattle's more than 12
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thousand homeless will soon be going
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from the street to a new apartment with
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stunning views of the space needle and
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puget sound using part of its share of
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the 1.9 trillion dollar covet relief
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package the city bought three brand new
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apartment buildings for 50 million
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dollars for 165 homeless a price of
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three hundred thousand dollars per unit
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in los angeles skid row is about to get
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a new neighbor a 19-story high-rise for
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homeless costing taxpayers 160 million
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dollars or 580 thousand dollars per unit
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they're part of an expensive push to get
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the homeless off of sidewalks and out of
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city parks and into government
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subsidized housing even if it means
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buying new buildings at market rate from
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developers
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oh
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stunning views of the space deal in
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puget sound do you have one of those
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well crack heads do
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more than half a million dollars per
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apartment to
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house drug addicts at public expense at
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market rates
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so you can see why real estate
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developers would strongly support a
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program like that and of course they
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strongly do
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but luxury apartments are just the
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beginning seattle's most recent
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municipal budget allocates more than 150
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million dollars to other so-called
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homelessness programs just this year
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now keep in mind seattle has fewer than
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750 000 people living there so that's an
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awful lot of money per bum
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it's certainly a lot more than anyone
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else is getting in seattle
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at the same time it was giving
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overpriced condos to drug addicts with
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stunning views of puget sound
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seattle allocated just 10 million
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dollars total for its small business
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stabilization fund designed to keep
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family businesses from going bankrupt
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during the covid lockdowns
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so the city's priorities could not be
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clearer than that you lavish money on
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the least productive most anti-social
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parasites in our society and then you
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punish americans who work for a living
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got it
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and it's hardly just seattle the latest
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city budget in san francisco proposes
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spending 667 million dollars on
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something called the department of
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homelessness and supportive housing
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and yet at the very same time san
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francisco's department of children youth
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and families gets less than half that
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amount
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a city program designed to help
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low-income families pay college tuition
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gets just 16 million dollars total
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that's about two percent of what the
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homeless get
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so in san francisco it makes sense in
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fact it pays to get high on the sidewalk
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don't bother to get education nobody
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cares
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that's the message from the city
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couldn't be clear
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in austin texas the city's budget for
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homelessness assistance was 68 million
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dollars last year at the very same time
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the city of austin spent just 3.5
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million dollars in new loans for
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struggling small businesses and only
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seven million dollars for quote mission
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critical infrastructure and deferred
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maintenance at city facilities like the
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things that matter and at the same time
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as this was going on the police
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department in the city of austin
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got an 11 million budget cut
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so what happened to the homelessness in
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austin the problem they were trying to
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quote solve well to no one's surprise it
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has grown by 10 percent in just two
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years you get what you pay for when you
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pay for homelessness you get a lot more
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of it see how that works
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in los angeles politicians have spent
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billions quote fighting homelessness
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this has been accompanied of course by a
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massive increase in the number of people
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who are homeless
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four years ago the city spent 440
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million dollars in what it called
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solutions to homelessness that was
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supposed to fix the problem did it huh
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homelessness in los angeles jumped 15
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just last year
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so this year la will spend more close to
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a billion dollars on the homeless in
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2022.
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as for the small businesses crushed by
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the city's lunatic covert restrictions
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you ask what'll they get well they get
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62 million dollars total
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the city's gang reduction program gets
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about half that
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so politicians in los angeles are at the
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very least very clear about their
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priorities
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what is this done to la we don't have to
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look far to see the answer to that
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last week a homeless man walked into a
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furniture store in the west side of los
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angeles and murdered a graduate student
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who was working alone there he stabbed
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her to death for no apparent reason and
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then walked out he's still at large she
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was 24 now she's dead
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today her father told fox and friends
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that he holds city officials responsible
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for the killing watch
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what's endemic in our society right now
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is that everybody seems to be oriented
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on
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giving back rights
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and bestowing
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favor on people
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that
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rob others of their rights
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we should be celebrating
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the good of people and trying to
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recognize
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that that's
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the job they have is to try to elevate
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that to make communities better to make
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people care more
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to
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not
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tear down communities by exposing them
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to
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people
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that are falling out the bottom that
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really don't care
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about the other human beings and just
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think they can
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do whatever they like in our society and
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they are doing it more and more
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in every community
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pretty composed for a man who just lost
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his child but he's absolutely right
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focusing our attention and our money
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on people who contribute nothing who
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only detract from the project that is
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this country don't help their
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communities or anybody's community who
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hurt other people who live solely for
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themselves who are in danger to the rest
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of us that's insane
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and so that girl died and she wasn't the
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only one
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last month in los angeles a man called
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carrie bell murdered a 70 year old
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emergency room nur she was on her way to
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work one of the people we should be
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celebrating now she's dead
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who's the man who killed her while bell
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had a long criminal record he had a
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prior arrest in l.a he had arrested
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other states as well but authorities let
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him go and kept letting him go bell was
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homeless he was a victim he was part of
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a protected class
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then he killed somebody here's fox la's
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report on that
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days after a brutal attack at a union
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station bus stop a beloved nurse lost
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her life sandra shells worked at l.a
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county usc medical center for decades
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where she was highly respected and
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revered shells was allegedly assaulted
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thursday morning by a homeless man now
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identified by police as 48-year-old keri
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bell they say he hit shells for no
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apparent reason the force knocking her
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to the ground and fracturing her skull
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police say they found him sleeping
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nearby about 90 minutes later and
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arrested him without incident
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she was an emergency room nurse
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walking alone to work
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and now she's dead another woman
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murdered by the homeless and don't lie
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to yourself no one in l.a is ever going
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to do anything about it you're probably
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going to hear outraged noises for a few
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days or i'm from france but politicians
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will quickly get back to showering the
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unhoused community with another billion
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dollars
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what you're watching here is
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civilization collapsing in real time and
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it's not new here's video our producers
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shot in los angeles in the spring of
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2019 almost three years ago it shows
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homeless encampments downtown on three
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separate blocks it starts at fifth in
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san pedro and then it goes west
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seemingly forever
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so in january of 2020 the la times
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reported that quote california's
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railroad tracks are now lined with men
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and women sleeping in tents or under
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cardboard boxes in america by the way
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well in response to this
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governor gavin newsom announced another
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12 billion dollars in state funding to
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quote fight homelessness
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how'd that work we'll hear the results
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from sky fox the images are startling
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thousands of empty or damaged packages
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lining the tracks along the union
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pacific la railway amazon packages ups
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boxes all meant for delivery to
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customers along the west coast they're
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open by cargo thieves who take advantage
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of the trains stopping or slowing down
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to break into the containers union
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pacific officials saying they've had a
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hundred and sixty percent increase in
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cargo thefts in the l.a county area with
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over 90 containers broken into every day
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so i guess they didn't clean up the
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railroad tracks
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12 billion dollars and disorder got
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worse but of course allowing people to
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live outside and defecate outside in
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public places and use drugs outside in
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front of our children
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is both the cause and a symptom of
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growing disorder and chaos it's the
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degradation of what holds us together as
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a civilization
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so our producers are back in la right
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now shooting a documentary for season
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two of our tucker carlson original
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series on fox nation it's going to be
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out soon you're seeing some of the
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footage on your screen right now what
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you're seeing now was shot this morning
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on skid row skid row in la is a 50 block
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neighborhood east of downtown and it's
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hard to overstate just how dystopian it
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is you should go for yourself sometime
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and drive through roll them up but watch
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you will not believe this is america the
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country you grew up in
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this is what california got for 12
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billion dollars not fewer homeless just
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better funded homeless and thousands
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more of them
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so like covid and oxycontin and
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virtually everything else that's
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wrecking the country our ancestors built
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this
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is a manufactured crisis it didn't
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happen by accident people paid for it
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in new york officials have given drug
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addicts priority over virtually everyone
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else in the city a lot of working poor
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in new york we ought to be celebrating
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them the city isn't it's ignoring them
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in 2015 the annual budget of the new
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york city department of homeless
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services was 950 million this year it's
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double that it's about two billion
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dollars now how much is that
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well what they're spending on the
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homeless in new york city is more than
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the city's entire public university
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system more than they get to educate far
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more people so the homeless are getting
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more per student to live outside and
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smoke meth
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is that creating fewer homeless probably
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not in fact new york's homeless
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population is now at its highest level
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since the great depression
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so where's all this money going
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specifically now we could do five hours
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on this but here's just one example that
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money is going to an overdose prevention
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center
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preventing overdoses which in fact means
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helping the homeless get high
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officially called an overdose prevention
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center it's a place where users can
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snort smoke swallow or inject illegal
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drugs in a controlled environment two
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centers in east harlem and washington
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heights are the first in the nation to
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allow supervised drug use the head of an
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east harlem community organization says
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the facility and a nearby methadone
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clinic have led to an unwanted influx of
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addicts they all come here from
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different areas of the city
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we never had this around here
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no matter how bad it was through the 60s
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all that we never had this around here
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it's pretty funny watching people look
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confused as they see us what's going on
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here i don't remember this but it's not
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complicated at all it couldn't be
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simpler politicians are making it much
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easier to be a homeless drug addict in
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the united states and much harder to be
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a law-abiding member of the middle class
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what's the effect well let's see the
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middle class is dying and we now have
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record numbers of drug-addicted vagrants
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what does that tell you it tells you
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that incentives work
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if you destroy the nuclear family which
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they have if you decriminalize drugs
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which they have if you hand out tents
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and needles to addicts
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what do you think is going to happen
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you're going to get more addicts living
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in tents again it's not complicated this
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is not a vexing public policy question
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that requires the brooking institution
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to investigate it's not like fixing
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social security
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and the solution is as simple as the
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problem here's the solution stop putting
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up with it
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say no no you can't smoke meth in the
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park you're not allowed to crap on the
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sidewalk pull up your pants and get the
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hell out of here go somewhere with lower
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standards head for a place where
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politicians don't care about their
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people because we do care and that's why
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we're hauling your tent to a landfill
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and cutting off your checks today you
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are a drug addict get a job or leave
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this is our city you are not allowed to
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wreck it you didn't build it
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know that's not hard
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that works we know it works because
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that's how societies function for about
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2 000 years if you're an unmarried man
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with no job you were not allowed to
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destroy things
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it wasn't your right
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by the way this is how successful
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families still operate to this day in
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the privacy of their own homes when the
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ngos aren't watching parents reward good
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behavior and they do not tolerate bad
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behavior
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why because if you let your kids smoke
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weed at the breakfast table they will so
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you don't let them
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so why not apply the same standard to
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the drug addicts at penn station because
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what we're doing now isn't compassionate
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it's an attack on civilization i'm steve
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ducey i'm brian kilmeade and i'm ainslie
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