How a Former Soros Activist Is Taking On Toxic Progressivism | Guest: Michael Shellenberger | Ep 509
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- Опубліковано 18 сер 2024
- Today we're talking to author and journalist Michael Shellenberger, who has been drawing attention to the disaster zone that is San Francisco. Shellenberger wrote a book on the subject, "San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities," and explains how he was originally pushing for progressive policies until he saw their real-world effects. We discuss several problems plaguing the city, from homelessness to drugs to homicide. Shellenberger also details the history and destructive philosophy that led San Francisco to its current state.
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How a Former Soros Activist Is Taking On Toxic Progressivism | Guest: Michael Shellenberger | Ep 509
Great interview. I will quote Russell Brand who recently made the astute observation that, "I am concerned that kindness and compassion is being used to justify tyranny". Bang on accurate!
Too RIGHT
Slight modification - the words kindness and compassion - not actual kindness and compassion - are being used to justify tyranny.
Please join me in prayer for all missionaries that are kidnapped in Hati they desperately need your prayers please pray for them God bless you all
Praying ❤️
Praying and will continue to pray!
”Mankind will only be Free when the last Bankster is hanged with entrails of the last Rabbi " Denis Diderot 2.0
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Yes, amen! Im surprised its not in the news a lot.
Here's my two cents from what I've observed about the topic of universal mental healthcare (or any healthcare): the poorest among us are getting the care they need through entitlements and govt programs. The wealthier can afford the very best of care, but it's the middle class that is finding the cost of care completely overwhelming. Our premiums are hundreds a month and our insurance doesn't kick in until we pay about 15% of our income out of pocket. Which means we receive very, very little benefit. It's basically catastrophic insurance. I would never have the money to pay if I had a mental health crisis. 20 years ago we had much better insurance benefits.
I completely agree with you as I have been saying this for years! Pre Obamacare I paid 440.00 a month for a catastrophic health insurance policy for my husband, son and my self. Post OC I paid double that. Currently I pay 1164.00 per month for just my husband and I. Granted we are now in our fifties but still, that’s crazy. I think that health care should not be run by government but I think it being run by big business as it is now is equally heinous. I don’t know the answer as to how to fix it but a solution that doesn’t involve government or big business is long, long overdue.
60 years ago we had state mental hospitals where people with mental health issues where admitted or committed and they had a roof over their head, food in their bellies, meds and/or treatment. Then the ACLU had the brilliant idea (/sarc) to mainstream them all on the grounds it was a violation of their rights and constituted false imprisonment. They shuttered all the state hospitals and all the patients ( voluntary or involuntary) were kicked out on the streets where the seriously mentally ill who could not function in society no longer had a roof, food, meds, or treatment.
That's the kind of insurance my husband and I have always had. High deductibles. We've paid who knows how much over the years. Have had, thankfully, to use it very little. Just doctors visits or lab work, things like that you pay out of your own pocket. I'm turning 65 next week and got on Medicare. It will save money for us. My husband is only 63 and still working. So he will stay on his work insurance, but it will be less, because I'm off.
Well stated 👏
ITS BY DESIGN
Has anyone else observed that the most 'tolerant' and 'woke' cities were the most restrictive and authoritarian during the pandemic.?
Anyone else notice that contagious diseases spread more in large, dense populations. Yet these silly big cities wanted to be more careful than other places while they deal with the migrating homeless from smaller areas that couldn't or wouldn't deal with homelessness.
@@mattroberts86 Homeless go to California where they know they can get free needles or do what they want. In my state people complain about encampments and officials get them out. Something is done about them. Some refuse treatment so arresting them is the only way to get them to treatment or a shelter. Other homeless in San Francisco are veterans, people who lost jobs and people priced out of their apartments. They get help but the drug addicts and mentally ill are just permitted to ruin the city. It also costs the city considerable money to clean up the trash and feces.
This is so encouraging. I’m always praying for an awakening for those deceived by wickedness and bad policy. May God give us wisdom to take a stand, speak the truth, and make a difference for the good of everyone, from the poorest to the richest. 🙏🏼❤️
I agree. Progressives are blinded and misled by the devil.
And ALL God's people said AMEN!!! 🙏🙏🙏
You go pray you freak
@@lakid9749 I don’t hate you, but I hate what you have done to me, to all of us. Anger, sadness and despair are taking over the country as we see our freedoms crushed, our families torn apart, our heritage torn down around us. All In the name of justice.
@@Greg-yu4ij God and Political Freedom dont mix. Separation of church and state. Dont preach to me - my religious believes are private - they way its been in this country for 100’s of year before Bush merging the 2 as if morality and politics are even in the same room.
Sorry sir - Iam just saying
Wow just saw Michael on Rogan! Glad to see him engage with those of us on the right. Appreciate him for sure.
I’m pretty much a rock ribbed conservative but man this guy is spot-on! When he said housing should be _earned,_ I bout fell out of my chair. Where are the rest of these common liberals people??
He is one of the few who are both intellectually honest and intellectually rigorous (as opposed to too many who are intellectually dishonest and lazy). Or perhaps there are many more, but they have been cowered into silence by the extreme Left.
It seems that common sense has 'left the building' in the States, as well as my own country, Canada 🇨🇦 and the majority of Australia 🇦🇺 etc...😕
"Where are the rest of these common liberals people??" They left the room when it was decided that disciplining their kids is somehow bad. I'd say around the 60's??
In the words of Jesus "Be sure to collect money and profit from your children before allowing them a place to sleep."
@Ariadne /Lady Lettie I find it difficult to disagree with her. Do you concur this is going on all over the west, not just the US?
When asked in an interview what it was that persuaded him from being a staunch leftist progressive into a conservative Mr. Sowell simply replied, "Facts."
setting the bar to the lowest level of society only serves to destroy society
So obvious.
Admire someone who can admit he has changed.
He was ignorant of what Soros' agenda is. Which I was ignorant of too in the 90's.. Conservatism is simply preserving what's good.
Soros is neither liberal nor conservative. He is something else.
@@mikaelarkanghel5094 Wie wäre es mit dem Bösen?
@@mikaelarkanghel5094
Exactly... it's commonly referred to as evil...and greedy.
@@j.a.fligor97 - Evil, greedy globalist.
@@commentator5571 amen to that for sure.
I love how he just flatly says they're dumb I wish more would just say that...
True Republicans in California are not changing. I don't know where he got that from. We are as conservative as ever. We do not force our beliefs on anyone, however. Rigged elections are the main problem. Make no mistake, Newsom was recalled. 🇺🇲
Probably, was: there was seeming fraud in the Democratic Iowa Caucus, Massive fraud in the 2020 presidential election, and I'm sure the same kind of fraud in California's recall efforts; not surprising anymore: but what was surprising to me at first was how many government agencies (FBI, DOJ etc. ) were actually going along with these things, no questions asked, (after enough reasons were brought forward to question the legitimately of these elections).
@@Remy4489 The intelligence establishment's agenda is alligned with the election fraud we've been seeing. The intelligence establishment has been at the top of the power structure in the US for decades.
Actually a lot of people who leaned republican have left California as the state has gotten bluer and bluer scene 1992 because they were fed up
Yup no change in the true Republicans. Still willing to lie about anything if it might help the wallet. Winner take all, say anything to win. Well said.
I don’t think there will ever again be fair elections in the USA. Pelosi and her “machines” are well entrenched.
Mandela actually owned several homes.
For show, he would go to a tiny dwelling and entertain the press while conducting some meeting. His real home was that of a multimillionaire that would ruin his image had the press featured that in their international reports. When you believe the lies, your decision making, like mine, was impaired to say the least.
It's all a show & been that way for 60+ yrs.
You can tell which "camp" Mandela belonged to by looking at the people who praised his 'holy' name after his death. Sickening.
@@annehedonia156 From Canada I get my info from banned videos, PDF, etc, and never get any recent hand, detailed information. If I reference anything negative about the false narratives, my comments are instantly censored. Only by very obliquely referring to a topic can the information be at hinted. Also "bad" words flagged as such can be avoided by using dictionary definitions of very simplistic words often 10 to 20 more of them to say the same thing without being flagged on the given comment. Longer remarks contain more words subject to being flagged as "bad." Thereby, shorter comments are less likely to be flagged. Trouble is that if a concept needs persuasive rhetoric, the entire idea has to be broken into multiple short remarks instead of being in one larger coherent remark. If simplistic diction of children of four years old can be censored, then we are much closer to apocalyptic times then I imagine.
Other than censoring comments, the sort by "top comments" facility is used by the Google AI to bury an emotions and feelings negative impact thoughtful eye opening YT remark or remarks, and that is how my group of 5 to 8 remarks here are not easy to read in a coherent sequential manner. To circumvent this, one has to view sorted by date time and then manually look for them.
I have started using YT comment search web browser plug-in. It can tell me very quickly if extremely recently "something" has been censored or hidden from view of other people by it not turning up in such search results processed supposedly elsewhere at very high speed.
Even if you were to mention the people to whom you are referring, you could run the risk of censorship also.
There are web site apps now for deliberately obscuring information from the AI such as backwards text, font changes to backward fonts, and various other things. But, when trying this information hiding, I have found that the comments are censored even more quickly so that the spread of information of great usefulness is Google AI circumvented by treating everything unknown to it as suspicious and apt to be best censored. Font changes are not a unique mapping of one to one and onto (mathematically) so that reversing the mapping of a web link can have that link use upper and lower case lettering that does not match the exact spelling of the linked document on the target web site so that a 404 not found web error can result, then the reader is left thinking that they would have to guess what the original intended spelling really is.
In my writing of prose, I have tried to improve my grammar by NOT having sentences or phrases ending with a preposition.
dictionary definition of "dangling preposition."
A dangling preposition (also called a hanging preposition or stranded preposition) refers to a preposition whose object occurs earlier in the sentence, or else does not have an object in the sentence at all.
Eg., Instead of 'You can tell which "camp" Mandela belonged to by looking...'
one can use
'You can tell to which "camp" Mandela belonged by looking...'
The thing that leftists dislike is competency hierarchies, one of which can be the use of better formed grammar and sentence structure than lesser competent people who could be paid less, hold lower levels of responsibility, or be never employed in the first place that could account for why it is the employment rate of some less competent people is not as full compared with their enemies, the envied competent people.
Bernie has 3 houses, im told...
Yeah, clever guy.
I sincerely respect this gentleman. Isn’t this exactly how conversations in America should look? I didn’t expect to want to watch this all the way through but I watched it all the way through to the very end of the last A︅d︅. Excellent exchange. Great stuff. I’ll be looking for him in the future. Thank you for having him on. New subscriber today.
I used to call myself a liberal for years. I believed and would have voted for the same things he did for the exact same reasons. I am now considered a conservative. Disinformation is flooding the left and the right.
@@lucasbrinkmann7311 all I know is I always thought I had critical thinking skills and pretty darn good logic. But I thought I was the Democrat all my life until I don't know somewhere in around the middle of Obama guess I found out I was no Democrat
Conservatives have always and will always be the enemy of the poor and middle class. Be careful who you bunk with. it is not you they care about. It is only themselves. Never, under any circumstances whatsoever, vote republican unless you are a masochist.
@@rossjames7871 are you poor or middle-class? Who has to be that
@@deadmanswife3625 We are very comfortable thank you. just so happens I have a non religious fault. I care about others and want them to not be wanting as well.
@@rossjames7871 as you know they have their Free Will and they can get the life they want if they want how bad do they want it
I use to love cities when I was a child. That was back in the 50s and 60s. It was so different then now. I do not like cities at all. I live in a small rural area.
Drug use increased mental illness. Homelessness also increased after the mental institutions opened their doors and let mentally ill people out in the 1970s and ‘80s.
It's black-and-white nowadays
Should Americans really be surprised that when cities like Portland, Seattle, Philadelphia, and San Francisco are run more and more like Soviet cities, look more and more like Soviet cities?
We even have the neighborhood informants who will silence you if you don’t go along with the Leftist narrative here. You can’t fly an American flag without getting attacked. You can’t express your opinion without fear of retribution. You have to go through woke training called “diversity training” at companies.
"We should provide safe and clean shelter for everyone"
The problem is it's safe and clean, up until you put the people in it.
Underrated comment.
I am a big advocate for “drug court” which is helping so many. One of my best friends is a public defender and a “drug court” representative. I also have a personal friend that was an addict and went through drug court and is now sober and doing really well.
And how much of his life did he sacrifice? How much suffering did he cost others? Your 'personal friend' is a jackass who cost society a great deal for doing something he never should have done.
@@yankee2666 that is mostly true, but do you have no family members or very close with any sort of addiction? be it gambling, alcohol, drugs... nothing? do you not know of anybody who was prescribed drugs by their doctors without being given information on their habit-forming potential? just to show up one day, and, without warning, weening, or preparation in the form of rehabilitation, are told they will not be getting their medication anymore? the unanticipated sickness could drive almost anybody to search for something to alleviate the pain; clear thought is not a symptom of kicking drugs and many are driven to behavior theyd view as utterly shocking otherwise. at least 15% of opiate addicts fit into this category. if they achieve lasting sobriety, even after 10 years of failed attempts, they would be in the vast minority (around 3% of drug addicts achieve lasting sobriety, and my guess is that
Nope, your wrong. Drug court only is for someone who can eat and pay free rent. U cannot work any schedule at all. And u cannot graduate until your gainfully employed. Totally horrible. I did rehab and a ankle bracelet instead. And it was for living out of my truck temporarily. Then they take your vehicle, U lose your job and everything you own in it. I had thousands in music gear. Thrown out, left homeless again, this time no car, and so I spent 2 years sueing for ptsd that it caused, living in parking lots and only got 24 grand settlement, and I worked part time and couldn't even save for a security deposit for months. Fuck alcohol court. You have to be somewhere almost daily for over A YEAR! NO one will hire around this bs schedule. Better to do a month in jail, get out and get back on your feet. The real homeless issue is meth. I never did it, but almost 99% of the guys on the streets were on it and couldn't work if they wanted to. But drug court, no way. They need Jail or in patient forced rehab, they won't let you out until your employed and set up housing. Tweakers don't want that .
I have a personal friend who was a drug addict and went through a little bit of life and is now not a drug addict and wasted none of my tax money when the light bulb is ready to change it only takes one person to change it
For I and brothers and sisters in Christ are not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth praise God praying for everyone everyday God bless you all
One aspect of the homelessness problem in California is that many people come to Hollywood in particular to try to get into movies or get famous, which is by definition a gig economy, and is crazy hard to get into. Drug addiction and the music scene go hand in hand,so a lot of the musicians on the street are drug addicted,and facing a super tough job market, combined with unreal real estate costs. You fall through the cracks in a situation like that.
About ten years ago I had a friend in the Los Angeles area that worked with the homeless.
She told me that many had migrated out to California over the course of a decade or so.. their reasoning was that California offered much more robust government benefits.. welfare, medical/dental, food stamps and housing. Which to me makes sense considering the left loves to bolster their voting base by frivolously giving handouts.
I am not doubting that many of the unfortunate people you mention had hopes and aspirations of making it big as a star, because I pick up on that aspect as well.
Shop lifting is going to close the stores and Amazon will soar in sales.
Maybe bezos is paying people to rob the stores....
Sounds like the economy under that wierd mustach guy
The war on small business continues
@@fondrees Hitler's administration decreed an October 1937 policy that “dissolved all corporations with a capital under $40,000 and forbade the establishment of new ones with a capital less than $200,000,” which swiftly effected the collapse of one fifth of all small corporations.
-The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960, p. 262
They live
That is thanks to the Democratic Regime.
One thing to keep in mind is that the role of government is not compassion, it is to protect and uphold the constitution and to protect the God given rights of the individual....
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."
This MUST be forefront when considering ANY policy or position. This is what has been lost and MUST be regained, and should frame any conversation or "arm-linking"
The left thinks the government is supposed to take care of the people who live there, tho. How can we govern a country together when the major two sides have such diametric beliefs about governance?
This was a very interesting conversation. I do agree that mental health treatment in this country needs tons of work. I like the “carrot and stick” notion. Also personal responsibility has to be considered. Lots of work to be done.. but not impossible.
We were promised parity. As in, do you use carrot and stick to treat diabetes? How about heart disease? C.O.P.D? Being mentally ill means that I have an illness, like my mother like my niece. We are not villains, not criminals. Neither are we all drunks, drug addicts or bums. Best wishes.
@@davidhelton7810 My brother was mentally ill and lived out of his van for years. He was paranoid and refused help from family. He should have been hospitalized but he had to agree to it; the law prevented us from action on his behalf. He died in 2013 and we miss the brother he was before the car accident that injured his brain.
@@lindawolz5540 😪
All forms of law and order are acts of compassion including the death sentence.removing people who are mentally unstable due to addiction or mental illness and putting them in jail along with treatment is not only an act of compassion for the person committing the crime, it’s an act of compassion for the public, the mother who wants to walk through the park with her children without being exposed to a person dropping a deuce or shooting heroin in front of her children should be able to. Justice is compassion.
Mmm, that's a little optimistic. You familiar with the prison industrial complex? Or for profit prisons? I see where your coming from but wouldn't say "all"
@@nateb4543 I think he means ideally. He's saying the type of system & its existence are correct. All endeavors involving humans, which is all endeavors, will be plagued by problems, which will need to be addressed. Unfortunately, these days, instead of simply fixing the issues, the squeakiest wheels are trying to make a name for themselves by attempting to tear down the entire system and replacing it. Literally ZERO of the well-known activists is really trying to fix anything. All they care about is being well-known for "caring." I appreciate people like Schellenberger for looking for actual solutions.
Tolerance is weakness and irresponsibility.
We should support a very close look at every facet of this, and where the money is going
Many of my contractor friends refuse work in SF unless the client has secured parking because they're in no mood to loose 1000's of dollars of tools and equipment.
One of your BEST interviews!!! Thank you so much!
Allie, no matter what we do we cannot save the country from Venezuela style socialism - unless the youth leads the movement. It does no good to hand freedom over to the next generation if they don’t value it and simply vote socialists in. It is very encouraging to see someone young and articulate like you carrying the torch!
Excellent interview! Thank you Allie!
I’m pretty much a rock ribbed conservative but man this guy is spot-on! When he said housing should be _earned,_ I bout fell out of my chair. Where are the rest of these common sense liberals??
Common sense liberals are pretty much extinct. Most liberals today are so far left they think everyone is entitled to things that should be earned.
We are overcomers in the Lord Jesus Christ.🙏
Wow! This was amazing. This is a front and center issue here in Austin TX
What is going on there in Austin?
@@DandinXY the citizens are tired of the homeless issues. The city wants to provide shelter but mot help with addiction and health issues. Much money being spent with poor results.
Awesome to hear Thomas Sowell !!!
Admire someone who can admit they were wrong and recognize truth reason and facts....
Excellent interview & information. Thank you Michael Shellenberger. Keep up the great videos Allie!!!
Giving the drug addicts clean needles and a place to do the drugs and not arresting them is just like giving a dangerous criminal a gun with bullets and telling him where to go to commit the crime because they are defunding the police.
Hi Allie, we love you but would have gotten more out of this great conversation if you spent more time asking questions of the guest that would allow us to gain insight into what he has to offer instead of your eloquently sharing your thoughts/rants for long stretches of time and then asking not so open-ended questions. Maybe asking questions about certain interesting points from his books would have worked well? Peter Robinson at the Hoover Institution does this beautifully, for example. Thank you for your show, and much love! ❤️
Thank you again for your honesty
Hi Allie, how are you? You have to interview professor and philosopher Olavo de Carvalho. He is a former brazilian Communist, and has studied the subject for over 50 years. He is one of the world's leading experts on Progressivism, Socialism and Communism. He single-handedly caused an earthquake in Politics in Brazil. He lives in Virginia, United States
I'd love to hear him.
I beg to differ on the recall. Something fishy happened in that election.
Clarification, please: Do you think the election was corrupt? Was mail-in balloting a factor used to cheat?
Come on Allie, just say it once..."Lets go Brandon!!!"😀
What is Brandon anyway?
@@davidboehmer4359 he is the Race Car driver who was being interviewed after he won his race when the crowd in the stands started saying "F*** Joe Biden!" So the News reporter tried to say the crowd was chanting "Let's go Brandon!" Smh
@@daryleheard9011 thank you for explaining that. I have been wondering who the heck Brandon is for weeks now.
@@kevinsmith3274 😂 now you know 👍🏾
@@kevinsmith3274 Yes, some things need to be explained, especially when you hear them over and over in the media. Thanks.
Where I live the first two offenses you go to jail, the third you have a choice of going to prison or getting drug rehab, and being tested monthly, this has kept many clean and are getting the right help.
First time listening to you... glad to discover your broadcast. Go for it..! Was in CA a year ago... even gettig bad then. Got in, got business done, and got out fast.
It's a shame that this video doesn't have 200 million views.
Liked your discussion today. I am glad you guys are waking up. No disrespect intended. This session needs to be shared.
The people who live in these cities get the government they deserve. They have voted for this.
Good conversation. He is right on the money.
I'm impressed. This is yet another of your video presentations I've seen and I'm very impressed with the format, the presentation, and your questions are so well worded and you carefully examine the topics with a professional and yet easy to follow methodology. I really appreciate this channel now, thank you!
~JSV
Love this! HIs book on energy and the earth is eye-opening. Excellent!
awesome guest! Thank you!
Good for you In and Out!
Excellent show!!
I'd like to be back in San Diego where I could support In and Out nearly everyday! Word for today? Tomorrow? Forever? Noncompliance
IN & OUT 🍔 🍟 HERE I COME!
Ooh babe
That's what she said....
This is one of your best episodes
Good episode.
Perhaps because God said, "Woe (or cursed be) the nations that forget about Me."
He’s not conservative but we conservatives can still respect him and we have a lot of common ground.
This was a great and important episode! Thanks Allie and Michael!
Hiiii I actually order hid book Wow now I understand what is going on in San Francisco which I live. I didn't understand how there are huge group of people shooting up smoking meth Crack I mean u name it they are doing it in the open. Me and my husband was waiting on the red light on Hyde and Golden gate and I stared to stairs at the group they got soo upset they stared to though water bottle at my car and food cause they don't want to be stair at . I was ready to get out and fight.. your book explains why there are drug dealers in the open while the police stay in there car and watch hopelessly cause of the District attorney say they are Victim the drug dealer and the people I was blow away I keep listing to your book cause of the shock
I know a homeless guy - we have had many conversations. By his own admission he has been an alcoholic for 30+ years, and homeless for 7. He will not go to a shelter because they don't allow alcohol. He won't take his anti-depression drugs because you can't mix them with alcohol. He will not change unless his is forced to. He doesn't steal (as far as I know) - he finances his alcohol with his Social Security money - about $1,000/month, which in California is not enough for an apartment.
They started calling "Bums" homeless, however that has changed and I know good people who have become homeless because everything has become so expensive.
Not hard to become homeless if you pay rent. Rents are expensive everywhere. You don't have to be on drugs or alcoholic. Or without a job.
Yes my rent was raised five times in under three years. Not small amounts either. My income did not go up.
When me and my children became homeless cause of domictic violence I had to go through the process like I had to a hotel a nasty one provided by an agency call Compase who gave me a voucher then I when to a women and child shelters then I had to get my self together with consulting for me and my children. During that time I applied for housing I was in my early 20 then I had to go to a transiting housing for 5 year then at 31 is when I got my own place low income place which am still living in. Now u can get a place with out the work blows my mind
Where is the cost of the treatment for drug addiction going to come from? The tax payer is to pay for their continual relapse throughout the years? This is not sustainable. Sadly if you want to take drugs, you have to accept the consequences including mental illness and death.
Except that homelessness makes everyone unsafe. I have lived in San Francisco for 12 years and it is no longer safe for anyone in some parts of the city. It is driving businesses away. There has to be a common sense way to deal with this problem. Maybe we could cut the Pentagon budget by 20 percent.
@Richard A the only threat that China poses to the US is economic. But hell, let's feed that hungry beast. I mean, that's what it's all about; right?
What needs to happen is a tightening of the legal financial loopholes all the insanely rich elites get!! *TAX THE RICH!!* Let them help pay for once! It's always been the hardworking middle class that propel the rich and lift the poor thru _OUR_ hard earned money going to taxes. If the rich would be taxed heavily for 10 years it would make a massive improvement And wouldn't even put a dent in their wealth. It's a rigged system that suppresses the hell outta the hard workers here in America. Do you think the rich are affected by these mandates? I think not.
Many people have looked at the way we tax and concluded that 40-50% of the taxes collected come from the rich 1%, which if true, means they already pay their fair share. But there are loopholes that should be closed. I read that money managers are taxed at corporate gain rates instead of regular income rates even though the 1-2% they make from money they invest for other people is really just ordinary income. Totally unfair. Billions is spent by cities on the mentally ill, homeless and drug addicted. Lots of it is obviously being wasted.
@@StellaRaeVon start with Nancy Pelosi
I live in an area where there has always been a lot if homeless. It's sad.
Loving rectitude for one another and for ones self is the only way to change San Francisco.. Especially the latter. People can change if they want to but some just dont..
You can offer compassion to a homeless person but they have to be willing to accept it.
And from my experience some wont.. they are willing wandering nomads..
Good conversation and informative.
Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures and that he was buried and that he rose again the third day praying for everyone everyday God bless you all...
Amen!
Amen ❤️
I worked for a teen shelter in the 80s. We had a structure where the boys had to get a job and save half their money for the future. There was an 11 pm curfew and not too many other rules but they had structure. If they didn't save or used drugs, they had to leave . ( they could go back to covenant house) Otherwise, we would have ended up with a house full of unemployed drug users that we couldn't help
That a closer look into supposed victims that are victimizing weaker people and all people around them. A CLOSER LOOK!!!!
And the aforementioned is derived from our belief in the fact of our creator and a power that supercedes humankind.
Two words: Austin, Texas, a liberal city that is NOT “dying,” and which is in fact, thriving.
And why is that?
Why should the city only be for the rich and homeless? It should be for everyone like it used to be. Now people don't even want to go visit. Friends that were last there said it was depressing. There should be an institution away from downtown where they conduct rehab and take homeless in that can join work/educational programs. FYI I am an Independent.
Thanks for finally speaking out about this. There are many who agree with you, and they have not come to it by a change of heart. They became silent when they were told they were wrong over and over by media and political personalities who consider themselves to be of "Superior Intelects". When we think someone is smarter because they are rich or they are a college professor, we deceive ourselves.
I would rather be lost in the Country than found in the city.
In the U.K. the court has a list of options like pick-and-mix. This can include drug/alcohol treatment orders, course like ‘Enhanced Thinking Skills’ and others, probation, suspended prison sentences, community service, hospital orders.
People on drug orders appear before the judge briefly every month with a report on how they’re doing.
Two breaches of probation requirements and you’re back before the court with an option of resentencing.
You can earn housing through substance abuse services. If you do well you can move into halfway housing and eventually get a one bedroom housing association flat. A friend of mines ex-boyfriend who was a homeless junkie for years has done that. It took him about 2 years of working with substance abuse services and keeping up his room in the halfway house. Paying his bills, keeping clean etc etc. Now he has a flat and is back at work.
I think that we should be telling people what businesses are in support of conservative values and support programs and political campaigns we support so that we can support them.
Most businesses.....I have no idea where they are donating to and what they are supporting.
Apparently, 2nd place is Seattle. "Seattle is Dying" is another video on this subject.
I must tell you. I actually read carefully the Quest for Cosmic Justice. Thomas says it is really based on envy.
Do you mean Thomas Sowell?
Proverbs 27:4 "Jealousy is more dangerous and cruel than anger" let that sink in
He’s spot on.
I think In n Out Burgers would be welcome in El Salvador, especially if they buy their products locally and hire locally.
And you can pay with crypto.
Wokeism is absolutely a new religion. It has all the hallmarks.
More like a CULT when you really think about it. It's almost CREEPY.
A cult!
Allie is great!
The term "progressive" is misnomer. An English linguistic teacher suggest that these left-wing socialist group should be called "degressive" group or "descend-gressive" clan.
Advocating is a euphemism for "Enabling."
Just bought the book.
It is damn near cheating to use Thomas Sowell as a reference when arguing against radical progressives.
😁yes... Lol... he's so great
He's wrong to say, "You can do what you want in the privacy of your own home. I don't care. It's none of my business." There are CHILDREN in those homes, Dude.
Depends on what it is, there certainly must be wide latitude in how one raises their own children. CPS has wildly overstepped at times as well.
Word.
Hero!....my numbers may be off....but 350m for 8k homeless in SF....70% of that money.goes to "administrative" work....this is very personal to me as I have a brother who is SF homeless....I tried to get him a hotel room but of course he has no ID.....I could go on....but!....I sincerely believe I can do a better job at curing the homeless issue in SF tomorrow with zero experience...
Michael... I like the idea of using the term rebooting our civilization. Let's start using that as
"Let's Reboot America!"
That can be the title of your next book, huh?
Love the Interview
Here's a reminder for everyone... at least in California...
Whenever a ballot initiative was initiated by people signing a petition, the legislators aren't allowed to touch that law. We the people will have to start another petition to undo that Prop 47 law. Let's do that now!
I think people have had enough of partisan politics, and I find that I agree with many democrats, republicans and libertarians, and couldn’t care less which party a person previously aligned with, if they are on the side of freedom. I am from Seattle, my parents are republicans, I lived and taught as a professor in DC and NYC, and had to explain to my east coast friends, the difference between “leftists” who are considered democrats on the west coast, and east coast democrats, who are considered “independents” west of the Rockies. In Seattle, I worked for 3 years among the homeless population, and it is 98% addiction and mental illness, I lived it every single day. No one wants to hear this, and I don’t understand why. It is the truth, and they can actually be helped. Many of them. I despise the Seattle City Council, and I saw the city change, believe it or not, in the 1980s when Californians started moving up. They were deeply resented, because they were so entitled. They built housing developments where we had forests and parks. It was gross. I have also lived all over Europe, during the pandemic, and Holland, which has a massive problem with integrating the Islamic immigrant population, so they have some very serious problems. Aayan Hirsi Ali can speak to this. They tend to roll their eyes a bit about drug users, in general, so drug use isn’t exactly esteemed. This was my experience.
Because they can't make as much money from solving the issue. This is about taking tax payers cash and putting it into others pockets. I live in the UK and this crap is also rampant there
Thank the Lord for someone who uses his God-given mental powers to the benefit of his fellow man...❤
He should talk to James Lindsey about the ideology underneath this crap
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people." - John Adams
It's not loving and compassionate to contribute to people's drug and alcohol use.
Or greed
Great stuff, thanks.