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Source: The Guardian
President says governors of New York and California should politely ask him for help in latest broadside
Lois Beckett in Oakland
@loisbeckett
Sat 28 Dec 2019 17.45 GMT
Last modified on Sat 28 Dec 2019 18.26 GMT
Donald Trump has continued to use Americas homelessness crisis to attack his political opponents in California and New York, tweeting on Saturday that homelessness should be easy to handle and that the governors of the two liberal states should ask him for help.
Workers and activists on the front lines of the crisis have repeatedly said that Trumps tough talk on homelessness is concerning, and that some of his proposed policies will only make the situation worse.
As the number of homeless people has increased sharply in cities across California, some local politicians have already tried to try to penalize people for being homeless, rather than addressing root causes of the crisis, including unaffordable rents and evictions pushing people on to the streets.
Meanwhile, Trump has continued to fuel anxiety by repeatedly suggesting he might try to implement some kind of police crackdown in California to clear the streets of encampments.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/28/trump-homelessness-democrats-new-york-california
underpants
(182,988 posts)I'll go out on a limb here and guess....the government builds a ton of housing and then pay Trump Inc. to manage it OR pays Trump Inc licensing fees and all the homeless can live in those.
SCantiGOP
(13,875 posts)Trump also said that health care was easy, building a wall was easy, etc etc
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Sad to say,that idiot does not have a clue! Talk is cheap,actions take more than cheap talk.
Mopar151
(10,006 posts)He wants California to be "All cleaned up and law abiding!" - like Poland, in 1939,
Cartoonist
(7,323 posts)You're the president. This is your country. You're in charge. You fix it.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Its a simple and obvious fix in his detestable half rotten mind.
Ugh!
Maybe he can kill two birds with one stone and separate homeless families just like he does at the border. More prisons that way. Very lucrative.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)join the ranks of the homeless!