Texas Governor Greg Abbott Solves World’s Problems
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is just really tired of living in Austin, a location he views as a pit stop on the way to the White House.
He wakes up every day with a complaint about Austin. Right now, he’s concerned about homeless people in Austin. He appears to believe that homelessness exists only in Austin. Thank goodness he has a solution.
And Texas does have the leadership to do this?
Austin has a Democratic mayor, which is what causes homelessness.
Thanks to Deb for the heads up.
2. Open large shelters that can accommodate > 200 people.
Because nothing says permanent solution and — you know, “we give a damn” — like warehousing people.
1Greg, that costs money. Wanna spend some? Didn’t think so.
2Funny how Abbott didn’t respond to thousands of Houstonians when about 100 homeless were moved under the US 59 bridge downtown starting in 2016. The area under the bridge is state land, and the police could not enforce the law because the state (under Abbott) refused to even acknowledge their presence. Two years, five murders and hundreds of crimes later, the state, county, and city cooperated with the homeless coalition to get these people off the street.
3What a Bootstrap Warrior. It’s kind of amazing he hasn’t crashed the state right into the ground yet. The problem is far more complex than that. Especially since poor people are the economic ballasts for the filthy rich. That’s the problem. Eliminate the filthy rich, and we make tremendous progress in the elimination of abject poverty. Tax them until we’re equal.
4Paul ADK, you win!
Coincidentally was just reading an article in which some Nostradumbass declared that the latest round of tax cuts enacted by the Republicons have led to an economic slow down. Is there another word for d’oh?
1981 to 1989. 8 years of ‘trickle down’ 4 decades ago. That’s the Republicon plan. Rinse, repeat, crash the economy. Wait for a Democrat to fix it and do it again. Yet some voters still believe them. Go figure.
5They’re big on unfunded mandates.
6Paul ADK – you are on the right track! In Houston, the Freedmans Town area near Allen Pkwy was always where the black folk who worked for the rich folk down the way in River Oaks lived. The original population has been gentrifornicated to another area – who knows where, and now the RO folk have to either have more live in or pay more. I don’t know how they’ll manage
7Is he noticing homelessness only now? What has he done to prevent it?
These conservatives are “sharp as a marble.”
8“Man who lives in public-funded housing complains about homeless people”
9I am more and more concerned that this country is making the same heartless, gutless mistaken as Old England did with the “workhouses” where the poor went to die. Not kidding. Most especially when it came to children. Frankly, the only thing these workhouses were infamous for was the collection of cemeteries, all without headstones, that grew wherever there was a patch of ground. These nameless spots were usually dominated numerically by the children who were worked like plow horses, fed very little nourishing food, and exposed to every bacteria possible, hence revving up their permanent departure. Yes. What I just said is depressing. And infuriating.
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