@AngelenoInsight Poor financial management. No reason for this much overtime. We could have more sheriffs and spend less money if they would staff appropriately.
America’s ruling class has performed another miracle.
They took the most basic truths in human civilization ... crime needs punishment, borders need enforcement, schools should teach, welfare should be temporary, families matter, merit matters, and taxpayers should not be looted by professional parasites ... and somehow rebranded all of that as “extremism.”
Incredible work, really.
Apparently, a “compassionate” society is one where the violent repeat offender gets another chance, the victim gets a candlelight vigil, the taxpayer gets the bill, the schoolkid gets passed along illiterate, the fraudster gets a grant, the NGO gets another contract, the illegal alien gets services, and the working American gets told to shut up and be more inclusive.
What a beautiful system.
Soft justice did not stay in the courtroom. It metastasized. It became soft borders, soft schools, soft parenting, soft welfare, soft standards, soft men, and soft bureaucrats explaining why every obvious solution is “too harsh.”
Lock up predators? Cruel.
Deport illegals? Hateful.
End generational welfare? Lacking empathy.
Punish fraud? Complicated.
Restore merit? Problematic.
Teach kids to read? Probably colonialism by Tuesday.
A serious country protects the innocent from the guilty. A decaying country protects the guilty from consequences and makes the innocent finance the experiment.
That’s America’s real crisis.
Not poverty. Not “root causes.” Not another fake expert panel.
Consequences.
We stopped imposing them on the people destroying the country, so now the country imposes them on everyone else.
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Just two months ago Adam Schiff proudly endorsed his longtime friend Eric Swalwell for Governor of California.
Schiff praised Swalwell's character and said that Swalwell wasn't "fundamentally indecent" like Trump.
These two sleazeballs have been lying together for over a decade. There is no chance that Schiff didn't know what Swalwell was doing.
@vrexec Mortgage interest is deductible. Most people don’t need a lawyer. No tax on the appreciation. More importantly most people who buy stay more than 5 years. During that time rents are going up every year. Owning is better than renting for long time periods.
It is Insane that Los Angeles County is now forcing landlords to wait 2 months before enforcing their right to collect rents. What other industry is forced to wait? This is a complete overreach by the County.
@orrdavid You are wrong about this. Many are fine investors but the incentives favor asset growth over investment performance. Putting money to work and raising the next fund was the priority.