The Homeless Crisis…

Yet another article on homelessness (May 18, 2022) guilting the taxpayer into throwing more money into homeless programs that won’t fix the root problem which is drug dependency. It’s time to accept that California is a narco state, a drug mecca that draws the fringe population from other states. They fail to survive here, become drug dependent on some street drug (marijuana included) and join the growing homeless population. How many are from out of state? If they have zero-to-little work history in California, they haven’t paid into our state services and aren’t entitled to them. Kick them back to their resident state.

Throwing money into mental health or drug addiction services is also useless as long as California continues to sanction the business of growing and selling a smoked street drug that is prone to dependency and abuse (marijuana). The state doesn’t get to cherry-pick which street drug to embrace as a party drug and which to deem as “bad and treatable”. I’m not throwing tax money into a revolving door of addiction and treatment.

Sadly, the homeless crisis has spawned a niche business of tax-exempt “advocacy” organizations, all grabbing a piece of the funding pie to pay their executives exorbitant salaries without any tangible metrics of success. Ms. Tomiquia Moss, founder of All Home (from the article), earned a total compensation (as a matter of public record for a charity) of over $380,000 for tax year 2020 (www.influencewatch.org, search “Tides Center”; scroll to 2020 tax form 990). The parent company, Tides Center, serves to “incubate” an enormous number of organizations, the most infamous being the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation which is now under scrutiny for misuse of charitable funds.

Honestly, I think many of these organizations in California are running some sort of Ponzi scheme.

–Monica Shieman, Castro Valley