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[h=1]Silicon Valley property featuring burned home selling for $800G[/h]

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No wonder there is an influx of ex-Californians coming to Texas
 
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[ Liberal Mecca California is literally one big pile of shit. ]

[h=1]California highway workers face 'buckets of human feces,' needles as homeless crisis worsens[/h]
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By Travis Fedschun | Fox News






[h=4]Workers seek protection while cleaning homeless camps[/h] California highway maintenance workers express safety concerns dealing with homeless cleanup.




As California's homeless population skyrockets, the cost of cleaning up the state's numerous shanty towns is also hitting record highs -- and the price tag is likely to keep rising as workers tasked with tossing the vagrants' syringes, feces and buckets of urine fight for safer conditions.
The Golden State's homeless population of more than 130,000 people is now about 25 percent of the nationwide total, and cleaning up after the surging group is getting costly -- topping $10 million in 2016-17. But the human cost is getting equally untenable, a workers' advocate says.









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In an official grievance filed last week, the union representing California's maintenance workers accused the state of subjecting its members to hazardous conditions without proper training or equipment.


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California highway maintenance workers are expressing safety concerns dealing with cleaning up homeless encampments. (KTVU)


"It is the Union's contention that Caltrans is not ensuring that our members are being provided the appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), necessary training, necessary vaccinations and proper compensation for the dangerous hazmat duties they are performing when cleaning up homeless encampments on State Caltrans property," International Union of Operating Engineers director Steve Crouch said in the complaint.
Crouch told KTVU on Monday that maintenance crews often have to work in areas where the ground is muddy, slippery and ridden with debris that can include objects that are exceedingly sharp. Other items are simply dangerous to touch, such as potentially toxic or biologically unsafe materials.
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Workers come across needles, buckets full of feces and other debris while cleaning up encampments. (KTVU)


"Feces and urine and feminine products and all kinds of things on the ground; needles, syringes, you know they use buckets, five-gallon buckets for toilets and it gets really disgusting," he said.
Besides the prospect of touching dangerous material, workers are also confronted with the open hostility from the "residents" of the encampments they are trying to clear.
"Sometime they have pit bulls in there. They'll, you know, let the dogs loose to chase the Caltrans workers out," Crouch said. "Sometimes they'll throw rocks at the Caltrans workers."
HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS INCREASINGLY AFFECTING CALIFORNIA TRAIN TRAFFIC
In an interview with the Sacramento Bee, one Caltrans worker who asked not to be named due to fear of retribution said he's been involved in six cleanups so far this year but only been given a pair of gloves as protection.
“I’ve been exposed to blood, needles, women’s feminine products… five-gallon buckets of human feces,” he told The Bee.
"I’ve been exposed to blood, needles, women’s feminine products… five-gallon buckets of human feces."
- Caltrans maintenance worker​
The department told KTVU in a statement that, "Safety is a top priority for Caltrans and we will carefully review the grievance."
The surge of homelessness in the Golden State is also costing the state tens of millions of taxpayer dollars. Caltrans said in its Mile Marker magazine the department has spent about $29.2 million in cleaning up encampments since fiscal year 2012-13.
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A large homeless encampment along the Santa Ana River Trail in Anaheim. (Reuters)


In the past year alone, Caltrans estimated the cleanup costs in 2016-17 topped $10 million, a 34 percent increase over the previous year across all 12 regional districts. Maintenance crews encountered about 7,000 homeless camps on rights of way of the state's 254 highways.
California's homeless population ticked up by 13.7 percent to 134,278 people in the past year, about 25 percent of the national total, according to a U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development report.
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"Homelessness is a problem throughout the country, but is more visible in California where HUD reported 68.2 percent of the homeless population lives in unsheltered locations such as streets and parks," Caltrans said in its report. "That is the highest percentage in the country."
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A typical camp cleanup takes days to complete, according to the agency, with a notification first posted at the site at least 72 hours before crews arrive.
Crouch said Monday he hopes his grievance causes the department to focus on keeping the transportation system moving.
"Their job is to maintain the highways and freeways, you know, that's filling the potholes, that's doing the striping of the lines, that's doing the guardrails alone the edge, that's trimming the trees and shrubs and bushes along the highway," he said. "Their job is not to clean up homeless encampments."
 

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What a fucking shit hole :):)

 
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[ Liberalism destroys everything in it's wake. It's no wonder that people are fleeing that liberal infested shit-hole ]

Bay Area exodus? Nearly 50 percent of Californians say they want to move out soon, poll finds

By Greg Norman | Fox News





Is high cost of living forcing a Bay Area exodus?

Report shows that nearly half of Bay Area voters are ready to leave in the next few years.




A whopping 46 percent of California Bay Area residents fed up with the region’s high cost of living and soaring home prices are planning to pack their bags and move out in the next few years, a poll has found.
The poll, conducted by the Bay Area Council, which describes itself as a business-sponsored, public policy advocacy organization, also found that homelessness and heavy traffic are among the things that most irk residents who live there.






“This is the trend we’ve been observing. Two years ago, it was 34 percent and last year it was 40,” the group’s president, Jim Wunderman, told KTVU about the increasing amount of those polled indicating that they want to get out.


The majority of the 1,000 polled said they have lived in the region for more than 20 years and increasingly believe that life in the Bay Area is heading in the wrong direction, despite mixed feelings about its economy.
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Those who responded to the poll say homelessness, shown here in San Francisco, is one of the main problems facing the Bay Area today, although they did not cite it as a major reason for them wanting to move out (KTVU)


Forty-five percent of those who say they are planning to leave cited cost of living as the driving factor, while 27 percent said housing and rent costs are becoming too much to bear.
CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS FED UP OVER HOME COSTS HEAD FOR THESE US DESTINATIONS
Sixteen percent of that group said they plan to move somewhere else in California, while Texas, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona topped the most sought-after states outside of California for relocation.
“On the downside of it is all the people who need to be here to provide all the services are being priced out,” Wunderman said to KTVU. “We’re seeing teachers, government workers, firefighters, police officers actually not able to live in the communities.”
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The skyline of Oakland, Calif. as seen in this Reuters file photo. The majority of the 1,000 polled by the Bay Area Council, said they have lived in the region for more than 20 years and increasingly believe that life is heading in the wrong direction. (REUTERS/Stephen Lam)


Ron and Elizabeth Haines, who have lived in the city of Pleasanton, say they are moving to Idaho this summer and are among the residents who believe living in the Bay Area is getting too expensive.
“We are excited,” Elizabeth Haines told the station. “I have tons of friends and family here. It’s going to be hard, but I have a feeling we’re going to have lots of visitors.”
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Other residents who spoke to local media lamented home prices.
"You kill yourself trying to pay for the housing and then you leave because it's just ridiculous, right? So I mean, it sounds about right," Ben Imadal of San Francisco told KGO-TV.
Jack Hickox, also of San Francisco, said “almost all of my daughter's friends and their parents have left.
"We're making it work for now. Cross my fingers, but it's hard," he told the station.


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New California Law Limits How Much Water People Can Use – Including Monitoring Toilet Flushes, Showers

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by Cristina Laila June 4, 2018 30 Comments


California Governor Jerry Brown signed a new law that would severely restrict the amount of water people can use inside of their homes.

The government of California will now be monitoring people’s toilet flushes, showers and laundry use.


Under the new water use limits, each person will barely have enough ‘daily water allowance’ to do one load of laundry and take an 8 minute shower.

This also covers outdoor use so no watering your lawns or gardens, peasants.
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CBS Sacramento
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There will soon be more focus on flushes and scrutiny over showers with a new law signed in by the governor.

California is now the first state in the nation to enact tough new water-efficiency standards. The controversial rules limit how many gallons a person can use inside their home per day.

“So that everyone in California is at least integrating efficiency into our preparations for climate change,” said Felicia Marcus, Chair of the State Water Resources Control Board.

So, what are the new rules?

In 2022, the new indoor water standard will be 55 gallons per person, per day. by 2030, it will fall to 50 gallons.

Just how many gallons do household chores take?

An 8-minute shower uses about 17 gallons of water, a load of laundry up to 40, and a bathtub can hold 80 to 100 gallons of water.

Greg Bundesen with the Sacramento Suburban Water District says they already assist customers.

“We offer toilet rebates, we offer complementary showerheads, we offer complementary faucets,” he said.

The new laws also require water districts to perform stress tests of their water supply and curb loss due to leaks.

“Some people may not be aware that you’re going to use a lot more water in a bath and you wouldn’t shower and it’s our job to make sure they’re informed,” Bundesen said.

Water districts who don’t comply face fines up to $10,000 a day.

The ultimate goal is to make conservation a way of life in California. Outdoor water use is also covered by the new laws.

California is sliding into the abyss of totalitarian rule.


A bill proposed in California would make the distribution of plastic straws illegal unless requested by a patron, with up to a $1,000 fine and jail time.

Now they’re monitoring toilet flushes and showers.


What’s next? Only allowing people to use one square of toilet paper per use just as Sheryl Crow used to push?


Back in 2007, far left singer
Sheryl Crow wanted to control how much toilet paper people use. “One square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required,” said Sheryl Crow.


The left wants to bring us back to the dark ages. They will bring greater human misery to the masses claiming it is helping the environment.


Jerry Brown is more interested in monitoring how many times the people of California flush their toilets than he is monitoring the US-Mexico border where MS-13 gang members, drug cartels and illegals are spilling over into his state. Let that sink in.



 

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face)(*^% as far as california politicians are concerned , or for that matter ANY DEMOCRAT ....." ignorance can be educated & crazy can be medicated " .
 

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Can you imagine what it will be like when there are no white people left? They'll have their paradise... and feces on every corner.
 
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San Fransisco spends $37,000+ per year for each homeless person.

London Breed says the amount of feces scattered on the streets of the wealthy city in recent months is among the worst she has ever seen, and San Francisco reportedly is set to spend nearly $280 million in its next budget fighting homelessness – an average of $37,300 for each of the city’s estimated 7,499 homeless residents.

But yet, the amount of SHIT in the streets is the highest ever.

"I will say there is more feces on the sidewalks than I’ve ever seen growing up here," Breed, who was sworn in last week, said days later in an NBC Bay Area interview. She added that outreach groups funded by the city need to do a better job making sure the homeless clean up trash and waste from bodily functions they sometimes leave behind.


"That is a huge problem and we are not just talking about from dogs — we’re talking about from humans,” she said.
San Francisco in recent years is reported to have spent $241 million and $275 million from annual budgets on homeless outreach services and programs, most of which, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, involve supportive housing units that get people off the streets. For the first time, the city’s overall budget this year will top $11 billion, the Chronicle reported.
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April 26, 2018: A man lies on the sidewalk beside a recyclable trash bin in San Francisco. The city's voters will decide in November 2018 whether to tax large businesses to pay for homeless and housing services in a city struggling with income inequality. Supporters collected enough signatures to get the measure on the ballot. (AP)


But for all the money San Francisco is throwing at the complex issue, the number of people living on the streets appears to be staying the same, according to data from a homeless count survey conducted last year citywide.
Out of the 7,499 homeless people recorded last year, about 58 percent, or 4,353 people, were marked as unsheltered. The other 3,146 were designated sheltered.
In 2015, when the homeless population was estimated to be 7,539, there were 4,358 unsheltered compared to 3,181 sheltered. And in data going back to 2013, when the homeless population was estimated to be 7,350, there were 4,315 sheltered compared to 3,035 sheltered.
“We got a lot of means to interact with folks and talk to folks but we don’t have the means to keep them in homes,” Dayton Andrews, a human rights organizer with the San Francisco-based Coalition on Homelessness advocacy group, told Fox News. “We spend a lot of money but we don’t have a clear picture of all the different issues that these social services need to solve.”
The most recent homeless count survey says about half of the city’s homeless population is clustered in one northeast district that includes city hall, the San Francisco Giants’ AT&T Park, and the corporate offices of companies such as Twitter and Uber.
"Despite decades of well-intentioned bills, spending efforts, or guiding plans, the same tragic scene continues day after day and year after year."
- Nick Josefowitz, candidate for San Francisco City Supervisor, District 2
Those surveyed cited job loss as the biggest cause of their homelessness, followed by problems tied to alcohol and drug use. They also said their biggest obstacle to obtaining permanent housing is not being able to afford the pricey rents of apartments and homes in the Bay Area.
“The long-term solution to unsheltered or street homelessness is the same as the solution to all homelessness – provide housing exits through a range of interventions tailored to the needs of each individual and offered through a coordinated system,” the survey concludes. “However, the pathways from homelessness to housing are unclear and inconsistent.
City supervisor hopeful Nick Josefowitz, however, said he believes San Francisco shouldn't “invest a single public dollar without knowing if it is doing any good."
“Despite decades of well-intentioned bills, spending efforts, or guiding plans, the same tragic scene continues day after day and year after year,” he wrote in an April article on Medium. “Indeed, in recent years the situation has become so much worse. Yet too often City Hall is still making decisions on homelessness based on folk wisdom rather than hard evidence.”
Josefowitz says the city government needs to “double down on the programs that are working, and shut down those that are not” – in addition to conducting more frequent surveys.
“Asking volunteers to count people who appear to be homeless once every two years is fundamentally inadequate to ensure City Government has the information it needs to adequately respond to this epidemic,” he wrote. “We should be tracking our population in real time. Otherwise, we have to wait far too long to know whether what we’re doing is working.”
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Feb. 23, 2016: A man stands outside his tent on Division Street in San Francisco. (AP)


His comments echoed a similar complaint the San Francisco Chronicle’s editorial board made years earlier – that the city isn’t doing enough to track their efforts.
“That a city can spend $241 million a year on programs and still confront such human misery suggests those dollars are not being spent with anything close to optimal effectiveness,” the board wrote in 2016. “Eight city departments and 76 private and nonprofit organizations draw from those funds in 400 contracts, yet the degree of accountability is highly suspect.”
The newspaper said as of 2017, the waiting list for nighttime shelter beds was at 1,100.
On the other side of the country, New York City says its outreach teams are playing a key role in getting homeless people off the streets -- but to do so, it sometimes takes "hundreds of contacts over many months."
“Individuals residing on the street face tremendous barriers to coming indoors, having fallen through every social safety net, and experiencing trauma or other mental health issues, making them our most service-resistant population," Isaac McGinn, the director of communications for the NYC Department of Homeless Services, told Fox News.
But in San Francisco, the persistent homelessness problem is also raising tensions amongst the public.
Breed’s comments last week came as the “Fed Up Populace Campaign” placed a full-page ad in the Friday edition of the San Francisco Chronicle warning residents to “watch their backs.”
In the ad, a person describing themselves as a “disgusted female San Francisco resident (for now)” claimed she recently witnessed a “homeless person wielding a large pair of SCISSORS” inside a café at a Neiman Marcus store.
“The San Francisco city fathers and those who should be held accountable for our public safety have for years let us all down by catering to the lowest common denominator,” the ad states. “Sit with your backs to the wall, fellow citizens."
Breed told NBC Bay Area “about 70 percent of the people estimated to be homeless in San Francisco were actually housed in San Francisco before they became homeless,” so they need to be “held accountable for taking care of our streets.


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[FONT=&quot][h=3]More human poop on San Francisco sidewalks ‘than I’ve ever seen,’ new mayor says[/h][/FONT]
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July 16, 2018 11:30 AM
Updated July 17, 2018 06:58 AM

Newly elected Mayor London Breed says in one of her first interviews since taking office that San Francisco’s problems with human waste on city sidewalks are the worst she’s ever seen, reported KNTV.
“I will say there is more feces on the sidewalks than I’ve ever seen growing up here,” Breed told the station. “That is a huge problem and we are not just talking about from dogs — we’re talking about from humans.”



Breed encouraged charities and nonprofit agencies aiding the homeless to urge them to do more to keep the city’s streets clean, KNTV reported.
“What I am asking you to do is work with your clients and ask them to at least have respect for the community — at least, clean up after themselves and show respect to one another and people in the neighborhood,” Breed told the station.
Breed, 43, won a June 12 election to fill out the term of late mayor Edwin Lee, who died in December. She is the city’s first female African-American mayor.
Human waste, needles and other garbage on city streets has been a growing problem in recent months in the city, according to KPIX. The city’s hotel industry has been pressing for stronger police presence.


A medical association recently dropped plans for a $40 million convention in San Francisco over conditions in the city’s streets, Joe D’Alessandro with Travel SF told the station.
“They feel their safety is at risk because they are seeing so many people with issues,” Kevin Carroll of the San Francisco Hotel Council told KPIX.
In June, a Reddit user posted a photo of a 20-pound bag of feces left on a street corner in the city’s Tenderloin district, reported The San Francisco Chronicle. A city spokesperson confirmed receiving reports of the bag of waste.
Another Reddit user called it “the most atrocious smell I’ve ever smelled in San Francisco,” the publication reported.
A KNTV investigation in February found trash on every one of the 153 blocks surveyed, along with used needles and piles of feces. The station also found that reports of needles and feces to the city’s 311 hotline have steadily risen since 2008.
Dr Lee Riley, an infectious diseases expert at the University of California in Berkeley, told KNTV that parts of San Francisco may be dirtier than slums in some developing countries. “The contamination is … much greater than communities in Brazil or Kenya or India,” Riley said.



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Liberalism SUCKS ASS.


Dr Lee Riley, an infectious diseases expert at the University of California in Berkeley, told KNTV that parts of San Francisco may be dirtier than slums in some developing countries. “The contamination is … much greater than communities in Brazil or Kenya or India,” Riley said.
 

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It is a shithole caz, the Democrat's suck and many people don't know it, so they vote for the democrats, caz they promise free stuff and deliver shit. The shit, you are smelling and stepping in! azzkick(&^azzkick(&^azzkick(&^azzkick(&^azzkick(&^azzkick(&^azzkick(&^azzkick(&^azzkick(&^azzkick(&^
 
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In California it is now not a crime to give someone AIDS, but
You can go to jail for giving someone a straw.

Fucking libtards
 

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In California it is now not a crime to give someone AIDS, but
You can go to jail for giving someone a straw.

Fucking libtards

is this funny? or sad? or just libtarded?



RR's "concealed carry" is funny too
 

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