I would like to know the salaries of the people who run the Skid Row campus. I'm guessing they all make six figures and have great health insurance and maybe a retirement plan.
By making sure the problem can never be solved, they also make sure they will never be jobless. The last thing these people would ever want is any change of policy that would threaten their grift.
That’s why California is the head of the HIC (Homeless Industrial Complex)…where there are HUNDREDS of very well-paid Administrators, Boards of Directors and Managers. Where progress is measured in dollars coming into the Organizations. Where there is ZERO incentive to disrupting the status quo and risking your income or position in the whole scheme. Where success is measured in continuity of services offered…whatever form they take.
07/29/26: I'm waiting for them to take out insurance policies with themselves as the beneficiaries and then murdering their "clients." Perhaps this is why they drained the fire-fighting water resevoirs.
>> Newsom argued earlier this year that harm-reduction tactics “increase the likelihood of people entering substance use treatment.”
We've run the experiment in places across the country, LA, SF, PDX, Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia, NYC, etc. The VIP (Vagrancy Incentive Programs...) clearly do not "increase the likelihood of people entering substance use treatment".
Places like California are a warning to all nations who are pondering alleged 'harm reduction', 'safe supply' or 'de-stigmatising' policies. Other will cite Portugal, though even that is not a model to emulate. The Portuguese system has decriminalised possession of all drugs whilst retaining the criminal status of distribution and trafficking. This resulted in the worst of both worlds - people are effectively free to purchase/consume illegal drugs from criminal organisations.
If you want to know the salaries request the 990’s. They are part of the public tax record. Just because they are a 501c3 doesn’t mean they don’t file tax returns. That is a public record that must be produced on demand
The major issue in homelessness is not the lack of housing. It's the refusal of society to say no. No, you can't camp in this city. No, you can't shit in the streets. No, you can't panhandle aggressively. No, you can't shoot up publicly and leave your used needles lying around. The fact that we are not going to allow you to destroy our city by doing these things is not our problem. It's your problem. You can solve your problem by not doing drugs, getting help for your mental problems, getting a job, and sharing rent with others so inclined until you can afford a place of your own, probably in a lower cost community.
This is not going to happen because the people we have elected allow the homeless to wallow in their victimhood rather than accept personal responsibility for their self destructiveness.
What specific steps should be taken by cities to deal with the problem? Cities should use all existing shelters and further provide simple shelter space with surplus military tents with mess and recreational tents, a medical tent and restroom and shower facilities (the way I lived in the army) on leased or purchased unused commercial or industrial sites on the outskirts of the city. Hire an ex Army or Marine company First Sergeant to run the operation and ex mess and platoon sergeants as staff. As many homeless who want to and are able to work should be hired to help feed others and to maintain the facilities. Individuals could use surplus military squad tents or their own for sleeping. Residents would be given full freedom to live their lives short of harming others and the use of drugs and alcohol would be tolerated as it is on the streets. When those facilities are available the city should send in crews to clean up existing encampments, without arresting anyone who does not physically resist.
Custodial care should be mandatory for those who are so mentally or drug addicted that they cannot care for themselves. We did a huge disservice to the mentally ill when we closed rather than reform our state mental hospitals. We need them back. This approach actually would cost far less and be far more effective than the current housing first attempts to fix the problem. Most of the homeless lack the capacity to live unassisted in modern society but that is not an excuse to destroy our beautiful cities and drive out our productive citizens.
It's also the refusal to connect the closure of many mental institutions with the huge ris ein homelessness. The reality is that sadly...some people cannot function productively in society and they need help...not drugs.
💀 Of course. That was the objective — the obvious. There can be no other expectation.
California, Washington, Oregon and multiple other states have been demographically engineered into administrative majorities or client-based voter blocs. The electoral system is no longer a representation of the federal republic constituency. It has long been a visage, a veneer, a Potemkin Village — an illusion that soothes the constituency with the appearance of representation and voice while the actual mechanisms of sovereignty have been diluted.
More than 10 million southwest border encounters and approximately 30 million total including got-aways have been recorded since 2021 (CBP), with annual net fiscal costs estimated at $116–182 billion (FAIR). The 17th Amendment (ratified April 8, 1913) removed the last major structural check that once forced Senators to answer to state legislatures (Madison, Federalist Nos. 62 and 63). President Trump has stated the hard truth most clearly: without free and fair elections, you do not have a country. Abraham Lincoln framed the same principle in 1861: “ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets.” John Adams warned that pure democracy “never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself.” Full diagnosis → https://tuesday740.substack.com/p/rat-electoral-sovereignty-as-reclamation?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2p75ja
💀 The pattern is consistent and documented across multiple domains of bureaucratic commerce.
Feeding Our Future in Minnesota stole $250 million in federal child-nutrition funds; defendants including Aimee Bock, Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, and Mukhtar Mohamed Shariff were convicted. COVID-era unemployment insurance fraud reached an estimated $100–135 billion nationwide (GAO). Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick was charged in 2025 with diverting approximately $5 million in FEMA disaster funds. California High-Speed Rail was originally sold at $33 billion and is now projected at $126–231 billion with zero miles of operational high-speed track. These are not scandals. They are the operating system of a parallel bureaucracy that converts taxpayer extraction into permanent client maintenance and administrative self-preservation.
💀 A citizen in good standing is defined by the Constitution itself: a natural-born or naturalized United States citizen under the Fourteenth Amendment, eighteen years of age, not currently incarcerated for a felony (unless rights restored), and lawfully registered. The Fifteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-Sixth Amendments repeatedly limit the protected voting right to “citizens of the United States.” 18 U.S.C. § 611 makes alien voting in federal elections a federal crime. Federalist Nos. 52, 57, and 60 affirm that voter qualifications remain a state matter tied to the same body of citizens who elect state legislators, with zero textual support for non-citizen participation.
When citizenship is deliberately blurred, when the productive are taxed to sustain engineered client populations in states such as California, Washington, and Oregon, and when basic verification of citizenship for voting is framed as “suppression,” the system has already failed the P ∧ Q test. Competent sovereignty-serving leadership is absent (P). Rational warrant for continued trust is gone (Q). The only coherent response is R: non-kinetic withdrawal and parallel reclamation of electoral and institutional sovereignty.
I would like to know the salaries of the people who run the Skid Row campus. I'm guessing they all make six figures and have great health insurance and maybe a retirement plan.
Yup, spot on. And can we please stop using the disingenuous nonsensical term “ nonprofit”?
Also, total job security.
By making sure the problem can never be solved, they also make sure they will never be jobless. The last thing these people would ever want is any change of policy that would threaten their grift.
Well geez, petroleum jelly is EXPENSIVE!
INDEED ... !!!!!!!!!!
076/29/26: Hey, Pipe Down! (!!!)
That’s why California is the head of the HIC (Homeless Industrial Complex)…where there are HUNDREDS of very well-paid Administrators, Boards of Directors and Managers. Where progress is measured in dollars coming into the Organizations. Where there is ZERO incentive to disrupting the status quo and risking your income or position in the whole scheme. Where success is measured in continuity of services offered…whatever form they take.
07/29/26: I'm waiting for them to take out insurance policies with themselves as the beneficiaries and then murdering their "clients." Perhaps this is why they drained the fire-fighting water resevoirs.
YES ............ !!!!
>> Newsom argued earlier this year that harm-reduction tactics “increase the likelihood of people entering substance use treatment.”
We've run the experiment in places across the country, LA, SF, PDX, Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia, NYC, etc. The VIP (Vagrancy Incentive Programs...) clearly do not "increase the likelihood of people entering substance use treatment".
All Very Logical ... leading to these unfortunates to dying possibly sooner than later ...
Places like California are a warning to all nations who are pondering alleged 'harm reduction', 'safe supply' or 'de-stigmatising' policies. Other will cite Portugal, though even that is not a model to emulate. The Portuguese system has decriminalised possession of all drugs whilst retaining the criminal status of distribution and trafficking. This resulted in the worst of both worlds - people are effectively free to purchase/consume illegal drugs from criminal organisations.
However, I believe that drug treatment and getting clean is mandatory in Portugal upon arrest. Apples and Oranges with California.
If you want to know the salaries request the 990’s. They are part of the public tax record. Just because they are a 501c3 doesn’t mean they don’t file tax returns. That is a public record that must be produced on demand
The major issue in homelessness is not the lack of housing. It's the refusal of society to say no. No, you can't camp in this city. No, you can't shit in the streets. No, you can't panhandle aggressively. No, you can't shoot up publicly and leave your used needles lying around. The fact that we are not going to allow you to destroy our city by doing these things is not our problem. It's your problem. You can solve your problem by not doing drugs, getting help for your mental problems, getting a job, and sharing rent with others so inclined until you can afford a place of your own, probably in a lower cost community.
This is not going to happen because the people we have elected allow the homeless to wallow in their victimhood rather than accept personal responsibility for their self destructiveness.
What specific steps should be taken by cities to deal with the problem? Cities should use all existing shelters and further provide simple shelter space with surplus military tents with mess and recreational tents, a medical tent and restroom and shower facilities (the way I lived in the army) on leased or purchased unused commercial or industrial sites on the outskirts of the city. Hire an ex Army or Marine company First Sergeant to run the operation and ex mess and platoon sergeants as staff. As many homeless who want to and are able to work should be hired to help feed others and to maintain the facilities. Individuals could use surplus military squad tents or their own for sleeping. Residents would be given full freedom to live their lives short of harming others and the use of drugs and alcohol would be tolerated as it is on the streets. When those facilities are available the city should send in crews to clean up existing encampments, without arresting anyone who does not physically resist.
Custodial care should be mandatory for those who are so mentally or drug addicted that they cannot care for themselves. We did a huge disservice to the mentally ill when we closed rather than reform our state mental hospitals. We need them back. This approach actually would cost far less and be far more effective than the current housing first attempts to fix the problem. Most of the homeless lack the capacity to live unassisted in modern society but that is not an excuse to destroy our beautiful cities and drive out our productive citizens.
It's also the refusal to connect the closure of many mental institutions with the huge ris ein homelessness. The reality is that sadly...some people cannot function productively in society and they need help...not drugs.
Exactly. Vagrancy laws have been completely ignored. Had they been enforced, perhaps CA taxpayers wouldn’t be supporting druggies.
Christopher: now you should document how they manage to spend $26M a year handing out drug paraphernalia. I'm dying to know.
good work if you can get it
The "administrators" make 6 figure salaries --and there are MANY administrators with various titles..so they are all essential.
Ramen and Doritos with your drugs.
That's harm reduction, progressive-style.
Excellent summary. our only hope is Steve Hilton.
Infuriating but hardly surprising.
Say Hello To The Libertarian Party.
What exactly costs $26 million a year???
Realistically,salaries for “ nonprofits”.
Mental health crisis is the root cause of it
It’s actually a self feeding cycle as hard drug use often causes mental illness. Lather, rinse, repeat…
'the site offers services like “valet” cart parking.'
😄
Depraved.
Have a look at Adam Zivo's articles in the National Post about how harm reduction has failed.
💀 Of course. That was the objective — the obvious. There can be no other expectation.
California, Washington, Oregon and multiple other states have been demographically engineered into administrative majorities or client-based voter blocs. The electoral system is no longer a representation of the federal republic constituency. It has long been a visage, a veneer, a Potemkin Village — an illusion that soothes the constituency with the appearance of representation and voice while the actual mechanisms of sovereignty have been diluted.
More than 10 million southwest border encounters and approximately 30 million total including got-aways have been recorded since 2021 (CBP), with annual net fiscal costs estimated at $116–182 billion (FAIR). The 17th Amendment (ratified April 8, 1913) removed the last major structural check that once forced Senators to answer to state legislatures (Madison, Federalist Nos. 62 and 63). President Trump has stated the hard truth most clearly: without free and fair elections, you do not have a country. Abraham Lincoln framed the same principle in 1861: “ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets.” John Adams warned that pure democracy “never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself.” Full diagnosis → https://tuesday740.substack.com/p/rat-electoral-sovereignty-as-reclamation?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2p75ja
💀 The pattern is consistent and documented across multiple domains of bureaucratic commerce.
Feeding Our Future in Minnesota stole $250 million in federal child-nutrition funds; defendants including Aimee Bock, Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, and Mukhtar Mohamed Shariff were convicted. COVID-era unemployment insurance fraud reached an estimated $100–135 billion nationwide (GAO). Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick was charged in 2025 with diverting approximately $5 million in FEMA disaster funds. California High-Speed Rail was originally sold at $33 billion and is now projected at $126–231 billion with zero miles of operational high-speed track. These are not scandals. They are the operating system of a parallel bureaucracy that converts taxpayer extraction into permanent client maintenance and administrative self-preservation.
💀 A citizen in good standing is defined by the Constitution itself: a natural-born or naturalized United States citizen under the Fourteenth Amendment, eighteen years of age, not currently incarcerated for a felony (unless rights restored), and lawfully registered. The Fifteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-Sixth Amendments repeatedly limit the protected voting right to “citizens of the United States.” 18 U.S.C. § 611 makes alien voting in federal elections a federal crime. Federalist Nos. 52, 57, and 60 affirm that voter qualifications remain a state matter tied to the same body of citizens who elect state legislators, with zero textual support for non-citizen participation.
When citizenship is deliberately blurred, when the productive are taxed to sustain engineered client populations in states such as California, Washington, and Oregon, and when basic verification of citizenship for voting is framed as “suppression,” the system has already failed the P ∧ Q test. Competent sovereignty-serving leadership is absent (P). Rational warrant for continued trust is gone (Q). The only coherent response is R: non-kinetic withdrawal and parallel reclamation of electoral and institutional sovereignty.