A homeless man stands amongst a trash lined street in
downtown Los Angeles on Thursday, May 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
In your typical Third-World megalopolis, basic city
functions fall into disrepair, while once-eradicated diseases run rampant --
and the local bigwig boasts about saving the world.
Los Angeles is quickly becoming a typical Third-World
megalopolis, and the rest of the state isn't far behind.
Yesterday the New York Post reported "rats running everywhere
among piles of decaying garbage," in a "sprawling 50-block area that
is believed to be the base for around 4,200 homeless people."
Local columnist Steve Lopez called his city a "giant trash
receptacle" and asked, "Did someone turn back the calendar a few
hundred years?” No, Steve, the city government turned hard left is all.
Although debate fans might note that that's a distinction without a difference.
So where did all that trash come from?
Los Angelenos are
dumping it out in the streets -- and the city isn't collecting it.
Two weeks
ago Fox News reported that the problem goes back at least to last October, when the city noticed nine cases of
typhus. The city "cleaned up some of the worst piles of garbage," but
then they slacked right back off. The huge pile returned quickly, but officials
at first said that it "could take up to 90 days before it's cleaned up."
The
same local news report described it this way:
Even the city's most notorious trash pile, located
between downtown LA's busy Fashion and Produce districts, continues to be a
magnet for rats after it was cleaned up months ago. The rodents can carry
typhus-infected fleas, which can spread the disease to humans through bacteria
rubbed into the eyes or cuts and scrapes on the skin, resulting in severe
flu-like symptoms.
The story also noted that an "out-of-control rat
population can even lead to the spread of dangerous strains of salmonella and
bubonic plague."
Yuck.
City services are so strained that it now appears to be
playing whack-a-mole with garbage dumpers. As I began writing this piece, a new
Fox News report popped up in my MSN feed, complete with video you might not want to watch during
lunch.
Statewide, California's problems aren't limited to trash
dumpers, the homeless, rat infestations, and infectious disease... as if that
weren't already too much Third World fun in the once-Golden State.
Stories
about San Francisco's Human Poop Hurdle Olympics are now de rigueur, and
you'd better watch where you stick the landing or a used syringe might stick
you.
…
Blackouts, typhus, poop, an army of homeless, wildfires,
contaminated syringes, garbage, rats, fleas, and Progressive government --
these are the Plagues of California. I'd ask the last person to leave California
to please turn off the lights, but they'll have gone dark long ago.
