WTF Just Happened To California?!
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- I drove back to Santa Monica, California to meet with the City Mayor, Phil Brock, and discuss the concerns brought up by local residents. Phil Brock was incredibly helpful and provided some very good insight as to the overall problems caused by the state of California - here's what this means for you. Enjoy! Add me on Instagram: GPStephan
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I'm sorry, $138,000 already spent per homeless person in California??? Someone is getting rich of this mess, and it's not the people of California. Disgusting
See the second paragraph (un-highlighted) around 16:50. Hypocritical not-for-profits protected by the state and local governments!
This is the theft I'm more concerned with
It’s the communists
Some forget many other states, especially red ones, have forced people to leave their state and even buy them one way tickets to California.
@NotYourFathersAccountant oh yea it's totally a money laundering scheme, rich people making "non profits" getting massive amounts of government money to hand out crack pipes and syringes, homelessness is a business to profit off, not a problem to solve
The people getting paid to “solve” the problem would be out of a job if they solved the problem.
If the problem gets worse budget increases!! It's a bonus for doing bad and you get to hire more of your buddies share the wealth
🎯🎯🎯 Well stated.
Are they hiring????
pay them for days without crime
Do you have any idea what state or local government do day to day?
$1800 a month for being homeless and identifying as disabled? That's more then most veterans and seniors get.
Much more, my senior mother get only 400$ per month
It’s called ssi …and you don’t get more for being homeless…it’s for the disability…people who are getting 400 dollars a month as seniors..well that’s their own fault ..they were not disabled..they chose not to get a job that cashed out big when retirement came
@@BrandonRuffin-tj1fs maybe you missed that in the story… In California they pay you if you register as homeless($750/month) and then if you’re disabled, you get disability on top of that.
Yeah, end that stipend right away--great motivation to not work, and to be homeless, for sure!
You're coming across as very condescending @@BrandonRuffin-tj1fs
Bring back state hospitals that housed those with severe mental health conditions.
uhhhh there's a pretty good reason why those went out of fashion
@@andreacharais8070 seems like this video showcases a pretty good reason to bring them right back.
No, actually there is no reason to bring that stuff back. You have to remember. There are teenagers out there on the streets. It's not just adults, so your anger with these individuals doesn't just go towards someone who is over the age of 18, but really anyone who is in a situation where they are homeless. You're pretty much saying that anyone who is homeless deserves to get abused or even killed simply because of their situation and regardless of their age. If people in your life that didn't like you, treated you with such harsh realities. I don't think you would be so quick to wish that on someone else.
@@johnvoit9629 "You're pretty much saying that anyone who is homeless deserves to get abused or even killed"
you made this up in your head, nobody here even implied that
I'd support it.
We have better practices now than we did then.
Unfortunately, the human mind would need a very broad spectrum of therapists specifically to treat those disorders.
Basically, an entire hospital or clinic dedicated to mental health.
The soft on crime idea was by far one of the dumbest things that has happened in the past 20 years
That was not an idea, it's just an agenda to produce chaos and uncertainty for people, that's how the most powerful rule the world.
Mandatory minimums on weed possession seemed like a good idea to you?
yep, blame your local liberal
All businesses leave, crooked politicians buy up everything then put laws back in place or they are just idiots.
If we are hard on crime then all the taxes pay for their food, housing, plus all the laywers, judges, Cops, medical. Better business for the state to suck money if hard on crime. Then tax the crap out of everyone.
Aha. A homeless person can get $800 per month from the State of California. $1800 if you "consider yourself disabled". Plus you can shoplift as much as you want. There's the entire problem in a nutshell.
Where would they get 800 a month ?
They make more than the regular working people which is so dumb
Greasy Car Salesman is still looking where all those billions went.
@@sublimephoenix8860 The state of California gives homeless people $800/m, and if you state you are disabled you gert $1800/M. Why wouldn't homeless people move there?
Exactly
Should be 0 tolerance for theft
Singapore has the exemplary sentencing guidelines for it.
@@valcaron💯💯💯💯
but you know, some will call that racism...
I have zero tolerance for the left.
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California is a living example and result of failed policy at almost every level. Stupid decisions almost always result in stupid consequences.
California is the 5th largest economy on the planet. This is all horse💩.
Blah blah blah 5th largest economy on the planet. 4th largest GDP. So yeah…
@@xocolatlsuenos People injecting drugs and pooping in the street, rampant theft and criminality, law enforcement hands tied, on and on... The things you cite for GDP and whatnot is not the result of policy in California, but the things I cite certainly are.
It's not failed. It's doing exactly what it's supposed to do, help corrupt people gain even more wealth.
@@shaunpearce6846 Right. It failed the citizens who have to live with the consequences of bad decisions. When a person has enough resources they can basically opt out of the mess that has been created.
Blame it on LA,
LA says blame it on Bay Area,
Bay area says blame it on the government.
And votes for the government?
The whole CA.
It's like that spiderman meme of point fingers at each other.
At least 35 million Californians vote blue every election, and the majority are women. You're expecting female voters to accept responsibility for their actions.
Newson's the king Troll
I'll tell you the real source. China providing drugs to take down USA just like the opium wars. Drug ingredients are shipped from China to Mexico. Mexico manufactures the drug and smuggles to USA.
China got wrecked by opium. USA getting wrecked by fentanyl. Drugs literally takes down the country from the inside. Where's Harris?
History literally repeating itself. Opium War, now Fentanyl War.
The mayor’s response to your question about why previous attempts to solve homelessness haven’t worked was, “talk to LA, talk to the state, talk to the federal government, talk to the transit company.” This is indicative of the problem. Everyone points fingers at everyone else.
Welcome to the party of Democrats.
The game is called pass the buck and Democrats have been playing that game for decades.
This mayor definitely refuses to blame Democrat leadership for the problems here, therefore, he is culpable in his city’s demise.
@@lindamurphy3969 I just read an interesting article you can google it: A City at a crossroads: The choice for Santa Monica’s future" by SMDP - santa monica daily press - Phil B. is working with a committee that explains this mess.
And he's right. Current "solutions" just move homeless people into a different jurisdiction. This can't be solved by cities. We need a coordinated national response, starting with a very strong social safety net.
Better journalism than you'll get out of mainstream media by multiple orders of magnitude, which is honestly sad. Our media is sad.
I know a woman who moved to Cali from Arizona and she’s a crook. She moved here because there’s so many systems in place for her to take advantage of. She and none of her kids work. They all live off the government. She gets everything for free. I’m not against giving people help, but it’s infuriating to see it taken advantage of and I know she isn’t alone.
That because they gave up fair and balanced years ago, along with any integrity they had. Now they are nothing but propagandists, just like the news in russia and china.
@@kendallpaige4160
The whole south is on government assistance.
Treasonous. Not sad.
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Born, raised, & became a CA Deputy. Now retired and traveling the country in my RV.
Many communities across our country DO NOT have this problem.
Talk to these Mayors and LE Depts and see what they do different.
Newsom thinks the hundred of millions is not worth it when his citizens are suffering BILLIONS from these people.
Santa Monica and Los Angeles know how to solve the problem... they simply don't want to. They are more concerned with virtue signaling, appearing "compassionate" and keeping the money flowing into their friends "non-profits"
Hey, by the way I am an EMT and I RESENT your EMS culture. I was an EMT and was involved in the First Responder culture which is hugely Conservative especially socially and was treated poorly. Oh please you are making deals and making compromises toward street gangs and drug dealers. You also leave do not assist EMT or Paramedics at all which is also seen in Texas. EMT 166327
My dad served in Orlando LEO and some parts of Florida allow in the statutes for homeless people to be active during certain hours of the day which is nuts and even come up to your car. I was once in an atm line and a woman stood in her pajamas asking for money at each car. NUTS. Yet those who serve our country can't get the same treatment, better health, and well-being.
@@Vicente-en2zx ???
This "mayor" accepted zero responsibility, Shocker
The left never does
At least he says that he is pushing for harder sentencing for criminals against party consensus. But yeah
@@entropy2030 lip service, say whatever you have to so you can stay in power through favorability.
@entropy2030 i agree, but it feels like him saying they are gonna do the minimum expected which is absurd to me. I understand what you are trying to get at though.
At least he had this interview but you're right, nobody accepts responsibility anymore and passes the blame around.
Bring back the Insane asylum.
Exactly. All of this is tied back to the moment Gov. Reagan signed the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act in 1967 - closing all asylums. The idea that social workers can help these people on the streets is insane.
State hospitals are important.
Thanks Reagan
@alexsundance8314 Reagan didn't help but it pains me to say the Dems started that ball rolling. The Kennedys had a cousin abused and i believed died. So they made it their mission to shut them down instead of just reforming them.
THIS.....bit try telling that to a republican.....
California had a chance to get rid of Newsome and they didn't. You get what you voted for
Like votes can't be tampered with... LMAO
@@WheresMyMotivation nobody said that. Was it a close race? WTF are you even talking about?
Think a little deeper my friend don't just tan trum when you are confused. Who is to say Newsome got all the votes fair and square?
@@WheresMyMotivation first of all I'm not your friend. Secondly, I didn't throw a "tantrum" (it's a singular word and is a noun not a verb) so you are clearly not operating in reality. Nobody said Newsom got all his votes fair and square. Nobody said he didn't. You are offering a red herring, because clearly a very large portion of CA voted for him, regardless if all his votes were earned fair and square.
@@Nebul0us thanks for clarifying the friend thing and missing the figure of speech thing lol yes keep thinking I wrote tan trum like that because I don't know how to spell (the only word I misspelled!) I'm commenting not debating that's the beauty of it! I don't have to go by your rules and your logic.
Moved out of CA in 2017 after 25 years. Modern California is an American tragedy.
All that mayor did was throw blame and give lip service.
About right. "We need social workers. We need police on the street. We need this, that and so forth." Thank you for that, Mr. Mayor. Santa Monica is a separate city from LA. Can't they do things differently?
Were you expecting a mea culpa? It's like Harlan Williams in Rocketman. "It wasn't me!"
no kidding. he still refers to them as "unhoused". RUN AWAY.
Exactly. "It's almost impossible to remove homeless" -- Burbank and Santa Clarita are also incorporated cities and you don't see so much as a beggar at Walmart. Cops come and escort them to a shelter somewhere
Yea, it is the NIMBY creed. Someone else has to pay to fix their personal problems. Why not society?
The scary part is people voted for this...Time, after time, after time.
Yeah that’s the scary thing about democracy…we were supposed to vote for what is best but so many just vote for what sounds good and believe they are some kind of savior. Lack of education and lack of any social or financial IQ are the biggest problems with voters
True definition of insanity--doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results!
100%%
And after they turned the former Golden State into the Toilet State, they will leave for greener (or Red-er) states to repeat the process. GO BACK TO CALIFORNIA!!!
Make California great again. … pretty much last time a republican was governor
Problem is California through their failed policies have shifted the cultural landscape into a state of apathy, crime is not only tolerated, but it’s accepted now.
Not just that's it has become incentivized, where both the elected officials and the lawbreakers get paid.
Unfortunately, it's not just a California problem. I live in a city with similar problems. High homeless rates, high crime rates, high living costs, high taxes etc. It can happen anywhere.
"Probably because the state doesn't audit how the money is being spent but, that's besides the point." LOL..... Just wow. This video is officially VOID. Time stamp @ 5:37
@@suchislife801 Where in the video? Timestamp it 18:10
as the video says - it's the other states that have failed policies that california gets blamed for.
As a European, it boggles me that you vote this in and prefer this because you get offended by Tweets from Trump
Orange man hurt people's feelings and those are the children. Use to we can have a fight or difference and get back to watching each other's backs while fighting the nazi regime
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Well said
I work in the ER and the homeless is just coming to the ER for secondary gains. They'll take up rooms/beds while your grandma will be dying in the waiting room basically.
I'm in Taiwan for the summer and the sense of public safety and high trust society is absolutely shocking when compared to any major West Coast cities.
The US used to be a high trust society. I reckon in some parts it still is. Progressive justice smeared all that, now you have criminals becoming more emboldened because they're unlikely to get penalized for the crime they do, thus leading to people trusting others less.
@@dumdumgarcia2830 it's amazing how much a society is willing to tolerate and the repercussions that follow. It's when you see shampoo bottles locked behind shelves and all high-end jackets locked to a cable at REI that you wonder if this is the "justice" all these movements and reforms are all about. And these observations are not from "bad areas," it's in the rich suburb of Redmond, WA.
I live in Taiwan and it’s true. People obey the law and are helpful to each other. Food prices are fair and public transport is cheap.
When Ronald Reagan was our California Governor California was a paradise!
He was, of course, a Republican!
@@DrMARDOC Regan easily the worst president of the last 50 years. The man did Iran-Contra. Fed CRACK to our poor communities destabilising them after they were finally getting on their feet after years of segragation and racism.
Our media is never going to cover these issues. I want to thank you personally for showing what we should all do.
The democrat media will never report these issues.
@@Matlockization While the Republican media chooses other topics to ignore and misrepresent.
It's not the parties, it's accountability across the board. People will, en masse, will do exactly as much as they know they can get away with.
@@user-px1wj2uv3r The democrat media make up 95% of all the media ! Who are you trying to fool ? The 'accountability across the board' are from those in power and that's the democrats ! The democrat's watered down the laws in California so that stealing under a thousand dollars was legal. That's crazy !
Fox did.
The media are overwhelmingly Leftists and this is a Leftist created issue. They won't tell you the truth because it makes their side look bad. Real journalism from major media is dead...
As a resident of Orange County, just 30 miles south of Santa Monica, there could not be a a more clear difference between the two coastal areas. I’d love to see Graham do a similar video in Newport Beach or Laguna Beach to compare how local policy has created such a wide disparity between the two counties that border each other. Obviously, Orange County is far more “Red” in terms of political identity, but I’d love to hear from a local politician on what has kept coastal Orange County so safe and clean compared to Venice, SM, etc.
I wonder what Coronado is like too?
OC is purple with about a 50/50 mix. LA is very blue, no balance.
What makes OC good is that it's so purple, that people can work together. With ultra-left and ultra-right it becomes a disaster, just look at our cities in CA and the Deep South.
That's exactly what it is. Much more red, which is good.
@@bmxwxx Plus we have a much tougher District Attorney who is not soft on crime!
A homeless man asked me if I had 10 dollars and when I said I have a dollar, he wanted to fight me. Huh???
I gave a homeless person a $20 and they scoffed and said... that's all? WTF!!???
@@soulforge5849I have given a penny to ANY “homeless” man. 😊
California: We gave unhoused people $800 - $1800 per month, removed consequences for theft and drug use, distributed drug paraphernalia, and in some cases drugs.
Also California: Why are so many unhoused people coming here from other places?
They bring them in from out of the country. They sent 20+million Poor unknown possibly dangerous people into Poor neighborhoods. They doubled the gas prices to Faze Out Fossil Fuels which means the price of everything goes up. Which means Poor people pay the Rich for the inflation. The Rich have electric cars/houses and the money to not care. All the Rich have no clue what is going on in Poor areas they hit the lottery. They are getting Richer faster then anytime in History.
The NGOs give out $1,800 a month and pocket $12,000, that is the reason the problem will never get solved……
@@juancolina7654 this comment should be in the main section of comments
good weather
@@juancolina7654 - I 2nd what alexr8855 said…this is a GREAT comment. Please put it in the main section.
Graham is a genius. He noticed his California video got millions of views as opposed to his regular finance vids. So he capitalizes on what the consumer wants to see. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
"WTF just happened to" will be a new series
Rage baiting about how "terrible" California has gotten seems to make a ton of money for some CZcamsrs.....
@@hansonel Yeah that's the problem. There's nothing useful about these type of videos. Extreme politicians no matter where or what is the problem. Deep red or deep blue are all the same and bad. I wonder why no one goes to Mississippi and does a video like this.
Shocker it's almost like the government in California is a big joke
Newsom is the family of Nancy Pelosi both Democrats in CA
Find me a state that’s done well with homeless besides shipping them to ca
There hasn’t been a government yet has cared about its people, homelessness is the same everywhere.
@@WillyJWill Show me a state that’s done WORSE than CA because of their POLICIES.
It's not a joke. It's real. It's Anarcho-tyranny.
As a former LA resident i can just feel sad when seeing that the people that got California to this situation are now acting like they will save it.. 😭
25 billions of dollars going to their pockets and whoever is in their favor and the actual residents are suffering and scared. How the hell can someone sane can vote for the democratic party ever again?? Blue and pink hair is more important than the safe being of the regular folks.😢
I'm sorry that America is declining, I'm Ukrainian and I've always supported the Republicans, my favorite president is Ronald Reagan, who freed hundreds of millions of people from the red prison of nations
“Vote blue no matter who” got California to this state.
SORRY BOUT THE BLUE WAVE COMIN LOL
Vote Blue, Get Screwed, No Matter Who!
Please stop voting in the communist blue party. California needs a bunch of real republicans.
@@mikes-wv3em Nah. We gonna shock you. Trump 2024 Agenda 47 for the Win. 💯🤷🏿♂️ Let's Go🇺🇲🎆🍾🫡
@@mikes-wv3em If that is true...we should all be sorry
I moved out of California in 2019 right before Covid. Best decision ever made in my life.
Same.
Where did you move to?
Same. I moved out of NoHo and out of California as a whole, April 9th, 2019. Ain't looking back and I don't vote blue.
@@linc131313 that last part is key
Good riddance! Wish more people would leave my beautiful state. It’s still overcrowded.
The more you provide for your homeless, the more homeless you will have.
lmao republican logic
Stop shipping them here and take care of homeless people in every state with your taxes instead of burdening CA
There you go again, using logic.
@@AlexanderMatosWho told you Jeff is shipping them to your state
@@producedbya-go1621 seeing as liberal policy has only ballooned this problem, how can you lack the self awareness to make this comment?
As a local, it is true that the encampments get cleaned up and cleared out fairly regularly. They return to what it was before the cleaning within 24 hours. Every single time. We're literally just throwing money at the problem without any actual idea of how to solve it. It's gotten to the point where people have to walk in traffic since the sidewalks and pathways all all completely clogged with tents and random trash. Not to mention the large risk of a random assault when nearby any of these crazies.
Does Gavin Newsom not look like the most typical sleazy, slimy politician you've ever seen? If that guy had any soul he'd be weeping for his state, instead he's always grinning ear to ear like a psychopath
He's all about money and media! Sad, but true!
because he *is* a psychopath :)
He looks like a typical Batman villain
yea, homeless and preventing police brutality are not important to you. He might have tried sth that doesn`t work. BUT AT LEAST HE TRIED. What did you do for California or USA????
He is 💯 the 80s villain politician in real life.
In California, the question is not "Do you vote blue or red?". It's "What shade of blue are you voting?". The last election here for San Diego Mayor was all blue and nonpartisan candidates. Aaaaaaand that leads us to our current downward trajectory all across the state. The current system and its rulers are beyond corrupt/incompetent/apathetic and voters just seem to continue voting them and their ilk in. Being a moderate, living in California is beyond maddening and seeing this happen in Santa Monica and other cities in the state is deplorable.
@population-_-420lol
San Diego is a swing county
Depopulation morelike 😂@Indeedddd
How people don’t understand this is a result of hundreds of different economic and sociopolitical policy decisions across the country over the last 40 years is beyond me. This left wing initiatives across California are well intended and in a vacuum would work well. Problem is we are connected to the United States, 40% of which is made up of red wing states with sky high unemployment and 0 welfare programs. My cousin was homeless in Tennessee and just took a bus to California in hopes of some support. 75% of the homeless in Santa Monica have a similar story.
@@probablypondering1657bingo. You get it. Too many ppl in this state and too hard to make it plus some social programs that attract others but just results in more struggling people. In short there are just too many people and it’s too expensive here. Everyone is struggling
Typical politician...
Gaslighting at its best. 🤢
But could YOU do any better in his place? Honestly I doubt I could.
The bedrocks of it all is social division & isolation, the ballooning economic inequities, and the widening wealth gap we're in right now on-par with the Gilded Age.
@@handlemoniumwe don’t know how to fix it because it’s not our job. We don’t specialize in this, and we don’t know what kind of resources are available to tackle these situations. That’s what tax dollars are supposed to do.
@@dairshine Rooftop Koreans had a pretty good idea.
i think some of them are really trying but when people arent held accountable at the end of the day how much can he do? hes at least trying to get rid of policies that let this go on.
Blame Mayor Bass and Metro.
Who knew you were a natural boots on the ground reporter!? Great work!
24 billion, or $140,000 per homeless person... is enough to mass produce modular single bedroom apartments for every homeless person in California. At that point, everyone is in their own apartment and spending money on tent camp clean ups and patrols no longer is a thing.
The state needs to criminalize all theft (at least anything over $20). And anyone caught using illegal drugs should be automatically sentenced to a detox program lasting no less than one year.
Anyone caught? Or a yone homeless caught. Coke is ignored in MANY traffic stops now...
Why the arbitrary $20 limit? You steal one penny you should pay the price for stealing.
Sadly, you do not understand how incredibly corrupt these politicians are, my friend. They don’t WANT the problem solved.
We need to fund those rehab programs
@@TheNinjapancake14 No I dont. They chose to do drugs, nobody forced them. Now you think its ok to use FORCE against me?
just pass the law saying, store can defend themselves from theft with firearm. It will stop right away
Yup, and no tax payer money is needed either.
They already can. We have a right to self defense.
@@dreamweaver1603they mean facilitate it. California essentially punishes law abiding citizens for defending themselves and property, while these scumbags are let out on signature bonds despite having multiple active and prior charges
@@dreamweaver1603no they dont. If you defend youself you will be fired and charged with manslaughter. Has happend many many times
@@dreamweaver1603 yeah right, not in cali
Remember guys, stealing is okay. As long as you just don't steal A LOT, mmkay!?
Payroll fraud in California alone is greater than the value of merchandise and property theft CA, TX, NY, FL, WA, IL, CO and PA combined. So stealing A LOT is ok too, as long as you're taking it from worker wages
Tax evasion is probably even higher but harder to estimate due to offshore accounts
I'm an absentee citizen, and resident of CA, but I actually feel tempted to go back and steal A LOT. Seems good value for the money /s
Most corporate crime isn’t even investigated. So if you still are really really a lot, no worries.
@@thagenet70% of all corporations are registered in Delaware. See.s Democrats just love letting crime happen in general.
@@Nylon_riot 🤦♀️😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Both parties take turns doing the same thing. I’ve never met a Republican or democratic company.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Almost tautological, that one.
Sorry but the Santa Monica mayor is literally blaming everybody but himself. He is the mayor, own up.
The mayor can't go above that the federal law states.
If you had the job, what would you do?
@@isomeme I'm not the mayor so will not armchair quarterback. But if you are the mayor, you need to own up - be accountable to your city, your citizens for their safety and prosperity.
@@logicae4096so if your given a city that’s already in turmoil you think this guy should take the blame? 😂😂😂😂 what about villaraigosa when he was handed LA?
@@logicae4096sure but it’s not like he was the one who got it to where it is now. He’s been in office for less than a year.
The first thing alcoholics are required to do to become sober is acknowledge they want to become sober. The junkies don’t want to become sober, they want their junk and free needles (the government gives those out free…thus contributing to the problem).
It's called "population control" by the powers that be.
Where im from we had this issue too and saying that giving free needles is contributing is just silly. You need to understand that these people WILL 100% do these drugs regardless of having a clean needle... It didn't solve the issue with drug addiction where im from but i didn't become bigger either, there is just way way les people that get sick and infection from needles which need to be treated using tax payer money...
@@toby1daYou’re part of the problem
Look at how Portugal cleaned up their massive drug problems in early 2000s. Their needle exchange program was a massive success in harm reduction and preventing HIV infections. The key is that people had to bring back the used syringes to get a fresh one (for free), which prevents littering as well.
Guy in the video saying if we move the folks that don't want help out of the city, it just pushes the problem on someone else. Not really, if you start pushing them far enough, it goes out to the desert.
950$ free goods??? You cannot steal a bottle of water in normal countries.
But you can steal $3500 in Texas. Calm down
Here in India, if you're "homeless" you either work/beg to survive or die somewhere on the street. There's no other option.
@@piyushdanej3930 of course! No one pays for you to sleep in the streets. Appalling!
Politicians: I want you to FEEL safe instead of I want you to BE safe.
It’s crazy how no one takes accountability for the state of California. It’s also crazy they have a stipend for homeless people and encourage it
Also crazy how big CA is, nor cal isnt terrible. Not great, but lots of not like minded people have beautiful properties, farms... so many great things to do and see but absolutely despise these lunatics. The nasty's control the entire state.
Know what's crazy? We paid normal, everyday people more than minimum wage to NOT work for over a year during COVID. Pepperidge Farms remembers
@@TheCarpenterUnion there's a Lotta crazy in CA
They wanted it to be too big to oversee (population/cities) all planned to turn out the way it has.
I’ve been in CA for 10 years, and this will be the first time I’m going to vote red locally. It’s not just the big cities, also the little cities that have gone to sh*t.
Wow and for that reason I have no faith in Kamala in this election
I am the first generation immigrant, I vote for RED !
As a Californian I know lots of people that are switching sides. Unfortunately democrats have not done anything.
Kamala Harris was the state AG when they enacted the crime bills that created the crime waves they have now. Why would you vote blue nationally?
I’m sure project 25 and the new dictatorship will help achieve that for you. 😂
This is my first comment on youtube ever and as a Californian, I just want to say I love you for breaking it down and posting this for everyone to see. Hopefully this will open their eyes. We need different leadership bad.
As a non-American citizen, it is crazy that you are paying people to be homeless and disabled. This will bring your country down.
As a store owner, increase each item to $951+ then apply a "-$950 discount at the register". Boom. Problem solved.
Just give Cali to Mexico with all its blue voters, Problem solved.
Enjoy what you voted for!
There's nothing actually that stops cops from arresting people for shoplifting. So long as there is a witness, police can still arrest and suggest for prosecution that comes with up a year of jail time.
Lol
It doesn't work like that. It's based off the value not the price at the store. I have heard of a guy who stole a used bike worth over 950$ but the public defender said it was used and old already and no longer worth 950$ resale value.
Listening to the mayor speak was painful, no wonder the city went to hell.
Elect Adam Carolla
Let me not answer that question...
@@TOCC50 YES!!!! The ACEMAN we do away with Chick Think, And straight the city out, But he's moving building a house in Nevada,. He talked about on his podcast.
It was eye-opening to watch the mayor of a completely failing city take absolutely zero responsibility for the condition and blame the neighboring city, the encompassing state, and other outside states, while recommending that the residents continue to back him to improve the city.
Same thing the VP Kamala Harris is doing what has she done the last few years for the country
Shows what you know about Santa which is nothing. It has always had visible homeless people for more than 20 years that I've lived in Los Angeles. If you can't understand that having laws on the books all around you that criminalizes homelessness while you do not have those kinds of laws means that people will move into your neighborhood, you're thick
Look how booming the Promenade is, he is doing great work.
@@claytonjames4779 So Graham, who lived in Santa Monica and in this very video is shocked at how it has changed for the worse over recent years, is lying? The video of the empty and vacant storefronts on the main street is fictitious?
Did California or all neighboring cities other than Santa Monica outlaw homelessness? Did that mayor of Santa Monica do anything effective to prevent the rampant theft under $950 that drove all the businesses out? Did he do anything effective to stop the drug and alcohol abuse rampant in and around the homeless encampments? Did he do anything to create any incentives in Santa Monica against congregating in the city and pursuing drug-addled lives of stealing from stores? The mayor's performance has nothing to do with whether he outlaws homelessness itself.
Your comment shows clearly that you don't have the proper faculties and cognitive function to make good choices in voting. You are living in the exact condition of city you deserve. Enjoy it.
California governor or city mayors should ban the drugs and zero dollars purchases, then most homeless will leave California at no expense/cost!
how bout this. stealing $1.00 is a crime....
thats a pretty radical idea , right there!
I think that every time I see everybody standing around the water cooler stealing the water.
Try they very fast send you to jail 😂😂
I'm going to tell you a secret, misdemeanors are still crimes, even if it is $1. Misdemeanors are not slap on the wrists. You can still be arrested and get up to a year of jail time if convicted.
@@GnomesRox good! it should be
So steal less than $500 and it’s ok? Why is any theft for any amount tolerated? 😢
Because left judges will set them free anyway, so why bother catching them? That's what police do when they operate on limited resources.
Like really. Your so right. Our forefathers stoled everything g. What a joke.
@@Steven-i9llol, thanks for your 10 second view of history that disregards all the other things that everyone’s ancestors did.
It was a cost effective ballot measure. I remember voting against it because I said oh that's going to be bad, there was also a measure to decriminalize rape on a similar or the same measure. The measure was stated in a way to save costs to tax payers, it came down to the marketing. So it was well intentioned, but poorly executed.
It's still 'anything less than 1000 is okay'; that value is just supposed to be cumulative over all of your thefts
Having any tolerance at all for crime is the issue. It’s CRIME
Why do people commit economic crimes such as shoplifting?
Is it moral to imprison a starving person for stealing a loaf of bread? If the starving cannot obtain bread, society is committing the crime.
Have you ever been to California? The cops are literally some of the worst in the nation for fucking with you for absolutely no reason... You're delusional if you think the entire state is just a massive chaotic free-for-all.
Y'all really need to stop defining EVERYTHING by one of the largest populated areas in the country, LA.
You hear one negative thing and you lose your minds about entire wide sweeping categories of things that you literally know nothing about.
Homelessness is a crime? It’s a crime that’s committed upon you not by you.
@@isomemethat’s a tiny edge case that honestly isn’t even a drop in the bucket of the larger theft problem
The problem is the people of Kalifornia. They keep on voting for leaders like newsom. Nothing will change.
Stop paying the homeless! Families are struggling with 2-3 jobs and get nothing.
Exactly. This is pure socialism in action. People work hard, pay 50% taxes for homeless and illegals have everything from education to shelter, and do what they want, including stealing from hard-working people without punishment.
I was floored to learn that the homeless get money
This!
yeah, and they get an entire $1800
Well we are also giving our tax money to ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
All I heard were excuses
They are still people and Americans stop trying to make it an easy thing to fix
@@05nautilusit’s really easy to fix once your admit we have been going about it wrong. but that requires more accountability than we can expect from those people.
it's crazy, he offers no real solutions
@@logoutjason4689ZERO. I looked at him and wasn’t even surprised….
Can’t take care of a city if you can’t even take care of your waistline.
Liberal Utopia right there… got exactly what they wanted
yup
This is a personal finance channel, are we really going to divide into political parties and point fingers here? Give me a break.
@@aaaaooooii Yeah that's kind of the point. You figure out why things are going wrong and solve that issue accordingly. In this case it has everything to do with politicians.
So maybe not let other states off the worst people to go live in a better place with fairytale promises.
Both liberal utopias and right wingers utopia are nightmares, god forbid we have good moderate states.
Great video. I visited Santa Mónica a few years ago and it is really sad to see what “Let’s be nice to criminals” did to this and hundreds of other cities worldwide.
Bring back mental heath hospitals. These homeless that are drug users need an environment that is away from drugs to get better. They can get treatment or go to jail.
This is a Viable Solution. Many unhealthy people out there.
Would you be down paying more taxes for these institutions ?
@@jamesadamgleason9471What do you mean more taxes? $24,000,000 already spent, any amount in excess is "more". Solutions cost money, accountability is what is really missing.
@@jamesadamgleason9471 - It’s NOT a solution at all as long as the corrupt libs in charge keep pocketing the tax money that’s already collected.
The lefties, and the 🤡s who vote for them, need to leave…the country.
REPUBS WANT THEM TO BOOTSTRAP IT LOL
@@mikes-wv3emgop does not want them to bootstrap. Reopen the asylum to anyone that is mentally ill, addicted, and homeless. The left pushed deinstitutiinalization , ie closing asylum in the 60s and 70s and what we see now is the direct result of that. They were warned back then that closing the asylum would lead to what we see now and lo and behold that's what we see
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Closing the asylums was one of the worst things our country did.
My brother in law was one of the reasons they closed these facilities down. He was mentally disabled and was part of an undercover investigation into the facility he was in and was recorded being hit in the head with the edge of the nurse’s clipboard. They were shut down shortly after that instead of fixing the problem. We had to make serious changes to the house so it was safe for him and he needed 24 hour supervision. Bad decisions were made to make it look like they were doing something about the problem but they just swept it under the rug!
Thank Ronald Reagan.
@@kristen_franklin we don't, have you not been paying attention to our educational system?
@@fity_4696 Liberal bull. Blame the Supreme court decision O'Connor v. Donaldson, 422 U.S. 563 (1975). This caused the closure of mental health facitilies nationwide. Reagan was following this federal ruling.
The mayor may just ban social media - "problems" solved. Remember to vote again!
As someone who relies on rent control in LA to afford a 250 sq ft studio apartment at $1,260 a month, which is higher per square foot than the median rent per square foot in the US, getting rid of rent control does not sound like the solution. It sounds like something that would only worsen the problem. I know many people think that rent control worsens homelessness, but the studies which claimed this in the late 1980s and early 1990s have been thoroughly debunked by more accurate research. In fact, accurate studies tend to show that rent control DOES limit homelessness so we should know the issue would be worse without that control.
The real issue is the way rent control impacts landlords' ability to keep their buildings in good repair while making enough profit to keep their business viable for themselves so they don't sell their properties to larger rental corporations that _definitely_ won't care about the state of the building or the people living in it.
Rather than eliminating rent control, we should be expanding it. But we should be doing so alongside a push for state subsidization of rent control compliant landlords who keep their properties code compliant and at a minimum level of good repair. Similar to how affordable housing is often subsidized but without any of the income restrictions. In this way, landlords can still make a profit, buildings will be maintained in better repair (improving value overall), and hourly wage renters like myself won't be spending five times the national median rent per square foot just to live.
I just recently moved myself and my business out of Los Angeles, the city where I was born and grew up, after years of waiting for the problem to get better. It's not going to any time soon. The problem isn't the budget thrown at the problem, or even the law. The problem is the attitudes of the on the ground representatives of the organizations responding to the situation, whether that is law enforcement, homeless services, or medical personnel.
We had a homeless encampment right in front of our building, and I literally cannot count the number of times we were told that the person camping in front of our storefront we rented for thousands of dollars a month "has just as much right to be here as you do." Or how many times I was told "you had to know what you were getting into renting in downtown LA. If you don't like it, go back to where you came from. City life isn't for everyone." I have stood there detailing to an officer all the arrestable offences the person in front of my shop was committing, and they would just shrug, and tell me that if I didn't like it, I should move.
Somewhere along the line, law enforcement got it into their head that it is their job to protect the civil rights of the drug addicts, from the mean business owners who are always harassing them, and they were not shy about telling us that. One of my neighbors got arrested because a woman came in his store and started knocking product off his shelves, and when he pushed her out of the store, she called the police, and they arrested him for assault.
As long as the addicts and criminals know the police are on their side, there isn't any chance they are going anywhere.
San Diego for 61 yrs. Because of what said, I'm in keywest now and police come in minutes, and that's not needed much at all, So! nice not hearing drunks, police helicopters and Sirens all night
Good for you. Orange County is a much better place than Los Angeles County.
I assume since you didn't mention where you moved to, that you're still in California.
@@benmarxxshow No, got literally as far away from California as I could. I'm now living in Japan.
You can move all you want and that's not going to solve anything. Until you start voting differently nothing will change.
Absolutely! The liberal laws & philosophies in California favor the worst members of society, unequally. What a disgrace, for sure! Capitalism and business created this country and made it great. Now this "favor the poor" socialism, will destroy it, for sure!
Start with voting Newsome out of office … voting for conservatives, and then kicking Newsome out of the country. We certainly don’t want him in Texas.
Conservatives won't fix this either. get real
Newsome is term limited out after this term. Depending on November results, he'll be printing Newsome for President 2028 or 2032 Posters......God help us.
@@GoldenBearKarlif one Conservative was voted in today, it would be 40 years minimum before they had the support needed to make lasting change. That state is so far gone, it's best left to the ocean
Still better than Florida and Texas@@TheCarpenterUnion
@@bloodwargaming3662 two of the freest states in the union? Bet
The Olympics are coming to L.A.
Time to clean up the streets
Very good point. I’m curious to see what Skid Row will look like in summer 2028
Hope the Olympics make LA look like the dump it is
Or when chinese leaders come to visit.
Just for the Olympics. After that it's business as usual.
@@christians131will probably put them in hotels
Or a bus ticket with a couple hundred when they get off in Vegas
this mayor guy is impressive. and FYI, i don't think ppl can just easily qualify for 800 a month by just saying you're homeless.
Solid journalism bro. Keep up the hard work. We appreciate it.
You are giving people 600 to 1600$ a month for nothing as well as free pipes and everything else, than they say hey why do we have inflated prices and drug issues!?... Come on man this is simple economics you know this.
it's disgusting
Helping homeless people 600$ is much better than a billion dollar tax cut for the rich cxnts
@@bloodwargaming3662billion dollar companies make important, things feed people, employ people. And in a free market when there are tax cuts competition will lower prices
@@DolphinDivingChamp there's no free market, the US is a mixed economy that benefits the rich. most 'billion dollar companies' collect government subsidies and pay less than 10% in taxes, at best. they collude on price leadership and capitalized on the pandemic to dramatically increase profits
@@NicholsMax without these companies, the US would be useless with no jobs, no economy, no perspective. They can outsource to other countries.
I don't know how to fix this. Japan has around 3000 homeless for a population of around 150,000,000. Maybe their culture of honor/shame, and duty to help family has a lot to do with it. Maybe our pumping opioids for 20 years has something to do with it. I honestly don't know anything about this, but it's disgraceful that every large city in the "best country in the world" has this problem. Sigh.
A few things:
* Japan institutionalizes a lot of people. That is why there are no mentally ill people on Japanese streets, US used to do this in the 70s but then made it illegal.
* Japan is very harsh on drugs and has no tolerance for it
* Japan counts homelessness differently, they use a more conservative definition of homelessness
* Homelessness in Japan is shameful and hidden, as you say
* Japan, partially due to liberal zoning laws and housing regs, has a much greater supply of housing and low income housing. This doesn't really apply to most US homeless, who are homeless due to choice, but it may make the decision to fix your life easier in Japan compared to the US.
So while Japan does a better job than the US here, those first two points (institutionalization and drug policy) probably are what make the difference.
@@offensivearch Thanks for the explanation. That's informative.
Our president told that Japan is very racist country, maybe this is answer why they are most safest country in the world and we don’t.
You should pay “Jordan Cash” a franchise fee
In the 90s, I played in all the clubs and bars in Santa Monica; after 2008, life started to change in California. I began to see the writing on the wall, and by 2016, I was out.
@PatrickCharlesjpc: Same here, except I got out in 2003! I feel like the "change" to which you refer has been planned and instituted for a reason.
It was the Fundamental change a politician promised
Voting blue is the main problem of California
Yeah, the last Republican president was so successful he was voted out. And they would never be elected if districts weren't heavily gerrymandered. Oh, and didn't the Republican VP nominee say people without children should pay higher taxes? Yeah, the US doesn't need Republicans.
Realistically, they should start voting Trump Republican if they want the problem fixed.
so true
..... and the solution about homeless from Republicans will be what exactly?
Just want to know in Detail, what is the exact plan? I am open to learn
@@MiaMizuno Some people choose to be homeless for various reasons. In CA, government encourages it. So remove government from the equation like paying the homeless to stay homeless. Big government is the problem.
Yet Californians will still vote democrat.
A lot fewer vote Democrat than anyone thinks. The Marxist left has been allowed to hide the voter rolls for the last 45 years. The voter rolls in Commiefornia are hidden better than the Colonels Chikin Recipe.
Definition of insanity.....
Im a native, myself and everyone i know votes republican...alot of younger ppl i know are moving out of state...the only thing that California has to offer is its beautiful weather year around...nothing else
Yep, cuz orange man mean tweets worse than murder.
@@chole4me1 Yeah but all those leaving are gonna vote Democrat and ruin other states like California.
Nobody is entitled to live off me in luxury for free.
@0:52 "This isn't just a Santa Monica issue"
If Santa Monica provided homes for every homeless person living there today, homeless people across America would flock to Santa Monica.
Federal government assistance should be the only government assistance available, and only available to residents of the cheapest real estate.
Thanks Graham for exposing what is happening. We need more videos like this.
Yeah. Videos could change a lot, lol
Ppl did vote for this! It is democrat policies!! Ppl refuse to actually listen to policies and just vote Dem so they get more of the same stuff over and over......They voted for it
Our ballot measures are often confusing. People had no idea what they voted for in 2014. I know because I asked people how they voted and I have a good memory. We also had a ballot on their that in very small print said it would decriminalize rape. I voted against it. These aren't Dem/Rep laws by any means but often our ballot measures run over 30 pages during federal elections and people wonder how things get passed? People don't read or they only vote how they're told too so the campaign with the most money wins a lot of the time.
Not everything is left vs right all the time it's the people vs the establishment people didn't vote for those laws the government did
@@Steve_305 The people did vote for these issues. They voted for weak on crime, they voted for giving the homeless cash, they voted to suppress being able to defend yourself against these criminals. The people are perfectly free to vote in a republican who would in no way shape or form allow for those issues, but they will not do so.
@@kgal1298ummmm, how did it made it on to the ballot to confuse you? I wonder who came up with these tricking ballots in the office😂
@@Steve_305you just traded one oversimplification for another.. almost exclusively all of these policies are policies left leaning people voted in, you cant escape that fact.
These homeless need medical help, therapy & rehabilitation. They don't need to be housed, they need to be rehabilitated. Spending these billions on homing projects is not the answer. Build a huge rehab campus with dorms for these people to provide 24hrs care to them.
Gavin Newsom complaining about a bill being too expensive to pass while ignoring the growing cost of crime is a completely in line with his politics
The mayor used the term "unhoused" for homeless. That indicates giving them a house fixes the problem. It doesn't.
It quite literally by definition solves the problem, homelessness/ home.🤦♀️
@@thagenet yep. Put a person who is struggling with addiction or mental health issues into a free house and the house will magically be maintained and all the other things that come with the home ownership just magically happen. It's just that simple. Nothing else to do. 🙄
@@seehay8498 lol I see many normal people neglect their houses in the same way. That doesn’t make them homeless. and there’s many people that are struggling with addiction and mental problems that are in homes and I’ve never been homeless. You need to really rethink your definitions of things.
@@thagenet I'll get right on that..I find taking advise from some rando on the Internet the best way to achieve your goals and dreams.
@@seehay8498 OK sure, whatever you say. Let’s just hope your dreams don’t exclude being unhoused or homeless.
There will be a lot more unhoused if we’re in the depression.
When you pass out syringes and pipes in the park, you perpetuate addiction.
The syringe program isn't about stopping addicts but disease can you guys please do more reading..
We need to reopen insane asylums.
Badly! Instead of putting the would-be inmates into public office.
@@GUNNER67akaKelt LOL. That's true also!
Dictators have used those to silence opposition be careful what you wish for.
Better yet, bring back d e a t h. Sentence
Supreme Court ruled against it
A high school buddy of mine who ended up being homeless in San Francisco and after several years stated that the monthly stipend turned out to be a bad thing because he was not motivated to look for work.
I bet!
I actually love this kind of outdoor content from Graham instead of the studio content. Keep it up!
That’s why I’m voting red as a Californian this time around 😎🇺🇸
This time around what were you thinking all along lol?
@@billmetal was fooled by the media. But these past few years opened my eyes. I stopped using apps such as Facebook and Reddit. Now I’m fully active on X. Better late than never 😁
A white liberal california politician is literally the worst person you could have picked to try and figure out “whats happening with california” .
They have ✡️ handlers
With this bs . You expect people to vote for you?
Last time I checked someone's race didn't determine anyone's qualifications.
@paldri It does not help for you to be racist
JUST HAPPENED? BORN/RAISE CALIFORNIA, IN '89 I LEFT ... I COULD SMELL IT COMING ... AND IT DID!
The communist mayor of Santa Monica saying all he needs is more money to solve the homelessness problem is like the crack addict saying they just need one more fix.
That money goes missing then they wonder where it all went?
I'm sure the Mayor and others maybe pocketing some of the money that's supposed to go to helping the homeless. Where are the audits so we can find out who is doing it and holding them accountable? Who ran against the current Mayor of Santa Monica ?
It's more of like that kid who asks for lunch money but ends up spending it on candy lol and then he doesn't have lunch so he starts stealing from the people who do have lunch (taxpayers)
Just to stuff it in their pockets. YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY!
No, he actually said what actions he would like to see they did not involve more money. If you think you can do better why don't you run for mayor. Too hard for you?
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Is that a book?
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It worked last century.
This whole country ain’t what it used to be.
Glad I left and live in a free state.
@@mtnride4930 it’s hilarious how nearly every such comment never says where they left to, as if you already know you’re full of rubbish and will just get called out
Thank for seeing this as a widespread issue. Most people think it's just a one party issue- they think the other side is going to save them when they had the chance to do it all along and it never happened. They will keep believing in the fairytale that something external will save them.
@@mtnride4930says whole country. Your response “live in a free state” 😂 we don’t need you😂
@@domanisarapeggio because of progressive Democrats.
The problem here is they don’t talk to people who actually work in the mental health field or the addiction field to find out how to change the issue and I’m not talking about supervisors. I’m talking about the people that are working the streets like I used to do myself.
I say we stop all homeless aid. Take that money and give bonuses to people that work a 40 hour work week. Imagine if laws encouraged you to participate in society. Right now I feel like when I run my business every law makes my life harder and takes more money out of my pocket.
Yes! And stop administering Narcan
You get what you pay for. Want to pay for bums, you’ll get more bums.
Bonuses for people who actually work. What a good idea! Then again, we're already a-hole deep in debt as a nation. Stop goving money to big business too, for that matter.
The problem isn’t that the homeless are getting “aid.”
The problem is that the money allocated to the homeless isn’t going to the homeless. It’s being pocketed by corrupt politicians and an over bloated administration. The money disappears.
If $100 million were actually used to help the homeless, there would be mental health programs everywhere, hands-on improvement programs (instead of handing a single person, say, $200, give them access to free educational courses where they can learn useful skills to work), and enough shelters so that people wouldn’t be on the street to begin with.
The better question is not why we’re giving money to the homeless, but where this money is going.
Let’s be honest, giving money to working people sounds like a cool idea, but that will do absolutely nothing to ameliorate the homeless problem.
No one wants to live on a sun-cooked sidewalk. I seriously don’t think there is anyone who would live on the street in order to avoid doing basic work. Most of these “homeless,” at least the ones who are out there causing chaos and ruining public life for everyone else, are mentally ill. A person who runs around the city center screaming at an imaginary enemy and attacking people shouldn’t be left to roam in the public. Many of them aren’t aggressive either, but again, these people need other kinds of help.
They clearly aren’t getting it.
We should incentivize building businesses and competition not stifle it.
Moved from California in '96. Managed teams across US and Canada, and California was batshit crazy then. It's not shocking that many companies have moved away, what is shocking is why it took them so long.
CA government spent 24 billion of our tax money on homeless crisis. Where was all that money spent?
Corruption, look on his belly)
Love the new kind of content.
FEED THE ANIMALS ...AND YOU GET MORE ANIMALS.
The problem I hear with California is that they always need more...more money, more housing, more whatever. I think the majority of Californians want the politicians to start showing some results based on all of their tax dollars that have been spent on wasted efforts.
Why does a criminal have more rights to affect the lives of law-abiding citizens? It should be the other way around.
Not to mention the $ millions and millions of budget unaccounted for two or three times now in the last few years that California can’t / won’t explain where it went. What’s up with that?
@@Mary-tx9ug I forgot about that. You are correct, and the accountability office should be called in for an in-depth audit!
This is what normalizing drugs has gotten us.
Wow this is probably the first video I've clicked on in over a year... Life got busy AF.
I'm glad this channel is going strong. I remember when this channel was like 500k subs.
I originally saw this channel back in February 2019 love that it's still going and succeeding.