re: Portland residents, business owners want city officials to 'fix' homeless problem

They probably got there through gas, grass, or arse to begin with, too.

You can float in a tank for 60 minutes for a mere $85 at Float North.

3 packs are a steal at $149*

*new clients only

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Is no one else really curious about what that is?

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It's a sensory deprivation tank.

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a sensory deprivation tank.

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I think the whole city has been in a common sense deprivation tank.

With the economy booming the way it is, you’d think homelessness would not be such a big problem. There are more jobs than people wanting them.

So if economic hardship isn’t driving homelessness, that leaves the question of what is driving this problem? The answer, I’m my opinion at least, is multifaceted...

1. Drugs, specifically the explosion of heroin & meth.

2. Progressives creating environments in the cities they run that foster and enable junkies’ behavior. By this I mean not enforcing petty crime laws and even going so far as to give them free needles to do their drugs.

3. Open borders, which falls under progressives as well, that allow massive amounts of illegal drugs to flood into our country.

The solution to all this is simple.

1. Start locking up people for petty crimes
2. Enforce loitering laws
3. Stop enabling drug addicts
4. Secure the border to choke off the supply of drugs.

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This was Seattle in the 90's.

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I think that's still an issue there, among other things, homeless people are everywhere there

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Asheville, NC

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i'm jelly..... love that town

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Holy crap, are all the liberal cities going to turn into San Francisco? Sad to see another beautiful city bite the dust.

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Yes, as long as they keep voting in liberals to run things.

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the cops are usually pretty good about keeping them out of the tourist and entertainment/restaurant spots.

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I will say they do a decent job of that given the amount of homeless there, I only almost had to kick one guy's arse while I was there recently, the PCH looks like a KOA going through town with all of the homeless suburbs set up though, those bums have some pretty nice looking tents

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Not really. But It could get there. It's pretty easy to avoid the craziness if you want to...

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The impacts are real, but it's so common for everyone on this site to pretend Paris is one large refugee camp, Munich is mostly jihadis and Portland is wall-to-wall drug users and homeless.

You can go to pretty much any place discussed on here, and without really trying, avoid seeing ANY of the blight.