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NotASurfer

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16. Yeah. It's like the AK Dept of Health and Human Service is admitting incompetency

Reply to LuvLoogie (Reply #9)

Sat Jul 29, 2023, 12:38 AM

Jul 2023

It's an admission they can't help their own citizens and they need help.

Maybe Newsom should have a task force on Helping States That Can't Solve Their Own Problems and reach out to the incompetent HHS secretaries in places like this to offer advice on, you know, helping people who live in the state they supposedly operate in, instead of fobbing the problem off on somebody else

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Anchorage mayor proposes sending homeless people to Los Angeles this winter [View all] BlueWaveNeverEnd Jul 2023 OP

Send them to the Bible Belt where the most important thing on the planet is religion. It will offer walkingman Jul 2023 #1

Better yet...HOUSE THEM! AllyCat Jul 2023 #2

This LuvLoogie Jul 2023 #9

Yeah. It's like the AK Dept of Health and Human Service is admitting incompetency NotASurfer Jul 2023 #16

Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2023 #26

Welcome to DU. GP6971 Jul 2023 #27

Be nice if every state and city did this. jimfields33 Jul 2023 #18

Texas should send all the homeless this summer to Anchorage. Want them off the streets? ... marble falls Jul 2023 #3

What is the fascination with sending homeless to CA? edisdead Jul 2023 #4

The weather. That's the bottom line. jimfields33 Jul 2023 #19

Phoenix enid602 Jul 2023 #5

I guess that on average... Thunderbeast Jul 2023 #20

Except it does nothing about solving the root of the problem sakabatou Jul 2023 #6

True. former9thward Jul 2023 #11

Being homeless in SoCal is no picnic either Blues Heron Jul 2023 #7

+1 2naSalit Jul 2023 #8

I take it you haven't been to Compton or Inglewood. Initech Jul 2023 #12

Used to deliver gas there. 2naSalit Jul 2023 #14

No totally agree there! Initech Jul 2023 #15

because they die in the cold of Anchorage BlueWaveNeverEnd Jul 2023 #24

The mean streets of SoCal are deadly too. Blues Heron Jul 2023 #25

Sounds to me as if he wants to be able to say "we don't have a homeless problem in Anchorage". LoisB Jul 2023 #10

I get the idea, but we are not the state to send them to. Initech Jul 2023 #13

How about spending the money on providing housing thucythucy Jul 2023 #17

Another asshole Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2023 #21

Why not Florida or Texas? Emile Jul 2023 #22

California is closer so tickets are cheaper, but it's implied they will send homeless where they ask BlueWaveNeverEnd Jul 2023 #23

Post removed Post removed Jul 2023 #28

Have a link GP6971 Jul 2023 #29

But if you are stranded in a bad place, Mopar151 Jul 2023 #30

They should go for it- Snooper9 Jul 2023 #31