The 1% Wants to Ban Sleeping in Cars Because It Hurts Their 'Quality of Life'

[nilesobek]

16. I was homeless for 8 years

after being hurt in an accident.

California is a really tough place to be homeless because everything is fenced off and I found the populace, for the most part, hostile to newcomers. I was getting ground down into hamburger in the big cities so I retreated to the National Forest with jugs of water and piles of books.

Even then, the Forest Rangers were right there to remind me that I had to move on within 14 days, and that I get a fire permit. The Rangers also reminded me that a vehicle being slept in had to be a running vehicle, so he made me start the truck.

I talked with a lot of Californians who were fed up with the homeless problem. There take was that there wasn't enough room for everyone, the land being all bought up and fenced off. The local municipalities send police out into the walmart parking lots to clean them out once a week or so. There is really nowhere to park except the National Forest, which I'm sure they are working on laws for that too.

That, "quality of life," issue makes me laugh. How about "quality of character?" They just want the poor and homeless to go away.