Multi-Millionaire Tomi Lahren: Homelessness Is a 'Choice'

[DonViejo]

By DAVID BADASH AUGUST 9, 20189:31 PM

Lahren Says The Victims of Homelessness Are Those With Homes
Tomi Lahren doesn't have a degree in urban planning or social welfare but she does have the guts to opine on a major problem in the United States: homelessness.

Lahren, a right wing political commentator who lives in Los Angeles, has a lucrative Fox News contract and an estimated net worth of $3 million, has been attacking San Francisco for a week. Thursday night she went after the City by the Bay once again.

San Francisco, Lahren says, is "awash" with human waste, used syringe needles, and homeless people.

"I recently visited San Francisco, and was shocked to see the number of people sprawled out on the sidewalks - many either sleeping, or passed out drunk, in broad daylight, in front of designer stores and swanky restaurants - families and children all around," Lahren told her Fox News viewers. "Believe me when I say it was absolutely disgusting. But also dangerous. Getting accidentally stuck by a used needle can cause diseases like HIV, or Hepatitis B and C."

Lahren calls San Francisco "a city of rich tech gurus on one side, and the homeless underclass on the other."

"Here’s another problem," she continues. "Some of the people on the streets aren’t just down-on-their-luck homeless," she says, mocking them by swinging her arm in an "aw shucks" manner. "They’re ex-cons!"

Lahren rattles off a litany of local laws passed over the last seven years, revealing her desire to have anyone who's committed any crime, even non-violent ones, sent to and kept in jail.

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[DetlefK]

1. Da fuq?

[mr_lebowski]

2. So does every other large US city, ya friggin' dipshit ...

So happens that due to the reliably mild weather and the overall awesomeness that is SF (and the exorbitant cost of housing), SF has a relatively large homeless population.

I mean, if you're gonna be homeless anyway, why NOT do it in a place like SF?

[MineralMan]

3. Just STFU, Tomi, you over-privileged twit!

[Aristus]

4. Did she happen to express her opinion as to why anyone would 'choose' to live

on dangerous streets, strewn with garbage, human waste, and used syringes?

Did she express in any way why someone would consider these conditions desirable?

[JHB]

5. Bumped-up cub reporter says what?

[Flaleftist]

6. Life in jail for shoplifting a sandwich?

The private prison industry would love that.

[Initech]

7. Fuck off, Tomi.

[maxsolomon]

8. At least she deigned to comment on the situation.

Tomi noticed them, great. What's her solution? Bootstraps?

Liberal cities are, by and large, the victims of the Homelessness Crisis. People living on the edge of abject poverty on the peripheries are tipping into homelessness and coming into town because that's the only place to find any help at all. I've been talking to homeless people for 20 years who come to Seattle from the exurbs, Montana, the Dakotas, and Native reservations.

No, most of them are not employable - they're elderly, disabled, mentally ill, or have substance abuse issues.

City and County agencies are overwhelmed, private groups are overwhelmed. Every available bed in social housing or a shelter is spoken for 10 times over. 5,000 people are sleeping on the streets of Seattle. 12,000 in King county. There are tents everywhere, old RVs everywhere, pitiful, filthy schizophrenics begging at off-ramps. The off ramp I use in the morning is littered with orange caps from hypodermic needles thrown from the shooting gallery on the retaining wall above.

There needs to be a massive federal response, and there is nothing, and nothing from Conservatives but judgment and blame. It wasn't even a topic in the Presidential election.

[hunter]

11. Exactly!

Homeless people migrate to places where they won't be beaten to death by bad cops and other scum, where they won't freeze to death in the winter or die of heat stroke in the summer, places where they won't starve, and places where mental illness and substance abuse is more likely to be seen as a medical problem, not some sort of moral failing and voluntary demonic possession.

Another fraction of homeless people is LGBTQ kids who have been rejected by their own families. Any parent who rejects a child because the child is not straight, and all the predators prowling the streets for these rejected children, can go to hell.

The solution to homelessnes is easy. You find some kind of home for people, even those who are unemployable and never likely to be employable.

A federal program to provide homes for the homeless would be overall less expensive than the way we do it now, and might even help people who are entirely dysfunctional today become functional in the future

[Bettie]

9. Wow, she makes me

ashamed to be a woman.

Except she's not really a woman, she acts like a little girl who hasn't yet grasped the concept that there are other people in the world who matter, that she is not, in fact, the center of the universe. Most kids have that down by age 5 or 6.

[Afromania]

10. wasn't she still on her parents health insurance like last year? She's an untalented overprivileged

intellectually malnourished skunk of a woman. That under normal circumstances wouldn't have been given the time of day if she didn't espouse right wing hate and have that artificial look they seem to like so much over at faux.

[ooky]

12. She sounds like a lead in to an ad for private prisons.

What a surprise she's employed by Fox News.