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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Jimmy Kimmel Calls USA "Filthy And Disgusting" After Traveling to Japan: "We Are Like Hogs Compared to the Japanese"
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 02:50:34 -0000 (UTC)
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BTR1701  <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>In article <uunf55$v0c0$1@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com> 
>wrote:
>
>> On 4/4/24 4:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>> > In article <uumno6$p8sf$2@dont-email.me>,
>> >   Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>> > 
>> >> Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel said he's looking at America in a new light
>> >> after a recent visit to Japan.
>> >>
>> >> The 56-year-old said his trip abroad made him realize that the U.S. is
>> >> unsanitary compared to the land of the rising sun.
>> >>
>> >> "After traveling to Japan, I realize that this place, this USA we're 
>> >> always
>> >> chanting about, is a filthy and disgusting country," he said during his
>> >> monologue on Monday night's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live."
>> > 
>> > I agree with him. My trip to Tokyo was an eye-opener. I've never seen a
>> > city so clean and beautiful with pleasant, polite, happy people
>> > everywhere you go. Its only drawback was that-- of all the places I've
>> > been around the world-- it's one of the harder cities to get around and
>> > function in if you don't speak the language. I thought at the time that
>> > if I spoke and read Japanese, I'd consider living in Tokyo for good if I
>> > could.
>> > 
>> > Coming back to the shit-pile Los Angeles has become in just the last 10
>> > short years was very disheartening.
>> > 
>> > It's no surprise it would be especially noticeable to Kimmel, whose
>> > show's home is in an old Masonic temple right across Hollywood Blvd from
>> > the Chinese Theater and the Hollywood-and-Highland Complex, where
>> > fentanyl addicts stagger around like WALKING DEAD extras, crime is out
>> > of control, vagrants tents and trash mountains abound, and dead bodies
>> > lying on the sidewalk are a routine occurrence.
>> > 
>> > Coming back to that from Japan would be quite a contrast indeed.
>> > 
>> Japan's taxes vs US are generally considered to be pretty high.
>
>At least the citizens of Japan get value in return for their taxes.
>
>I live in the highest tax state in the union and when we call the cops 
>for things like a vagrant openly masturbating in a park while watching 
>kids, the response is "there's nothing we can do".
>
>Betcha that doesn't happen in Japan.
>
>When businesses are run into the ground by repeated break-ins and the 
>fact that customers can't even get into their front doors anymore 
>because there's a tent and trash mountain and meth addict face-down in a 
>puddle of his own vomit blocking them, if they get any response from the 
>city council besides a bored shrug, they're told "there's nothing we can 
>do".
>
>Betcha that doesn't happen in Japan.
>
>Over and over, crime after crime... "There's nothing we can do. Now shut 
>up and give us more tax money."
>
>> So you'd be OK with higher taxes to fix our problems at home, right?
>
>Except I already pay higher taxes and the problems only get worse here.
>
>Over the last three years the people of L.A. County were taxed more than 
>$3 billion "to fight homelessness". At the end of that three years, with 
>three billion of our tax dollars gone, what was the result?
>
>Homelessness has increased by 32%.

They didn't get bused to Chicago.